Craig Crawford's Trail Mix

Woot!

Don't miss the Memphis vs. Tennessee game tomorrow night. It ought to be good.

I guess I made it in time for the early bird special. I will see you all when I get back from dinner...Mexican and beer, lots of beer.

dnd,

Don't let anyone say you're wrong.

struge and DND,

Nobody alive -- including Rob Marshall in Chicago -- has done something so original as to make John Landis look bad for how he staged his musical numbers in both Blues Brothers films.

And, yes, Thriller, too.

Why the GOP Loves Obama
By: Christopher Ruddy

(Yes, I know about Ruddy and Newsmax - no need to tell me.)

"Republicans this week are breathing a deep sigh of relief.

There are many reasons the GOP would rather face Obama. Here are some of the best reasons: "

http://www.newsmax.com/ruddy/Why_the_GOP_Loves_Obama/2008/02/20/74275.html

Repost from previous thread for anyone who wants to participate.

9/11 Ask Miss Birdie if she would like to do it as well.

Oscars The Easy Way - I created a private group

Trailmixers

Motto: Time Out

Password: Durward

Go to http://predict.oscar.go.com/predict/frontpage

Register. Fill out your ballot and join group: Trailmixers and use the password above

Question of the Night --

If McCain stays off the sauce and away from Cindy's pillbox and passes on Huckabee as his VP...

Huck is clearly running the Huckabee Talk Show Pilot Primary by staying in the race.

He loves his money and that's where the mint is.

Sooooo.... what do you think?

Cable? If so, cable news? Country music net? Christian net? E!? VH-1? Comedy Central (to follow Colbert)? Food Network?

General syndication? Successor to Bob on Face The Nation? Replacing Lonesome Rhodes on The Old Crackerbowl Show?

jamie,

She's away for the next two days but I will ask her about both that and your meme.

Spinal Tap is the best rock-u-mentary. Ever. Dude.

The Big Lebowski is certainly Fellini's finest directorial effort.

ps. If you regard Rosanne Barr as an astute political analyst, I'm going to have to rethink my support for the Sturge '08 campaign ;)

For 9/11, a little Ray Charles:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7lwcjNaH_A

Sturg,

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2008/02/friday-night-links.html#comment-40466

I meant to be a response to you. Sorry I forgot the salutation.

O fickle public......prick'd again by faithless faithful.....

9/11

The Oscar entries can go in until about an hour before the start of the broadcast on Sunday.

The Meme thing is just a fun project run by the lady who splashed 10,000 Peace Globes across the blogosphere. Now she's throwing bottles.

9/11

Meant to ask if you had seen The Diving Bell and The Butterfly?

It hasn't played here yet, but the clips I've seen looked fascinating.

dnd,

Totally right on Fellini.

And thanks for the RC. Anyone remember the WHITE Ray Charles... who led studio pick up groups like the Doodletown Pipers?

ha ha.....from wiki:

The Doodletown Pipers ............... On his television program, Roger Miller referred to them as the "Poodletown Diapers".

"The progressive rot at the core of this primary season revealed through the collective shrug John Edwards received, whose ideas were the most populist and progressive of all. He got little or no support. The first viable female candidate was vilified and rejected, especially by men across the progressive network, finally revealing the covert sexism running through the Democratic party, that was also exposed in the traditional media and cable networks as well."

http://www.taylormarsh.com/

jamie,

I have.

Schnabel is such a great director. And it is a completely different variation on the themes of his previous film, Before Night Falls.

Yep and we all saw it happen...right before our collective eyes.

Zoey: welcome back! All heeled up? (Zoey took a spill circa Iowa caucuses, which seems like a lifetime ago.)

Okay, I just got an invitation to pick up McCain bumper stickers, yards signs and the like at their new office.....that's okay because I am going to see him...... they had my email.

The problem is that I have actually seen both Bill and Hillary in person, have donated money to her campaign, and her people have never even contacted me about a yard sign, bumper sticker or anything....Oh wait!.... I ordered a "free" sticker from the web-site but it never arrived....

Her campaign sucks! Whoever is the brain child behind her campaign certainly behaves as if they have had a lobotomy.

Sorry to interrupt, but OMG "NORBIT" IS UP FOR AN OSCAR?!?!?!?!

(best makeup)

There is no God.

sturge,

No diaper on earth -- even from Poodletown -- could manage such a load of crap.

God bless Roger Miller.

I did not even know that "norbit" existed.

I was better off Not knowing.

Norbit was sort of a miracle as it depicted Eddie Murphy's only real relationship --

Eddie Murphy's insane marriage to his inner transexual.

Roger Miller was a riot!

All of this reminiscing deserves an appropriate theme song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HBmDa_ungE&feature=related

Roger Miller: I'd like to do a song called "The Day I Jumped From Uncle Harvey's Plane" -- or DONT jump unless you've gotcher shoot together!

hahahahaaaa

Burrito

As much as I want Clinton to win, I have to agree that everything I've seen about her campaign is unbelievably amateur. It's hard to know where the fault lies, but if it was a case of "Trust us, we'll take care of all the small stuff, you just be where we need you to be", then whomever did that to her should probably be serving time for treason.

ok.. I've got 15 minutes.. everyone talk fast... Mr Tylenol is suffering from a herniated disc and I'm on pity duty...

Hey, I got dragged to see "Norbit" by a friend who was depressed and wanted "something stupid and meaningless" to cheer her up.

Really, kids, there are no words beyond "an hour and a half of my life that I'll never get back, EVER"...

"we live the life we choose...and we fight and never lose........for we were young and sure to have our way...."

I still try "live" that way to the best of my ability.....so in my world....these are the days. :)

now there's a topic: what movie was a total waste of 2 hours?

I'd much rather have this for a theme,
speaking of Rodger Miller.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z25NQ7zdVHQ

Jack

Unfortunately, The Science of Sleep. (I like Michel Gondry. He needs a writer not named Michel Gondry.)

I gotta tell ya.. i do not "get" Will Farrell.. I've tried. I just dont get it...

burrito, I ordered signs, pins, mug and shirt and got all of mine things. At least in Ohio, I have heard from the staffers who are young people from all over, that they are running out of materials. The first primary states grabbed all the materials and now they are running low.
Go Hillary, in Ohio

More true tales of "Norbit": We went to see a matinee on, like, a Wednesday afternoon. There were about a dozen people in the theater (I was surprised there were that many). About half of them walked out before the movie was half over. Maybe one or two titters throughout the entire movie, no big laughs at all. I stuck it out with my friend, because she doesn't like to walk out of movies. When it was over, I asked her, "Do you feel any better?" She replied, "No. Let's go get high."

So we did.

Plot synopsis? FAT PEOPLE, SPECIFICALLY FAT BLACK WOMEN (WHO ARE REALLY BLACK MEN IN DRAG AND, APPARENTLY, OSCAR-DESERVING MAKEUP), ARE FARKIN HILARIOUS.

Speaking or Roger Miller, here's Obama's new campaign song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj2daexBhgI

I did get the shirt I ordered, but the way the other campaigns work is "they" see you out....not visa versa. That's all I am saying....and I am in Ohio too

see = seek

This is my favorite thing found on YouTube -- from an even earlier unreleased Harry Nilsson doc (which is now one of God's specialties) --

A happy tipsy group of English old people, a great Bar Mitzvah band... and everyone joining Harry in recording his joyous "I'd Rather Be Dead (Than Wet My Bed)".

He sent the people lyrics before they came... but no one passed them out. When he told 'em about it... they liked it. Lots.

Harry was nervous and put on a suit to show them his respect.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=6u0Ps5qblYI

Klaus Voorman's there, too.

tylenol,

But I get that two year old girl who made those videos with Ferrell -- I truly do.

I've a very good relationship with the Hillary campaign. The Hillary gear I ordered came quickly. I also received my free bumper sticker I signed up for online. I also find the website very helpful in helping people understand Hillary's positions on the issues.

Also, she dealt with the horrible death of a Dallas police officer today with empthy and dignity. I admire her so much!

Here's Harry's brilliant, innovatively simple 1971 BBC special.

http://fortheloveofharry.blogspot.com/2007/12/bbc.html

I didn't have any trouble getting Hillary paraphanalia either but...I'm in Iowa so I am part of that group who used up all the materials early : )

Since we are doing country comedy

Alittle not history of the cold war.
From Ray Stevens

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fICkC25RI_k

Jack

Is Will Ferrell one of those "Guy" things with a few women like The Three Stooges?

I find myself sort of cocking head to one side going, "Huh?" while people arounds me shriek with laughter.

nite all
I'm still trying to recover from my cold and the crappy weather isn't helping.

I did pass the cold along to my wife. So when I was at the store tonight I bought her some bright yellow carnations to give her some sunshine and help brighten this day up. All I could do for her, that and share my nyquill.

Jack

The scene in Old School where Will Ferrell gets shot with the tranquilizer gun at the kid's birthday party is classic.

Oh what My eyes see and my mind has enjoyed!!!! Mostly no politics and with ALL my friends!!!

I'm just reading, keep posting. Its a great thread!

The first popish rock star and rockish pop star to record a standards album was Harry -- who really was a great inheritor of Tin Pan Alley and Broadway.

When he did it... it was a deeply felt set of suites with the greatest emotional arranger of them all, Gordon Jenkins.

A few days after recording the LP... they all reassembled in front of BBC cameras and did it session-style.

It moves me to tears always.

http://fortheloveofharry.blogspot.com/2007/12/bbc-video-little-touch-of-schmilsson-in.html

Darn it jack!

How are you? Everything OK now? good to see you here again.

Attagirl, Sheila.

Sheila,

We've declared a truce until after the Oscars. :-)

“David Katz, keeper of the schnapps”

“she gets it”

Awesome, thanks for sharing it.

another thing that really pissed me off ... all the right wingers going NUTS about the "gay cowboy movie" but lining up AROUND the block for Saw II - a blood-porn-torture movie.. wtf???

Mr Tylenol and I were flippin thru channels last weekend.. found Alan Alda and Ellen Burstyn in Same Time Next Year.. at least 4 really big -- rolling on the floor laughs.. and some pretty good chuckles... great movie.. (play)

jamie,

Take drugs and wear flat shoes: I'm going to quote Mel Gibson.

Gibson really got the Stooges and produced a first rate bio of them (which only fudged how and who managed their comeback -- the brilliant Charles Z. Wick who led Reagan's kitchen cabinet in Sacramento and DC and who did a good job redoing the VOA -- and whose son is the very liberal Doug Wick, Oscar Winner and, more importantly, father of the daughter who as a child appeared before Congress ten years ago to start the battle for stem cell research).

But what he said years ago still holds...

Gibson: Women always say that what REALLY attracts them to a man is a man who makes them laugh. If that were the truth, they'd all have a picture of Curly Howard above their beds.

thanks Jamie and 9/11 I certainly appreciate it.

oops I just posted some song youTubes... Did I break a rule?

ty,

I hope he feels better as soon as he can.

Same Time was written by Same Guy who created The Partridge Family.

C'mon Get Adulterous made him a lot more money than did C'mon Get Happy.

and ohhh goodness... monday afternoon I sat stunned and watched The Subject Was Roses... Patricia Neal, Jack Albertson and an impossibly young Martin Sheen... man.. a 3 character play(movie) that was centered in words and conversation.. they just DONT make 'em like that anymore...

Gibson: Women always say that what REALLY attracts them to a man is a man who makes them laugh. If that were the truth, they'd all have a picture of Curly Howard above their beds.

Posted by: 9/11 survivor (sort of) | February 22, 2008 9:21 PM

No Way hunny bunny! AIN'T NO WAY....

Maybe Chevy Chase or Jeff Foxworth. lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJvS-Cn6x3o

Some Michael Buble snippets from his tour.

Bernard Slade (another Canadian)... wrote a really good suspense play the year after but I forget the name of it now.. i'll google and see

It Had To Be You....Somehow Nilsson just does it so well.

And after the Oscars, I'll propose another truce until after the Resurrection, the Apocalypse, the release date of Godfather IV, Puerto Rico's statehood, Jimmy Breslin's sex change, the day Secret producer legally changes her name from Rhonda Byrne to L. Rhonda Hubbard and the night I actually dance for six hours straight cheek to cheek with our dog --

Whichever comes last.

Yeah and guys dig women who work at Best Buy and Quiznos.

He has to make you laugh at the right time....that is the secret....try to figure out that timing.

Yeah , women love a man who makes them laugh. That's why I'm home alone on a Friday night. As the Onion would say "Bullsh*t!"

I like a man who can make me laugh.. and good sex.. and sometimes..both at the SAME time.. lol

but pointing isnt allowed

Same Time Next Year is in my ten favorite movies list. First because it is very very funny and second for one line that I wait for in the part where he gets analyzed. "What bread we need, I get playing piano bar in the Valley". It's one of those "stories from my life" lines that mean absolutely nothing to anyone watching it with me.

"REALLY attracts them to a man is a man who makes them laugh. "

Incomplete sentence,

"While listening to every word they say without acting desperate to get them into bed."

Almost guaranteed seduction.

Nilsson and "Making Woopy" is that one from You've got Mail or Sleepless in Seattle?

Not me Corey

Another favorite is, having a guy ask "what do you want to do?" for about 20 years, and still acting like he's happy about it.

Sheila,

One of the nicest things about all of this problem with my mother is how well my 4 sisters and I are getting along. I've seen many families break apart.

The other thing I noticed going back to the old home town we were raised in.
Everybody turned real old.
That brash handsome young man that my sister had a crush on is now a slow moving, heavey jowled, pot belled old man.
lol
The world keeps changing

My mother is holding her own and I'm waiting for this cold to pass so I can visit her.

I want to thank everybody for the good thoughts and prayers they were helpful.

Jack

I like a man who can make me laugh.. and good sex.. and sometimes..both at the SAME time.. lol

Posted by: tylenol | February 22, 2008 9:30 PM

but pointing isnt allowed

Posted by: tylenol | February 22, 2008 9:31 PM

See Corey....Laughing, Sex, Laughing,

Keep it light and no self-deprecation. I think you are handsome. There's no reason why you are alone on a Firday Night other than the Snow.

0/11

Craig may need to steal that one to post on the front page, though from her blog Miss Birdie might suspect you've been dancing with the dog while she was sleeping.

And then I say , "I love the way you make my steakhouse beef dip and chicken carbonara subs. Always toasted just the way I like 'em , oh baby!"

This guy was AWESOME.. Mel Carter

What a singer!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8TLR_N42Nk I Love this song...

Well Jack,

We are all on your plain of existance with parents too. So you are not alone.

Hope your cold dispells soon and hope your Mom is getting comfy in the new facility, even though we know its not as comfy as home.

Good to hear your sisters are banded together. That makes all the difference.

ok.. this has been fun, but I think MR Tylenol needs some tea and company.. thanks for the laughs.. see ya tomorrow... I like the truce...

Sheila I'm ok with the making you laugh part, but the rest, um, sorry.

Of coarse a guy could just be "smokin" hot like Lenny Kravitz.......The only thing that would make him better is if he did not speak a word of english.

Sheila,

I can't remember... but if I ever run into Nora (whose writing and goodness I like more than I do her movies) at Zabar's... I'll ask her.

My favorite use of Harry in a movie this evening... as he was dying... George Fenton and Terry Gilliam and Robin Williams asked him to record "How About You" for The Fisher King. (Williams had stood up for Harry to score Altman's Popeye. Altman was so happy with him as was everyone else on that insane Malta shoot... and every kid in the world who has seen that movie a hundred times.)

And then I drop some def poetry on her.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKSYmj-w5NI

Dog,
I am back and all healed up. Still a little stiff but I have been released to ride my bike once again as soon as some of this snow melts....maybe by June it will be melted..

Its Ok Brian....lol friendship with you is OK LOL

LOL @ Corey!

Brian & Sheila

purity-a noble yen
And very restful every now and then

Andy Borowitz quotes McCain:

http://www.borowitzreport.com/archive_rpt.asp?rec=6836

jamie,

Mr. Crawford is entitled to whatever pleasure he can take from us here in the nursery.

Tonight we are back to being the Muppet Babies with some political smarts.

People who don't know me, hi -- good to see you all.

And welcome to how things can be -- along with all sorts of thoughts, conflicts, passions and analysis -- on Crawford's List...

Home of the attaboy and to the whattaman who said it.

Sheila and Brian? Sheila , you have the power of conversion?

9/11

Wow thanks so much....what is it about Nilsson's voice that is soo.....sigh.

What did he die of and when?

Nilsson died of a massive heart attack in 1993. So sad really

LOL Corey LOL

Sorry sweetie, but its genetic, so why would I try to but on a size that just didn't fit? Nothing but frustration.... ;0)

Cher and Nilsson duet, not widely released, though I have the 45 RPM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ypT6VzfNfE

Then of course there is this possibility

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StcTOqbOJeg

And then I play this song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTnq_w54iSg

Well just added 9/11's link to my collection.

now time to see Eurotom's and Jamie's.

This is very relaxing for once gang.

We are keeping ET up all night again.

http://webclust1.liquidcompass.cc/sos4cust/SMCM/audio_player.php

Or for an entire night of listening pleasure...

I like yours the Best Corey!

Speaking of Staying up past my bed time.

I took a melitonin and its feeling like its time. night all and thanks for a great thread!

Awe yeah! LOL!

Yes you are... you start with music and I am lost. but here is a song from one of my favourite films "Notting Hill"... Ronan Keating... I get goosebumps.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuJrEBtmM1Q

PS....

All we're missen is Doots, DND, and Craig's Dueling Blue Grass!

Night

AP survey: Superdelegates jump to Obama
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080222/ap_on_el_pr/superdelegates

Sheila and EuroTom,

Harry had diabetes (as does his lovely first son Zach)... we remember him as so slender but in the 80's he gained much weight and had a long, thickening string of infarctions and heart attacks.

Now... above my desk is the last photo he ever autographed.

In 1993 Harry knew he was going. As he had told Flo and Eddie (close friends forever -- but everybody loved Harry even Peter Tork who swore he didn't like him for years)... when he married the Irish waitress at Rumpelmayer's (he proposed to her while she was serving him -- and added that he had to marry her because he had to be with a virgin once and it might as well be the one and only girl for him).... he hung up his guitar and became a full time dad to a houseful of kids.

There is so much to be said about Harry's life and soul. He had survived a lot with good spirits and love (including Yoko's blaming him for the Lost Weekend period -- which Harry answered by starting her music's revival with a demo of her songs he recorded to show how good they could be).

But then his music manager took his millions (which Lennon got much of for him by strolling into RCA's office with Harry, implying that he (famously unsigned then) would sign with them if "for God's sake, pay the man the five dollars!")

Harry was penniless. His catalog was moribund. He recorded one last album which Una (his widow) has kept unreleased until the market is ready for it -- "Poppa's Got A Brown New Robe". And his film partnership with Terry Southern imploded.

Some of it was released on a BMG promotional CD last year.

So as Harry was dying... he sat down for a few days to be interviewed by one of the most passionate, talented pop music specialists of the West Coast 60's, Dawn Eden. (I am proud Dawn is my friend.)

Dawn had yearned since she was a kid to be a liner note writer for a major label. Dawn had also been warned that if she told Harry the truth that the 3 CD PErsonal Best Anthology he labored over as his testament was being cut to two and left a mess.... she'd never work for a label again.

She told Harry. Who called BMG and roared... and fixed enough of the mess to leave a set which made Miss Birdies a Harryhead for life at age 7.

He took a picture of him on his first trip abroad in front of the Eiffel Tower.... and signed it... "To Dawn... We'll Always Have Paris."

Then he died. And the story he died in his dentist's chair is an urban legend.

However what is both mythological and true is that as Harry's coffin was lowered into his grave, there was an aftershock to an earthquake. Everyone said Harry just found out there were no open bars in heaven.

As it happens... the guy who has done so much for Harry's CD reissues in the US is... Booger.

Yes, Curtis Armstrong lovingly produced all US reissues. He is a guy of many passions and much integrity and has moved along since.

The people who made the US Vs. John Lennon have an even better film awaiting release -- Who Is Harry Nilsson and Why Is Everyone Talking About Him?

They were waiting, I've read, for an Oscar nomination they didn't get.

Please let it come out on DVD.

Corey have you told that woman that you like that you well, like her?

GORDO,

I am shocked that your girl Taylor Marsh is posting that this is the Obama campaign song...

Regardless, this is some of Eddie Murphy's best work...

http://www.glumbert.com/media/killwhitepeople

EuroTom rules.

When he was working days at a bank (computer specialist in the early 60's -- told him he could do it when he was totally uneducated), Harry worked nights at Phil Spector's studio.

It was there back when Sony and Cher were (I think it was then) just out of being Caesar and Cleo that Harry recorded his first demo with Cher, Sonny producing.

Of course, he said they should call themselves Nilssonny and Cher.

ET

I've always wanted to know where that private garden was in Notting Hill the movie. I know they exist all over London where a cluster of house surround a shared "back yard park" and that one was beautiful.

Bear,

Chris Blackwell (old boss) said that was the nearest he'd seen anyone get to the Bob he knew and loved so well when he held (correctly) a cocked and loaded AK-47 to his head with a new contract hanging on the barrel.

Blackwell's best... sex... ever.

However, Murphy's best singing remains My Girl's On The Potty All The Time.

nearest, shoot, was Murphy. Chemo brain.

Hey 9/11, how old are you? Just wondering.. you've been around it seems :)
I should get to bed.. it is 4 am... I was multitasking and when you all started on music... that does it for me.

52, EuroTom.

But if you count my rings, over five years of chemo adds a few toxic wrinkles.

oh that would be fun to look for. I've been to London .. 3 times.. but didn't really spend much time in Notting Hill

chemo eh? thus "survivor, sort of?" you are young... I am 48 man.

Well... for a coupla reasons that tag sticks.

a woman who worked for me for a month is very sick and undergoing very heavy chemo. She's early 60s and tragic life really and yet always optimistic. she also had a gas station with JET aka ConocoPhillips (we are owned by the Russians now, name is changing). Anyway, CP decided to close her station permanently and this was like 4 years before she could collect pension. She and her husband go to Spain for a full family vacation. One daughter goes with them, the other flies down later, and grandkids there... First vacation in 9 years. Jacqueline goes to airport to pick up daughter who arrives late,and they return and her husband had collapsed and is dead! So instead of a nice vacation they had to make arrangements.

She worked for me a month in 2005 when I went to USA and later I wanted to hire her even though older people cost more, but I don't like the age prejudice and so I was ready to offer her a job. Turns out she has cancer on the liver... CHemo, surgery and again chemo. Everything has been fine. A couple weeks ago, she finds out (via drinking some coloring liquid) that the cancer is back in her liver, and now is also in intestines, lungs, breasts and kidneys. They offer no guarantees except that if she doesn't do the heavy chemo she will die within 3 months, and if it works out well, she will have maximum 3 years. It's really a tragic situation and I feel so bad for her.

When her kids were young one of her daughters bolted out of the car and not looking and was hit and killed by a car, in front of Jacqueline. Somehow this woman has remained optimistic and stoic even with all the shit life has thrown her way. I feel really down for her because this does not sound good.

Of course not , Tom! Why would I do that? LOL!

My favorite Nilsson:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjhTBZaVYfA

I remember when they showed "The Point" on network TV.

Corey Corey Corey... Life is a journey, not a destination.. and remember my friend, this ain't do dress rehearsal eh? Give me her name and I'll call from Belgium and say a co-worker of hers would like her to go out with him. I love this kind of stuff. And I think the call from Belgium might really impress her.. heheheheh

ET

I have this quirk that everybody has sort of gotten used to. Once a question enters the brain, I'm not happy until I get the answer.

It was Rosemead Gardens and it is in Notting Hill

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communal_garden

I imagine you can't really go in there Jamie... But it sure looks lovely eh?

Carol wrote: "I have heard from the staffers who are young people from all over, that they are running out of materials"

We ordered a bunch of stuff too - at the time of order, it was all back ordered - we received word this week that it had finally shipped. I took it as a good sign not bad...but I guess it could have been a bad sign as well

[she shrugs]

who knows?

If you want to buy one of the houses. Going rate is about 1.5 million pounds or 3 million u.S. dollars plus the shared maintenance fees for the upkeep.

I have got to find a rich, elderly relative in failing health to leave me a legacy.

www.movie-locations.com/ movies/n/nottinghill.html

I love the girl who plays Hugh Grant's sister in the film. She also plays a screwball in this brilliant BBC comedy The Vicar of Dibbley!

Oh and once a year they have a garden tour to raise money for charity

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20000521/ai_n14315184

well it's 4:30 am and probably good time to go to bed :p

Anyway... this blog is bad for my biological clock...

So good night...

And Jamie, have you ever pondered the answer to this question?

Why do people PARK on Driveways and DRIVE on Parkways?

You know , I don't even know her name. Sad , but true. We have spoke to each other , but I don't know her name. I either see her when we come in to work or when we are leaving.

hmm I am only like 2 or 3 hours away via Eurostar... It might make a fun day trip.

GEEZ Corey, next time extend your hand and say "HI I'm Corey, but my friends know my middle name is Mitchell..."

Corey,

ask her name.....

because tomorrow she may get a new job somewhere else, and you will regret not asking her name.......

EuroTom,

That is a story. I spend a fair amount of time visiting treatment floors in hospitals... particularly pediatric ones.

Lots of miracles occur.

Zoey,

I love The Point. It was even done in London as a staged play in the 70's with Davy Jones as Oblio and Mickey Dolenz as the Count and the Tree. (I think.)

The original version with Dustin Hoffman narrating isn't available. There's a dreadful version with Alan Thicke, a sweet one with Ringo... and then there is Harry's own narration on the soundtrack album.

The Point is pure, pure Harryness.

you have nothing to lose

And that's Harry at the start of the YouTube clip narrating!

Anyone who loves Harry.... go say hi to the lovely Zach Nilsson at Facebook.

ET

Notting Hill and The Vicar of Digby ... Any chance you could age 20 years and go straight?

no one ever switches teams......

old Seinfeld

Well I was asking for two impossible things. :-)

Maybe you have been inspired to "hope" and "dream" by way of proximity.

here is the version of "When you say nothing at all" by Allison Krauss and her band Union Station. The very best version is by Keith Whitley. Keith was the writer of the song and for my money the very best version.
here is Allison's ver
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT0QFM78fpo&feature=related
here is Keith's ver
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2El6y-9qMoU
compare the two.

yo soy Horsedooty!

LOL Jamie... listen 48 is good enough.. My mom would love the second part of your question! LOL LOL LOL... You know I was talking to her a while back and I asked her if it bothered her to be 69 years old, and she said "no, not at all." Then she asks me "why, does it bother you that you are 48 years old?" and I replied "HELL YES. I don't like it one bit! Take off 20 and keep what I've learned in my head and I can make some awesome changes!" heheheh. I am the family nut. :D

CNN reported earlier that Obama is expected to raise 60 million dollars this month, amazing. Everything is changing right before our eyes

sorry but the best version is Ronan Keating... :D

Brian we are on to far more important subjects than millions of dollars. Get with the program !! :)

No Country For Old Men.

Period.

I'm about to turn 64. That doesn't bother me at all. Having two children who are 45 and 44 this year is a major aggravation. How dare they get middle aged when I wasn't paying attention. Quite obviously they are just the long lost slightly older siblings I never knew existed.

Dexter,

Look up thread for the Oscar contest

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2008/02/friday-night-links.html#comment-40461

Dexter...

Belated homage and honor on your coin ceremony.

Almost time for Bill Mahar

jamie,

Which is secret code for "almost time for Chris Kelly"....

For good reason other then to laugh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51o1wrDvKT8

It's been lots of fun tonight. Sweet dreams everyone.

9/11: "Women always say that what REALLY attracts them to a man is a man who makes them laugh. If that were the truth, they'd all have a picture of Curly Howard above their beds."

I've always been a Larry Fine gal myself. No, really. He played the violin (have you ever heard him REALLY play? OMG...so sensitive...!!!) and he was funny. What's not to love???

We all know it's his hair , Julia. :)

Also? The whole Mel Gibson/Three Stooges thing...IRONIC AS HALE, seeing as how the Stooges were JEWS.

Well, Corey, everyone knows that the funniest, sexiest, most talented people in the world have naturally curly hair...

=D

Man have they aged well...they look better now than they did in the 80's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9HudVUt-NE

Wow Bear...the GoGos...I had such a crush on Jane Wiedlin back when I was in high school...

*nostalgic sigh*

Julia,

I loved them all...dreamed about em too...

This is a clip of the hottest band in the world making a political statement with a great cover...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KC8ia6VmtM&feature=related

Hmmm, I like this...

Temptations, "Ball Of Confusion"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miZWYmxr8XE

Aside from the Beatles reference (and that period in the early 70s when things were batshit crazy at Pine Ridge and other reservations), I've always felt this song would suit any time frame... =D

Thanks, 9-11. I carry it with me. I had it put in necklace this year but that really isn't me, so it's back in my pocket.

Jamie, I went there...so ...what? We have to register in our own name and THEN enter your group to cast a vote, because to enter the info you sent gets a rejection.

What a pleasant thread. Y'all are getting along, and it's a pleasure.

Corey, you're a hoot. Interesting info, as always, 9/11.

tt

Countdown with KO - "Worst Person in the World" the music:

http://patterns2.blogspot.com/

tt

The tabloids have revealed the allegation that Obama took crack and had gay sex. Globe magazine has just hit the stands with this. They already have it on their website: glovemagazine.com

As I said before, this is something that will come out. Even though this is only a rag magazine, it is out now. The mainstream media will ask Obama for a comment, and the mainstream will comment on a "No Comment."

Dems deserve to know this NOW, not after the primary. We do not want a situation like McCain's where he is already the candidate and then something potentially scandalous comes out.

Typo:

globemagazine.com

Jan, nobody cares about sex and drugs anymore. The McCain "scandal" is not about sex. It's about the illegality of political favors.

Crooks and Liars

John Amato’s virtual online magazine…OK, It’s a blog!

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February 22nd, 2008
Open Thread: 50th Anniversary of the Peace Sign
By: bluegal @ 9:00 PM - PST

Democracy Now, via Street Prophets, h/t Rain:

…the peace sign turns fifty years old today. Over the past five decades the peace sign has become one of the world’s enduring icons. The original peace sign was developed in 1958 by a British textile designer and conscientious objector named Gerald Holtom. He created the symbol by combining the semaphore letters N and D, for nuclear disarmament. On Feb. 21, 1958 the symbol was accepted by the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War. The symbol soon began to be used in anti-nuclear protests across Britain and then spread across the globe.

The Friedman Brothers (cartoonist/writer/sons of Bruce Jay Friedman) did a wonderful portrait of Larry Fine in the 80's based on a photo and interview with him after he had what he called "his stroke of luck". I remember he was standing on a cliff by the Pacific wearing a beret and painting in the illustration.

They never met him or most of their other subjects at the time but that didn't stop them from doing a ton of work on show business history. (Which got them sued by Joe Franklin for a couple of pieces including The Incredible Shrinking Joe Franklin.)

The one which was really charming and warm was the tribute to Fine... not because of the Stooges but because of his warmth, charm of love for all kinds of life.

I think they are doing work for the New York Observer now.

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
Bertrand Russell

Dr Howard, Dr Fine, Dr Howard........I cant even so much as look at any one of those guys without a good laugh......Curly got most of the yucks, but Larry was brilliant in his play.........

Colleen said "...nobody cares about sex and drugs anymore. The McCain "scandal" is not about sex. It's about the illegality of political favors."

Never say nobody. Perhaps in the morality sense you might be close to being correct. But in the workplace, especially a government workplace, people care a whole bunch. It's one thing doing stuff with peers in a social environment; it's a whole different thing when the perceived power of the individuals adds a coercive element, or if one of the individuals is at risk to blackmail or fried-brain syndrome. That's why drug use is a disqualifier for security clearances.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r10LAL7Bdv0&feature=related

my grandfather in a three stooges movie
he is the district attorney in disorder in the court

......this country is schizophrenic.......(as my old parkinsons-riddled ab-psych prof liked to say: schizophrenia is often described as "multiple personalities" when in reality it is the complete inability to muster up even one personality)
Well......"We have met the enemy and it is US." a well known possum used to say.......no.....not george jones.........

katherine.......

"You are now......my Hero."

---Eric von Zipper, III

sturge

well you know I am campaigning hard to make you my president.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
----Friedrich Nietzsche

The globe mag, then this comment by Obama the other day during the debate being questioned. He may have a tough weekend.

"You know, I've heard from an Army captain who was the head of a rifle platoon -- supposed to have 39 men in a rifle platoon. Ended up being sent to Afghanistan with 24 because 15 of those soldiers had been sent to Iraq. And as a consequence, they didn't have enough ammunition, they didn't have enough Humvees. They were actually capturing Taliban weapons, because it was easier to get Taliban weapons than it was for them to get properly equipped by our current commander in chief. Now, that's a consequence of bad judgment."

I could certainly add a measure of healthy schizophrenia to the mix......throw in the alzheimers and you've got one heck of a president......

sturgeone

nice summary of the Raygun years

BREAKING NEWS - Larry Sinclair Completed 4 Hour Polygraph Test Today
2/22/2008 8:45 PM

"Due to security concerns, we had to move the Larry Sinclair Polygraph up a few days. We conducted it in secret today and the picture to the left is from one of the two arduous polygraphs Sinclair underwent today.

The process took four grueling hours, testing Sinclair's claims of sex and drug use separately and also including a drug screening to ensure that Sinclair didn't enlist any chemical assistance.

The results are being confirmed by a second expert and we'll have conclusive word, along with video of the whole thing, Monday or Tuesday. Check back then for more, including video the tests and, of course, the results. "

http://whitehouse.com/

i think you need to go to (whitehouse.com) for a taste of what OBAMA really is like. Maybe it would be his Willie Horton if it is proven to be true.

so the story floats for a few days.......ahhhh, the life of a politician.......run with the big dogs, or stay on the porch........ie.......to be, or not to be..........

Nice horns of a dilemma you got there...........

running for office dilemma, that is.........

more like a dilenemma....

This is the first I ever heard of the Larry guy, has this been floating around for awhile.

Morning Sr. Fish.

Vadaryl: that story about the US trops in Afghanistan not having sufficient equipment checks out. Some rightwing blogs are still floating it, but ABC TV correspondent talked with the captain in question and captain confirms the story.

Here's a post on dustup and the evidence so far.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/02/honor.html

Good morning KGC too! Very early morning on the Pacific coast.