A Morty Gunty autograph is for sale on eBay. The seller notes, “This is an authentic hand signed item and is NOT a preprint.” If only that had been true of Morty’s autograph back in ’64. It would have saved both him and me a lot of pain.
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Gas-Powered Movie
The power is back on, after 15 hours. And Internet access is working, too. Whew!
Yesterday afternoon we were hit by a sudden and violent thunderstorm with some of the heaviest rain I’ve ever seen, and hail to boot. Carol, Eric and I were watching the storm when we heard a thunderclap that was so loud it sounded as if it were next door. Well, it was. Lightning hit a large tree, the tree hit the utility wires, and out went the power on our street.
We ate out with friends from across the street, then we all watched a movie at our place. No, we didn’t gather around a portable DVD player. My portable generator came to the rescue.
It has two household outlets, 110V/15A. I bought it over five years ago in case we ever need the sump pump running during a power outage. That situation hasn’t happened yet, but it did fine last night powering the 32-inch TV and DVD player.
Our neighbors brought over Bridge To Terabithia. It’s an enjoyable family movie, with a surprise plot twist. The gas tank on the generator isn’t very big, but it ran for two hours and the movie is only 90 minutes long.
Eric Simpson
Eric has been Simpsonized! Here he is, visiting the school he would have attended if he lived in Springfield.
Girl-God Raises the Yamato
An episode of the previously-blogged anime Kamichu took us rather by surprise. Girl-god Yurie’s spirit form travels to the bottom of the Pacific ocean to raise the spirit of the Japanese battleship Yamato, for an elderly man who left the crew before the ship’s sinking in 1945. I’ve spliced a few scenes together.
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What surprised us was how the episode rejoices in the legend of the ship — the largest ever built — without political overtones or, for that matter, ever mentioning WWII. The PBS program NOVA has a good section about the Yamato on its Web site. The old man in the cartoon who rhapsodizes about sailing on the Yamato says he was born in 1920, so either he’s supposed to be well into his 80’s, or the show takes place some time ago.
Indiana Jones and the Comic-Con
If you follow Mark Evanier’s NewsFromME site, you can’t miss the fact that he’s at the San Diego Comic-Con. The cable TV station G4 had a show from the con, and I was hoping Evanier would be featured, but I didn’t see him. They did, however, have this…
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Colbert’s Limp Wrist
Stephen Colbert has broken his left wrist! Don’t know how, but it seems to be for real. See for yourself.
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