A Woman Grows in Brooklyn

Sound words from the creator of Get Your War On

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Do something today for this election.

Happy Freakin' Valentine's Day

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The Alibi

2008-02-11T16:45:00.000-05:00

Happy Year of the Rat!

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I was born in the Year of the Rat so I think 2008 is going to be a fantastic year! Or maybe I'm just deluding myself. But if I don't do it, who will?

Chinatown to Dumbo on the D train

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The new man in my life

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Lovely day

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It's been a lovely day today. I walked around with just a hoodie and no hat to do some errands. Had my weekend breakfast at Lindo's. They all noticed I was late. It's nice to be noticed! Then treated myself to a small chai at Has Beans. I've been trying to stay off the caffeine but, boy, it sure tasted good. Then on to 9th Street to hit CVS and the bank. Lots of people were on the street because it was so nice. A nice little bustle was happening all along 5th Avenue. Checked out some places for boots and purses but nothing struck my fancy. Then hit my favorite dollar store for TP. They are always so friendly in there. It is always welcoming. Then back home to do stuff around the house. Or more likely avoid doing stuff around the house.

I wonder...

2008-01-10T16:56:00.001-05:00

if I will be better at posting to my blog since it is now on Facebook. Here's hoping.

Not much getting accomplished today except backing up my laptop and doing maintenance on it. I try to do it once a week but, boy, it sure takes up a lot of time!

I spoke with my friend, Rene, via Skype for the first time today. She lives in Germany and it's so cool that technology can keep us close. I even saw her growing baby belly! Neat!

I'm still avoiding all these major projects I need to do. Where is my life coach?! I need motivation!

The view from my other window

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The View from My Window

2007-12-11T14:06:00.000-05:00

Bee in November?

2007-11-15T09:38:00.000-05:00

It's Cherry Blossom Time

2007-05-05T14:47:00.000-04:00

Lulu in a box

2007-03-07T12:04:00.000-05:00

Noisy Valentine's Day Storm

2007-02-15T18:26:00.001-05:00

Indieflavor.com's New Commercial

2007-02-12T15:44:00.000-05:00

"I am" second.

Songs that make you go "hmmm"

2007-01-29T16:58:00.000-05:00

White City: Save It For Later - Pete Townshend

I need to get out more

2007-01-10T13:47:00.000-05:00

I saw all these movies on the IMDB Top 250 as of 12/15/06. How many have you seen?

1 The Godfather (1972)
2 The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
3 The Godfather: Part II (1974)
4 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
5 Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966)
6 Casablanca (1942)
7 Schindler's List (1993)
8 Pulp Fiction (1994)
9 Shichinin no samurai (1954)
10 Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
11 Star Wars (1977)
12 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
13 Rear Window (1954)
14 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
15 12 Angry Men (1957)
16 Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
17 The Usual Suspects (1995)
18 Cidade de Deus (2002)
19 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
20 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
21 Psycho (1960)
22 Goodfellas (1990)
23 Citizen Kane (1941)
24 C'era una volta il West (1968)
25 North by Northwest (1959)
26 Memento (2000)
27 The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
28 Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
29 It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
30 Sunset Blvd. (1950)
31 Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le (2001)
32 Fight Club (1999)
33 American Beauty (1999)
34 The Matrix (1999)
35 Vertigo (1958)
36 Apocalypse Now (1979)
37 Taxi Driver (1976)
38 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
39 Se7en (1995)
40 Paths of Glory (1957)
41 Léon (1994)
42 To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
43 Chinatown (1974)
44 American History X (1998)
45 Untergang, Der (2004)
46 The Third Man (1949)
47 The Pianist (2002)
48 Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
49 M (1931)
50 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
51 Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001)
52 Boot, Das (1981)
53 The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
54 L.A. Confidential (1997)
55 Alien (1979)
56 The Maltese Falcon (1941)
57 A Clockwork Orange (1971)
58 Requiem for a Dream (2000)
59 Hotel Rwanda (2004)
60 Metropolis (1927)
61 The Shining (1980)
62 Double Indemnity (1944)
63 Reservoir Dogs (1992)
64 Saving Private Ryan (1998)
65 Rashômon (1950)
66 Singin' in the Rain (1952)
67 Sin City (2005)
68 Raging Bull (1980)
69 Modern Times (1936)
70 The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
71 Aliens (1986)
72 Rebecca (1940)
73 The Great Escape (1963)
74 Some Like It Hot (1959)
75 All About Eve (1950)
76 Touch of Evil (1958)
77 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
78 Million Dollar Baby (2004)
79 The Departed (2006)
80 Amadeus (1984)
81 Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957)
82 Vita è bella, La (1997)
83 Jaws (1975)
84 The Sting (1973)
85 Forrest Gump (1994)
86 Strangers on a Train (1951)
87 Batman Begins (2005)
88 Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
89 On the Waterfront (1954)
90 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
91 The Wizard of Oz (1939)
92 Braveheart (1995)
93 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
94 The Incredibles (2004)
95 The Elephant Man (1980)
96 Blade Runner (1982)
97 Full Metal Jacket (1987)
98 The Apartment (1960)
99 The Big Sleep (1946)
100 City Lights (1931)
101 Notorious (1946)
102 High Noon (1952)
103 Donnie Darko (2001)
104 Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1988)
105 Fargo (1996)
106 Ran (1985)
107 Crash (2004/I)
108 Finding Nemo (2003)
109 Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
110 The Great Dictator (1940)
111 Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
112 Cool Hand Luke (1967)
113 Mononoke-hime (1997)
114 Salaire de la peur, Le (1953)
115 The Sixth Sense (1999)
116 V for Vendetta (2005)
117 Unforgiven (1992)
118 Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade (1989)
119 Ben-Hur (1959)
120 Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
121 Annie Hall (1977)
122 Back to the Future (1985)
123 Oldboy (2003)
124 Wo hu cang long (2000)
125 The Killing (1956)
126 Yojimbo (1961)
127 Life of Brian (1979)
128 The Princess Bride (1987)
129 The Green Mile (1999)
130 The Deer Hunter (1978)
131 Platoon (1986)
132 The Graduate (1967)
133 Notti di Cabiria, Le (1957)
134 It Happened One Night (1934)
135 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
136 Per qualche dollaro in più (1965)
137 Gladiator (2000)
138 Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
139 The African Queen (1951)
140 Gandhi (1982)
141 Toy Story 2 (1999)
142 Amores perros (2000)
143 Ladri di biciclette (1948)
144 The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
145 Diaboliques, Les (1955)
146 Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
147 8½ (1963)
148 Lola rennt (1998)
149 Battaglia di Algeri, La (1966)
150 Brief Encounter (1945)
151 The Night of the Hunter (1955)
152 The Wild Bunch (1969)
153 Stand by Me (1986)
154 The Conversation (1974)
155 Die Hard (1988)
156 Smultronstället (1957)
157 The General (1927)
158 Harvey (1950)
159 Duck Soup (1933)
160 Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
161 Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)
162 Patton (1970)
163 Glory (1989)
164 Cabinet des Dr. Caligari., Das (1920)
165 The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
166 Gone with the Wind (1939)
167 Spartacus (1960)
168 Ying xiong (2002)
169 Groundhog Day (1993)
170 Toy Story (1995)
171 Finding Neverland (2004)
172 The Gold Rush (1925)
173 Trainspotting (1996)
174 Belle et la bête, La (1946)
175 Magnolia (1999)
176 The Philadelphia Story (1940
177 The Exorcist (1973)
178 The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
179 A Christmas Story (1983)
180 Mystic River (2003)
181 The Big Lebowski (1998)
182 Shrek (2001)
183 Cinderella Man (2005)
184 Twelve Monkeys (1995)
185 Big Fish (2003)
186 Heat (1995)
187 King Kong (1933)
188 Before Sunset (2004)
189 Ed Wood (1994)
190 The Hustler (1961)
191 Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
192 The Lady Vanishes (1938)
193 Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
194 The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
195 The Terminator (1984)
196 Out of the Past (1947)
197 Walk the Line (2005)
198 Snatch. (2000)
199 Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
200 In the Heat of the Night (1967)
201 Sleuth (1972)
202 Stalag 17 (1953)
203 Hotaru no haka (1988)
204 Young Frankenstein (1974)
205 Du rififi chez les hommes (1955)
206 Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
207 Hable con ella (2002)
208 The Thing (1982)
209 The Straight Story (1999)
210 Rosemary's Baby (1968)
211 Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
212 Manhattan (1979)
213 Sling Blade (1996)
214 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
215 Frankenstein (1931)
216 Quatre cents coups, Les (1959)
217 Tengoku to jigoku (1963)
218 Kumonosu jô (1957)
219 Monsters, Inc. (2001)
220 Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
221 Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
222 Scarface (1983)
223 All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
224 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
225 Idi i smotri (1985)
226 Roman Holiday (1953)
227 The Prestige (2006)
228 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
229 The Searchers (1956)
230 The Lost Weekend (1945)
231 Doctor Zhivago (1965)
232 Haine, La (1995)
233 Bringing Up Baby (1938)
234 Himmel über Berlin, Der (1987)
235 Brazil (1985)
236 The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
237 Planet of the Apes (1968)
238 A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
239 Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (1972)
240 All the President's Men (1976)
241 Kakushi-toride no san-akunin (1958)
242 Harold and Maude (1971)
243 Z (1969)
244 Central do Brasil (1998)
245 His Girl Friday (1940)
246 Charade (1963)
247 The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
248 Great Expectations (1946)
249 In Cold Blood (1967)
250 The Insider (1999)

My Dad on "Pepe" - photo © Charlotte M. Smith

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My Dad on a "motorcycle" - photo © Charlotte M. Smith

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"How do these things work?" - photo © Charlotte M. Smith

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"Wheeeeee" - photo © Charlotte M. Smith

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"Does this motorcycle make me look fat?" - photo © Charlotte M. Smith

2007-01-09T19:42:00.000-05:00

The Truth by Clyde Fitch

2006-12-29T23:15:00.000-05:00

The following 5 pictures were from the Metropolitan Playhouse's production of "The Truth" by Clyde Fitch.

photo © Mary Rose Devine

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photo © Mary Rose Devine

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photo © Mary Rose Devine

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photo © Mary Rose Devine

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photo © Mary Rose Devine

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lulu w/ her Siberian tiger

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lulu leopard, originally uploaded by dramatic60.

Little Bat loves Zoe

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Pretty Zoe

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Fred Willard

2006-07-20T13:37:00.000-04:00

e-j-fred
Originally uploaded by dramatic60.

Yes, folks, I really did a play with Fred Willard!

JATP makes me happy

2006-04-06T10:12:00.000-04:00

Rhapsody Playlist: "1. Lester Leaps In - J.J. Johnson/Illinois Jacquet/Jack McVea/Nat 'King' Cole/Les Paul
2. Tea For Two - J.J. Johnson/Illinois Jacquet/Jack McVea/Nat 'King' Cole/Les Paul
3. Blues - J.J. Johnson/Illinois Jacquet/Jack McVea/Nat 'King' Cole/Les Paul
4. Body And Soul - J.J. Johnson/Illinois Jacquet/Jack McVea/Nat 'King' Cole/Les Paul
5. Yancey Special - Meade 'Lux' Lewis
6. Fast Boogie - Meade 'Lux' Lewis
7. Dupree Blues - Meade 'Lux' Lewis
8. Honky Tonk Train Blues - Meade Lux Lewis
9. C-Jam Blues (previously unreleased) - Shorty Sherock/Bumps Meyer/Joe Thomas/Buddy Cole
10. Sweet Lorraine - Nat 'King' Cole
11. Man I Love, The (vocal) - Shorty Sherock/Jack McVea/Illinois Jacquet/Nat 'King' Cole/Les Paul/Carolyn Richards
12. I've Found A New Baby - Shorty Sherock/Illinois Jacquet/Jack McVea/Nat 'King' Cole/Les Paul
13. Rosetta - Shorty Sherock/Illinois Jacquet/Jack McVea/Nat 'King' Cole/Les Paul
14. Bugle Call Rag - Shorty Sherock/Illinois Jacquet/Jack McVea/Nat 'King' Cole/Les Paul
15. One O' Clock Jump (previously unreleased) - Illinois Jacquet/Nat 'King' Cole
16. Oh, Lady Be Good! (previously unreleased) - Illinois Jacquet/Nat 'King' Cole
17. Introduction (radio host) - Al Jarvis
18. Stompin' At The Savoy (previously unreleased) - Neal Hefti/Shorty Sherock/Corky Corocan/Coleman Hawkins/Dave Barbour/Milt Raskin
19. I've Found A New Baby (previously unreleased) - Neal Hefti/Shorty Sherock/Corky"

And the list goes up to 141 tracks!!!

April Showers?

2006-04-06T09:24:00.000-04:00

Keep off the grass (and they do)!

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Smiling Felicia

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Comfort Food for My Ears Today

2006-01-11T17:22:00.000-05:00

Rhapsody Playlist (if you click on this, you can listen to these songs):
Underworld
Second Toughest to the Infants
1. Juanita: Kiteless / To Dream Of Love - Underworld
2. Banstyle/Sappys Curry - Underworld
3. Confusion The Waitress - Underworld
4. Rowla - Underworld
5. Pearls Girl - Underworld
6. Air Towel - Underworld
7. Blueski - Underworld
8. Stagger - Underworld

June 18, 2005

2005-12-20T18:10:00.000-05:00

Ain't I purty?

My first post

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This is a little frightening. Baring my soul on the world wide web for all the world to see. But what shall I say? Will I be boring? Will I be outrageous? Will anyone care? Aw, what the hell!

So today is the first day of the transit strike in NYC. I'm on vacation so it matters not to me. Even if I weren't on vacation it wouldn't matter since I work at home. All is business as usual. Up at 8:00 am. Checked out my window to see if any buses were running. They weren't so I figured the strike was on. Watched all the NY news channels and the poor people waiting on line at the LIRR, walking over the Brooklyn Bridge or stuck in traffic. I saw my landlord leave on his bike. I got an email from him at his work so he obviously made it over the bridge.

I'm glad I went into the city yesterday. Met with my old friend from high school. He has beautiful new offices. I also met some of his staff. They seemed non-plussed at meeting me. Rather eerie. They just stared. We went to lunch and I talked way too much. I need to get out and meet people more so I don't overload my poor friends when I meet them occassionally. I get so excited that people are listening to me that I just start babbling. I plan on apologizing to him in an email. Silly me. It did point out to me though that I should work on my stand-up routine. All about being single. I think it's funny and so do friends.

After lunch, I walked around the city. Bought a movie poster for Heather. Stopped at Zara's and tried on some pants. A little too low-slung for my taste. Plus I just feel so flabby lately. I want to be in better shape but don't want to exercise. What a dilemma. Stopped at evil Starbuck's to warm up and waste time before heading to a movie. $3.75 for a medium hot chocolate. Evil. I then hung out at the Angelika before seeing Capote. I liked it but was not overwhelmed by PSH's performance. He had all the moves down but what I always loved about Truman was his fragility. And I never got that from PSH. The actor who played opposite him as the killer was excellent. I'll need to find out more about him. He was most incredible.

Had good train luck coming home. Stopped by Heather and John's to drop off the poster. Heather was off at a seminar so just visited with John. He was not looking forward to the strike.

Came home and watched part 1 of "The Lost Prince". Rather dry but good performances by actors I like.

I went on Onion Personals and winked at someone. It's an actor I have seen and like. I have yet to hear anything but I'll keep checking.

I feel like I'm writing what I did on my summer vacation. Banal. To the point. Boring. Let's publish this for now and see what we have.