Lovely day, lovely world!
Good morning, gang!!
Life continues to be this amazing thing. There is so much cool stuff going on with me, for me, around me. I hope it's the same for you wherever you are.
Some of the good news is that Disney is doing everything within its power to make the Lone Ranger movie happen-- the idea's not being totally booted out the door...yet. So that's kinda cool news, isn't it? Well, for me, I guess.
The other good news is that, according to a really eye-opening Bloomberg News article today -- Wall Street Aristocracy Got $1.2 Trillion in Loans from Fed -- it's utterly astounding that the US & world economy hasn't totally & thoroughly collapsed. Still, it hasn't -- that's the good news!! Read the article only if you are like me and can continue to see something hopeful & positive in even the most dire situations... (Meaning, have basically your PhD in Pollyana-ism.)
More good news... I got the first draft of that DVD script for the nursing school DVD off over the weekend, with plenty of time to spare, so I was able to do stuff like catch up on some great movies on TCM's Summer Under the Stars. Mostly, I DVR a bunch of stuff and watch it whenever I can squeeze it in. Over the weekend, I watched one of my favorites, Divorce American Style.
It stars Debbie Reynolds, Dick Van Dyke, Jason Robards, and Jean Simmons. It's one of those great social comedies from 1967, written by Norman Lear -- the kind of humor that has so much cultural truth in it that it always makes you think.
I like laughing and thinking at the same time, don't you, gang??? The 1970s, especially, was full of that kind of stuff, thanks to Norman Lear. Entertainment that made you laugh & think...That's kind of gone out of fashion now. Today, either "entertainment" makes you think, or makes you laugh, or makes you perhaps sick to your stomach, but mostly "entertainment' is a bunch of gunk they ease into your brain through your eyeballs while you're sitting and staring with the volume blasting.
Okay! Other good news... (you mean there's more??? What could be better than having a bunch of gunk eased into our eyeballs???)
Well, for starters, I actually made some headway in studying my French! Yay!! And got my next lesson plan printed off for the class I'm teaching on Tuesday nights. And I started a new & totally delightful correspondence with a man, Wayne Hatford, who wrote this incredible book about Rudolph Valentino (that I found out about while being a Judge for the Global eBook Awards). The book is called Valentino Speaks: The Wisdom of Rudolph Valentino; Cues & Views from the Other Side.
It's a spiritual treatise channeled through automatic writing. It would not surprise you to learn that "I'm a believer," gang. Knowing what I've learned about Valentino myself, and also the undeniable feelings that a lot of what I was learning & discerning about the world of old Hollywood, in general, as I was writing Twilight of the Immortal was coming to me from people who had lived then and who are now dead... well, reading Valentino Speaks convinced me that all kinds of communications are coming to us from "the other side"; we just have to be open to receiving it. This writer picked up on a lot of the same stuff about Valentino that I had "picked up on" and yet we're thousands of miles apart, have never met, and then our books came out in the same month, the same year.
Okay, how cool is that, gang?? You know? Life continues to amaze and astound.
All righty, on that note!! I leave you with this: The trailer for an exciting new movie that was coming to a theater near you back in 1967!! (Thanks for visiting, gang! See ya.)
Life continues to be this amazing thing. There is so much cool stuff going on with me, for me, around me. I hope it's the same for you wherever you are.
Some of the good news is that Disney is doing everything within its power to make the Lone Ranger movie happen-- the idea's not being totally booted out the door...yet. So that's kinda cool news, isn't it? Well, for me, I guess.
The other good news is that, according to a really eye-opening Bloomberg News article today -- Wall Street Aristocracy Got $1.2 Trillion in Loans from Fed -- it's utterly astounding that the US & world economy hasn't totally & thoroughly collapsed. Still, it hasn't -- that's the good news!! Read the article only if you are like me and can continue to see something hopeful & positive in even the most dire situations... (Meaning, have basically your PhD in Pollyana-ism.)
More good news... I got the first draft of that DVD script for the nursing school DVD off over the weekend, with plenty of time to spare, so I was able to do stuff like catch up on some great movies on TCM's Summer Under the Stars. Mostly, I DVR a bunch of stuff and watch it whenever I can squeeze it in. Over the weekend, I watched one of my favorites, Divorce American Style.
It stars Debbie Reynolds, Dick Van Dyke, Jason Robards, and Jean Simmons. It's one of those great social comedies from 1967, written by Norman Lear -- the kind of humor that has so much cultural truth in it that it always makes you think.
I like laughing and thinking at the same time, don't you, gang??? The 1970s, especially, was full of that kind of stuff, thanks to Norman Lear. Entertainment that made you laugh & think...That's kind of gone out of fashion now. Today, either "entertainment" makes you think, or makes you laugh, or makes you perhaps sick to your stomach, but mostly "entertainment' is a bunch of gunk they ease into your brain through your eyeballs while you're sitting and staring with the volume blasting.
Okay! Other good news... (you mean there's more??? What could be better than having a bunch of gunk eased into our eyeballs???)
Well, for starters, I actually made some headway in studying my French! Yay!! And got my next lesson plan printed off for the class I'm teaching on Tuesday nights. And I started a new & totally delightful correspondence with a man, Wayne Hatford, who wrote this incredible book about Rudolph Valentino (that I found out about while being a Judge for the Global eBook Awards). The book is called Valentino Speaks: The Wisdom of Rudolph Valentino; Cues & Views from the Other Side.
It's a spiritual treatise channeled through automatic writing. It would not surprise you to learn that "I'm a believer," gang. Knowing what I've learned about Valentino myself, and also the undeniable feelings that a lot of what I was learning & discerning about the world of old Hollywood, in general, as I was writing Twilight of the Immortal was coming to me from people who had lived then and who are now dead... well, reading Valentino Speaks convinced me that all kinds of communications are coming to us from "the other side"; we just have to be open to receiving it. This writer picked up on a lot of the same stuff about Valentino that I had "picked up on" and yet we're thousands of miles apart, have never met, and then our books came out in the same month, the same year.
Okay, how cool is that, gang?? You know? Life continues to amaze and astound.
All righty, on that note!! I leave you with this: The trailer for an exciting new movie that was coming to a theater near you back in 1967!! (Thanks for visiting, gang! See ya.)
I watched the trailer without sound. Without the dialogue it looks almost like a Hitchcock movie -- especially with all those creepy zooms!
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It's a fun movie -- very much of its time.
I was thinking of you yesterday morning. I had my morning coffee in my Chicago coffee cup...
XXX - M.
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