Liberated from ragdoll who borrowed it from someone else and so on and so forth. Just some proof that I'm still around and just as boring as ever! YAY!!!!!!!!last cigarette: not in this life time ( Read more... )

Movie Meme
Instructions: Take one list of movies, remove those movies (DVD or VHS) that do not grace your shelves and make the list up to ten by adding some more that do.

Kris' list:
Lord of The Rings : Fellowship of the Rings (2001)
Ghostbusters (1984) (video and LD)
Goldfinger (1964)
Seven Samurai (1954)
Lost Horizon (1937)Citizen Kane (1941 ( Read more... )

and a *jshshshshshshshshshshshshshhsh* to boot.... Doctor Who is coming back properly-- on the telly!

The news is just breaking over in Jolly Old....

I don't know which is scarier, me turning 40 in a few weeks, or David McCallum turning 70 today.

I have been extremely attracted to Mr. McCallum for decades now. (Sad but true.) Although I had known of his existence, vaguely, it wasn't until I saw an episode or two of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. at a Federation meeting, oh, like 1984 that I started to ( Read more... )

(Twice in one day, try not to die of shock or anything, all right?)

Back in the day, I was a huge fan of AM radio, especially before it went all shit talk sometime in the last decade. From time to time, the dj's I've enjoyed have surfaced on other stations. John "Records" Landecker, for example-- he of the classic story-puns of "Americana ( Read more... )

Nice to see McCallum's getting some press about his new series. I have to remember to set the wayback machine (aka VCR) to tape it. More than once. (I suck at taping things these days; totally out of the habit. I missed the second ep of "At Home With the Braithwaites" for example....) It might be a good series, despite the STUPID names for some of ( Read more... )

The one thing that I really like about growing older is not having to apologise for my musical tastes-- which are eclectic at best, just plain weird at worst. Once you're over a Certain Age, and it no longer matters demographically what you listen to, you have the freedom to listen to whatever you like without feeling embarrassed about it ( Read more... )

( It's either that or go on and on about working in the school office.... )

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