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hehe.. I like my nuts roasted in oven rather than open fire. Or they can be roasted in any number of forum threads I guess.
In NY they USED to have a gazillion guys roasting them in the park ( CP ). All Autumn long and Winter, nice hot fresh roasted chestnuts served in paper bags. YUM ! Just peel and eat as you walk through park. Throw shells with whatever clings to them on ground. Squirrels loved that too !
That all changed over the years. The latest push has been with Bloomberg wanting to turn NY into some fictional Parisian - like CITY , where horses are DIRTY ANIMALS ( get rid of those horrible horses and carriages , OMG they are SOOOOO DIRTY ! ).. AND all those chestnut guys would have to pay about a gazillion dollars for permits to roast nuts and sell them cheap to people.
So, the upshot is that NO, there are no more roasted chestnuts in NYC and if you don't hurry up you may never see a horse in CP either.. as they are ANIMALS ! OMG !
tody is the big " short ribs " cooked in new pressure cooker / slow cooker combo thing experiment...
is scary, but what the heck.. if I dont try new stuff I wont figure out the best way to cook stuff etc...
Here is George's fairly new cafe monte promo. He's a really good food guy, but is getting into people stuff too ...too bad 'monte' has to read from cue cards...sheesh...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TisZtEmWIbc
this guy Brian at cinemanix is really cool. He helped me get a handle on some video stuff when I was learning cs3 and trying to stuff red stuff into mouse.
is doing nice work
Now if you are getting into "gaming," you might want to drive to Mall of the Americas, and get in line for the new Sony PS4. I hear that it is being released about now. Seems that it is starting out with a very high popularity rating, but will be interested to see if that holds up. Some folk just HAVE to have the very latest whatever - phone, Playstation, toaster, coffeemaker... 
Happy shopping!
Hunt
hehe.. mall of america. yikes !
I played chess again.
" HA, " I said to the computer when I checkmated its mousey brain !
Of course I have the setting on 1 out of 10 for mouse brain chess fuel... but still... I felt good.
Man, that short rib stuff came out GREAT ! YUM ! So now I have 2 new things I can make. Fr Onion Soup and Short Ribs.
I recall you mentioned that earlier... about the Wm. S. stuff.... you're gonna laugh, but I made mine with some coca cola and it was fantastic. Basically you end up with a beefy sauce that is very slightly sweet ( I cooked it down a lot ....pressure cook 35min and then slow cook 4 hours ). The general rumor as per coke use is that some of the acid or whatever is in the coke sorta helps break down the fiber of the short ribs. I have no clue. This was recipe idea from local guy at food store ( the coke idea ). It WAS really good.
that lime juice thing or whatever it was ... involved sea scallops I'm pretty sure ( as one of the ingredients ).. and even though the house we rented was on shore literally a few miles from Point Judith ( an at that time hot shot location for a bunch of commercial fishing boats who were mostly Portugeese (sp ? ) people ...probably like 4th generation ? ....I couldn't GET fresh sea scallops at the nearby giant fish distributer store.. so I got a big box of frozen sea scallops they had in their freezer.
So there I am, on the sea, with a seaport down the block, and I am buying these frozen sea scallops by the kilo for our appetizer thing. Pretty funny.
Luckily on the way back to the rental I ran across a construction site that had some aluminum siding " scraps " ( for gutters or flashing ? ) that were V shaped. I got about 7 feet of that stuff and put in car and went back to rental with scallops and other sea stuff and that very cool alum stuff...
Later that night I used the alum siding stuff as a launch pad for ROCKETS from china .... which you could now shoot very accurately from your shoulder ( like a bazooka ).
was fun. Aimed at some little boats out there and the rockets sorta 'exploded' at the end of their flight... and it looked really cool to see the little boats run away !
This might be interesting to film people.. but anyway, believe it or NOT the fireworks I got were from this jewish white guy who was at the time Whoopie Goldberg's main squeeze. That is to say, they were a pair of maniacs living together and in love. And the guy was a DP or something. Forget his name. He was into selling this firework stuff even though in NY ( and this is going back a real long time even before Bloomberg spent 12 years ruining NY for normal people ) had a law against fireworks.
You probably don't realize it but you cant have fun in NY with fireworks cause if you shoot off a firework you will get arrested and thrown into a " chinese work camp for realignment of your ethics and morality ".
I think Bloomberg is gonna run for the next premiere of china if he can do it as an independent ( he's not a team player ).
anyway, that's the truth. I got the fireworks from Whoopies boyfriend and they were really cool.
She musta be cool too , to put up with that guy and his crazy firework obsession. Now they probably call each other warthogs ?
Speaking of "Bloomie," I think that he will look like a flaming conservative, compared to De Blasio, but one gets what one votes for. At least NYC has a new "sister city," Havana.
Hunt
hehe.. what a hoot that guy is... I see he started in NOLA as host to scary movies on TV. Kinda like "Zachary" in NYC area.
By the way, did you see that youtube morgus video " the day the earth cracked " ? after you get to end of your video you see that as one of the listed videos.
OMG ! I listened to the whole thing and couldnt get my eyes off THAT POSTER PROMO.
hehe.. funny... I woulda LOVED shooting stuff when young like you did with Dad. How cool !
When in grade school ( K thru 5 ? ) I got a little " certificate " from school for running the 16mm projector during various breaks and stuff ( buncha kids in some auditorium watching cartoons and stuff ). I used to panic when film got broke or stuck in gate and you'd see those ugly blobs of BURNING FILM if you didn't shut off the lamp fast enough ! OMG ! hehe.. was fun. Was my first experience with splicing, making nice 'loops' in mitchell movement, etc.
The kids were ruthless.. would SCREAM their heads off if something bad happened to the film projection
I lived in fear every moment of my early projectionist responsibiliy.
Anyway, fangoria was another big monster mag. The father passed it on to his son, and his son decided to produce a trio of monster movies ( was a deal with below line guys in WI who had a new film studio made from an abandoned girl scout camp in the woods ). My first "key" jobs were the first 2 of those movies and I got fired before the last of the 3 ( I was wild in those days ).
Hope the kid made out okay. The 3rd was so bad it never got released ( had oliver reed as the lead in the 3rd one ). From what I heard, several bad things happened during the production of 3rd movie. They woulda been better off to keep ME ON IMO. What happened was, the girlfriend of one of the 2 producers who owned studio ran off with all their money one day. Just opened safe, took money and left. About the same time the new key grip took the entire grip dept. paychecks ( on those days it was cash in envelopes ) and ran away to Chigago and bought about a pound of cocaine, and was never seen again. Then oliver reed got really drunk every day and didn't wanna work unless one of the producer guys would wrestle with him in the dirt first. Oliver was a good wrestler.
hehe... you can see one of the producer guys as the one who did those scary movies about some guy who has a lot of pins stuck in his head.
Mine were children of the night and timewarp or something. Children of the night went pretty well except when karen black REALLY BIT the young girl playing a lead part. She would yell, " OW, YOU'RE HURTING ME ! " .. then you would hear " CUT " and so on.
I had an FLV file for that prime suspect pilot editing I did from DVDs. You know, the one I did and then tried to get in touch with peter berg through his agent about how cool he could use adobe Ppro on laptop to breeze through dailies etc ( once divided into video levels for cam1 cam2 cam3 etc. ). The agent called Nan and Nan called ME and boy, my ears were burning from THAT FIASCO of attempt to help out.
Nan was really cool about it though, thank goodness. She's nice.
Anyway, like I said, I have this FLV thing. So now that I have cs6 creative suite I decided to do a quick flash thing for my website. OMG, what a nightmare !
making the swf file after saving the fla project, importing the flv file and making this stuff actually WORK is a freakin nightmare.
It worked in chrome but not IE. So now I'm backtracking and trying to add a WMV media file to the web page instead. The only problem with THAT is that the file is about a gazillion billion megabytes. So it may take about a day to upload the file to my web server. In order to make everyone happy about high speed internet service, the upload speeds are about 1 kilobyte per hour.
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