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Skriven 2007-07-31 14:21:44 av Josh Hill (2807.babylon5)
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Ärende: Re: Reports from Comic-Con
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On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 03:44:01 GMT, Amy Guskin <aisling@fjordstone.com>
wrote:

>>> On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:09:05 -0400, Josh Hill wrote
>(in article <7t5ta3ds7m84uej9aljc63ffh8b0tr6t36@4ax.com>):
>
>> On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 01:45:49 GMT, Amy Guskin <aisling@fjordstone.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>>>> On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:33:19 -0400, Josh Hill wrote
>>> (in article <ee3ta39ui6q8nepfbc9kamsn6enr9ljv9g@4ax.com>):
>>> 
>>>> Hey, cool. Ask them if they'll leave the dead body floating face-down,
>>>> streaming blood. Or the sharks, if it's a Bond flick.  <<
>>> 
>>> A Bond flick!  I wish!  And nope, the dead body isn't in the pool in this 
>>> one, alas.  Based on who's directing it, though, there's been a lot of 
>>> joking 
>>> around here about small folk -- or big apes -- whose hairy feet could 
>>> potentially clog the pool filter...
>> 
>> Wow. That is big. What's he making? King Frodo? Bilbo Kong? <<
>
>Not a blockbuster.  It's a film based on a novel by a woman named Alice 
>Sebold, called "The Lovely Bones."  Weirdly, we'll have _two_ world-class 
>directors in our tiny township at one time while he's here filming, because 
>M. Night Shyamalan happens to live here.  Not, of course, in my decidedly 
>middle-class part of the township; he's on a huge estate in the old-money 
>section.  'Course, I still haven't forgiven him for "Lady in the Water," but 
>I haven't run into him in Starbucks or the supermarket so I haven't had a 
>chance to let him know...  :-D

"The Lovely Bones"? That's a great title. Of course, so is just about
anything with "bones" in it, as the "bones and moans" poets well knew.

>>> Man, they have it all wrong. I mean, if it were me, I'd want them to
>> leave the house alone and restore /me/ to my 1970's appearance. Less
>> the hair, which was always getting in water fountains. Not that we
>> couldn't use the repainting: the top half of the house is white, and
>> the bottom half is red, and they're divided by a scaffold only no
>> painters ever appear on the scaffold, and it's unlikely that they will
>> since the contractor seems to have taken a powder. Wonder how much
>> scaffolds bring on Ebay? <<
>
>I think that the mere acting of listing them for auction will bring the 
>painters back.  <g>

Just got the word that the scaffold is worth about $1000 bucks, so
we're hoping to trade it for the unfinished work -- the painting and
the soffit vents.

This is all very weird, since the contractor was also our tenant. Left
all of his furniture in the apartment he was supposed to be fixing up
in return for free rent. Guess I get the old computer back . . .

-- 
Josh

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