Thursday Threads
Bamburgh Lighthouse, Northumberland, UK, photo by Owen Humphreys/PA, posted at the guardian.com:
The mind gets funky with age. Yesterday, in writing about End of the Game (1975), I neglected to mention that Donald Sutherland appears as the corpse of a detective, otherwise seen only in photos. It was the main aspect that prompted me to blog about the film — and I forgot it! Also, the flick was adapted from the novel The Judge and His Hangman by Friedrich Durrenmatt, who received screenplay credit with Maximillian Schell and Roberto De Leonardis. Duh!
Here are two items from 35 Random Bits of Pop Culture Trivia We Wrote Down in the Middle of the Night and We’re Not Totally Sure They Make Sense Now by Jesse (No last name cited). I’ve always sensed this talented beauty is a tough customer:
I’ve again been bedeviled by PC connection problems. I moved the modem up to the middle of the window and taped it into place. So far it’s made a big difference. Can it be that easy? I wonder if the sun will damage the device once the weather gets warm. It got very little sun on the sill, the blinds just above it. Why the heck didn’t I think of it sooner?
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Sam, Herbie and I were talking Daylight Savings Times, wishing it would be made permanent. I said the only reasonable argument I’d ever heard against it is kids going to school in pitch black. Sam suggested a later starting time for schools. He also asked if other countries have DST. I googled it: most of Canada and the European Union.
Check out this awesome movie poster used in Poland, gleaned from an array at theguardian.com:
Fortunately it was warm enough to negate the wind today at the Anti-Inflation Book Shop. Business was all outgoing — Yay! My thanks to The Quiet Man, who bought Public Enemies (2009) and A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014) on Blu-Ray, a Pam Tillis CD and the soundtrack to Titanic (1997); and to Wolf, who purchased Attacks by Erwin Rommel, and Montcalm and Wolfe: The French and Indian War by Francis Parkman; and to Herbie, who took home Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix; and to Shelley, who chose The Art of Deception (The Daughter of Sherlock Holmes Mysteries, 4) by Leonard Goldberg.
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