Positively Puzzled

Evidently I've been watching a lot of old movies instead of blogging, so the last ten get their own post. Anthony Perkins and Orson Welles in The Trial . Peter Lorre and Humphrey Bogart in Passage to Marseille Tom Hanks in Big. Humphrey Bogart and Elisha Cook, Jr. in The Maltese Falcon (1941) Terrence Stamp as Billy Budd Ricardo Cortez as Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon (1931) Bette Davis and Warren William in Satan Met a Lady Raymond Massey and Humphrey Bogart in Action in the North Atlantic Hoagy Carmichael (at the piano) and Lauren Bacall in To Have and Have Not Gene Kelly as D'Artagnan in The Three Musketeers The Trial (1962) Passage to Marseille (1944) Big (1988) The Maltese Falcon (1941) Billy Budd (1962) The Maltese Falcon (1931) Satan Met a Lady (1936) Action in the North Atlantic (1943) To Have and Have Not (1944) The Three Musketeers (1948) Things I've been listening to... Worry Rock─Green Day─ Nimrod Under Pressure─Queen Don't Be a Lemming─k.d. lang─ Reintarn...

view from my polling place on election day It was quiet, cold, and peaceful. Frost on the leaves and rooftops. The street lamps gave off a warm orange light. Before setting out to find Room D-1 and begin my new one-day job, I looked up at the stars twinkling in the clear and still dark early morning sky. A rare and beautiful sight for night owl like me. The polls open at 7:00 am , we were supposed to be there at 6:00 for the set-up. I was a few minutes late and hadn’t had time to eat my bagel and coffee, so I brought it with me. Some people were setting up, while others milled about waiting to be told what to do. Nobody was talking much at this hour, and I was able to keep a low profile while I ate my breakfast, the cream cheese of which was suddenly very messy to manage as ate quickly with groggy fingers. When I was done with breakfast, I took the job of placing orange cones at specified locations outside. When I was done with that, I saw that the new-fangled optical ...