Who Are You? What Do You Want? Where Are You Going? Whom Do You Serve – And Whom Do You Trust?!
Our own Kevin Connors with: “That the other members of his squad called him “Dogface” was particularly apt, as he really liked having a cold nose.”
The man after my own…mind award goes to Charles Austin: “Beans again last night, eh Cap’n?”
Check in on Friday for another.
When this famous segregated country club decided to make room for this Hollywood star, one of its members is noted as saying, “can’t we at least pick one who looks like a gentile?”
Of course, feeding the quote into Google will likely give you the answer straight away. But please give the other folks a sporting chance. Oh, and hint #1 is in the question itself. 😉
Congratz (again) to reader Bill. (see comments)
Danny Thomas, you might recall, was a Lebanese Catholic.
If you start addressing your Lava Lamp as Rover, what (besides talking to inanimate objects) might your obsession be?
Congratz to reader Clayton Ruff (see comments).
Pablo over at Digital Warfighter, has tagged me for another meme. I didn’t know it was coming, I would have been prepared to think harder, my brain already mostly shut down for the night.
4 jobs I’ve had: Mover. Photo-Studio Chem Engineer. Hot Tar Roofer. Bartender.
4 movies I can watch over and over: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension; Pulp Fiction; Underworld; Enter the Dragon. There are just so many…I’ll stop at four though.
4 places I’ve lived: Chicago IL; Tarzana CA; Las Vegas NV; Honolulu HI.
4 TV shows I love: House; Boston Legal; Cold Case; Battlestar Galactica.
4 highly regarded and recommended TV shows I haven’t seen: Buffy; Arrested Development; Desperate Housewives; The Shield.
4 places I’ve vacationed: I’m like Pablo, I travel a lot so a vacation for me is staying home for a week with not much to do.
4 of my favorite dishes: BBQ Babyback Ribs; Grilled Salmon; BiBimBop; Jaegershnitzel.
4 sites I visit daily: It Comes In Pints?; Sondra K; Blackfive; Sisu.
4 places I’d rather be right now: Boise ID; Anchorage AK; West Coast of Maui; Romeo’s Pizza in Landstuhl Germany.
4 bloggers I’m tagging: Jay Tea; Damion The Prince of Darkness; Kate; and Dean because I haven’t annoyed him in forever.
From David J., aka Zombie Boy, over at Resurrection Song.
Seven Songs I can’t currently get out of my head:
1. “Head On” by The Jesus & Mary Chain. Makes me want to grab a girl and dance fast and nasty.
2. “Mysterious Ways” and all of its remixes, U2 and various Producers. Probably the one U2 song that really haunts me.
3. “You Don’t Get Much” The BoDeans. It’s the drums mostly…and I can relate the the words all to well.
4. “Crazy (Tony Kanal Remix) [Full Version]” Alanis Morissette. I love the original by Seal and this version just relaxes me instantly.
5. “Kashmir” Led Zepplin. What? I need a reason? It’s Kashmir and it gets better every time I listen to it.
6. “Remedy” Bird York. Love this lady’s voice.
7. “Angel Eyes” John Hiatt. Again, it needs no explanation.
If you read this, consider yourself tagged.
Abe Lincoln had a blog. Who knew?
Be sure you read the comments as well as the blog entry.
h/t: Amy Ridenour
I was in the process of dreaming up my next Entertainment Trivia puzzle, when I realized what day it was, and thought it might be fun to have a Presidential Trivia Fest. If you have a good tidbit about one of or Presidents, or his administration, feel free to post one yourself. So, let me kick this off:
Prior to his election, this President’s many exploits included smuggling this/these.
Oops, forgot that my power is going off for a few hours shortly. carry on without me. 🙂
Update: Back online. No guesses yet? Wow!
The Answer! It’s commonly taught in most lower division US history classes that, in April of 1787, while Jefferson was Minister to France. he traveled across the Alps by foot and mule to investigate Piedmontese rice – the finest rice in Europe. The details, however, are less well known.
He thought the quality of Piedmontese rice was do to a superior hulling machine. On his arrival, he found their machines to be the same as used in France. But the actual strain of rice grown there was superior. When he inquired about seed rice, he found that its export from Savoy-Piedmont (if you’ll recall, this was before the unification of Italy) was illegal, and punishable by death. So, upon leaving Piedmont, he stuffed all he could in his pockets and smuggled it out.
Also, in his travels, he negotiated direct shipment of rice, tobacco, whale oil and other American products. As our newly independent nation was still quite dependent upon the British mercantile system. For a really good write-up on the demise of the rice trade at Cowes (from a British perspective) check this out.
If you could have your choice of a 100 pt. vintage Austin Healey 100-6 (or 3000 mk. 1), or a new Caterham 7 CSR, what would it be?
This Hollywood Legend declined to play opposite Judy Garland in this screen epic because she was a drug addict. However, eight years later, he became a very vocal advocate of LSD.
Congratz to our own dear Timmer, who got it right with Cary Grant and A Star Is Born.
His objection was not some moral judgement on Judy’s drug use itself. But Grant was known for having one of the strongest work ethics in Hollywood. And, like most upper/downer addicts, Judy was quite unreliable.
While Grant used LSD, in a clinical setting, over 100 times, I have no indication that he ever “dropped acid” recreationally. But LSD was being widely used by psychiatrists in the ’50s and early ’60s. LSD didn’t become illegal in the US until 1968
This from Archie Leach, Cary Grant’s autobiography (chapter 14):
Now, I believe in caring for my health; and I trust you do too. Physical health is a product of, and dependent upon, mental health — one nurtures and nourishes the other. And so, together with a group of other interested Californians — doctors, writers, scientists and artists — and the encouragement of Betsy, who was interested herself, I underwent a series of controlled experiments with Lysergic Acid, a hallucinogenic chemical or drug known as LSD 25. Experiment is perhaps a misleading word; to most people it signifies patronization and objectivity. For my part I anxiously awaited their personal benefits that could be derived from the experiences, and was quite willing to be less than objective. Any man who experiments with something that cannot benefit himself, or add to his happiness, and that of his fellow man in turn, is a fool and a menace to society. I’ve heard that a man here and there died during LSD25 sessions; but then I’ve heard that men died during poker games and while watching horse racing; but that didn’t seem to stop such occupations. Those men might have died anywhere while doing anything. Men have also died testing airplanes and parachutes, vaccines and common cold cures. In attempting to traverse the next step into progress and knowledge, men have always died. But there is a difference between the man who knows what he’s about with a high-powered airplane, and an idiot who puts wings on a bicycle and takes off from the edge of Niagra (sic) Falls.
LSD 25 is a psychic energizer and the exact opposite in reaction to the addictive drugs and opiates. Indeed, Seconal, or similar sedative, is usually given as an antidote, to quell and offset the effects of LSD 25, if necessary. The action of the chemical releases the subconscious so that it becomes apparent to yourself. So that you can see what transpires in the depth of you mind — and what goes on there you wouldn’t believe, ladies and gentlemen — and learn which misconceptions, guilts and fears, with their resultant repressions, inhibitions and insecurities, have formed the pattern for your past behavior. A successively recurring pattern since childhood.
The feeling is that of an unmarshaling of the thoughts as you’ve customarily associated them. The lessening of conscious control, similar to the mental process which takes place when we dream. For example, when you’re asleep and your mind no longer concerned with matters and activities of the day, your subconscious often brings itself to your attention by dreaming. With conscious controls relaxed, those thoughts buried deep inside begin to come to the surface in the form of dreams. These dreams, since they appear to us in symbolic guise, are fantasies and, if you will accept the reasoning, could be classified as hallucinations. Such fantasies, or hallucinations, are inside every one of us, waiting to be released, aired and understood. Dreams are really the emotions that we find ourselves reluctant to examine, think about, or meditate upon, while conscious.
