Thoughts on Living the Life Creative
Today is a day worth remembering.Today is the day my family began.Not in the larger sense. There have been folks with my name or some variant of it around for centuries. No, I'm talking about my specific family. It began today, 58 years ago. When two young people got dressed up and took their vows... Continue Reading →
I said that the unemployment really begins this past week. Sigh. Yeah. This week I had my first anxious moment. As in waking up in the middle of the night terrified about all things that might happen, that haven't happened, that need to happen, that I haven't made happen. I'm a chronic worrier so it... Continue Reading →
The Wild Bunch - (1969) - The days of the "Old West" are coming to an end as World War I approaches. A gang of aging outlaws goes for one final score as they are pursued by bounty hunters sent by the railroad company. This is another movie around which legend gathers. John Wayne claimed... Continue Reading →
Crap. As in I don't even want to write this post. I want to go away, curl up in a ball and feel sorry for myself. I want to make excuses and throw a pity party for myself. It was a bad week. But it was going to be a tough week under any circumstances.... Continue Reading →
This is the American Film Institute’s 2007 list of the top 100 American movies; I’ve put the ones I’ve seen in bold. I've included only those movies that I've seen the whole way through. I had checked it a couple years ago and had scored about 60% of them. Just updated it and now I'm... Continue Reading →
The Marx Brothers - It was sometime in either very late high school or early college that I got into the Marx Brothers. You'll find no less than 12 titles on my shelves (listed at the end). If memory serves a friend in high school (who bore a more than passing resemblance to Groucho when... Continue Reading →
"The View From the Phlipside" is a media commentary program airing on WRFA-LP, Jamestown NY. It can be heard Monday through Friday just after 8 AM and 5 PM. The following are scripts which may not exactly match the aired version of the program. Mostly because the host may suddenly choose to add or subtract... Continue Reading →
Well, life goes on. There are some bumps but over all I'm rolling along. On the subject of routine from last week I would differentiate between a routine and a schedule. A schedule is, to borrow a phrase from the English TV show "Rumpole of the Bailey", "She who must be obeyed". A schedule says... Continue Reading →
The Hunt for Gollum - (2009) - This is a low budget, independent and unofficial prequel to the Lord of the Rings movies. It tells the story of Aragorn's pursuit and capture of Gollum. This story is told primarily in the appendices of the Tolkien's Lord of the Rings books. Made by a group of... Continue Reading →
The struggles continue. I know I need to up my exercise routine. I need to be more active. To help with that I bought a Fitbit which is a high tech pedometer. The truly useful part is that it links to my Fitbit online account via wifi so that my steps are automatically recorded for me.... Continue Reading →
