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Post by Odysseus on Mar 13, 2021 7:08:44 GMT
For nearly all my life, I grew up believing I was part Indian. Something to do with a French Canadian ancestor several generations back marrying an Indian princess.
Then a couple of years ago my older brother ruined it. He'd done a 23 and Me kind of search, and it revealed zero American Indian genes.
But it's OK. Just going for most of my life thinking I was part American (well, Canadian) Indian gave me a different way of thinking about the world. I'd like to think that was a good thing.
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Post by johnnybgood on Mar 22, 2021 9:33:07 GMT
In keeping with my last (or so) movie puzzler, I decided I needed to lower my blood pressure and popped in a DVD of The Sound of Music the other day.
I remember when this first came out. My older sister, who had moved out of the house to get her own job and apartment, decided to treat the rest of the family. I think it must have been 1965 or 1966. She'd already seen it, and wanted the rest of us to see it, in part because the movie family's flight from disaster sort of, in a very small way, matched our own family's not too distant experience.
I was about 14 at the time, and it was my first widescreen full sound movie experience. I remember being totally blown away by the opening, plastered back in my seat. What cinematography. What soundtrack. Awesome. Truly one of the great movies of all time. I haven't watched it in years; brought back sweet/sad memories.
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Post by johnnybgood on Mar 22, 2021 9:34:42 GMT
Dave is the best. "Always travel with a white person. If you get pulled over, someone has to talk to the police" |
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Post by Odysseus on Mar 28, 2021 5:53:36 GMT
Just watched, for the first time, an interesting movie titled "North Country".
It's about an attractive young woman (Charlize Theron) working in a mine in the mid-west, and her struggles to fight back against sexual harassment. It's based on a true 1984 story but at least partly fictionalized.
The case it's based upon is considered a landmark, and set in motion a whole set of new standards for treating women in the workplace. Which is a good thing.
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Post by Odysseus on Mar 28, 2021 20:14:56 GMT
In keeping with my last (or so) movie puzzler, I decided I needed to lower my blood pressure and popped in a DVD of The Sound of Music the other day.
I remember when this first came out. My older sister, who had moved out of the house to get her own job and apartment, decided to treat the rest of the family. I think it must have been 1965 or 1966. She'd already seen it, and wanted the rest of us to see it, in part because the movie family's flight from disaster sort of, in a very small way, matched our own family's not too distant experience.
I was about 14 at the time, and it was my first widescreen full sound movie experience. I remember being totally blown away by the opening, plastered back in my seat. What cinematography. What soundtrack. Awesome. Truly one of the great movies of all time. I haven't watched it in years; brought back sweet/sad memories.
What's a DVD?
For you, it stands for "Dumb Very Dumb"...
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Post by johnnybgood on Mar 30, 2021 6:42:47 GMT
For you, it stands for "Dumb Very Dumb"...
I thought this was a peaceful part of the site? Typical left, causing trouble. |
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Post by bama beau on Apr 2, 2021 5:47:35 GMT
"Being interviewed guarantees misunderstandings."
Brilliant.
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Post by Odysseus on Apr 25, 2021 8:51:29 GMT
Just saw "Yentl" on the local PBS station movie night.
Pretty cool flick, although it would have been just as cool without Streisand's singing.
The plot is a little strange, as well. But I think the best performance is from Mandy Patinkin, despite the script flaws.
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Post by johnnybgood on Apr 26, 2021 10:53:47 GMT
I was going to say Sports, then I noticed you motioned lower blood pressure.
When I was a kid until I was about 18 I watched WWF wresting. I've watched some biographies on A&E that are pretty good. There's one on the Undertaker "My favorite" but it was on the WWE channel. So I'll have to wait a while before A&E gets it.
I watched a biography of "Iceman" no that's not a wrestler. A hitman that was one bad man. Unless he was home with his family. He appeared to be a normal father. But the way he made his money was not normal.
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Post by Odysseus on May 1, 2021 5:43:26 GMT
Currently watching a fantastic Frontline special - three hour - on the pandemic:
It covers responses from peoples all over the world to the Covid pandemic.
Really an eye-opener.
Highly recommended.
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Post by bama beau on May 4, 2021 4:48:26 GMT
Hey PBT! Check this place out. Great SA cichlids.
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Post by Odysseus on May 4, 2021 5:33:24 GMT
Hey PBT! Check this place out. Great SA cichlids.
I remember reading about cichlids in high school way back when, and reading a book by Konrad Lorenz on same. Later, a high school friend wound up a grad student in the lab of a noted zoologist who also published about cichlids. I sort of lost interest in Lorenz when I found out he'd been a member of the Nazi party. Sort of a deal killer, that.
Beautiful pond and aquarium shoppe, though. I'm content to just let my fish (and pond turtle) live as normal lives as possible in a man-made environment. Besides the two big koi (the survivors of an original seven), the feeder goldfish I stocked the pond with seem to multiply on their own and achieve a certain population stasis. I think the turtle helps keep their numbers down, and probably also works to dispose of those that get sick and die.
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Post by bama beau on May 11, 2021 6:16:31 GMT
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Post by MojoJojo on May 12, 2021 13:33:55 GMT
Heh, spending many of my hockey playing years in Montreal, the Bruins were loved and hated in my family. Bobby Orr was our hockey hero before Gretzky came on the scene in the 80's. Even had a stick signed by Orr given to me at a tournament by a cousin who played for a Bruins farm team. The early 70's NHL was peaking with the Bruins and Canadiens...then the Soviets came along and introduced team play. Hockey's never looked back, IMO. Love the old guys and the history but can't thank the Red Army team enough for elevating the sport. |
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Post by bama beau on May 13, 2021 4:24:05 GMT
Heh, spending many of my hockey playing years in Montreal, the Bruins were loved and hated in my family. Bobby Orr was our hockey hero before Gretzky came on the scene in the 80's. Even had a stick signed by Orr given to me at a tournament by a cousin who played for a Bruins farm team. The early 70's NHL was peaking with the Bruins and Canadiens...then the Soviets came along and introduced team play. Hockey's never looked back, IMO. Love the old guys and the history but can't thank the Red Army team enough for elevating the sport. Saw Bobby Orr play in the Garden in 1974. He was orders of magnitude greater than any other player on the ice that night. It almost wasn't fair, which is why so many teams went after him with the cheap shots the way they did. Whenever people say Gretzky was the greatest, I ask them how much they have watched Bobby Orr. I like to think of Orr as the greatest player pre-helmet, and of Gretzky as the greatest player of the helmeted era. I stopped watching all but the playoffs after the first lockout, and then stopped watching pretty much entirely after 2003, when the owners did it again. For all I know, there have been Orr/Gretzky quality players since. I overhear the names Crosby and Ovechkin mentioned a lot. Does any recent player compare? |
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Post by Odysseus on May 13, 2021 23:55:07 GMT
When I was a pre-teen, we moved from New England to California.
My dad used to play hockey, until he busted his knee. Or so I heard.
My brother and I both had ice skates and sticks, but there usually wasn't enough good ice outdoors to put them to much use. I did take up skating a bit later in California, but just recreational (ice and roller).
Then I busted my knee. Must be genetic.
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Post by bama beau on May 14, 2021 5:54:40 GMT
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Post by bama beau on May 17, 2021 5:17:32 GMT
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Post by bama beau on May 24, 2021 3:06:22 GMT
Same idea as with John Popper and this guy:
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Post by Odysseus on May 24, 2021 3:26:03 GMT
Same idea as with John Popper and this guy:
Thanks for that. I remember hearing TT on KKSF and maybe KJAZZ back in the day. Always enjoyed his stuff, but never enough to go out and get an album. Don't know who John Popper is, and have no idea what Bobby Orr has to do with smooth jazz.
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