I wanted to find the very first episode of the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. I was unable to do so. He started in November of 1998. The best I have been able to do was seven months later. I just got curious as to what the show looked like more than ten years ago. (Star Wars, the Phantom Menace was just in theaters.)
James Pilant
Gnerally speaking this is not a common post. It was bit of surprise. I told the people at the emergency room that since on Christmas Eve there was virtually no one waiting for the doctor that we would be back next year and, in fact, make all of our emergency room visits on major holidays.
That was as good as it got.
Aside from regular presents, my spouse got a brand new pair of crutches. They are actually kind of shiny.
I may be a bit short on posting the next few days. Things are complex.
You have my holiday best wishes.
Don’t be too concerned, I’m sure we can figure all this stuff out at my house.
James Pilant
We are going to relax and pretend that we don’t work totally different hours, find our jobs stressful, or see each other so little we wonder who that person who hangs around the house is.
I’ll be back posting tomorrow.
James Pilant
Philip Brookes has two new posts and I’m reblogging the second one. I suggest you visit the web site and read both. Today, he is writing about marketing and the challenges it presents in South Asia. I recommend the author and his web site.
James Pilant
via Get Aktiv
Read this paragraph –
Death is cruel injustice. It has opened the vaults of endless unanswered questions in a world of agony and seeming emptiness. The rising of the sun offers no absolution; it offers little consolation, but uninvited and often unwelcome the sun does rise. Every day it rises and presents new moments and gifts. We walk from the graves and the questions of the dead, and out through the gates of the necropolises into the land of the living. At times it seems cruel that we are made to live among the living and leaving our loved ones behind, but they are not truly gone. They live on; in us and in their rest. Why do we seek the living among the dead? He is risen, and this causes us to tremble.
That is eloquence. Now go read the rest.
James Pilant
From CBS news –
Blake Edwards, the director and writer known for “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” “10” and the “Pink Panther” movies, is dead at age 88.
The longtime husband of Julie Andrews died from complications of pneumonia at about 10:30 p.m. on Wednesday at St. John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, publicist Gene Schwam said. Andrews and other family members were at his side. He had been hospitalized for about two weeks.
Nathan Heller writing for Slate eulogizes the comic actor, Leslie Nielsen. Here’s a sample from what he wrote.
Nielsen, by then a veteran of the very genre films the Zuckers were lampooning, was an ideal conduit for this sort of parody. Retaining a ’60s-TV-style polish and white-bread masculinity, he was both what the directors once called “oblivious to the comedy” and a key part of its aesthetic. And unlike many B actors who tried to leap the chasm from bad drama to good comedy, Nielsen nailed the landing. If the success of Airplane! redounds mostly to the movie’s writing and directing, the humor in The Naked Gun, its first sequel, and Police Squad (the early-’80s TV show that served as a testing ground for this material) rested largely on Nielsen’s shoulders. The films’ extended parody of noir procedurals depended on his wizened, faux-debonair polish and inveterate lack of self-awareness—in short, his ability to channel a screen ethos from the time of Cary Grant and Cavett.
I have already written about my regret at Nielsen’s passing. I always felt that he was a gentleman who I would have loved to chat with.
But I have an ulterior motive. As an “older” American, I’ve had the pleasure of seeing films like “Airplane,” when they came out. They were raw and exciting and I remember them with great pleasure. I want to recommend to “younger” Americans (pretty much, all of you) to take a look at Nielsen’s work, his legacy and profit by the work of a comic genius.
James Pilant
What do you think? Should you be searched like that? Should your children?
James Pilant
Pretty!
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