Write on...and on...and on...
Hard at work in the Writing Centre, waiting for my appointment to show up.
You never know what student will walk through the door up here, whether it's ESL students with a business plan, or article summary, an advertising analysis, a sociology essay, a history paper, or even a students who just want you to proof their work--which we are not supposed to do.
And the centre - located in OM 2674 - has a great view of the common area of the library, CT and Food Training.
I stuck it out in my film class last night for the second half of Heaven's Gate, the failed epic motion picture that pretty much finished off the career of its director Michael Cimino and that of the United Artists Studios (which was first established by Charlie Chaplin, Lionel Barrymore and Canadian Mary Pickford).
Made in 1980 at a cost of $45 million, Heaven's Gate brought in a paltry couple million before it was pulled from theatres. It was about a five hour movie that was trimmed to about 3-plus hours which was still too long. It takes place around 1890, and is about the Johnson County War between the big businessmen and the European immigrants who wanted to have the right to work their homesteads.
It was the unfortunate follow-up to the his Oscar -Winning movie The Deer Hunter. He hasn't done much since then.
If you watch only the last one and a half to two hours, it's pretty good. If you try to watch the whole thing, you will wonder what's going on...questions such as "what does a roller skating fiddle player have to do with the oppression of European immigrants?"
Anyway, I saw they are getting wet rain in some parts of BC, and several of ski moutains are also getting snow. I heard that Blackcomb will be opening this weekend. Having said this, and keeping in mind the amounts of rain that have fallen this year, what are the predictions for the first snowfall of the year? I will pull an arbitrary date from my mind and say Nov. 21.
Who can believe Saw 2 was numero uno at the box office last weekend? I had to struggle through watching the first one, in large part because of Cary Elwes' English accent that kept fading in and out in the middle of his emotional outbursts, so a word like 'bastard' became 'bawstahd' and can't became cawn't.
It did have a good twist at the end though.
However, Donnie Wahlberg's in it so, all you closet NKOTB fans can perhaps rejoice in that.
You never know what student will walk through the door up here, whether it's ESL students with a business plan, or article summary, an advertising analysis, a sociology essay, a history paper, or even a students who just want you to proof their work--which we are not supposed to do.
And the centre - located in OM 2674 - has a great view of the common area of the library, CT and Food Training.
I stuck it out in my film class last night for the second half of Heaven's Gate, the failed epic motion picture that pretty much finished off the career of its director Michael Cimino and that of the United Artists Studios (which was first established by Charlie Chaplin, Lionel Barrymore and Canadian Mary Pickford).
Made in 1980 at a cost of $45 million, Heaven's Gate brought in a paltry couple million before it was pulled from theatres. It was about a five hour movie that was trimmed to about 3-plus hours which was still too long. It takes place around 1890, and is about the Johnson County War between the big businessmen and the European immigrants who wanted to have the right to work their homesteads.
It was the unfortunate follow-up to the his Oscar -Winning movie The Deer Hunter. He hasn't done much since then.
If you watch only the last one and a half to two hours, it's pretty good. If you try to watch the whole thing, you will wonder what's going on...questions such as "what does a roller skating fiddle player have to do with the oppression of European immigrants?"
Anyway, I saw they are getting wet rain in some parts of BC, and several of ski moutains are also getting snow. I heard that Blackcomb will be opening this weekend. Having said this, and keeping in mind the amounts of rain that have fallen this year, what are the predictions for the first snowfall of the year? I will pull an arbitrary date from my mind and say Nov. 21.
Who can believe Saw 2 was numero uno at the box office last weekend? I had to struggle through watching the first one, in large part because of Cary Elwes' English accent that kept fading in and out in the middle of his emotional outbursts, so a word like 'bastard' became 'bawstahd' and can't became cawn't.
It did have a good twist at the end though.
However, Donnie Wahlberg's in it so, all you closet NKOTB fans can perhaps rejoice in that.
posted by strunken wagnall @ 9:41 AM
3 Comments:
At 4:33 PM,
Anonymous said…
OMG I love NKOTB- Donnie Whalberg was my f-a-v-or-ite!!!!!
At 3:35 PM,
Anonymous said…
It has already begun to snow here in The Flon. Early November and it has been snowing little bitty bits most of this week.
At 3:51 PM,
Tara said…
It's snowing here too!
I responded to your Halloween question...sort of...and then I added stuff that makes no senes. I blame Alberta.
Take care Scott.
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