Primeval Season 1 and 2…

Excellent premise and execution. Loved the creatures. Love Potts~Connor. "Anomoly Detection Device" ~ ADD. Good acronym, yeah?" -Potts UP~Downside of Netflix. Very easy to watch a series season in one sitting.

She ~ H. Rider Haggard

Harpo in "The Big Store"

BBC Animated ~ The Tempest

http://www.shakespeare-navigators.com/tempest/TempestText33.html

http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/tempest/

Favorite lines:

Me, poor man, my library
Was dukedom large enough...

Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices
That, if I then had waked after long sleep,
Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming,
The clouds methought would open and show riches
Ready to drop upon me that, when I waked,
I cried to dream again.

We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.

O brave new world that has such people in it...

Rikki Tikki Tavi

Animation by Chuck Jones (via YouTube):



Audio (via LibriVox):

Rikki-tikki-tavi

http://www.archive.org/download/story_5_librivox/rikki_tikki_tavi_kipling_mrb.mp3

Google ~ Rikki-Tikki-Tavi+Librivox

The Little Broadcast

...I went searching for Puppetoons on YouTube -- this was the lease dated one I could find. Many, I fear, suffer from a past prejudice (this one perhaps included). However, the stop-motion work, lighting, and presention are so intersting--it is worth a look.

The Little Broadcast

http://www.archive.org/details/Hitchcock_Secret_Agent

One of the early Hitchcock films with Peter Lorre...

Secret Agent

One of the early films with Peter Lorre...

Linda Ronstadt ~ Spanish

Blue Bayou (NON-mashup) Linda and Roy...

Very different performers...I like them both for different reasons.

Roy Orbison

Linda Ronstadt 

Dream a little dream of me...mashup of Louis and Mama Cass Elliot

Mama Cass Elliot(YouTube)



Louis Armstrong(YouTube)

The Miracle Maker

Edgar Rice Burroughs etexts ~ TTS

I've created HTML Applications based on Project Gutenberg etexts of some favorite Edgar Rice Burroughs novels I read when young. His style may be lacking -- but, I value them for their imagination and adventure. In this they still don't disappoint.

To install them - save as '.exe' to your desktop, that is, right-click "save as" but remove the trailing "_" character).

To use -- you'll need to have either MS-Excel or a download of the MS Agent software -- see other topics under 'TTS' label.

A Princess of Mars
At the Earth's Core
Jungle Tales of Tarzan
Tarzan of the Apes

The Thin Man (1934) [YouTube]

Play in new window...

Play here:



Great movie. Still very watchable. I love the exchanges between Nick and Nora.

In one scene - to protect her - Nick shoves Nora in a taxi, slips money into the cabbie's hand and shouts "Grant's tomb!"...a scene later Nick is speaking with her over the phone, "...how was Grant's tomb?". Nora: Fine, I'm having a copy made for you!"

Meet me in St. Louis (1944) [YouTube]

Play in new window... Play here:

...if you're just looking for the song here's link: 'Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas'

A Christmas Story: The Bird's Christmas Carol

The Birds’ Christmas Carol

by Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856-1923)

Carol Bird was born on Christmas Day. She has spent all of her 11 years putting others above herself, always finding ways to make their lives a little more special. Even when faced with her own illness, the pure goodness of her heart shines through. She vows to find a way to spread Christmas cheer and decides to give a grand Christmas Party for a poor neighbourhood family. (summary by Laura Caldwell and Sarah Jennings)

Ch.1
Ch.2
Ch.3
Ch.4
Ch.5
Ch.6
Ch.7

H. Rider Haggard

H. Rider Haggard wrote "She" and "King Solomon's Mines".
I've been experimenting with MS-Agent and MS-Reader. I've found a public domain Project Gutenberg etext of one of his books which I've been wanting to read. I've created a few HTML Applications using this text and these technologies. If you'd like to try them:

-right-click/save these links to your desktop or my documents folder
-rename from "file.exe_" to "file.exe"
-double-click and follow directions to extract to the folder specified
-double-click the resultant '.HTA' application in that folder


Cleopatra_HTA.exe_
Cleopatra_LIT.exe_

If you'd like something for your children - this might be nice. It's the images from the 'Classics Illustrated' comic form of the novel:
Cleopatra_CI.exe_

I think I concur with the author. Start at book 2. First six-seven chapters seem to have little action.