Tis quiet in the Hobbit Hole this Sunday! Hullo! Good morning!
I drove past the Tacoma theater last night on my way home... They still have Fellowship of the Ring there! (I should go) - How many out there still have it playing sortof nearby?
Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
Here I am. I am trying to get a last minute book critique done for the class I am taking next week. Which reminds me that I wanted to tell you all that I am going to be offline all of next week ;^(.
Everyone play nice, and for those of you who know who you are, no sneaking to try to get the Precious. ;^)
LCS, I tried getting a hold of you today, but was unsuccessful. I will be going by there again in August. Maybe we can get that coffee then. If you are ever in the Melbourne/Palm Bay area give me a call, maybe we could take in a movie (especially if it is after December 18th) ;^)
Have a good week everyone!
-Kevin
I will try to think of my trip to Pensacola as my own version of "There and Back Again." ;^)
-Kevin
Tis quiet in the Hobbit Hole this Sunday! Hullo! Good morning!
I drove past the Tacoma theater last night on my way home... They still have Fellowship of the Ring there! (I should go) - How many out there still have it playing sortof nearby?
Haven't checked to see who's still running it since I got my copy. :)
Barbecue is done! I'll be meeting with the clan this afternoon. Not exactly as lively as a Hobbit party but there'll be good food.
If it decides to rain, I shall be lazy except for laundry. If it dries up, I shall weed-whack.
Need more coffee before I do either [sip]
I intended to mow my dad's yard today, but his back was feeling so much better that he did it himself yesterday! I got mine mowed Friday evening because it was so cool outside. I didn't even hardly break a sweat, and this is one heavy mower! 6.5 HP Briggs and Stratton non-selfpropelled pushmower with mulching, bagging or sideshooting capability.
So I don't know what I'm going to do today.
I went to a art festival in town yesterday. It was so packed I was a nervous wreck, worrying one of the kids might get burned by some drunk's cigarette. But there was this great Celtic band playing that I wanted to hear. Took my mom and both jedis and when we got there, my mom started telling all about her geneology (loud enough so all could hear) all during the band playing! Well, as I only have one hearing ear, I had a real time listening to her and also hearing the band!
It was not so bad though, and it had a great whistle-player in it.
It's at the cheap theatres now.
You see, this cemetery is run only by a loose association of folk. We dig the hole and bury our own there, set our own stones, and update the records once a year or so at this annual meeting the week before Memorial Day to indicate who is now there in our family plots.
About 40 of us showed up, and we mowed, trimmed, scrubbed stones and spread grass seed on the newly buried and the bare spots - all in about two hours.
We have always marvelled at the amazing study in group dynamics at this event. There is always a mix of old and young, and no one is in charge. People show up and start in on what needs to be done, and there always seems to be the right mix of mowers, rakers, stone scrubbers, trimmers, weed-whackers, wheel barrows and hands present to get the job done in two hours, then we have a pot-luck lunch, after the blessing sung in Norwegian of course!
Anyway, the first time I saw the place it was just a pasture with a fence around it. It was before we moved to Oklahoma and I stood in that cemetary and remembered my grandmother saying she "stood in the cemetery and looked out over the hills and wondered what would become of her." I stood right there, looking out at the same hills, almost a century later. (My grandma died almost 20 years ago...this just happened about 4 years ago.)
Anyway, the last time I was out there, it was all fixed up. They had mowed and cleaned it and put up nice gates. But there are wild roses growing there that I want to get a cutting of.
I saw it Friday with my two older boys, and my brief statement is I liked it a lot. Unfortunately, we saw it in one of their smaller theaters; I want to see it on a larger screen with bigger sound.
Loves Ewan MacGregor, Natalie Portman is terrific, and isn't Christopher Lee getting a nice swan-song to a career of mostly B-movies? The plot was interesting, the action pretty terrific, and of course the effects were astounding....
...except for the one special-effect I'm afraid I'll never be able to believe: her falling so hard for him.
I could develop that one at greater length, but that's the short and the shorter of it.
Dan
Dan, the story I tell above (5657) is the reason I love Garrison Keillor and his News from Lake Wobegon. He speaks of my family mostly departed now. That event could be straight out of one of his stories. Whenever I go there I am in fact, in his stories, down to the old Norwegian and American flags we raise on the flagpole to the women and their potato salad to the old farts leaning on their rakes and shooting the breeze. I don't think you have to be from an old Lutheran Norwegian family to get it, but I am sure it helps!
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