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WARNING: WEATHER AHEAD

Posted on: June 13th, 2010 by wmapother 2 Comments

We’re holding the Flyover Film Festival at the Kentucky Center for the Arts, and it’s working out beautifully.
However, I was walking down the staircase Friday and saw this sign.  Hmmm.

Walked down a flight of stairs and saw another one just like it.  Wha?

I mean, I know people think things are slow in Kentucky, but lordy — is weather-watching now a group activity?  Kept going (because I missed my floor–that sign I missed) and finally saw this at the bottom:

Ahhh.  Just the Center helping keep heads cool during a Kentucky twister — like the one I survived on April 3, 1974, during the worst outbreak of tornadoes in American history.
But that’s another story.

Posted in Louisville & KY, Random

Helpful Tip from an Airline

Posted on: June 12th, 2010 by wmapother 4 Comments

Here in Louisville for the Flyover Film Festival.  The photo at right was snapped by the director Allison Anders (of Ashland, KY), the recipient of our Lifetime Achievement Award, on her flight in from Los Angeles.

Are we getting dumber, or are they?

Posted in Random

‘Lost’ explained – finally

Posted on: May 31st, 2010 by wmapother 10 Comments

So this is what post-it’s are for:  this rather helpful young man explains ‘Lost’ in 3 minutes here.

Posted in Acting Projects, Funny Like Ha-Ha, Random, Recs, Video (Online & Home)

Adios…Sort of

Posted on: May 25th, 2010 by wmapother 19 Comments

I’m not ready today to give thoughts on the Lost finale or to say good-bye to the show, but I will offer something else instead.

The ‘Lost’ finale was broadcast in parts of Europe live at 5 and 6a.m. (!) Monday morning, simultaneous to its showing on the U.S. west coast.  In Madrid ‘Lost’ fans arranged to watch it in a movie theatre, and Lostzilla, a Spanish fansite, asked me to record a quick video to be played before the show.

What they didn’t ask for was an unholy butchering of their sacred mother tongue.  Sadly, however, that’s just what they got.  And this from someone who even on his best day — which, mind you, was over twenty years ago — had trouble with ‘frijoles.’

Because I think we can all use a lift on a day after the show has ended, the horror of my home-recorded Spanish is here.

Posted in Acting Projects, Random, Video (Online & Home)

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Posted on: May 18th, 2010 by wmapother 11 Comments

Top five things (not in order) about shooting in NYC for the “Love on Ice” episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent, airing tomorrow night on USA Network at 10/9C (and whose home page is here):

5.  35-degree runs in Central Park
4.  $12 Bergdorf Goodman feathery Xmas ornaments
3.  Meeting a few fantastic new people
2.  The other actors
1.  I can die knowing I’ve tried the slicked-back look with glasses…and it’s not for me.

Posted in Acting Projects, NYC, Other Photos, Random, TV