Rays win 3-1. Price closes it out. (And utterly exposes Varitek, who can't hit anymore, despite his one key home run.)
World Series is the TV exec nightmare: Phillies vs. Tampa Bay Rays.
Very gutty comeback by the Red Sox, though.
...burning baby fish swimming all round your head.
Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 61*
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
DavidS - Oct 19, 2008 6:42:58 pm PDT #5412 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
DavidS - Oct 19, 2008 7:48:12 pm PDT #5413 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Heh. I'm reading a Tampa Bay Rays board and their nickname for David Price is Velociraptor Jesus.
Burrell - Oct 19, 2008 7:57:07 pm PDT #5414 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Thanks for the birthday wishes everybody, and I hope I'm not too late to send a happy birthday to Calli. It's been a busy weekend. Mostly housework, but there was also b-day sushi and reading of many fairytales with sweet kids snuggling me.
For me and cities, New York is Annie Hall mostly, but there's a subterranean layer of Sesame Street too. London is Sherlock Holmes, My Fair Lady, and a gazillion other books and plays from childhood, but first and foremost it's Sherlock Holmes. Paris is old photos of Notre Dame, only later in college did it become the Left Bank to me. Berlin is Cabaret.
DavidS - Oct 19, 2008 8:03:57 pm PDT #5415 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
New York is Annie Hall mostly,
Oh yeah!
but there's a subterranean layer of Sesame Street too
Reputedly closely modeled on the Upper West Side of the mid sixties.
Hil R. - Oct 19, 2008 8:14:39 pm PDT #5416 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Reputedly closely modeled on the Upper West Side of the mid sixties.
Definitely. Upper West Side or Morningside Heights. (Actually, my dad's cousin claims that it was the specific block that she and my dad grew up on, but I've never seen anything to back that one up. But it's clearly that neighborhood.)
I'm trying to think of other movie associations I have for different cities. I can't really think of too many. Oh! Newport is High Society. And San Francisco is largely Pal Joey.
billytea - Oct 19, 2008 8:26:14 pm PDT #5417 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Australia- Crocodile Dundee (sorry, billytea!)
As well you should be. That's not a first impression of Australia, this is a first impression of Australia: "Daynjah, daynjah, daynjah!" t end of impression
Glamcookie - Oct 19, 2008 8:29:45 pm PDT #5418 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Happy birthday, Burrell!
Happy birthday, Calli!
DavidS - Oct 19, 2008 8:32:45 pm PDT #5419 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Special for Theo: Fake tilt shift Photoshopping.
How to make a real photo look like a model.
Check out the "model" Fenway.
I don't know why it's cooler to make something real look fake, except it's a particular kind of fake.
Cashmere - Oct 19, 2008 8:43:51 pm PDT #5420 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
My first impressions of Australia came from the film Fast Talking.
Theodosia - Oct 20, 2008 1:40:18 am PDT #5421 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
My impressions of Australia come from Priscilla Queen of the Desert and Sirens (both of which I recommend heartily for your Buffista viewing pleasure, BTW).
David -- how cool! I hadn't come across that before. Now I have to go take some panorama-type pictures to try it out on! It's amazing to me how much about animation and other visual disciplines is really about making stuff more like the human eye perceives rather than how the phenomenon really is -- such as, if you want to show gears or wheels spinning really fast, it's much easier to animate a blur rather than rotate a wheel spinning extremely fast. The blur will look more "real" 90% of the time....