October 2009
Movie Score(s) A Day celebrates Halloween! →
I am a fan of Dimitri Tiomkin’s work in the genre though it is meagre. He scored films a few times for Hitchcock, ‘Dial M for Murder’ and ‘I Confess’ come to mind. But it was at the matinee where I first saw his name and heard is very over the top scores for such laugher horrors as ‘The Thing From Another World’ and ‘The Mummy’s...
WatchEach Day Like It’s My Last
Acclaimed author and musician Paul Quarrington was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. This is the first installment of his continuing journey
I do not know how many of you out there know or know of the Canadian writer, musician and hockey poet, Paul Quarrington, but sending this along as I’ll be staying with his updates on living with The Diagnosis!
I...
Don't Get Me Wrong...
... I think whatever everyone of you wears will be "fab" & "gear" but I had so many nights with my sisters who suffered the "expose" or not "expose" thing and I was the one who drove them home after too many lads and too many intoxicants ..... sorry! Over the years I've not really been with petite gals and two years running my ex wife had a fist fight breakout over her Vampella costume and then WonderWoman. She said it was the 48 Double EE's fault ...and my Darlin' Nicci is taller than average and a very lovely Rubenesque figured woman but it was Leather Dom Lady for her at which became a command request I might had at the parties...(grins) and I was at a party last night a dry run for the Steampunkers outting and all the guys were tweeded up to the eyebrows ... the gals .... revealing waistcoats, synched waist items and two lovely ladies in full ladies of the Burlesque mode .....ok ok it's not a real complaint just silly old Geezer's observation...back to my coco now....
How Come.....?
Ok, so fun is fun — I’m thinking I’m really going to sound like an old git on this — but how come all the gals at Halloween have to get the Slutty Gothy Vixen with underwired spillage/cleveage everywhere…..and why do the pictures everywhere, newspapers, mags, tv, even tumblr seem to spew out skinny or very size 5 women with their bodies barely (pun intended) clinging...
Race With The Devil - Gene Vincent
Skinny white...
A Case Of You - listening to this song now....
….and I have happy tears in my eyes and my heart for all the wonderful loves I’ve fallen into in my life. For all the wonderful women who have made me what I am now in this life….merci to them all….ahhhh Joni….
A Case Of You - Joni Mitchell
Just before our love got lost you said I am as constant as a northern star And I said, constantly in the darkness...
Silly Stuff as the Ol'Geezer is Three Sheets Into...
Edgar Allen Poe’s great-great-great-grandnephew, Edgar Allen Poe IV has a blues band in LA called Al Poe and the Beef Chunks
“When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding...”
– Sandi Toksvig lists ten unsung heroines, from the inventor of the cotton gin to a queen who led her troops into battle wearing an iron leg - the world’s first known use of a prosthesis. (via bingoparaphernalia) (via gauntlet)
The niece of the great Mongol leader, Kubla Khan, Princess Khutulun was...
merci
merci beaucoup to thesweetestpsychopath for all the info
I Get More out of Men by Colm Tóibín (The First... →
I'm not taking my meds....alternatives
Pork Chili Verde Burritos ala Mick…
Makes a ton (so, freeze it)
3 tablespoons olive oil
5 pound pork butt
12 fresh California Anaheim chilies
3 large onions
3 tablespoons dried oregano
3 tablespoons of flour
Lot of good tortillas
Trim out the pork butt and get a lot but not all of the fat off. Cut the meat into one-inch chunks. Peel and halve onions and slice into...
Stuff you said: sabbracadabra
sabbracadabra said: Am I hearing this correctly? It really sounds like somebody is hitting a bong repeatedly in the intro.
The Flimwell Papers responds: years ago a friend who was a recording engineer told me that they used great big old chem set beekers and tubes set up like Moroccian hookas to get this bubblin' effect of the old lab gurgling away. Then a few years later he thought how much it DID sound like a rather nice dope smokin' reference.
Postcards From London Anyone, Vol III!
anyone wishing to add there names to my ever expanding list of amigos of the Flimwell Papers and receive a nice old bit of out of the norm postcard from these environs. Then send your snail mail addy to me at pdvmorris.gmail.com, ok?
THE LAST DAYS OF THE POLYMATH
The word “polymath” teeters somewhere between Leonardo da Vinci and Stephen Fry. Embracing both one of history’s great intellects and a brainy actor, writer, director and TV personality, it is at once presumptuous and banal. Djerassi doesn’t want much to do with it. “Nowadays people that are called polymaths are dabblers—are dabblers in many different areas,” he says. “I aspire to be an...
Monster Mash - Bobby “Boris” Pickett
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“Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.~...”
– From my own ramblings and shamblings
Strange Brew - Cream (November 1967)
You know the...
They’re on my Halloween Theme Playlist for...
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Purple People Eater - Sheb Wooley
Ok, you knew...
“I should probably tell you,” she said, swallowing coffee. “I’m about to lose my skin.”
One of my favourite explanations for a lapse of...
From Johnson's introduction to his Dictionary:
...what is obvious is not always known, and what is known is not always present; that sudden fits of inadvertency will surprize vigilance, slight avocations will seduce attention, and casual eclipses of the mind will darken learning; and that the writer shall often in vain trace his memory at the moment of need, for that which yesterday he knew with intuitive readiness, and which will come uncalled into his thoughts to-morrow.
Ghost Town - The Specials
Nothing like a little...
