Alfred Hitchcock Film Cameos

Pix from the Last Night of RiverRun

What a great show. IMHO, it was the "must see" of the whole Film Festival. I never miss the Alloy Orchestra and consider it a real treat every year. The theater was about 75% full and the music as well as the film was terrific. It was the ONLY ticket I purchased online in advance. We had great seats and it was nice to see Mick and others that I knew in attendance.

Winston Salem's Shame

Because we all know the best way to rob people is to crucify them and leave them to die in the middle of nowhere. I wonder if she'd consider it a "hoax" or an "unfortunate incident" if she were "robbed" in a similar manner?

Courtesy of AMERICABlog, you can call this ass and tell her that she is a horrible excuse for a human being and a thorough waste of air, water and food:


Phone: (202) 225-2071
Phone: (336) 778-0211
Phone: (828) 265-0240

Intermission- Bathtub IV

Bathtub IV from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

Republicans Still Not Interested in Helping America

Check out the full story by using the link. Republicans are still out to F@ck America.

clipped from www.huffingtonpost.com Bankruptcy Bill Watered Down, Still Fiercely Opposed By Banks After weeks of negotiations between Senate Democrats and major players in the financial industry, a compromise bankruptcy reform deal has been reached, Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said on the Senate floor Monday night. Whether it will pull 60 votes, the number needed to overcome a GOP filibuster, is a question that will be answered later this week when the Senate takes up Durbin's amendment to the House-passed bankruptcy bill. In order to garner the support of conservative Democrats and a few Republicans, the proposal has been watered down. The bankruptcy legislation will still allow homeowners to renegotiate mortgages in bankruptcy - the so-called cram down provision - but only under strict conditions. The banking industry has lobbied fiercely against cram down, but Durbin said on the Senate floor Monday night that the compromise was supported by Citigroup, which has been at the negotiating table.

The Right is Wrong

clipped from krugman.blogs.nytimes.com April 27, 2009, 10:01 am Masters of disaster So Bobby Jindal makes fun of “volcano monitoring”, and soon afterwards Mt. Redoubt erupts. Susan Collins makes sure that funds for pandemic protection are stripped from the stimulus bill, and the swine quickly attack. What else did the right oppose recently? I just want enough information to take cover.

Health care happening - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com

Health care happening - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com

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Intermission: New Song From Moby

Shot In The Back Of The Head from Moby on Vimeo.

Waterboarding Song

Hanging at Home

Yes, after a long day at work, I am back home. Think I'll be hitting the bed early tonight as I have to be back up early in the morning. Muffin, my cat is already snoozing next to me on the couch. Well, time for a little reading and then bed.

Blogging from a touch screen phone is a bit difficult. From now on,only if necessary.

Another Monday...

Final Brunch at Cat's Corner

Yes, I'm going to miss it. Cat's, in my humble opinion, had THE BEST Sunday brunch in downtown Winston Salem. The oatmeal, scrambled eggs, fruit, pancakes, omelets... it was all very good tasting and presented very well. The coffee was great and the service was usually excellent. It's very sad to see it go. Yes, I know some of the staff will be staying on and the place will reopen as a Mexican Restaurant, but it won't be the same. I can't imagine a Mexican place having the brunch Cat's had. Looks like I'll be trying some new restaurants in the hopes of finding another friendly place I can settle in for my Sunday Brunch.

Cinematic Titanic / MST3k in Atlanta

Hummmm.... I have some vacation time I could use. Looks like I might be making a trip to Atlanta soon.

Burr Encourages Run On Banks

Burr Encourages Run On Banks

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Time Warner Looses...For Now.

The whole cap thing was just another way for TW to screw the consumer. I was and am ready to ditch my cable and use DSL.

clipped from www.pcmag.com Time Warner Scraps Bandwidth Cap Testing Time Warner Cable has shelved plans to test consumption-based billing until it can improve its "customer education process," the company announced Thursday. "It is clear from the public response over the last two weeks that there is a great deal of misunderstanding about our plans to roll out additional tests on consumption based billing," Time Warner CEO Glen Britt said in a statement. "As a result, we will not proceed with implementation of additional tests until further consultation with our customers and other interested parties, ensuring that community needs are being met." But while rival Comcast implemented a 250GB bandwidth cap for residential customers last year without much fanfare, and AT&T announced plans to test a 150GB cap, Time Warner took some heat because its caps were relatively low – between 5GB and 40GB.

Homeland Security Report Warns Of Rising Right-Wing Extremism

Homeland Security Report Warns Of Rising Right-Wing Extremism

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Socialism Gaining Ground

clipped from www.huffingtonpost.com Rasmussen CAPITALISM POLL: Stunning Results Only 53% of American adults believe capitalism is better than socialism. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 20% disagree and say socialism is better. Twenty-seven percent (27%) are not sure which is better. Adults under 30 are essentially evenly divided: 37% prefer capitalism, 33% socialism, and 30% are undecided. Thirty-somethings are a bit more supportive of the free-enterprise approach with 49% for capitalism and 26% for socialism. Adults over 40 strongly favor capitalism, and just 13% of those older Americans believe socialism is better.

Noticing Things

Hummmm....a little panic stricken, maybe. Sad, maybe. Not sure what all. Just noticing my friends getting older, myself with more gray hair. It's a Monday.

Flowers

 

See! Flowers don't automatically die when around me...

DEVO Live

DEVO - Don't Shoot, I'm a Man! (live) from Z on Vimeo.

Audio not all that good, but I'm liking the visuals....

It's Over?

Yeah, it doesn't FEEL over to me, either.

clipped from krugman.blogs.nytimes.com The crisis is over! Or so some are saying. One is that even in the Great Depression, things didn’t head down all the time. The chart above, from Eichengreen and O’Rourke, shows world industrial production in months from the previous peak, in the Depression and in the current crisis. Notice that there were several upturns along the way; each of those could have been — and was! — heralded as the beginning of recovery. Meanwhile, about those great numbers from Wells Fargo: remember, reported profits aren’t a hard number; they involve a lot of assumptions. And at least some analysts are saying that the Wells assumptions about loan losses look, um, odd. Maybe, maybe not; but you do have to say that it would be awfully convenient for banks to sound the all clear right now, just when the question of how tough the Obama administration will really get is hanging in the balance.

Not Much Going On

I've been hunkering down as of late. Just working and coming home and doing school work. I've only got a few weeks left to get this course completed. I've been enjoying it. I am however, looking forward to completing it.

Christopher Hitchens on MSNBC

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I found this a bit interesting.

Blood: The Last Vampire Live Action

I watched the very fine anime and am looking forward to seeing the live action version.

These People are Insane

Katie Coming Home from London

Ok, why did I post this? This is exactly the way I feel when I am flying to or from London. Very punchy and very tired.