My favorite commercial from “The Big Game” yesterday.
http://youtu.be/j1RCplpVaQ0
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Upper Bowel Sunday!
The NFL doesn’t let anybody say S*per B*wl without paying for permission, so I’ll call today Upper Bowel Sunday ©. I live a half-hour drive from Gillette Stadium, so the New England Patriots are the home team, and kick-off in Indiana is less than an hour away! Tom Brady sure can score.
Wake up and move!
I’m not terribly big on Broadway shows, but there are two musicals that stand out as favorites. The older I get, the more I appreciate Robert Preston’s thoroughly winning performance in Meredith Willson’s The Music Man. Like Rex Harrison in my other favorite musical, My Fair Lady, Preston wasn’t a singer, but what he brought to the stage has, in my admittedly limited exposure, never been equaled.
One of my earliest blog posts was of Preston singing that Baby Boomer gym class favorite, Chicken Fat. I have Carol’s permission to make this song the alarm clock sound… “for a while.”
Flash in the post
I don’t do very much video capturing anymore, partly because it’s a royal pain, but mostly because YouTube has most everything anyway. But I have some video clips I’d like to post later that aren’t on YouTube, so tonight I spent way too much time testing a new video editor. As is always the case, there are good and bad things about the software, but at least I got it working.
This is a comparison between the 1987 LD (LaserDisc) release of HELP! and the 2007 DVD edition. The LD is full frame, the way the film was shot.
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And this is from the DVD. The movie has been cropped top and bottom to create a wider image, as it would have been shown in movie theaters in 1965. The color has been corrected, but it has much harder video contrast and louder sound than the LaserDisc.
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Spacing out with Colbert
Hey, is that Stephen Colbert without his glasses, putting black parishioners to sleep? Wait. OMG no, it’s Rick Santorum! Why isn’t he wearing a sweater vest?
Ah, here’s Colbert.
As I’ve done in the past, I’m cheating by using Colbert as a place-holder on the blog. I’d better get back to doing some real posts.
The tooth, the whole tooth, and numbing but the tooth
I’ve had a bunch of spontaneous blog ideas, but instead of posting them they went out as e-mail to various recipients. Maybe it was because I was anxious about my anticipated root canal, which happened today. I’d been told by a couple of people that the procedure is better now than it was fifteen years ago when I had my first root canal, but I thought it was pretty much the same drill. 😉 I’m just glad it’s over!
Stephen Colbert has reclaimed the MILLION DOLLARS in his SuperPAC from Jon Stewart! This was how the transfer went down yesterday.
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