Archive for May 2010
MW: How did I do it?
Posted by: bluelyon on: May 31, 2010
Back in the day we had bunny ears on the TV and the card catalog at the library. We had AM radio and three, maybe four television stations. In those days I could never have dreamed of the world that we have today. Technology has exploded, and there’ve been some other interesting inventions along the [...]
Widdershins at the Movies (ct’d): The Late Show
Posted by: chatblu on: May 30, 2010
- In: movies | Uncategorized
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The Late Show Classics: (1) Best Campy Cult Flick: The Rocky Horror Picture Show (2) Best Stephen King Horror Movie: Carrie (3) Best Zombie Film: Night of the Living Dead (4) Best Iconic Flick Leading To A (not-so-hot) Sequel: Nightmare on Elm Street (5) Best Werewolf Film: An American Werewolf in London (6) Best Satanic Film: Rosemary’s [...]
Evening Widdershins: At the Movies
Posted by: chatblu on: May 30, 2010
- In: movies | Open Thread
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Pass the popcorn. Everyone has favorite movies, the ones that we can – and have – watched again, and again, and again. Here’s a quick list of mine, again by genre: (1) Best of Alfred Hitchcock: North by Northwest, although The Birds scared the beejeezuz out of me as well. (2) Best of the Sixties: [...]
MW: Serenity Now! MadamaB’s Top Ten Books
Posted by: madamab on: May 30, 2010
Goddess bless our Chatblu! Just when we thought we would be stuck in dark depression forever, she brilliantly came up with yesterday’s Top Ten post. Ah, music does indeed have charms to soothe the savage breast, and we were all in such need, indeed. As many of you know, I am an avid reader; so [...]
Evening Widdershins: ChatBlu’s Top Ten – part iii
Posted by: chatblu on: May 29, 2010
- In: Music | Open Thread
- 38 Comments
It’s not really dark here yet in SoFla, but the edges of the light are beginning to soften. It usually rains for a few minutes, and then the sky begins to simultaneously turn purple, orange and midnight blue as only a Florida sunset can. The temperature drops about eight to ten degrees, the breeze picks [...]
Afternoon Widdershins: ChatBlu’s Top Ten- part ii
Posted by: chatblu on: May 29, 2010
- In: Music | You Tube
- 51 Comments
The last thread was beginning to labor when loading. Keep those hits rolling, Widdershins! We need the diversion badly. This is one of my all-time Foreigner songs, and so appropriate for today’s posts.
MW: ChatBlu’s Top Ten
Posted by: chatblu on: May 29, 2010
- In: Morning Widdershins | Music | Open Thread | You Tube
- 66 Comments
It’s been a stressful month, other than the Key West trip. I’ve spent an inordinate amount of time obsessing over the oil slick, and trying to be more helpful to my daughter as the granddaughter graduates from high school in roughly one week. Relatives are coming out of various woodworks in North Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi [...]
The Patriarchy Caps the Gusher: A Play in One Ruthless Act
Posted by: madamab on: May 28, 2010
- In: Breaking News | Current Events | Ecology | Economy | Feminism | Gay Rights | Healthcare | Hillary Clinton | Morning Widdershins | Obama | Open Thread | Patriarchy
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(THE SCENE: A bland corporate building – it could be anywhere in any large city in America. We see, downstage right, a plain wooden door in a frame, adorned with a golden “P”. Beyond it is a conference room, featureless, yet rather on the opulent side, with one golden “P” on the back wall. Five figures in shapeless [...]
MW: Hydrocarbons and Health Concerns
Posted by: chatblu on: May 27, 2010
- In: Current Events | Ecology | Healthcare
- 44 Comments
I’m watching the Gulf clean-up on the teevee. Local fishermen are cleaning up the shoreline, shoveling degraded oil blobs (for lack of a better term) into plastic bags. I don’t see goggles or masks. They are wearing in some instances what appear to be green surgical gloves, in others the clear plastic gloves seen in [...]
Morning Widdershins: Teaspoons and Tidal Waves
Posted by: bluelyon on: May 26, 2010
- In: Ecology | Government | Politics
- 49 Comments
In between arranging stuff for our upcoming vacay, work (I was there from 7am-6pm yesterday), and other obligations, I’ve barely had the energy to keep up with the world. But I scan the headlines, I read, I sigh . . . and I think, I need to blog on that. And yet, I keep coming [...]
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