when presented with a catalog of Christmas games/toys/gifts. We all like to look and drool and dream….
Today I got in the mail a catalog from The Vermont Country Store. They can be counted upon to still provide things you thought were gone the way of the dodo. In this catalog (a Christmas-y sort of effort) they have the following: reissues of the original Monopoly game (with the mid-30’s graphics, the metal tokens, wooden hotels and houses….), the original Lincoln Logs (all wood), original TinkerToys (all wood).
Amazing. I think I’ll order them all. Oh - and they have reprints mimicking the original Nancy Drew and Black Stallion books - the ones my dippy mother decided were useless and threw away (along with the whole set of original Fiesta Ware…. *sigh*)
I’ve been reading LotR since 1965, about once a year - the four “main” books, and sometimes everything else published/available at the time…. that’s 40+ years of Tolkien’s masterwork, and every time I read the books, I find something new (or at least something I didn’t remember from the first - or last - time I read them).
Then the movies came along. A lot of people, some of my family included, got a bit miffed (or more than that….) at the “liberties” taken with the books to make movies out of them. Now, I don’t do theaters. I never see movies until they come out on dvd. So by the time the movies were viewable here in my home, I’d heard it all. And it’s all okay - because the movies “fit” me the way the books always have…. sure, there are things that are different from the books - but it’s a different medium, with different needs and intentions. So I don’t have a problem with those parts where the books seem to have been “rewritten/reframed”…. it’s all okay, the movies are - magnificent…. only word for them.
And that brings me to the music “link”. I’ve loved Enya, Clannad, Sinead O’Connor, et al ever since I began hearing them. It made perfect sense to me that some of the music for LotR would be of that genre/feel. And now, I’m hearing the pieces from the movies on my pandora stations. Which strikes me as being the most wonderful sort of providence….
Years ago, I used a recipe from Sunset Magazine in the 70s or maybe 80s, was so great I cooked it up every time I got down to a jar or two of the previous batch - Cranberry Chutney…. had cranberries, pears, apples, onions, celery, spices…. SO much more flavorful than plain ol’ relish.
Well, I lost the recipe somehow. So for the last 10 years or so, I haven’t had any chutney. Every few months I’ve gone looking. I even resorted at one point to calling Sunset and asking if they could drag it out of the archives for me…. they couldn’t find it.
Well, tonight (my 3rd search of a few hours duration this year) I FOUND IT. I’m back in business! Thanks to the internet and Google.
Just one more reason for net neut to stay alive and well….
Don’t know that anyone else has ever paid much attention to this sort of thing.
Hummingbirds and dolphins sound a lot alike….
And so do Enya et al and Deva Premal - and I’m not talking about voice. I’m talking about the “soundex” both languages use (that is, how the words sound when spoken/sung)….
over and over for the last 50+ years - ever since I realized I have perfect pitch (AND that I can correctly pronounce “perilous”). I wind up in pain listening to most a capella renditions, not to mention accompanied singers who can’t sing on pitch (90+% of those who appear at sports events).
Game 3 of this year’s world series provided a treat of untold magnitude. Trace Adkins sang the National Anthem the way it’s SUPPOSED to sound. I don’t do country western, but give that man a medal. Glorious does NOT begin to describe it.
More power to you, Trace Adkins. Could you like, give lessons?
is a big part of trying to contain the spam we’re all inundated with on a minute-by-minute basis. But y’know what? I *think*…. pandora is using something similar to allow me to “tweak” my likes (thumbs up!) and dislikes (thumbs down!) as time goes on.
Of course I’m a pretty new account/user. But already I’m noticing that there are far fewer thumbs down choices than thumbs up ones. Which sounds like Bayesian tech to me…. or something remarkably similar.
I really didn’t. But bj’s right…. this is exactly the sort of thing we’ll never see again if net neutrality gets submarined.
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