My mother has not had every bad job.Will have to mention this one, as it embarrassed her when I told her what a "fluffer" was.(I thought she knew already.)
You're a bloody puppet! You're a wee little puppet man!
Spike ,'Smile Time'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
erikaj - Feb 06, 2005 6:52:51 am PST #7016 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Jesse - Feb 06, 2005 7:40:56 am PST #7017 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I just had a flash of memory about a blind guy with a sword cane, but now I think it was someone just pretending to be blind? Anyone know what I'm talking about?
DXMachina - Feb 06, 2005 8:02:10 am PST #7018 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I just had a flash of memory about a blind guy with a sword cane, but now I think it was someone just pretending to be blind? Anyone know what I'm talking about?
There's the movie Blind Fury, where Rutger Hauer played a blind Vietnam vet who trained as a swordfighter. Terry O'Quinn (Locke from Lost) co-starred.
Jim - Feb 06, 2005 10:54:13 pm PST #7019 of 10002
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
Which is a US version of Zatoichi.
sumi - Feb 07, 2005 5:18:34 am PST #7020 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
When we were talking mysteries and disabilities I thought, "Ironsides" -- but didn't mention it because I don't know whether it was ever anything else but a tv show.
DavidS - Feb 07, 2005 7:32:08 am PST #7021 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
When we were talking mysteries and disabilities I thought, "Ironsides" -- but didn't mention it because I don't know whether it was ever anything else but a tv show.
Longstreet was from the same early 70s era. Blind insurance investigator.
Big Hammett article in the Chron today
Connie Neil - Feb 07, 2005 7:44:13 am PST #7022 of 10002
brillig
Longstreet was from the same early 70s era.
Bruce Lee was in that teaching Longstreet how to defend himself. That was a cool series. t /showing my age
DavidS - Feb 07, 2005 7:46:18 am PST #7023 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
While, we're at it, The Catalog of Cool's Hiply Writ books - including Frankenstein, Walker Percy's Love in the Ruins, Heraclitus, Michael Ondaatje's Coming Through Slaughter and...
INTO THE HEART OF BORNEO- Redmond O'Hanlon (Random House). In 1983, British naturalist O'Hanlon and his poet-journalist buddy James Fenton took off for the world's third-largest island to contend with rivers, tropical jungles, and mountains no Westerners had tackled in 50 years. Into The Heart Of Borneo -- one of the hippest travel books ever -- is O'Hanlon's half-surreal, mostly hilarious report on their crack-brained expedition. Armed with books, medications and liquors and daily doused with anti-fungus powder until their "erogenous zones looked like meat chunks rolled in flour," the pair and their three antic Iban guides meet with nations of pests (leeches, wild-boar ticks, inch-long ants) and dazzlingly rare creatures (fish-eagles, pig-tailed macques, dinosaurlike water monitors) alike. They see 800 weird kinds of trees and have almost as many bizarre jungle-inspired dreams. Though the rumored blowpipe-toting Bornean cannibals never materialize, the explorers are obliged to teach the natives they do encounter the seven-step disco and to improvise war dances for them in raucous -- and bibulous -- tribal jam sessions. The Iban tribesmen, O'Hanlon writes, always lay down when they "know that they are going to laugh for a long time." Definitely the sort of book to take lying down. P.F.
DavidS - Feb 07, 2005 9:03:51 am PST #7024 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
How literary reputations get trashed: A poison pen to Stephen Spender.
Jesse - Feb 07, 2005 5:56:39 pm PST #7025 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Do any of you people know The Stainless Steel Rat? They were just recommended to me.