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Mel Brooks & Carl Reiner Discuss Great Movie Rentals

Q. Sixty years later it seems you see a lot of each other now.
REINER Yeah, we got that big screen [gestures to incredibly large flat-screen monitor] to look at television.
Q. So you come here, Mel, and you watch TV together?
BROOKS Almost every night. He’s got a wonderful housekeeper-cook and we decide on a menu and a movie.
Q. What did you watch most recently?
BROOKS We watched last night “The Peacemaker.” With Nicole Kidman and, come on. [He gestures to Mr. Reiner.]
REINER George Clooney.
BROOKS Right. It was two and a half stars at the most. Good performances, very silly, you know.
REINER We look for movies with the line “Secure the perimeter.”
BROOKS Yeah, we like movies that say, “Secure the perimeter” and/or “You better get some rest.”
REINER “Lock all doors!”
BROOKS “I want a five-block seal!”
Q. What’s the key to 60 years of friendship?
REINER Our wives liked each other.

via www.nytimes.com

I LOVE the 2,000 year old man records and have nice memories of listening to them with my father when I was a kid. This NYT interview with Brooks and Reiner along with its audio clips just made me smile. It is also worth reading because in a more serious vein it touches on the nature of the Jewish experience in the 1950's when a "...a Jewish accent was not always a good thing."

Nietzsche + Family Circus

 

The Nietzsche Family Circus

Randomized Family Circus cartoons and random Nietszche quotes create some nice pairings.

Facebook Alibi

"Wherer (sic) my IHOP"

via www.businessinsider.com

Translated by the ever helpful slang experts at the NYT into "Where's my pancakes" A tee-shirt in the making? An auto-tune?

Things To Know: How to write a novel

November is National Novel Writing Month, now in its 10th year. I'm going to give it a shot. B reassures me that the novel is supposed to be terrible and something to just put into drawer and forget about though she is going to rewrite hers. I'm thinking of it as a writing marathon. Just put one sentence in front of the other. The site looks like it has lots of tips and a community to turn to for support. So off we go, 50,000 words or bust.

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Things To Know: How to Kill Demons

This being Halloween it is pretty important to be on guard for strange happenings and creatures. Sure you can learn a lot from watching all of the episodes of Buffy, back-to-back as friends of our have, but that can only take you so far as the cast of characters is always the same over a hell-mouth. Demons lurk everywhere. You might encounter; a Tommy-Knocker or a Windigo while hiking, a Kelpie near the shore, Kitchen Faeries making a mess in your house, or even your Id causing trouble enough harm drive you to therapy.   A Field Guide to Demons, Fairies, Fallen Angels and Other Subversive Spirits arms you with information to identify, and defeat them all.