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  1. Effingham

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Oh, yeah. Love bombastic flying music. Thing is, when I want WW1 flyboy fun, I watch "The Blue Max." Now *that's* a good film.
  2. Effingham

    Unpopular movie opinions...

    Debate no longer. I will display my level of fangeekdom: You should get (and read) The Secret History of Star Wars. It will explain *everything* -- including all the changing versions of the origin story and character developments -- and blow you away. It is, ultimately, nothing more than...
  3. Effingham

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I wanted to -- but when they put ALL the Germans into identical all-red Fokker triplanes, and all the Brits into all green Sopwith camels, I knew they were dumbing it down to the lowest common denominator, and that I was going to be royally disappointed. And in that, the movie didn't... um...
  4. Effingham

    Unpopular movie opinions...

    OOooooooookay. You do know Lucas got the idea for Star Wars from watching Kurosawa's "Hidden Fortress," right?
  5. Effingham

    I remember when.....

    Yup. Half the boys I grew up with (self included) would have been drugged to the gills with Ritalin and whatnot. What do I really miss? I remember when boys (and kids in general) were allowed to BE boys. When you could ride your bike (no goofy helmet) down the street or all the way to the...
  7. Effingham

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Unlike "Flyboys." <ack-ptui>
  8. Effingham

    Differences between cutlasses and sabers?

    I'd just like to throw in another recommendation for the film "The Duellists." It's one of the best films ever made.
  9. Effingham

    I remember when.....

    Remember telephone exchanges? PLaza 6-3352..
  10. Effingham

    Japanese earthquake

    Still no word from the Sendai friends. REALLY worrying. Sigh. It's been years since I lived there, but.... damn.
  11. Effingham

    How do you date trousers?

    Personally, I prefer dating skirts...
  13. Effingham

    Golden Era songs with off-color subjects.

    Seeing Hoagy Carmichael there reminds me... He was -- physically -- the model in Ian Fleming's mind for James Bond. So when you watch a Bond movie, don't see Sean, Roger, or whoever -- see Hoagy. It'll blow your mind. :)
  14. Effingham

    Forrest J Ackerman

    Yup. For fans who met Forry, his death was a serious loss. For fans who never met him, it was doubly so -- as they were never able to know just what they had lost the chance for.
  15. Effingham

    The Perfect Safari Hat - Part II

    There are a lot of wonderful sites I'm on where people post pictures of their projects, but they only keep 'em up for a while -- on a temporary site or something -- and eventually purge them. Seeing said threads a year later is like... sad ghosttown time.
  16. Effingham

    Forrest J Ackerman

    I loved Forry. He was a true gentleman, and a very nice man. Always had time to sit and talk at the conventions. I still miss you, Forry. I always will. Thanks for everything.
  17. Effingham

    The Perfect Safari Hat - Part II

    Dammit, I hate it when cool threads have been ruined by removed photos. :(
  19. Effingham

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Went to the ArtCraft Theater -- Franklin's wonderful art deco movie theater, built by my grandfather -- today to see "The Maltese Falcon." Haven't seen it on a big screen in decades. Wow. (I loaned them my reproduction of the "blackbird" prop to stick in the box office window.)
  20. Effingham

    Japanese earthquake

    My Kanto friends are all reporting in safely. We still haven't heard from a couple of friends in Sendai, and I'm a bit worried about them. I know things are a bit disrupted out there now, though.
  21. Effingham

    Comments You Get When You Dress Vintage

    LOL! I know. I spent too much time in the science building just watching the frikkin' big pendulum. One semester, and adios. I'm off to FSU. ;)
  22. Effingham

    Comments You Get When You Dress Vintage

    I still have nightmares of I-4, and that was from my days at (then) "FTU" (now, I think, UCF).
  23. Effingham

    House histories?

    Will do. I'm going to be putting together a "this was the journey" PDF with a pile o photos for some friends, so I'll provide a link to it when it's done. I'm trying. The cousins here -- who are all at about fifteen or twenty years older than I, and who actually grew up with my dad as their...

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