Surprise Surprise

Barbara Bush Jr and Jenna Bush seem like really nice people. Laura must have done something right. Take a look at this Fox interview. Change you can believe in.

Past Points To Ponder

+Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
-John Wooden

+I catnap now and then, but I think while I nap, so it's not a waste of time. -Martha Stewart

+You pile up enough tomorrows and you'll be left with nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering. -Meredith Willson

+If you cannot convince them, confuse them. -Harry S Truman

+It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. -Elizabeth Taylor

+I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out. -Arthur Hays Sulzberger

+There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
-Franz Kafka

+People find life entirely too time-consuming. -Stanislaw J. Lec

+It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. -W. Somerset Maugham

+Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening. –Dorothy Sarnoff

Ozu Movies

Here's a list of all Ozu's movies -in chronological order (unfortunately most of the early ones are lost). I will try to mark(*) those I have seen-if I can remember correctly.





Sword of Penitence
Dreams of Youth
Wife Lost
Pumpkin
A Couple on the Move
Body Beautiful
Treasure Mountain
Days of Youth
Fighting Friends Japanese Style
I Graduated, But...
The Life of an Office Worker
A Straightforward Boy
An Introduction to Marriage
Walk Cheerfully
I Flunked, But...
That Night's Wife
The Revengeful Spirit of Eros
The Luck Which Touched the Leg
Young Miss
The Lady and the Beard
Beauty's Sorrows
Tokyo Chorus*
Spring Comes from the Ladies
I Was Born, But...**
Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?
Until the Day We Meet Again
Woman of Tokyo
Dragnet Girl
Passing Fancy*
A Mother Should Be Loved
A Story of Floating Weeds**
An Innocent Maid
Kagamijishi
An Inn in Tokyo
College is a Nice Place
The Only Son*
What Did the Lady Forget?
Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family
There Was a Father
Record of a Tenement Gentleman*
A Hen in the Wind
Late Spring*
The Munekata Sisters
Early Summer*
The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice*
Tokyo Story**
Early Spring*
Tokyo Twilight***
Equinox Flower*
Good Morning*
Floating Weeds*
Late Autumn*
The End of Summer*
An Autumn Afternoon*
(54 in total)
*-those I have seen
**-my favorites
*** -this film will convert you if you are not already a fan

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(the first batch already eaten).
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Can't see gegenschein because of all the damn light pollution.
From Wikipedia:

Like the zodiacal light, the gegenschein is sunlight reflected by interplanetary dust. Most of this dust is orbiting the sun in about the ecliptic plane, with a possible concentration of particles at the L2 Earth-Sun Lagrangian point.
It is distinguished from zodiacal light by its high angle of reflection of the incident sunlight on the dust particles. It forms a slightly more luminous, oval glow directly opposite the Sun within the band of luminous zodiacal light. The intensity of the gegenschein is (relatively) enhanced because each dust particle is seen in full phase.

Or for that matter zodiacal light either.