http://ping.fm/uBSC1
Precisely what I expected: excellent actors, talented production designers and decent dialogue can indeed save an empty shell of a film.
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Playing with Designs
Hi Folks,
I've changed the layout a bit. While I don't necessarily care for the tiled look for the photo I chose from our London trip this summer, it will have to do until I decide to change my mind...and as hard as I tried, I just couldn't resist a little bit of pink in some form. ;-)
Enjoy the British look! I think the text font may be a bit silly and unreadable, so that may change as well. We're in progress!
I've changed the layout a bit. While I don't necessarily care for the tiled look for the photo I chose from our London trip this summer, it will have to do until I decide to change my mind...and as hard as I tried, I just couldn't resist a little bit of pink in some form. ;-)
Enjoy the British look! I think the text font may be a bit silly and unreadable, so that may change as well. We're in progress!
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
The evils of 1969...
On a brief note...
I just read the review of "This Is Not Ivy League", the sordid tale of one woman's pitiful decision to leave the lively comforts of Seattle in 1969 and join a small-town college in Montana (Northern Montana). Her happy life spiraled down to drinking, debauchery, failed marriages and depression. Oh my. All because she pondered whether she was "too good" to settle for a secretarial job..."this was 1969, after all." Once again, the Women's Lib Movement backfires.
What really got me was this: "[The students] cared little about ‘education’ in the sense that most of us understood the word, but rather were looking for training in skills that would help them find jobs. They sat sullenly in the precollege composition classes … and wondered why they had to take English."
Er....that...describes...most freshman nowadays.
I just read the review of "This Is Not Ivy League", the sordid tale of one woman's pitiful decision to leave the lively comforts of Seattle in 1969 and join a small-town college in Montana (Northern Montana). Her happy life spiraled down to drinking, debauchery, failed marriages and depression. Oh my. All because she pondered whether she was "too good" to settle for a secretarial job..."this was 1969, after all." Once again, the Women's Lib Movement backfires.
What really got me was this: "[The students] cared little about ‘education’ in the sense that most of us understood the word, but rather were looking for training in skills that would help them find jobs. They sat sullenly in the precollege composition classes … and wondered why they had to take English."
Er....that...describes...most freshman nowadays.
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Wow...getting dressed (by oneself) in the late 18th century...it makes my arms hurt to think about wrapping them behind me like that. :- http://ping.fm/1ViEu
Friday, October 14, 2011
Richard Dreyfuss reads the Apple Software Agreement in three dramatic voices, word. http://ping.fm/4q7Tc
Monday, October 3, 2011
New changes are a-comin'...
Hey Folks,
I'm considering updating my blog design...so this space may look a wee bit different (and quite Anglophilized...*new word!*) when next you return. ;)
My world continues to be filled with a lot of academic work, but thankfully a little more down time than last year, so I actually have a few moments to read something fun, work on my own peculiar projects and take a day off now and again. In short, I'm fully human this semester. :-)
Cheers!,
Em
I'm considering updating my blog design...so this space may look a wee bit different (and quite Anglophilized...*new word!*) when next you return. ;)
My world continues to be filled with a lot of academic work, but thankfully a little more down time than last year, so I actually have a few moments to read something fun, work on my own peculiar projects and take a day off now and again. In short, I'm fully human this semester. :-)
Cheers!,
Em
Sunday, October 2, 2011
They're finally going to play that lost Beethoven Quartet. :-) In Manchester, no less!
http://ping.fm/1kWYz
http://ping.fm/1kWYz
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