James Stewart being upstanding, Jean Arthur being lovely and encouraging, and Claude Rains being shocked– SHOCKED!– that there’s corruption in the U.S. Senate. A wonderfully clean-cut fairy tale of right and wrong in the Federal Government. We could use more movies like this one. What the hell happened to Frank Capra, anyway? Oh. Well… crap….
Author: Mark Boszko
Mark is easily distracted and seems not to require sleep. However, this is an illusion. He is mortal, like you. Perhaps doubly so. He makes videos and a little bit of art and design. He also watches way too many movies and jokes around on Twitter.
An Open Letter to George W.
Dear George, Listening to your weekly radio address, I counted that you pronounced “nuclear” as “NUKE-U-LER” no less than eleven times. I understand you supposedly stay with some of your vocal Texas-isms because you thinks it makes you seem more folksy and likable, but — goddammit man, you’re the President of the United States of…
My Mac Timeline
Just for kicks, I put together a very crude timeline, showing what Macs I’ve owned and when. It’s a hell of a lot more than I thought I had owned, now that I look back on it all. For the curious, the items in question are: 1993, my first Mac– a brand-spanking-new Color Classic. The…
Lookit, That’s Karma
Tonight as I drove home, it was sleeting and freezing rain, so I decided to take the back roads home instead of the Beltway and 270. Good thing I did, or I would have missed out on these experiences. ‘Course, then I may have also died a fiery death, but who’s to say? First, a…
Groundhog Day
So, for the first time tonight, during the umpteenth time of watching Groundhog Day (which is an excellent, excellent movie, by the by), my wife pointed out that it features two songs from other time warp/travel movies, namely Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, which forms the basis for John Barry’s score for Somewhere…
Memoriam: A Requiem for Mr. Rogers
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – The life of the late Fred Rogers will be celebrated here next month with an 11-movement composition titled Memoriam: A Requiem for Mr. Rogers. The genial Rogers became famous around the world as the sweater-wearing host of the PBS program Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. He died last year. The one-hour piece will…
Maestro
Yes, now you, the lowly science geek, can now use the same maestro software that the big boys use for… well, for controlling the 2003 Mars Exploration Rover. No kidding. Of course, you can’t control the MER yourself, but you can download data from the Mars mission and analyze the images on your own personal…