Saturday Apr 01, 2006

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What's going on in SG-land? In the last few days, two people rejected my friend requests and one long-time friend dropped me from her friends list. I used to think I think I was pretty likable, but now I'm starting to question my likablity.
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niobe:
You're welcome. smile
heavenandhell:
you're welcome biggrin

Thursday Mar 30, 2006

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Just finished "Live and Let Die," Ian Fleming's second novel. It contains some interesting ideas. I especially liked the idea of the villain, Mr. Big, fostering the belief throughout the black criminal underworld that he's the zombie of Baron Samedi, in Voodoo, the loa (spirit) of the dead. In real life, Papa Doc Duvalier, Haiti's self-proclaimed "President for Life," used the belief that he was...
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amanda:
Thankyou for the birthday wishes sweetie kiss kiss kiss
heavenandhell:
to be honest all the agatha christie books are good, but i do have a soft spot for poirot. i love the little indiosyncracies of the belgium detective.

Wednesday Mar 29, 2006

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Anyone else take that Jeopardy online contestant test? I took it last night. I think I did ok, though I did blank on a couple of questions. Not sure I passed. We'll see.

I was thinking I should go down to the auditions for "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" It tapes in New York and, chances are, you'll win more money. Plus they ask...
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friedhamster:
Is that still a show? Huh, never know whats on when you're not watching I guess.
hecklongtree:
The daytime version with Meredith Vieira is still on the air.

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Friday Mar 24, 2006

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I just registered for Jeopardy!'s online contestant test. They're having it next week, March 28-30. If you want to sign up too--and you do have to register ahead of time--go to the official Jeopardy! web site for details: Jeopardy!.

I'm confident that, if I make it onto the show, I can win. Anyway, I'd love to try.
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lostidentity:
That would be such a great experience!! GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!
hurt:
Good for you, I think you will do very well on the show! Thanks so much for the good wishes, I spoiled myself a bit and had a lovely day. wink

Friday Mar 17, 2006

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Did you ever consider what would you would do if you could found your own country? What if you could start anew, avoiding other countries' mistakes?

The problem with existing countries, it seems to me, is they have too many laws. Some law regulates every conceivable human activity. Well, maybe not crapping. Come to think of it, Iran probably has a law governing crapping, since...
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latchbeam:
Very interesting... I will have to sleep on this one!!!
not_a_sicko:
I think most countries start out with a few laws, but the laws just keep accumulating over time. There are always new cases which existing laws do not cover completely, so amendments are needed. Apparently it's a lot easier to add new laws than to remove old ones.

Saturday Mar 11, 2006

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I don't know about you, but l'm sick of hearing from Karl Rove and others about how everything is different in the post-9/11 world. I grew up in the 1970s, and I'm here to tell you, back then, you couldn't open a paper or turn on the news without hearing about some atrocity committed by the PLO, the IRA, the Greek and Turkish Cypriots, the...
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lanolin:
thank you!!

29 is also one of my faves. sadly alot of my faves did not make it into the set for some reason eeek
allegory:
It was all the usual stuff: Easy to read, great dialogue, but no story/character arc, just a series of incidents, but I'm waiting for my Dramatica & hopefully I can work through some of the stuff. Thanx for the thought.... tongue

Thursday Mar 09, 2006

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I'm still working on my screenplay's middle act. I'm leaning towards doing something with the identity of the two real assassins. Perhaps they, like the patsy Lzaro, and like the special prosecutor, Del Valle, have links to 1960's student activities. They could be former members of a right-wing student group, such as MURO (supposedly linked to the CIA) or the Halcones (Falcons), the PRI-sponsored thugs...
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diesel_girlie:
that is so cool that youre writing a screenplay...and about student activities! that's classic smile good luck with the rest of it.
hecklongtree:
It occurred ot me that MURO, besides being an acronym, is a Spanish word. What if that was a clue, referring to the organization, but Pocho takes it for the word "muro" meaning wall? Say, there's a threatening note say, left inside a package next to a non-lethal bomb. The note reads: "Now you're up against el muro."

Then, maybe he's talking to a college friend about the special prosecutor, who was also a classmate, and the friend could mention that some supected he was linked to MURO. Then, suddenly, the meaning of "up against el muro will make sense to Pocho.

Saturday Mar 04, 2006

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Tomorrow is Oscar night and once again, just from force of habit, I'll tune in to see who wins Academy Awards for movies I haven't seen. For several years now, but especially this year, most of the nominated films just seem to have a narrow appeal: A story of a love affair between gay sheep herders, the story of Truman Capote writing a book about...
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latchbeam:
OK I'm mostly caught up... I still really like it.

If you can tie this in to current events happening on the border it would be ridiculously marketable... that would be hard to do though.
hellomrworld:
good point heck long ... Although I like "the Player" ***** much more then Crash ****

I thought John Stewart did a good job

Thursday Feb 23, 2006

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I just finished "Casino Royale," Ian Fleming's first novel. The premise: Le Chiffre, a SMERSH (counter-espionage) agent seeks to recoup, by winning at baccarat, the Soviet money he lost investing in a French brothel, or else pay the Soviets with his life. The British Secret Service sends its best gambler, James Bond, to ensure he loses.

The novel doesn't have much of a plot. Bond...
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calamity:
Sorry it is so terribly belated.... but thank you for the comment on my set! smile I'm also selling the scarf that I was knitting in the set. wink
loretta:
thank you for the sweet comment on my set biggrin

Friday Feb 03, 2006

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Still not sure what to do wtih the middle act of my script Bordertown.

One of the ideas I'm kicking around is this. Pocho and Bobby, trying to dig up info on the Narco-General and the Cartel Boss, uncover the following.

With Mexico threatened by US drug decertification and the its attendant economic sanctions, the President orders General Osorio to arrest drug cartel padrino Armando...
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hellomrworld:
I love Griffith's Intolerance .. its really too bad that movie was cutup .. I saw a restored version with a full orchestra at the University of Chicago and it was amazing (my #3 all time)
hellomrworld:
the only director I think who was blacklisted for a film more then Griffith's Birth of A Nation (which really did help remake the KKK) was Leni Riefenstahl who directed Triumph of the Will... Triumph is a very well executed movie, but also of course propoganda for the nazis ...

Riefenstahl's Olympia ia one of the most beautiful sports films ever made .. just amazing ...
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