What? And get kitty's fur wet?
This is the kind of barbecue I make but I do only one at a time.
Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
I usually do shoulders Lexington style.
What? And get kitty's fur wet?
This is the kind of barbecue I make but I do only one at a time.
You may be right! Our little Boston Terrier could see her reflection in a mirror... she just got bored very quickly once she realized there was not another dog behind the mirror!
Sometime after we had to put our dog to sleep, my Mom got a little dog statuette at a rummage sale; it stood about a foot high, and looked just like a Scotch terrier, except for the color (which was blue-gray). It was posed like he was sitting on his haunches, with his head turned to the side; she put him on the floor, against a desk, just inside the front door of the house. As a joke, we put an old leather dog collar around his neck.
Well, you should have seen how confused neighbor dogs would get when they would come to visit. They'd look in the front door, and see what appeared to be a little dog looking back at them; except he wouldn't move! And, because of the collar, he must have smelled enough like a real dog to just make matters worse. There was actually one dog who kept trying to sneak up on the statue, and would sniff at it... when the statue wouldn't move, you could just see how freaked out the visitor dog would get! Poor thing just couldn't figure it out!
superb shots of the miniatures used for the Helms Deep set in the second film and full size sets of parts of Minas Tirith (an essential set for the third film).
Fangoria: An Interview with PJ.
Tehanu @ 12:11 pm ESTEntwife wrote to tell us about an interview with PJ in thelatest Fangoria magazine!
"Wanted to tell you that I was browsing in Barnes and Noble yesterday and came across an apparently exclusive (and recent) interview with PJ in the October '02 "Fangoria" magazine. Now, I am NOT a fan of that magazine, and was not about to buy it (I have 3 small kids), but I read the article in the store and it was a good one. It was fairly substantial-- about 4 pages long--and had some interesting quotes from Jackson, including his sense that TTT will probably not be an Oscar favorite like FOTR (too dark, and doesn't have a clear beginnning and end). Although he insisted that he didn't want to speculate about Oscars, he did say he thinks that ROTK may have a better chance, since he says it's much more triumphant, and moves from one climactic event to another (or words to that effect.) He also said that TTT is down around 3 hours now (from 4 originally) and that he felt that 3 hours is about the limit for a movie to be seen in a theater. (He reiterated that the studio did not put pressure on him to get it (or FOTR) down to 2 or 2 1/2. )
He also said that this year's work on TTT has been more relaxed and fun (in some ways ) compared to last year's work on FOTR, since of course the b.o. was so wonderful. The pressure to "not kill New Line" is off, though he said that since the movie was so well received that they all did feel a keener artistic challenge, to not let people down artistically with the next ones. He 's glad the movies were all shot before FOTR came out, b/c they might have wanted to do "more of the same" after FOTR's success, while instead TTT has a very different feel-- darker, and less fantastical, since it's primarily concerned with the world of men , while FOTR took us to Hobbiton, Rivendell, Moria, and Lothlorien. But he thinks that a different feel is probably a ggod thing.
He talked a little about the psychological mind-games played by Gollum with Frodo and Sam and said that while Tolkien hinted at it, they've taken it further. Some other interesting tidbits: Helm's Deep was the first miniature they made back in '97, and they're finishing work filming it now, so it's been 5 years they've used it. Also, he said that while he might want to do a King Kong remake in a few years, he and Fran want to do 1 or 2 small movies first.
Thanks to Entwife for that report!
FYI!
Oh yeah. That's right. It's all about YOU...
Here I am spending all morning at the hospital with a wounded offspring and you guys are thinking only about FOOD. Gee, even the zealots over on that forum showed a little more compassion.
In case anybody cares, it was just a sprain, no broken bones. But he's out of the game for tomorrow. We'll see about next week.
Must go now and read through the posts to entertain Hair.
Fredericksburg is about an hour north of here. Probably closer to g'nad than me.
We watched the events unfold on CNN while waiting for Jrs x-rays.
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