Evanston: interview Part 2; movie ratings; the ‘El’
Evanston: interview Part 2; movie ratings; the ‘El’
The second part of my interview with www.furledsails.com is now available there. Part 1 was mostly about my first circumnavigation around Cape Horn in EGREGIOUS. In Part 2 we talked about the open boat voyage in CHIDIOCK TICHBORNE, and my later voyages in RESURGAM and THE HAWKE OF TUONELA.
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Everyone knows that movies carry ratings to prevent those someone considers to be too young from viewing them. CATCH AND RELEASE made me realize that there should also be ratings to warn those who are too old to see them.
CATCH AND RELEASE is not a bad movie. I’m not sure what it wants to be when it grows up. Perhaps THE BIG CHILL. But it has a long way to go. It means well. It has some nice and attractive people in it. It has a child who tries to be as cute as the kid in JERRY MCQUIRE, but isn’t.
CATCH AND RELEASE should carry an Age 22 rating, meaning that no one older should try to watch it. But that may be generous.
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I rode the CTA, more commonly known as the “El” for ‘elevated’ though it isn’t any longer, to the Loop this morning. Eleven miles of dirty brick and cinder block. Also Wrigley Field.
I like Chicago. It is a vital city, with great architecture, pubic parks, art, and unexpectedly great beaches. No property next to railroad tracks is attractive and this wasn’t. Efficient. Trains run every six to ten minutes. $2.00 each way. About forty-five minutes. But grim. Very, very grim.
A young woman two seats away shouting into her cellphone, “I’m doin’ it to you, cause you doin’ it to me.” The received wisdom of the world.
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An article I finished in New Zealand about my experiment with gennaker furling gear has been bought by CRUISING WORLD and will probably appear sometime in the last half of next year.
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I use Apple’s Aperture to fine tune and organize digital images, and for the past week I’ve been assigning keywords to a couple of thousand of my older photos. In doing so I’ve found some I’d forgotten. The photo above is of a shed distantly visible from my mooring at Opua, though the picture was not taken from THE HAWKE OF TUONELA. but from the dinghy when I rowed over to inspect an old wreck nearby. The second part of my interview with www.furledsails.com is now available there. Part 1 was mostly about my first circumnavigation around Cape Horn in EGREGIOUS. In Part 2 we talked about the open boat voyage in CHIDIOCK TICHBORNE, and my later voyages in RESURGAM and THE HAWKE OF TUONELA.
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Everyone knows that movies carry ratings to prevent those someone considers to be too young from viewing them. CATCH AND RELEASE made me realize that there should also be ratings to warn those who are too old to see them.
CATCH AND RELEASE is not a bad movie. I’m not sure what it wants to be when it grows up. Perhaps THE BIG CHILL. But it has a long way to go. It means well. It has some nice and attractive people in it. It has a child who tries to be as cute as the kid in JERRY MCQUIRE, but isn’t.
CATCH AND RELEASE should carry an Age 22 rating, meaning that no one older should try to watch it. But that may be generous.
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I rode the CTA, more commonly known as the “El” for ‘elevated’ though it isn’t any longer, to the Loop this morning. Eleven miles of dirty brick and cinder block. Also Wrigley Field.
I like Chicago. It is a vital city, with great architecture, pubic parks, art, and unexpectedly great beaches. No property next to railroad tracks is attractive and this wasn’t. Efficient. Trains run every six to ten minutes. $2.00 each way. About forty-five minutes. But grim. Very, very grim.
A young woman two seats away shouting into her cellphone, “I’m doin’ it to you, cause you doin’ it to me.” The received wisdom of the world.
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An article I finished in New Zealand about my experiment with gennaker furling gear has been bought by CRUISING WORLD and will probably appear sometime in the last half of next year.
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I use Apple’s Aperture to fine tune and organize digital images, and for the past week I’ve been assigning keywords to a couple of thousand of my older photos. In doing so I’ve found some I’d forgotten. The photo above is of a shed distantly visible from my mooring at Opua, though the picture was not taken from THE HAWKE OF TUONELA. but from the dinghy when I rowed over to inspect an old wreck nearby.
Tuesday, December 4, 2007