Comments on: Behind closed doors.

By: whitebeard

whitebeard — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:55:45 +0000

I laughed with all the rest of you over Lee Abrams Tribune memo linked here, including the point about “15. MAPS: We are in the GPS age. The eye candy age (and I’m not talking about Page 3)…” My laughter was squelched when I saw my newspaper’s story today about arrests made after two dead bodies were dumped on interstate ramps in Connecticut and saw the link to two Google Earth captures of the ramps, a photograph of the street where an arrest took place and another street scene photo showing the building where the murders allegedly took place. It’s the GPS age, but GPS stands for God Preserve Us in this case.
I plead guilty, however, as a young radio reporter, standing on the waterfront in The Soo and talking for hours live on the air from our mobile unit about the royal yacht Britannia, sans Princess Elizabeth, anchored in the St. Mary’s River. Back at the station, my control room host would not take back the mike, despite many hints and pleas from me until the police called and said the broadcast was creating the traffic jam of traffic jams and would I please shut up.
Later, during her actual visit, I took photographs and a short film clip of Princess Elizabeth visiting the steel plant. Those were the glory days, Film at 6 and 11.
By the way, the Britannia is now anchored at Edinburgh, Scotland, http://www.royalyachtbritannia.co.uk/ can be hired for corporate events and is open for tours during the day. “Look out for the on-board Garage housing one of Her Majesty’s Rolls-Royces.”

By: coozledad

coozledad — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:53:53 +0000

It may be time for me to consider a sports bra. In fact, I’m beginning to feel like one of those consumer/entrepreneurs like the president of Hair Club for Men. If I could get Hugh Hewitt on board for marketing, we could just call it the Jogstrap, or the more poetic Hewititty. Either way, I think this would go a long way toward reducing visual distress in parks and greenswards across the nation.

By: moe99

moe99 — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:03:51 +0000

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/06/23/sports.bra.ap/index.html#

Woman climber saved by her sports bra. Seems apt for today’s column…….

By: coozledad

coozledad — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:33:26 +0000

I was recently trying to figure out how to split some old elm trees that had fallen on our property. Google took me to one site where a guy advocated pushing the nose of a chainsaw into the end of the log, filling the gap with black powder, and igniting it with a fuse. He mentioned that this technique had killed one of his co-workers. In the comments, someone said the Amish use a car battery with fifty foot leads, and have taken sufficient cover by the time they hook the wires to the battery. They go through a lot of wire, but have significantly fewer fatalities.
I remember sneaking into an old drive in theater in Durham to watch “French Shampoo” without sound. There were actually sections of the movie that appeared to contain dialog. I nearly felt ashamed because many of the actresses were obviously older than my Aunt Ruth. The guys all looked like Peter Falk, if Peter Falk had dropped his raincoat to reveal the body of a howler monkey draped with redundant gold medallions. But I guess the interplay of the different characters ultimately worked for me, because I spent a great deal of time later trying to recall certain details.

By: john c

john c — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:06:15 +0000

The lawyer’s tactic reminded me of a priest I had in high school. Catcher in the Rye was the assignment, and he remembered a nutty parent incensed that Jesuit priests would have high school boys reading a book that contained profanity. Tell me, Fr. Sproul said, did your son have to look up any of the words?

By: brian stouder

brian stouder — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:27:17 +0000

Seems like he’d a named his bookstores the Wolfe’s Lair, instead of the prosaic Lion’s Den…

edit: after reading the “harnessing the power of the breast bounce” article, one see’s Nance’s plaintive opening sentence in a different light!

By: Kirk

Kirk — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:12:22 +0000

Not gonna be much help, Nance. I remember the tactic but can’t remember whether it was a semi-famous lawyer. I do think that some prosecutor might have been going after Mark Wolfe, owner of the Lion’s Den bookstores, which remain in business.

By: brian stouder

brian stouder — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:05:13 +0000

I was just thinking about ’70’s porn last night, as I caught “X Rated” on Showtime

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0201776/

I fell asleep just as the Mitchell brothers were confronting the mob guys who were pirating their smash hit Behind the Green Door…so I missed their disintegration (although the movie has them snorting cocaine approximately every other scene). The movie begins with the brothers after their disintegration, so there was not going to be a surprise there, anyway.

But the thing that was entertaining was that the movie depicted the Mitchell brothers’ up-from-nothing startup in the nudie movie business in a pretty comical way (the one brother gets lectured by his film school professor, so he leaves the film class and just starts in)…and they foul up as often as not (learning to use the new camera “on the fly” [so to speak], instead of reading the directions)

One couldn’t help but imagine Madame Telling Tales and her determined band of film makers, out on location!

An interesting movie - from what I caught