tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103772230302021699.post515161976152934089..comments2024-03-10T09:24:45.565+02:00Comments on Dispatches from Vilnius: Winter in Washington MeanderJames Fergusonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05901612633415337879noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103772230302021699.post-71783982204645379642010-02-15T17:57:56.112+02:002010-02-15T17:57:56.112+02:00Been away for a few days. Will catch up on the Ma...Been away for a few days. Will catch up on the Madison posts.James Fergusonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05901612633415337879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103772230302021699.post-39712321935368832282010-02-15T04:34:53.386+02:002010-02-15T04:34:53.386+02:00An interesting if very disturbing cover article in...An interesting if very disturbing cover article in the Feb 14th,NYTimes mag.Founding Father? by Russell Shorto.JAbelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08594625881177704355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103772230302021699.post-80489775321893094302010-02-09T15:47:03.219+02:002010-02-09T15:47:03.219+02:00Coming again March 13 if anyone else is interested...Coming again March 13 if anyone else is interested.avrdshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07997163948247445009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103772230302021699.post-3298897147171055882010-02-09T15:14:34.432+02:002010-02-09T15:14:34.432+02:00Thanks Bo. I have to have all of my satellite equ...Thanks Bo. I have to have all of my satellite equipment replaced. Mine is from the previous owner and it's less than reliable and now the remote doesn't work. <br /><br />I'll put in an email notice at TCM so I can catch it next time. I'd like to see it again.avrdshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07997163948247445009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103772230302021699.post-48062358236917326932010-02-09T08:59:37.626+02:002010-02-09T08:59:37.626+02:00Avrds if you have the magic cable box TCM has movi...Avrds if you have the magic cable box TCM has movies for free on the On Demand icon but of about the twenty on it right now True Grit is not one of them.JAbelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08594625881177704355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103772230302021699.post-18419821270897723712010-02-08T21:50:51.799+02:002010-02-08T21:50:51.799+02:00By the way, av, I really enjoyed "A Serious M...By the way, av, I really enjoyed "A Serious Man," and I don't think you have to be a Coen Bros. fan to enjoy it.James Fergusonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05901612633415337879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103772230302021699.post-46324161008847635792010-02-08T21:49:43.676+02:002010-02-08T21:49:43.676+02:00Pathetic, I think is the word.Pathetic, I think is the word.James Fergusonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05901612633415337879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103772230302021699.post-49434234943470975672010-02-08T20:57:53.782+02:002010-02-08T20:57:53.782+02:00But that halftime show was pathetic. Guys in thei...But that halftime show was pathetic. Guys in their sixties singing about teenage angst is beyond ironic.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01343768762996537750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103772230302021699.post-81951406240283202222010-02-08T18:47:01.166+02:002010-02-08T18:47:01.166+02:00Just checked the TCM programming in case I could s...Just checked the TCM programming in case I could see True Grit later. <br /><br />But it's 31 days of Oscars. Lots of movies there I would like to watch or see again. Julia is on tonight which I remember really liking. So is A Thousand Clowns, which I've always loved, although it does seem to wear thin as I've gotten older.avrdshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07997163948247445009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103772230302021699.post-66806251056333311382010-02-08T17:20:43.244+02:002010-02-08T17:20:43.244+02:00And yes, what a game! I thoroughly enjoyed it.
M...And yes, what a game! I thoroughly enjoyed it.<br /><br />My DVR remote is broken so had to also watch the ads. Couldn't figure out why all the ads had men without pants on and in the rest people kept slapping each other. I think I'm badly out of the cultural loop up here.avrdshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07997163948247445009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103772230302021699.post-7187543190260125372010-02-08T17:18:45.921+02:002010-02-08T17:18:45.921+02:00Re the book and the _original_ movie, yes, it is a...Re the book and the _original_ movie, yes, it is a classic. I vaguely recall reading that Portis had been working on it for a long time, but couldn't get the voice right. Then he read something by a 19th century preacher and the book sort of wrote itself after that. <br /><br />I'm sure some of the details aren't quite right -- it's been a long time and my memory is like a avrdshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07997163948247445009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103772230302021699.post-76972909474861595732010-02-08T17:15:24.759+02:002010-02-08T17:15:24.759+02:00"Coen bros. are doing a remake."
Oh, an..."Coen bros. are doing a remake."<br /><br />Oh, and that was such a nice series of posts to start the day with...."avrdshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07997163948247445009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103772230302021699.post-61378526589644411852010-02-08T08:16:50.214+02:002010-02-08T08:16:50.214+02:00Coen bros. are doing a remake.Coen bros. are doing a remake.James Fergusonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05901612633415337879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103772230302021699.post-85287775629212898462010-02-08T07:22:26.824+02:002010-02-08T07:22:26.824+02:00Re the photo, my husband remarked it would be grea...Re the photo, my husband remarked it would be great if more denizens of the place were as pure as the driven...NYT Perduhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05799504399477460783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103772230302021699.post-65855694620549842982010-02-08T07:20:06.914+02:002010-02-08T07:20:06.914+02:00I'll have to read True Grit also down the road...I'll have to read True Grit also down the road but I love reading a book before I see the film.Darby and Campbell also starred in Norwood which was made a year after True Grit.They were the only two films Campbell ever made.I liked the crack by the host on TCM after True Grit in which Campbell said before True Grit he had never acted and after seeing it for the first time still hadn't.JAbelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08594625881177704355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103772230302021699.post-36898757659436171212010-02-08T07:11:23.918+02:002010-02-08T07:11:23.918+02:00I read "True Grit" and was taken most wi...I read "True Grit" and was taken most with the peculiar locutions of the girl's. I may have known how/why Portis wrote it that way but have forgotten.NYT Perduhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05799504399477460783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103772230302021699.post-86297929614465232932010-02-08T06:44:43.752+02:002010-02-08T06:44:43.752+02:00Every so often the NYTimes has a great front page ...Every so often the NYTimes has a great front page photo and that was it today.I see it's a Reuters photographer who shot it.Avrds it was quite a game.44 years of being a sad sack and now the Saints are champs.Have you read any Charles Portis? I watched True Grit for the first time the other night and was surprise I had never seen it.Now I want to find a copy of Norwood.It seems Portis has a JAbelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08594625881177704355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103772230302021699.post-30496795347003557152010-02-08T01:41:53.176+02:002010-02-08T01:41:53.176+02:00I'm not a football fan but am still watching t...I'm not a football fan but am still watching the opening of the game (with the sound off) so I can cheer for the Saints. Not looking good so far, but I'm an optimist.avrdshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07997163948247445009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103772230302021699.post-9777386458902347042010-02-08T01:40:18.435+02:002010-02-08T01:40:18.435+02:00DC can't handle the snow either, and it's ...DC can't handle the snow either, and it's far enough north that you'd think they'd learn to expect it once in awhile. <br /><br />I once worked for extended periods in DC and remember walking to work in the snow -- the city seemed paralyzed.<br /><br />I have read the Discoverers, but not the Creators. Interesting idea for a book.avrdshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07997163948247445009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103772230302021699.post-52534465681619770192010-02-08T01:06:24.052+02:002010-02-08T01:06:24.052+02:00CreatorsCreatorsRickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01343768762996537750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103772230302021699.post-82819418677318744892010-02-08T01:05:42.708+02:002010-02-08T01:05:42.708+02:00That photo is beautiful, but when it snows down he...That photo is beautiful, but when it snows down here in the deep south we usually lose power, sometimes for days at a time. As a result, I'm glad to have the snow stay well north of us.<br /><br />On a history note, I'm reading Daniel J. Boorstin's "The Creaters: A History of Heroes of the Imagination," which is a campanion to "The Discoverers." These books, if Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01343768762996537750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103772230302021699.post-18895064183604770842010-02-07T23:41:44.132+02:002010-02-07T23:41:44.132+02:00Gosh - you sure could fool me! This is such a lov...Gosh - you sure could fool me! This is such a lovely photo that I thought it was a painting!!<br /><br />Anyways, we have lots of snow here in St Paul as well. Winter is, indeed, a beautiful time of year. Yes, there are many hazards. But we love the snow and the Winter!<br /><br />By the way, when I lived in Brooklyn, NY nothing pleased me more than to take a long walk in snowy Prospect Park.Tripplerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16568801152695491482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103772230302021699.post-24266085345558243132010-02-07T16:54:58.718+02:002010-02-07T16:54:58.718+02:00Yes, isn't it beautiful. There's also one...Yes, isn't it beautiful. There's also one with the Washington monument that really makes the capital look grand.avrdshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07997163948247445009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103772230302021699.post-29445257485817144942010-02-07T16:51:45.803+02:002010-02-07T16:51:45.803+02:00Great photo. All those white limestone and marble...Great photo. All those white limestone and marble buildings look even better in the snow.James Fergusonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05901612633415337879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103772230302021699.post-5769359212608421932010-02-07T16:28:34.959+02:002010-02-07T16:28:34.959+02:00It does feel a bit like Washington has been snowed...It does feel a bit like Washington has been snowed in for awhile. Or snowed under. <br /><br />But I love this photo anyway.avrdshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07997163948247445009noreply@blogger.com