tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41317572024-03-13T19:42:47.886-05:00Hugo Zoom<i>Now in Bloggo-Scope®</i>Jonathan Versenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17920597011270157903noreply@blogger.comBlogger1311125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131757.post-87288383167767609712011-12-29T20:58:00.002-06:002011-12-29T21:09:37.444-06:00Another old movie: The Pleasure Seekers
The Pleasure Seekers(Movie Clip) The Ones That Fly
Evidently they like Vegas stylings at this Madrid nightspot, Ann-Margret (as American "Fran") in hot pink with the title tune by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen, in Jean Negulesco's The Pleasure Seekers, 1964.
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Pleasure Seekers, The -- (Movie Clip) Las Meninas
Newly arrived American Susie (Pamela Tiffin) in Madrid at The Prado, with LasJonathan Versenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17920597011270157903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131757.post-54017766023848763582011-12-03T00:42:00.002-06:002011-12-03T00:43:59.412-06:001974 Super Beetle: Car & Trackoriginal url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyvcPXcTK2UJonathan Versenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17920597011270157903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131757.post-40318099650987634412011-11-14T15:20:00.002-06:002011-12-04T19:13:03.853-06:00Lady, singing: 14 November 2011I wish I knew who this lady is, or what the words are. I used to know some Arabic, but this is difficult for me to interpret. [link]update: Her name is Amal Maher, and she was born in 1985. Evidently she is a pretty big deal currently in Egyptian music.Jonathan Versenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17920597011270157903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131757.post-1670222073076957382011-10-31T13:41:00.003-05:002011-10-31T14:08:31.997-05:00Orson Welles on Cavett, etcAbove:"Orson shmoozes about Winston Churchill." Below, this is via a story from Slate discussing this radio interview clip, from 1940, when Welles was on KSAT radio in San Antonio, talking with H.G. Wells. Jonathan Versenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17920597011270157903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131757.post-12538498558994798972011-10-25T23:48:00.001-05:002011-10-25T23:51:28.122-05:00Natalie Wood tv commercial c. 1981Jonathan Versenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17920597011270157903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131757.post-2411672762314418062011-10-15T23:20:00.002-05:002011-10-17T03:31:48.433-05:00The Night The Roof Fell InThe Dick Van Dyke Show: "The Night The Roof Fell In" (aka Rashomon Lite)[via Slate.]Jonathan Versenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17920597011270157903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131757.post-67935599889964867742011-10-08T23:04:00.000-05:002011-10-08T23:07:16.909-05:00"Let Your Learning Be Your Eyes" Les McCannsong: "Let Your Learning Be Your Eyes" by Les McCann, from 1975Jonathan Versenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17920597011270157903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131757.post-4158306754466198772011-10-06T15:44:00.001-05:002011-10-06T15:46:43.604-05:00Whale in field, via YahooJonathan Versenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17920597011270157903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131757.post-64348487525918122892011-10-05T08:25:00.000-05:002011-10-06T15:50:01.531-05:00Daffy the commando, etcOriginal link is here, from close-captioned cartoons.Jonathan Versenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17920597011270157903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131757.post-46535863632339787242011-09-27T23:23:00.003-05:002011-09-28T03:03:18.970-05:00Sharing the Secret SharerApparently somebody decided to narrate Conrad's novella on Youtube, in a William Shatnery sort of way. You can read along while listening, if you've got an hour and 42 minutes. But don't do it at work! They'll catch you, and punish you, by making you read it out of a book. To your co-workers. Whether they want to hear it or not. While they're doing your work. Conrad comes to your cubicle? Not Jonathan Versenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17920597011270157903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131757.post-23769436471441104942011-09-23T23:38:00.003-05:002011-09-24T01:11:59.283-05:00more from sxephil"GINGERS SCIENTIFICALLY NOT LOVED except for Christina Hendricks"As always with videos from Phillip DeFranco aka "sxephil", the NS4W caveat applies due to occasional cursing and cheesecake imagery. I appreciate DeFranco keeping up with pop culture goings on so I don't have to. Also, he's a lot more entertaining than shows like Extra! or Entertainment Tonight, and his videos take much less Jonathan Versenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17920597011270157903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131757.post-48321059171470536452011-09-14T02:26:00.002-05:002011-09-14T02:29:32.503-05:0014 September 2011: Agnes Moorehead and Tim Holtvia Elbert Ventura's article at Slate.Jonathan Versenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17920597011270157903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131757.post-19471197326591284512011-09-08T19:51:00.005-05:002011-09-08T22:34:46.638-05:00Michael S. Hart 1947-2011from Yahoo News:Michael S. Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg and a pioneer in formatting print material for online use, passed away Tuesday at his home in Urbana, Illinois. A self-described "unreasonable" thinker, according to his obituary at Project Gutenberg, Hart invented the ebook in 1971.I've had a post sitting in the drafts folder for some time, tentatively titled "Lit Blogging", which Jonathan Versenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17920597011270157903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131757.post-71150735159424897212011-09-04T22:55:00.001-05:002011-09-04T22:59:24.163-05:00Gore Vidal n' Norman Mailer on Cavett
The original link is here.
Jonathan Versenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17920597011270157903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131757.post-83076796637142868402011-08-15T00:13:00.002-05:002011-08-15T00:58:36.158-05:00the ides of August
"I can't work like this, cut off from the scientific community. You stay here and guard my sandwich."Jonathan Versenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17920597011270157903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131757.post-59459200821788459662011-08-14T01:20:00.003-05:002011-08-14T01:24:12.722-05:00CNN re Wolves
CNN link is here. Feral?Jonathan Versenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17920597011270157903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131757.post-25630153017207372332011-08-01T07:56:00.000-05:002011-08-01T07:56:00.499-05:00Happy August 1st dayoriginal link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESNuvQ_o-G0I hate to admit I find this guy amusing.(he curses a bit, so arguably this is NS4W.)Jonathan Versenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17920597011270157903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131757.post-78629873667617075372011-07-16T23:24:00.000-05:002011-07-17T18:27:43.537-05:00Ice cream is national Yahoo! month, on JulyJonathan Versenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17920597011270157903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131757.post-13404881302249416752011-07-15T20:36:00.002-05:002011-07-15T20:39:17.696-05:00And now it's FridayBut it's been a week, so it's next Friday.Here's an interview with Aldous Huxley from 1958.Jonathan Versenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17920597011270157903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131757.post-66485091774727733342011-07-07T11:35:00.000-05:002011-07-07T16:39:46.257-05:00It's ThursdayYou object, perhaps understandably, that Valley of the Dolls was not literature, apart from in the statutory sense. I haven't read it, so I don't know.Slate's 7 July photo gallery of arty broads[link].Jonathan Versenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17920597011270157903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131757.post-19159070332801041792011-06-26T23:15:00.002-05:002011-07-06T23:34:58.475-05:00Are you a bright man?via "Breaking copy: a better blog about copywriting"Apparently some people still visit here sometimes. As you may have noticed, I rarely post here nowadays. Generally if I have anything to post I do that at Dead Horse.Jonathan Versenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17920597011270157903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131757.post-9409797768676239492011-05-11T15:21:00.002-05:002011-05-11T15:34:28.123-05:00The Golden age of ballooningBecause "when you're king of France you have better things to do than go around remembering your bloody number."Jonathan Versenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17920597011270157903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131757.post-31925483165428645772011-05-09T22:07:00.001-05:002011-05-09T22:10:26.440-05:00АМЕНЦИЯАМЕНЦИЯ ("AMENTIA" ) Sergei Ainutdinov 1990 [link]Jonathan Versenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17920597011270157903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131757.post-57816973879833005162011-03-18T22:34:00.000-05:002011-03-18T22:36:35.807-05:00We come from Kalto ProvinceIn Calto province the Parmesano Calto is highly regarded. In Kalto province they don't have Parmesano, but they have sentient cottage cheese that will eat you if you don't eat it first, after stunning it with phonic particles, which are only effective for about 2-3 minutes. Lunches tend to be very rushed affairs in Kalto province."Star Trek: Voyager" Time and Again (1995) - Memorable Jonathan Versenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17920597011270157903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131757.post-84521508202950692010-12-01T17:58:00.001-06:002010-12-01T18:00:37.384-06:002 Time videos 1dec10The Right's Weird Campaign to End Elections for Senatorsby Adam Cohen Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010:Why Ending Elections for Senators Is a Bad Tea Party Idea - TIMEPrison closing, Lyon Mountain, NYa network of local economiesJonathan Versenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17920597011270157903noreply@blogger.com