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Not happy. A perfectly gorgeous Saturday with a memorial service stuck in the middle of it. Not happy at all.

I have reaffirmed the conclusion that James Bond movies Are Dumb. Encore's been running a bunch of them and my patience for Sean Connery is only marginally better than my patience for the wooden and sexless smirkitude of Roger Moore. I came in toward the end of Goldfinger the other night and howled at the gassing of Fort Knox sequence with the formation flying Piper Cubs. Dumb, I tell you, DUMB! I got through a record 37 minutes of Live and Let Die (which, let's be perfectly honest, was playing second fiddle to clamps, cane and wood glue) before retreating to the safe haven of the garret. Surely the contents of my spam folder are more interesting than Jane Seymour with too much gold eyeshadow and stereotyped people of color. I know generations of (mostly male) fans love this stuff, but every time someone hints that I should give Double Oh another chance, I am reminded of The Dumb. I actually read one or two of the Fleming novels a very long time ago. Bond on the page is not Bond onscreen. Connery comes close to sheer bloody bastard as imagined by Fleming. I am your worst nightmare, Mr. Bond: a woman with decades of practice at being invisible. You'd be remorselessly neutralized (without the obligatory speech in which I reveal who, why and how, of course) in a heartbeat if I were a superspy.  (Can we have a Dirty Harry marathon next? Please? He's a sheer bloody bastard I can kinda appreciate.) 

Ladies looking for a harmless little romance flick might enjoy "Talk of Angels," a little nothing I stumbled upon last night with Polly Walker and Frances McDormand. Irish governesses in proto-Civil War Spain, forbidden romance between Walker's character and the married son of the rich man whose children she cares for. A young and possibly unknown-at-the-time Penelope Cruz plays one of the daughters.

On taking pictures.

"It seems digital cameras are all about the freedom to make pictures that suck, at no cost." - Ken Rockwell

"But of course, why should anybody get good when they have a pirated copy of Photoshop and RAW? 'You can "make" any shot good!'" - James Strowe.

"My old teacher - 4 rolls of color slide film a week. Throw out the stuff that sucks." - sasha_khan 

O my readers who have patiently put up with test batches which spilt forth unedited from my new camera, I have been thinking about the process, my process, how my process got to be my process and so forth.

( Cut 'cause. )