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William_Z - October 5th, 2009 at 2:07 pm

"Swiss Family Robinson" that’s the movie for me: natural disasters, pirates, isolation, and fear overcome by perseverance, ingenuity, and family. And of course, the coconut bombs.

meandmike - October 5th, 2009 at 3:58 pm

omg, see now obama has 150 "doctors for public option" assembled on the white house lawn…

this is a story about propaganda if i ever saw one. i dont actually know one doctor who is for this crappy plan of obamas. do you think obama could have ben more obvious, all those white coats on the lawn, for crying out loud, doctors dont wear the white coats outside of the hospitals and dr' s offices, what a set up……….

come on where are the real doctors to counter this crap…………….

ReaderRedux - October 5th, 2009 at 4:15 pm

Great old movie!

ReaderRedux - October 5th, 2009 at 4:17 pm

Watched "Curb Your Enthusiasm" just for the "Seinfeld" reunion (otherwise, am tired of David's mean demeanor):
Best part – George & Larry in the tipping segment.

martin - October 5th, 2009 at 4:17 pm

Well that makes me feel better that he has found 150 doctors that won't immediately retire upon the government health care being passed.

Another Carolyn - October 5th, 2009 at 4:22 pm

The Spiral Staircase was my favorite Dorothy McGuire movie. I also liked The Enchanted Cottage.

meandmike - October 5th, 2009 at 4:30 pm

yea, the 150 buffoons that wear their white coats outside all day long…. lol

Another Carolyn - October 5th, 2009 at 4:31 pm

I get a kick out of David's mean demeanor. Loved the bit where he's debating whether or not he should tell the NBC bigwig he might have Lyme disease.

gingersnapper - October 5th, 2009 at 4:38 pm

I just heard Rush play his umm, umm, umm recording, almost fell off the chair, it is priceless.

PsychicDice - October 5th, 2009 at 4:40 pm

A couple days ago, I watched Celebrity Ghost Stories for the second time. Although the ghost hunters pretty much bore me because I have learned almost nothing new in the last ten years, I enjoy watching great story tellers relating real events in their lives.

In the last segment David Caradine told how he met a woman dressed in black after a year of her mourning her husband. David moved into her house which had belonged to the husband.

He talked about a number of incidents that spooked him. Often glass would spontaneously shatter in a room where nobody was. Sometimes when they made love the closet door would begin banging open and shut.

His wife explained that the ex, who had died at age 40 of cancer, was upset about David being there. Caradine says that the closet was always unnaturally cool and he felt that the husband was hanging out in it..

PsychicDice - October 5th, 2009 at 4:41 pm

After marrying the woman, he finally, he goes into the closet. It is freezing. He finds a tie with a Grateful Dead label. He didn't have a clue how it got there. He says that he thought that it was joke from the ghost who had made his peace with the situation, meaning that at some level he was grateful because he believed that his wife and children would be ok with David.

Four months later Caradine died in what was reported to be a freak accident in a closet in Thailand.

Before the trip to Thailand, one of the woman’s children began taking guitar lessons, but didn’t like the one he was using. Mysteriously a skeleton key shows up and the boy decides to figure out which door it unlocked. The key fit a closet (not the one mentioned above) and in it was one of the dead father’s guitars, which immediately became the boy’s favorite.

PsychicDice - October 5th, 2009 at 4:41 pm

Today at my apartment, a new roommate broke off a skeleton key in his door. I took the lock apart to retrieve the head of the key that had fallen into the mechanism. It was the same skeleton key that this program displayed as the one that mysteriously showed up for the boy to find.

I have no idea what this means, if anything. Sometimes synchronicity is pregnant with possibilities; other times, it is just the universe connecting in ways that don’t mean anything decipherable, given the info we have, except that the universe just did that.

PsychicDice - October 5th, 2009 at 4:42 pm

On the same day that I watched the show, a new roommate broke off a skeleton key in his door. I took the lock apart to retrieve the head of the key that had fallen into the mechanism. It was the same skeleton key that this program displayed as the one that mysteriously showed up for the boy to find.

I have no idea what this means, if anything. Sometimes synchronicity is pregnant with possibilities; other times, it is just the universe connecting in ways that don’t mean anything decipherable, given the info we have, except that the universe just did that.

T-Rav - October 5th, 2009 at 4:42 pm

You know, I didn't think Obama going to Copenhagen was a big deal (I really didn't give a hill of beans whether the Olympics would go to Chicago or not), but it looks like we've turned a corner here. I saw SNL's opening sketch lambasting Obama and that was the sharpest criticism I've seen from the media so far. That wasn't just a poke, it was almost a flaying compared to what's gone before. Hopefully this'll break the silence the media's had on Obama's failures up to now.

AuthorJack - October 5th, 2009 at 4:52 pm

One can never underestimate the cosmic forces. I find peculiarly eerie that the New York Gov, is a doppelganger for Moammar Quadaffi. Add a little stuble and a moo moo and voila! Downright spooky.

dcase - October 5th, 2009 at 4:58 pm

you're not from Cook County, that's why…

The corruption and fraud here are second to none, and now they have the White House gravy train. His cronies (Valerie Jarrett, Richie Daly, Stroger, Jackson, Rezko, etc) would have CLEANED up on this pork barrel. Jarrett bought slums around where Olympic village would be built with the foreknowlege that once the deal was done they would be torn down and she'd make millions.

Now she's just another slumlord. With rundown tenements that need major repair…

Who said there wasn't a God?

wingnutmike - October 5th, 2009 at 4:58 pm

my choices exactly Carolyn, add Tree Grows in Brooklyn and Gentleman's Agreement

PsychicDice - October 5th, 2009 at 5:08 pm

The paranormal almost never spooks me anymore.

A couple of Friday the 13ths ago, a spoon that I have off and on been trying to bend with my mind for a couple years spontaneously flew off the ledge that I keep it on onto the floor. It was more annoying than scary.

However Quadaffi is possibly the ugliest public figure today. I don't think that he is the New York Gov.'s doppelganger. Paterson isn't quite that scary looking yet. However, it is possible that Quadaffi is his doppelganger as a future self.

AuthorJack - October 5th, 2009 at 5:26 pm

Hypothetically, I agree…when one reaches the coginative plane, it's hard to distinguish the real with the surreal. Future self offers a lot of latitude. It's quite possible that he could change into a beaver and gnaw his way out of Albany. I also forgot to imput that you must add 20 years and seventy-seven pounds. The tent is optional.

Kit - October 5th, 2009 at 5:28 pm

The dems are so pathetic. They are the WORST for being unamerican and yet they say the GOP is? Me thinks they're projecting again, grasping at anything to make THEMSELVES look better.

Democrats: Republicans are rooting against America

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20091005/pl_poli...

Kit - October 5th, 2009 at 5:28 pm

The dems are so pathetic. They are the WORST for being unamerican and yet they say the GOP is? Me thinks they're projecting again, grasping at anything to make THEMSELVES look better.

Democrats: Republicans are rooting against America

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20091005/pl_poli...

PerfectTommy - October 5th, 2009 at 5:51 pm

Game today at http://www.ruamoviegenius.blogspot.com is Triple Features. Example, Two Rogers and Hammerstein musicals and Disney's most controversial film – "Flower Drum Song of the South Pacific".

Tennessee_Jed - October 5th, 2009 at 11:20 am

I think my early recollection of Dorothy McGuire was from the movie "Old Yeller," although a personal favorite was "Friendly Pursuasion."

SomeDame - October 5th, 2009 at 6:41 pm

I don't get the whole spoon-bending deal. Why a spoon? Why not a knife? A two by four? A rabbit's foot? How about a telephone pole? Hey, if you want to prove there are paranormal forces, don't waste time with the small stuff…really impress me!

BTW, if you clowns on Ghost Hunters want to prove something, then wear a point of view camera or have the cameraman focused on the same area as you are looking. You guys will "observe" something sinister, but by the time the cameraman swings the camera around to look, "it" is gone. Also, quit blabbing so much and maybe we can really hear all those spirits talking in the background. My real beef is out of all the "personal experiences" you guys have, by the end of the show, you have nothing to reveal. Stick to plumbing, fellas. You'll find more mysteries in a clogged up toilet.

SomeDame - October 5th, 2009 at 6:43 pm

I thought Disney's most controversial film was Song of the South.

EdSki - October 5th, 2009 at 6:45 pm

Obama, Daley and the Chicago political machine have no idea just how lucky they were to not win the Olympics.

Being Chicago, you just know they were planning on skimming millions off the top, unparalleled nepotism, and cronies with no show jobs. Probably standard operating procedures in Chicago. But with world wide attention trained on them, including the new media, just itching for a scoop. How long before the majority of the President's insiders started falling, as the indictments rained down.

The games would have been a mill stone around the President's neck.

chopper - October 5th, 2009 at 6:45 pm

come on where are the real doctors to counter this crap…………….

The "real Doctors" are probably at their offices treating sick or injured patients (swine flu victims?), and not being indoctrinated on the White House lawn in their white coats,with stethoscopes around their necks.

EdSki - October 5th, 2009 at 6:46 pm

Sorry GS, I meant to hit thumbs up but hit thumbs down by accident, and now I can't vote again.

But yeah, it is good!

EdSki - October 5th, 2009 at 6:47 pm

Or, it could be side affects from years of LSD.

rumpford - October 5th, 2009 at 7:03 pm

"The Enchanted Cottage." I know a lot of people who live there.

BuckwheatPicard - October 5th, 2009 at 12:09 pm

As a Family we went to see the Toy Story Double feature. I hadn't ever seen it in theatres.
It is being shown in 3-D.
I had never had one of those "seeing it again for the first time" experiences. But this presentation is fantastic. You can see textures and details that weren't clear before. I don't know how much is because of the 3-D or just the huge screen. But this is really worth seeing if you like the Pixar stuff.

dcase - October 5th, 2009 at 8:06 pm

you'd think- but understand the off the charts arrogance of this crew- they would have gladly withstood the scrutiny- they would just attack the accusers and hide, obfuscate and lie…

Your- our government at work…

PsychicDice - October 5th, 2009 at 8:30 pm

I've never had the problem of distinguishing the reality from unrality. I am not quite certain what you mean by surreal.

Sometimes it is difficult to figure out what is real or merely the projection of a very strong mind.

I don't think that either Paterson or Quadaffi is a shape-shifter. Otherwise, why would they choose to appear so ugly?

I would opt to leave the tent in Lybia.

EdSki - October 5th, 2009 at 9:33 pm

"I'm not a doctor, but I play one for Obama in an ACORN ad…."

PsychicDice - October 5th, 2009 at 10:07 pm

Some Dame said (the post was removed): “I don't get the whole spoon-bending deal. Why a spoon? Why not a knife? A two by four? A rabbit's foot? How about a telephone pole?”

Why not?

Uri Geller was the first spoon bender and many have since attempted to play with his accomplishments. He also bent forks and knives, and so do we sometimes. A telephone pole sounds daunting, but it’s not out of the range of possibility.

Some Dame said: “Hey, if you want to prove there are paranormal forces, don't waste time with the small stuff…really impress me!”

First off, I am not trying to prove anything. I know what exists and approximately how close science is to proving it.

After a sentence into my post, quit reading it. Don’t waste your own time. Maybe, you should start moving at a quicker pace.

As for impressing you, the possible synchronistic connection between the spooky closet that Caradine experienced for months and his death in a closet is impressive.

PsychicDice - October 5th, 2009 at 10:08 pm

Some Dame said: “BTW, if you clowns on Ghost Hunters want to prove something, then wear a point of view camera or have the cameraman focused on the same area as you are looking.”

I am assuming that the “clowns” remark doesn’t apply to me since I already stated that I wasn’t interested in that show. Nevertheless, there isn’t a horror writer in the world who won’t find the celebrity stories fascinating.

Here’s an event from my life that dazzled me:

At the beginning of Meetings with Remarkable Men, the Sufi master George Gurdjieff states that an old Turk taught him a ritual for getting what he wanted. He was told to turn in a circle once for his mother, once for his father and once for himself, each time repeating his wish.

Gurdjieff says that he was in the mountains and that he had chipped his tooth. He then performed the rite. Instantaneously, a huge shooting star hurled across the night sky, burst and fell in seven lines of brilliant colors.

PsychicDice - October 5th, 2009 at 10:08 pm

Upon reading that, I smiled to myself and figured that sly, ole Gurdjieff was putting me on with a tall tale.

Then, in 1971, I hitch-hiked through the New Mexico Sangre de Cristo Mountains. While cleaning my teeth with a soda can tab, I chipped one. On the side of the road, Highway 76, in Truchas, alone, I performed Gurdjieff’s ritual: thrice turning in a circle, each time repeating a wish.

Instantaneously, a huge, fierce diamond blazed across the midnight, mountain sky and exploded, dropping in three columns of dazzlingly frightful and fiery oranges, blues, reds, yellows, purples, greens, and golds to the evaporation below.

Rachaels - October 5th, 2009 at 11:21 pm

NO kidding- that smug look on Larry's face as he's looking down into the NBC man's casket- CLASSIC!

Rachaels - October 5th, 2009 at 11:26 pm

I don't think so. SNL's critque of Obama was that he's not been "left enough" for them. They're complaining that he hasn't fufilled any of the insane campaign promises he made. Hardly anything resembling real critisim.

dcase - October 5th, 2009 at 4:31 pm

still bubbling over the Olympics 'smackdown'…

So Barry goes over there first, right? Airforce One. 3 C5 Galaxies, the works. Not being enough of a 'sacrifice' for Michelle, she and Oprah go on their own 727. Let's just say the taxpayer cost was a LOT and leave it at that.

The One has arrived, and the world's seas will start lowering. OOOPS! Not so fast.

First vote. Out of- what was it 92 votes? Chicago gets EIGHT. After all is said and done we finish dead LAST.
The administration whines (Axelrod, Emanuel, Jesse Jackson say it's 'politics')…

Duh. As if his trip wasn't political. The US taxpayers, and sensible denizens of Chitown give the IOC a big
thumbs up. To the international weenies of the IOC we say Bravo!

ReaderRedux - October 5th, 2009 at 5:02 pm

Have to agree – this episode certainly was more clever Seinfeldian than the usual Curb-ian.

gingersnapper - October 6th, 2009 at 12:25 am

No problem Ed, one thumb here or there makes no difference.

big7625 - October 6th, 2009 at 12:58 am

Yeah, that was a pretty good episode. Other than that, though, that show has gotten horribly painful to watch. The first two seasons were great, but then it just started getting so obviously contrived. A bunch of awful people on their worst behavior at all times. Everybody making a point to just try and inflame and escalate every situation as much as possible. Think I'm done with that show for good. (Unless they bring the Seinfeld crew back again.)

EdSki - October 5th, 2009 at 9:32 pm

Yeah. Like on Gilligan's Island. Why'd they all have so much luggage for a 3 hour tour (a three hour tour)?

John - October 6th, 2009 at 12:21 pm

You can live with a leaky roof, not a leaky hull.

dcase - October 6th, 2009 at 7:36 pm

you have all been 'upthumbed' by the conservative thumb police…

gingersnapper - October 6th, 2009 at 8:13 pm

dcase
Thanks. Thumbed you back.

dcase - October 6th, 2009 at 8:43 pm

sweet. Now, back to our current programming…

JustBeingHonest - October 15th, 2009 at 8:19 am

What are you talking about? You have completely fabricated this story about Gurdjieff. He doesn't say anything like what you just described.

PsychicDice - October 15th, 2009 at 3:28 pm

I haven't look at his work in more than 30 years, but the story was in the first 1/4 of Meetings With Remarkable Men.

Before make a dumbass accusation you should inquire first.

JustBeingHonest - March 26th, 2010 at 8:41 pm

I have read "Meetings with Remarkable Men" several times over, and very recently. There is nothing in the book even remotely like the incident you describe. Since you admit it has been over 30 years since you read it, I suggest you look through a copy and confirm for yourself what I have just stated. A "pdf" of the book is available on "Scribd.com" and you can even enter search terms that will automatically search the book for those exact terms. I am not being frivolous or making a "dumbass accusation"; I'm just being honest with you and I would appreciate you doing the same. Perhaps you have confused some other story with those that appear in Gurdjieff's book.

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