So, I hear tell it’s hot.
How hot is it?
Here, they’re doing a land office biz in frozen salmon on a stick.
Okay, that is just a lie. Make up a lie for me about how hot it is where you are, and please include one semi-plausible link.
Ballard
A couple weeks ago in Ballard, on dumpsters:
Heat
There is little in life that offers more potential for embarassment than concluding that your father has undertipped, realizing you don’t have cash on you to make up the difference, and concluding that you must mention it to him, only to realize after you call it to his attention that he has not, in fact, undertipped.
Hardware is Software
I saw this recently, and thought of you, and you, and you, and me.
Futuro
In the bathroom of my childhood home, an image of one of these formed an element of a full-room magazine-clip collage dating to summer 1974. Since we moved into that house in 1976, I have wanted to know what the hell it was. Now, I do.
Fold
Paper Forest, via BoingBoing.
Bad Eject
Things posts a link to the back story to a series of the most striking images of aerial misfortune I’ve ever seen. I think Manuel linked to a picture of it a while ago – an A-6 aviator’s ejection seat went off in flight, partially ejecting him though the canopy of the plane. The link is about the incident and how he survived.
The Nyback illusion
Devoted filmist and friend of SIFFblog Alice Dee passes on a line to note an event of interest to us all:
For two weeks film archivist and historian DENNIS NYBACK will be residing at THE GRAND ILLUSION CINEMA showing 27 programs in 14 days consisting of over 100 films! Week one features some of his rarest and most entertaining films and programs and week two is a side-splitting slapstick film festival. More info at dennisnybackfilms.com
Sadly, neither he not the Grand Illusion website nor Mr. Nyback have a clear link or referecne to which two weeks this event may be occurring, so I’m assuming it’s current as of today. Mr. Dee also happily reminded me that the Paramount is featuring Buster Keaton next month in a festival during the five-week run of this season’s Silent Movie Mondays. The festival features no less than FIVE double features and begins on August 22, running each Mondays until September 26. Winter sees a change at the Paramount, moving the silent series to Sunday nights. This is extremely welcome to me, as Mondays have proven inconvenient to me of late. Silent Movie Sundays will feature some of Cecil B. DeMille’s epochal epics, beginning with The Ten Commandments of 1923 on January 8, 2006 and running (with a break) through February 6’s showing of the 1926 The Scar of Shame. Summer 2006 sees a return to Mondays as the adventure series kicks off with 1926’s Don Juan, and runs until August 28 with The Iron Mask, from 1929.
[crossposted from SIFFBlog]
Starsongs
Umbrellas
A while ago, when Amazon introduced their interesting block-by-block street-level photo map, I noticed with amusement that our sun umbrella was open and on the deck of our current apartment when the photo was taken.
Yesterday, I happened to zoom in very close to a satellite view of our deck – the same view that Google Maps uses – and there was our sun umbrella. I squinted but couldn’t make out our deck furniture.