Me (to my daughter who owns shares in Disney): Disney just bought Lucasfilm. You own a piece of Star Wars.
My Daughter: Heck yessss!@!!!!!! im gunna own a hefty chunk of the universe!!!!!!!!!......this feels a bit like world domination.....and it feeels AWSOME!!!!!
Seriously, George... good move!
Cha-ching!
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People think that THE PHANTOM is just a comic book character created by Lee Falk. However, my daughter, who is at UBC studying to be Indiana Jones, came across this at the University's Museum of Anthropology tucked away in an exhibit on Africa. She snapped this photo with her iphone.
Proof that The Phantom was real! If that isn't a smoking gun I don't know what is.
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I was supposed to post this to my tumblr account first but it seems to be down at the moment so I will post this here. A portrait of tumblr blogger WickedWinona.
So if anyone wants a portrait done, send me pictures, tell me a bit about yourself and I will immortalize you (digitally, anyway).
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Sherlock;
You know that I love you. You are the best. The six episodes that we have had together have been magical and, honestly, there are few other shows that could take your place. That is what makes this letter so hard to write.
You see, my darling, I've been watching another show.
Yes. It's Elementary.
Look, Elementary is not you. It doesn't have the same style, nor half your intelligence. Nor does the actors have the same impact on me as yours do. In every way that matters, you are far superior. But... Elementary is there. It's there every thursday and it will be for the next four weeks and maybe another twenty after that. It's hard to say no to that kind of consistency.
I know it takes a lot of time and effort to make you as wonderful as you are. And I know that is difficult for you to do that right now, what with Benedict doing Star Trek, Martin doing The Hobbit and Mark Gatiss, playing Charles I at the Hampstead Theater until the end of November. I know it is just not possible for us to be together as much as I would like.
But it's not fair for you to expect me to wait. And Elementary, as pedestrian and run-of-the-mill as it is... well, it's on and you are not.
When you come back, you know I will drop everything in a heartbeat to be with you, Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Smith. You know that I will. Until then I'll have to be content with Johnny Lee Miller and put up with Lucy Liu.
Until the day you return to my screen,
Love, always,
M
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I stared death in the face yesterday.
Sort of.
My wife found this guy on the back steps of the building in which we work.
Yup. A black widow spider.
Now, their bite is rarely fatal, but it their toxins do a bunch of nasty stuff to your body resulting in severe muscle and abdominal pain. if one of these ladies were to bite you, you'd know it.
So, braving, if not death, but certain physical discomfort, (and trying not to scream like a hysterical schoolgirl) I snapped a couple of pictures before finally vanquishing the foe.
I put paid to the bitch with the sole of my size 10's. That's one black widow that won't be tempting suitors anytime soon.
All in a day`s work for your run-of-the-mill working class hero.
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It's been an odd weekend for us because it is the first Thanksgiving weekend we've had sans children. Friday night, in order to stave off being depressed about it, we went out to a local pub and had dinner and drinks.
Saturday we went to Revelstoke, which is about an hour's drive away.
See, here's a picture to prove I'm not lying:
Revelstoke is an interesting little town with lots of funky shops and cafe's. At one cafe I saw a group of teens playing World of Warcraft at a big table. They also had Pumpkin Pie lattes which were phenomenal.
Sunday we were resigned to having Kraft Dinner for Thanksgiving dinner, but then we decided we wanted something more festive so we determined to go to the grocery store at 4:00 pm to get whatever they had left. However, it was such a nice day we went for a walk instead, then went to Starbucks and had a Pumpkin Spice Latte which was good, though not as good as the one from Revelstoke. It was too late to cook so we had dinner at a local restaurant. We had a glass of wine and inwardly toasted how miserable we still felt because the kids weren't around. Still, hot turkey sandwiches with cranberry sauce made it okay.
Monday we cleaned out the garage.
Who cares about this? I don't know, but the point is it has been a weekend of distractions from our now empty nest. What we have discovered along the way, though, is that even without the kids around my wife and I still like each other.
The garage is clean and all the stuff is packed away. Now of course it's too late to cook anything, but there's a pub not too far away that has real good food.
So, not bad for a holiday weekend.
Hope y'all had a good weekend.
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I always knew that deep down, Betty was bad. Or maybe I ruined her. I knew I shouldn't have been seeing another man's wife, but the guy made it so easy for me. He was short and kind of dopey and alway hanging out at the bowling alley with some guy named Fred.
Betty prints by Glenn Barr.
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I'm six episodes in to the first season and I'm loving this show! Steve Buscemi is fantastic, as is the rest of the cast.
But what really got under my skin is the theme music. Within each episode everything is period. The only anachronism is the music that accompanies the opening credits.
It`s by a band from San Francisco called The Brian Jonestown Massacre and they're a great band! I love this piece and I'm discovering their other music. The piece they use for the Boardwalk Empire theme is called Straight Up and Down.
Check it out:
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This is the Islesworth Mona Lisa.
For anyone with even a passing familiarity with DaVinci's masterpiece it is obvious that this is not the portrait that currently hangs in the Louvre Museum in Paris. For one, the woman is much younger than the iconic Mona Lisa of DaVinci. There are other differences as well. The canvas is wider and we can see more of the framing pillars behind the figure. The background is different.
The Isleworth Mona Lisa was discovered just before World War 1 by an art collector named Hugh Blaker in the home of a Somerset nobleman. Blaker bought the painting and took it to his studio in Isleworth, London, from which it takes its name.
Now, the appearance of a Mona Lisa is not that unusual. Many have painted copies of DaVinci's portrait. It is one of the most reproduced images in the world, after all. But there is a twist.
Blaker knew that Leonardo had started to paint Mona Lisa in 1503, but "left it unfinished". This is recounted by Leonardo's early biographer Giorgio Vasari. However, a fully finished painting of a "certain Florentine lady" surfaces again in 1517, shortly before Leonardo's death and in his private possession. The latter painting almost certainly is the same that now hangs in the Louvre.
So what happened to the earlier attempt? Well, Blaker figured that the Isleworth Mona Lisa was that earlier attempt. He and other supporters claimed it to be the unfinished Mona Lisa, made at least partially by Leonardo and originally handed over to its commissioner. That would mean that the Louvre Mona Lisa was a later version of the portrait made by Leonardo for his own use.
The Isleworth painting has changed hands a few times between then and now. It is currently owned by a Zurich group calling itself the Mona Lisa Foundation. They unveiled the painting recently and reiterated the claim that it is an earlier DaVinci version of the Mona Lisa portrait.
That claim, unsurprisingly, has provoked a number of reactions in the art world. Some have come forward to denounce the Isleworth painting as a forgery.
So what are we to make of this younger and prettier Mona Lisa? Is it an authentic Mona Lisa? Should it replace the portrait hanging in the Louvre? Wouldn't that be an appropriate comment on the age in which we live? The older, mature face gets replaced by one younger and prettier. That would be a sad story.
But here's a better story, and maybe a sadder one. Did Leonardo DaVinci fall in love with the young, pretty wife of Francesco del Giocondo when he was commissioned to paint her portrait? He would have been 51 in 1503 when Lisa Gherardini sat for him. She would have been 24 years old, a young wife, making a home with her wealthy cloth merchant husband, their second child newly born.Was the old painter sentimental enough to fall in love with her smile? The smile is certainly more evident in this earlier portrait. Did it haunt him through the years? Did young Lisa's face stay in his mind, aging gracefully in DaVinci's imagination until he was compelled to commit her likeness to canvas once more years later, older, sadder perhaps, with an enigmatic smile? Did he paint it from memory or did she sit for him again, one more time, years later -- just for him this time?
Did he know he was painting his masterpiece?
The later portrait, the one in the Louvre, was called by DaVinci "La Giaconda", which means "The Jocular One" A pun, perhaps? A play on the name Giocondo? Or was DaVinci obfuscating to hide the fact that he had the portrait of another man's wife in his possession? Was it love that compelled Davinci to paint La Giaconda? Was it a great and unfulfilled love that immortalized a young Florentine woman to the point that she is now arguably one of the most recognized faces in history?
We will never know, of course. This is just a story. But it is an appealing idea, isn't it? That it was love -- not money, or vanity, or the lust for fame or power -- but love that was responsible for the most famous painting in the world.
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