Up the Tree

Month: December 2003

  • Holidays

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    Out and about in the world recording various parts of it on film. My only word of caution this holiday season is don’t drink eggnog too fast, or you will hurl. I will be back to regular posts shortly, hopefully with a new found ability to touch type. Fingers crossed!

  • I Tutch Type

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    My exploits in touch typing have convinced me of 4 things. * I am as dexterous a medium sized bull * It isn’t as easy as it looks on science fiction movies where people type faster than Steven King on meth * My cat managed to jump on my keyboard and to spell _rembrandt_ her…

  • Mirazon’s Cinematize 1.0

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    So, back in college you created your own adaptation of _The Lord of The Rings_ on a film camera you borrowed from the AV department. You were so proud of your gem that you paid the exorbitent price to get your movie burned onto a DVD, so eventually you could send it to studios to…

  • Tree

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    Christmas trees are out in a vengeance throughout Manhattan. I had a crazy image of the trees taking over the streets and the sidewalks of new York becoming forests.

  • Monster Cheese

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    When I was young, I used to love Muenster cheese, because I thought it was called Monster cheese. I used to imagine that the yellow-orange outer coating was part of it’s monster quality. I imagined Frankenstein eating slices with the wolf man. “DIS IS GOOD CHEESE!” When I found out it wasn’t called Monster cheese…