Ruminations on the Inadvisability of Pre-Planning Multi-Part BlogsMy de fenestra tour diary has hit a wall. Sorry about that. I could only stand to transcribe a couple of more sentences of it after the big installment publicked last time. Perhaps the rest of it will appear, perhaps not. Hope I get to do the St. Louis part, eventually.
Bengals 24. Bears 7The color commentators on the Bengals game yesterday were idiots. It took them the better part of three quarters to stop kissing the ass of the Bears' fourth-round draft pick Rookie QB and finally "give credit where credit is due" in that Cincinnati was grinding the Bears, and their fancy-shmancy QB, into the ground.
RIP Don AdamsI hated Inspector Gadget. That stupid song, repeating over and over. My brother Devin was hooked on the show, and I just couldn't understand why. From episode to episode there was no story whatsoever.
I grew horribly bored with Tennessee Tuxedo and his Tales back in the 80s. I dutifully watched it as a child. But as an adult its mass-produced mediocrity was obvious.
While I enjoy Get Smart, some of the later episodes are a turn off. You just wonder why "How could 99 stand to marry him? Why does he continue to be so stupid and thoughtless? etc. " I think the character needed to grow a bit in order to survive when it moved to CBS. Perhaps that's why the show died so swiftly afterward.
Don Adams was a one note actor, at least what we saw of him. By right I shouldn't care that he died yesterday at 82, but I do. Part of it is wondering how Uncle Buck must feel - for all I know Buck hated his guts (probably didn't, who knows?) Don Adams was a Hungarian male, and Hungarian males are very high strung characters. But I am sorry to see Don Adams go. I had no idea he was THAT old!
The imdb hardly has Adams' work covered - he did a LOT more that what they list. They do list that Scooby Doo movie he was in - that was horrible, intolerable too. Didn't he do anything that was good outside of Get Smart? (Holy crap! "The Nude Bomb" -- was that ever one.)
A Little Musical NewsCompleted four new pieces in CoolEdit
Laminated MacGillicuddy
differriffer
OhToeToe
The Coliseum
The first two are wholly "fresh." The third is the realization of an idea I had back in the 90s, and the fourth is the realization of something I've been mulling over since the 70s. In the last case, I think I could tighten it a bit - it's pretty long at 7:49. But they're all pretty good.
I also brought the sketch of the first stanza of my Dead Sea Scroll Hymn to its conclusion last night. With that, though, I've run into a problem with texting. I was using an early 1960s edition of the words for the text, but today I've found that scholars have more recently subdivided the so-called "Hymn Scroll" (i.e. 1Q4) into shorter sections. They are now called "Hymns of Thanksgiving," and I have no idea why, as these texts are mostly about war and resistance against Roman domination. I guess that's cause most of them start with the words "I thank thee, O God..."
There are long passages of my 1962 text that aren't even represented on the web. I guess I'll have to break down and somehow obtain the newer edition to see what it is that I'm trying to set and how long I should make it.
Uncle Dave Lewis