When I returned from New Orleans I told my friend Tim M., "It looks just like New Orleans Square in Disneyland!"
"No," he told me, "New Orleans Square in Disneyland looks just like New Orleans."
Monday, January 30, 2006
New Orleans Pre-Katrina
I have nothing to say today, so I'm putting up some pictures I took in New Orleans in 1993. The first is a store window in the French Quarter. I love the "Yes, we do remove hexes" sign. Next is the house Maggie Sullivan and I stayed in in the Garden District. The creator of the Tarot Deck, New Orleans Voodoo Tarot, lived there. The third photo is a cemetery with crypts near Louis Armstrong Park.
When I returned from New Orleans I told my friend Tim M., "It looks just like New Orleans Square in Disneyland!"
"No," he told me, "New Orleans Square in Disneyland looks just like New Orleans."
When I returned from New Orleans I told my friend Tim M., "It looks just like New Orleans Square in Disneyland!"
"No," he told me, "New Orleans Square in Disneyland looks just like New Orleans."
Sunday, January 29, 2006
I Will Love You Forever, Z Channel
After seeing the movie "Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession," a few months ago, I was thrilled this week to spot the film critic F.X. Feeney dining at House of Pies on Vermont. My family subscribed to the Z Channel starting in 1981 and it was one of the few bright spots of my angst-ridden teenage years. Each month the Z Channel Magazine would arrive and I'd end up reading it cover to cover. The reviews were primarily written by F.X. Feeney and someone who signed their reviews J.L. The reviews were super informative and interesting.
The Z Channel turned me on to the movies of John Cassavetes, Buster Keaton, Monty Python, and Henry Jaglom. I saw mind-blowing movies I never would have heard of, such as The Wicker Man, Witchcraft Through the Ages, Head, A Safe Place, The Boyfriend (director's cut), The Tin Drum, and Wild Strawberries. We didn't know how good we had it. There was never such a great television station before or since.
The documentary about the Z Channel and its main programmer Jerry Harvey brought back such bittersweet memories of the 80's for me. Of course the story is extremely sad in that Harvey's psychiatric problems led him to murder his girlfriend (or was she his wife?) and commit suicide. F.X. Feeney is endearing and melancholy in the film. There is a quote he says by Goethe that was very moving.
I accosted him at House of Pies to tell him I was a fan of his Z Channel reviews. I'm happy to report he was very gracious and nice. He washed his hands before shaking my hand so he wouldn't give me his cold.
Pretty much all my time as an adolescent was spent doing schoolwork and sponging up movies on the Z Channel. It was not a very healthy existence, but at least the movies were alive.
The Z Channel turned me on to the movies of John Cassavetes, Buster Keaton, Monty Python, and Henry Jaglom. I saw mind-blowing movies I never would have heard of, such as The Wicker Man, Witchcraft Through the Ages, Head, A Safe Place, The Boyfriend (director's cut), The Tin Drum, and Wild Strawberries. We didn't know how good we had it. There was never such a great television station before or since.
The documentary about the Z Channel and its main programmer Jerry Harvey brought back such bittersweet memories of the 80's for me. Of course the story is extremely sad in that Harvey's psychiatric problems led him to murder his girlfriend (or was she his wife?) and commit suicide. F.X. Feeney is endearing and melancholy in the film. There is a quote he says by Goethe that was very moving.
I accosted him at House of Pies to tell him I was a fan of his Z Channel reviews. I'm happy to report he was very gracious and nice. He washed his hands before shaking my hand so he wouldn't give me his cold.
Pretty much all my time as an adolescent was spent doing schoolwork and sponging up movies on the Z Channel. It was not a very healthy existence, but at least the movies were alive.
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Even Ann Taylor is a hootchie mama
Will this horrible fashion trend of low rise jeans never end? I just want to buy a normal pair of pants!
Saturday, January 21, 2006
Friday, January 20, 2006
Ni Hao, punks
Mun Mun is taking a Mandarin class and going on zillions of job interviews. She must also spend hours a day cuddling her feline babies. Sorry blog is so lame lately.
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
Memory Lane - Ships Restaurant
I took this photo of the Ships Restaurant on Overland Blvd. in Los Angeles the week it closed. Don't be fooled by the vintage car, I took this picture sometime in the mid-1990's.
Ships was an example of Googie architecture, an ultra-futuristic style common in California in the 1950's and 1960's.
Marriage: What a Racket
I heard a story on NPR that mentioned how marital status can effect your auto insurance rates. I just called Allstate to see if getting married would change my rates and the agent said my insurance will go down $40. The agent seemed to indicate that maybe the change in marital status only effects a female driver's rates though.
Friday, January 06, 2006
Fun Facts: Neuroscience for Kids
You might find this Neuroscience for Kids brain trivia page entertaining.
A couple of the fun facts they list:
"A giraffe sleeps only two hours a day."
"The folds and ridges of the outer ear are called the pinna."
A couple of the fun facts they list:
"A giraffe sleeps only two hours a day."
"The folds and ridges of the outer ear are called the pinna."
Analytical Thinking and Generation Next
One of the great things in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is a subplot involving a smear campaign against Harry Potter by the Daily Prophet and misinformation put out by the Ministry of Magic. I would never have conceived that a children's book could, in an entertaining way, illustrate how a propaganda machine works. My hope is that children who absorb that story will later make the connection to being skeptical of party-line information fed to them in their own lives.
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