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Gregory Peck 1916-2003

Gregory Peck in “The Gunfighter”, 1950

In his Oscar-winning performance as Atticus Finch in “To Kill A Mockingbird”, 1962

Gregory Peck was a full-fledged movie actor for his whole career, enjoying top billing in nearly every film he starred in.

He played a sexy, swaggering cowboy in 1950’s “The Gunfighter” and was sexier still in “Roman Holiday”, also starring the late, great, Audrey Hepburn. He is perhaps best known though, for his portrayal of Alabama lawyer and family man Atticus Finch in the movie based on Harper Lee’s novel “To Kill A Mockingbird”.

Few such books-made-into-movies are as successful as this one was. Not only that but the novel became a book classic, a masterpiece of American literature, heralded by young people, students and teachers alike. I remember it well as a subject of study when I was but 13.

In a candid recent interview, Peck recalls watching the film (back around the time all Oscar buzz was surrounding it) and thought he saw author Harper Lee crying as she watched also. He said to her, “Harper, what’s that glistening on your cheek?” and she cried out in joy through her tears, “Oh Gregory, my daddy’s got a little pot belly just like you have!”. Gregory laughed and replied, “Well, that’s great acting, of course!”

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Here is my South Park Chick, everyone!

You can go here to make one of your own.

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I’m in the process of importing all my Manila and Blogger entries as we speak.

You never fully realize just how much junk you have blogged about for the last 3+ years, until you perform this process.

Yikes! I’m getting rid of alot of crap.

More to come later!

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Whoopee. This is my SECOND attempt at creating a blog using MT. The first one crapped out on me after I discovered my archive was wrong and then after many rebuilds and no success, I gave up.

Such a quitter.

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Halloween stuff:

Perfect time of year to cuddle up with a good old scary tale. Try Edgar Allen Poe’s The Fall of The House of Usher

Pumpkins!! Carving, growing, harvesting, recipes and more abound at the Pumpkin Nook web site. Beware the MIDI and silly animated GIF’s…tacky, I know, but what the heck, it’s Halloween.

www.halloweenmansion.com has alot of links to Halloween things on the web, all hidden inside a virtual haunted mansion, made with Flash technology. Fun, even if you don’t need the links. Takes a couple minutes to load but worth the wait. Also don’t forget to check out the Halloween events, and the tours, which list events and tours throughout the US and Canada.

Looking for some great ideas for Wednesday? Here’s a great Halloween directory for you to dig through. It boasts over 140 links to sites Halloween-related and it’s got a fun design. I found a couple of links there:

Go to www.haunted-places.com for great listings of Current Paranormal Activity sites, Paranormal Travel Guide, Haunted Tours & Events Listings in all 50 states, International Haunted Places and read about True Life Experiences.

Experience life at the Borely Rectory, the most haunted place in England. True(?) accounts, written by the son of a woman who lived there for five years.

Over at the Official Houdini Seance site, they are asking everyone on the web to attempt to contact Houdini sometime during Halloween. It costs a dollar. I can get cheese for cheaper than that offline.

Have little ones? Need last-minute crafts, costume ideas, recipes, safety tips? Go to Women’s Day Magazine to check out their Halloween page.

Back in the old days before I found the small miracle of weblogs I used to highlight a website of the day. I still maintain such a list, only it’s grown quite a bit. Usually entertaining, sometimes very unusual and most of all, fun. Enjoy these picks from past entries:

Booby Fun With Britney

For those of you NOT in the fan club, or if you just like to blow shit up.

glassdog.com

A funny internet news site with alotta class

The Burrito Page

everything and anything even REMOTELY related to burritos…utterly fascinating.

Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
You HAVE to read this book if you haven’t already!

The Clinton Body count

check it out

dollheads.com – ask Faith!

70’s
Preservation Society

News
Of The Weird

Joe Jennett’s Daily Webthing

MIT’s Best Jokers at work

Wacky
Packages

Official site of Ripley’s ‘Believe It Or Not!’

www.soggypuppy.com

great homemade soaps! all kinds

-beercanbob.com-

Displaying photos of people doing stupid things w/Bob on a global scale

furnitureporn.com – too funny!

Newsbreak

Brought to you by The Messy Canvas. Hilarious site pokes fun at the news by posting fake humorous news stories

www.brains4zombies.com

Ha ha. You didn’t get this link from ME.

www.goats.com GOATS! Ya know ya love ’em!

Look! All about the town of Weird, New Jersey …check it out

target=”_blank”>Ronald McDonald getting his gasm on

Parody site: A day in the life of Martha Stewart!

Your guide to the target=”_blank”>Worst of The Web from About.com

www.lindatripp.comI plead

the fifth…

Here I sit, displacing my anger by cursing out loud in the general direction of my WS-ftp program, when it doesn’t even deserve it. I am mad because a certain ‘online community’ I belong to is having problems with their server or something ’cause for some reason I can’t upload CRAP to my directory there. So I had the pleasure of editing online, which I hate, would prefer to use my notepad or better yet, my Dreamweaver 3, but NO…

Anyway, you don’t need to hear all this. What a HEADACHE I had this morning. Just now recovering, slowly but surely.

Do you have a radio on at night while you sleep? I do, just a boombox I’ve only had since the 5th grade, it sits on my nightstand and puts strange things in my head while I R.E.M. myself into dreamland. This a.m. I rose to go to the bathroom, feeling curiously pissed off and betrayed by a bank I don’t even belong to. Then I find out the early early a.m. local radio talkshow was just getting over, the topic being something about bank customer service. “Ha ha” I think and almost say outloud as I stumble into the bathroom.

Flashback: I woke up at 8:30 this morning, with grandiouse plans of housecleaning and enjoying myself in general on a Sunday, but since I had this tremendous headache I decided to swallow a couple of ibuprofen and went back to the bed. Didn’t get out of it again until noon today. Showered and put a towel on.

…and now here I am, eating Voortman’s Tea Ring cookies for my breakfast and plotting a trip to the drugstore. I love drugstores. Walgreen’s is my favorite, but there isn’t one in my neighborhood. Only one I go to is downtown, a few blocks from my job. Got these cookies there on Friday. Two 1 lb. packs for a dollar. CanNOT beat that with a stick. Voortman’s Cookies. Best thing to come out of Canada since—–well, nevermind. Now I’m gonna get dressed and pretend I have nothing important to do.

until Monday, bj

“Support bacteria – they’re the only culture some people have.”

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Well today I got up outta bed around 11:15 ’cause I hadn’t been able to sleep all nite…then I burned some bacon and toast and drank cold coffee from the pot I made yesterday. Watched the tape of the SNL 25th anniversary show (finally) and one of my favorite movies, “Corina Corina” on TNT. Haven’t retreived the mail, let alone gotten dressed yet.

Then I decided today was the day I was gonna start a journal and post it online. Don’t ask me why ’cause right now I don’t even know, myself. I just felt like it was something I needed to do.

Boy have I got guts.

I gotta go, I but I will be back later. bj

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30 yr old, female, inspired but independent thinker, bride-to-be, entrepeneur, mover & shaker, living in Saint Paul MN. Reading. Fine art. The occasional b-movie. Temp by day, web & graphic designer by night.