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January 27, 2016
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I hope you have a chance to grab my typography memoir.
Dug Out
Thanks to my husband and our new snow blower, we’re dug out of the big snow dump. I hope all of you are in good shape, too, wherever you are and whatever your weather.
January 25, 2016
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January 24, 2016
Movie Review: Ninotchka (1939, Ernst Lubitsch, dir.)
Movie Review: Ninotchka (1939, Ernst Lubitsch, dir.)
Ninotchka, available on Amazon.com
I’m a huge fan of classic movies, and every so often, I get the urge to share.
In the days when the Communist government had its tightest stranglehold in Russia, three Russian emissaries had been sent to Paris, and apparently, they were spending money like water and living the good life in Paris. Ninotchka (played to the max by Greta Garbo), a fiercely loyal member of the Communist party, is sent to Paris (by Bela Lugosi in an unusual, comic role), to retrieve the three wayward comarades and shuffle them back to Russia. Ninotchka doesn’t wish to go to Paris, a den of capitalist decadence, but agrees to do her duty.
Once in Paris, Ninotchka is pursued by a suave man of the world, Leon, played smoothly by Melvyn Douglas. Leon manages to break through Ninotchka’s severe Soviet veneer. She softens up enough to enjoy a silly a la mode hat, flimsy silk underwear, a floaty chffon evening gown, and enough champagne to cause her to slowly sink down the apartment wall into a heap on the floor.
But loyalty is a hard habit to break, and Ninotchka corrals the three truants, and they all go back to Russia. Life in Russia is accurately depicted, where there are several families sharing one apartment, food shortages, and severe clothing worn for dull jobs. Leon’s letters to Ninotchka are redacted. All she can see is “Love, Leon.”
I promise you all that this is a comedy and there is a happy ending for everyone, so don’t miss Greta Garbo, et al, in Ninotchka, a most unusual Valentine’s Day date flick. Don’t forget the champagne.
January 22, 2016
Travel + Leisure Airport Tips
Just wanted to share this article about airport tips from Travel + Leisure magazine.
January 21, 2016
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9 Cents
You should all be asking yourselves: “Why are we reading about 9 cents?”
The answer is incredibly, amazingly, astonishingly simple. I got my monthly payout from Amazon/CreateSpace, Amazon’s print-on-demand subsidiary. They electronically deposited my 9 cents directly into my bank account. Not only that, but it takes 2 to 5 days for the bank statement to reflect the deposit.
The bigger question is: “What shall I do with all that money?”
January 15, 2016
Gum
I’ll tell you something that both bothers and astonishes me. It’s going to the candy aisle in the supermarket and seeing so many brands and flavors of gum that I can’t count them all. Obviously, there must be a market for all this gum, and for all these varieties. I wish that all that genius that produced that panoramic array of chewing gum would go into something more productive, and leave more room on the supermarket shelves for a more useful item, like food.
