Chetspeak on Sunday
Nixon took a sip, glanced at some pages on the table. “Don’t tell me you’re working on a screenplay?” he said.
Bernie shook his head. “Don’t even know how to read the goddamn thing.” He picked up a page. “What’s INT?”
“Interior,” Nixon said. “INT or EXT, lead item in every slug line in a script.”
“Slug line?” said Bernie.
Nixon leaned over, pointed to the top of the page Bernie was holding. “Right here, after Fade In. Fade in is how you start a movie. Then comes the first scene – interior, bedroom, night. After that they put in what’s going on, like here – a man tosses in his sleep. Then see here? Cut to. That’s how they get to the next scene.”
“That’s a whole scene?” Bernie said. “A guy tosses in his sleep?”
“All depends on how it’s handled,” Nixon said. “Film’s a director’s medium – gotta keep that in mind. Take the cigarette lighting scene in Now Voyager – what would that look like on the page? Zip. But on the screen … well, there are some things you never forget.”
“Now Voyager,” said Bernie. “That’s Bette Davis?”
“Shit, yeah,” said Nixon. “And Paul Henried – he did the cigarette thing.”
“Forgot you were a fan.”
“A fan of a particular period, Bernie. Ain’t been acting like hers outta Hollywood, before or since.”
Bernie poured more bourbon in both their glasses.
– from A FISTFUL OF COLLARS.
Tags: A Fistful of Collars, Chetspeak
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8:11 am on December 21st, 2014
Happy Winter Solstice Everybody!
8:16 am on December 21st, 2014
God morning, BSD and everyone! Wow, winter solstice, Egg Day, Chetspeak and Sunday all at one time! Life is good! We liked Bernie learning to read a script. Wose, great to hear your small and (not) meek voice. Thanks for the intel on Oz. We will hepl mom look for it around here. Hpe there was no hack harm from the facebookie fraud.
Have a super swell Sunday before Christmas!
8:23 am on December 21st, 2014
Happy Egg Day. There were only 4 eggs in the fridge. Guess who got 3 of them?
Nixon being a Bette Davis fan..heh! We forgot about that! The last person we expected to interpret that script was Nixon!
Happy Winter Solstice! Tonight is the longest night of the year, and a very dark one at that, as New Moon occurs at almost the same time tonight. That should make for a marvelous Howlfest out in our fields tonight.
8:44 am on December 21st, 2014
Plunderers: Just want to let you know that I have six Plunder On calendars left. If anyone would like more calendars, please e-mail me. First come, first serve.
8:57 am on December 21st, 2014
Happy Egg Day and Winter Solstice. It is snowing just a tiny bit here.
The nice thing about Dec. 21st is that from now on, every day has a few more minutes of daylight.
I reread MPM’s comments about FB hacking so it made more sense as to the why, but I still don’t understand how they can get your password just cuz you friended them. BTW, friended gets a little red line under it on spell check. Guess it is not yet considered a verb.
Wose, we are soooo happy that you are back.
9:51 am on December 21st, 2014
I’ve never seen the movie Now Voyager.
Received many, many email messages from friends on FB. I changed my password and I think that has solved the problem.
Good morning all.
9:53 am on December 21st, 2014
Barb, the hackers don’t get a friend’s password but they get all the info on the friend’s page. Some people have a treasure trove of personal info on their home page. Date of birth is an important one. That’s useful in identity theft.
Probably many of my friend’s have had their FB accounts hacked. That means the hackers have looked at my home page too, but there’s nothing there.
10:39 am on December 21st, 2014
Bee, Mom just sent a request to you. Please let us know that she got the right Bee, and not the Bee who isn’t really Bee.
10:53 am on December 21st, 2014
Greetings everyone.
There is enough snow on the ground to track a cat, as Gramp likes to say. Glad there are no errands required
Going to look for good movies and snuggle in for the day.
11:07 am on December 21st, 2014
Howlers: She got the correct Bee. I’ve confirmed the request.
11:12 am on December 21st, 2014
Happy Solstice (not to be repetitive) everyone! Also Egg Day. I’m thinking of having some champagne (after I go to the gym) today to celebrate the imminent return of the light–how did those ancient folks keep from freaking as it just got darker and darker and…
Wose–So nice to hear from you!
Bee–NV isn’t Ms. Davis’ greatest work, for my money, but Nixon’s right about the cigarette scene (which you can probably find on Youtube).
Everyone have a wonderful day!
11:27 am on December 21st, 2014
Speaking of smoking cigarettes, we recently watched an old I Love Lucy show. There was a lot of smoking going on by both Lucy and Desi, something you never see on t v anymore.
And when we listened to the recorded interviews with Jackie Kennedy last year, you could hear ice clinking into a glass as she was making a drink, and a lot of smoke blowing throughout. Funny, because even though she was a heavy smoker, she was careful to never be photographed while smoking.
11:30 am on December 21st, 2014
We are going for a hike in Nolde Forest! Yay! After that, there is talk of Christmas cookie baking for us us us! Then there will be gift wrapping. But, most importantly, there will be that Solstice Howlfest, with ale, because we do not have any champagne, and because, well…that’s howl we roll. Heh! Heh!
11:43 am on December 21st, 2014
O’H–Ale is also a good choice. Anything with alcohol and carbonation…
11:54 am on December 21st, 2014
Since Winter solstice occurs for the Northern Hemisphere in December & for the Southern Hemisphere in June; that means LizF and Ruby will have to wait another 6 months to celebrate and partake of the bubbly.
12:00 pm on December 21st, 2014
Barb and her friends got some nice Christmas gifts last night. Daughter Shannon gave her a hummingbird feeder and food. The container is red, so the food is without red food coloring, which is better for the little hummers. Then Jess’s mom Kathy gave her 2 boxes of gourmet dog treats, made with blueberries and sweet potatoes. Yum.
Barb gave Kathy Paw and Order. Kathy loves the C & B books and says if she ever gets another boy dog she is going to name him Chet!
Barb is going to start making turkey soup shortly, as soon as Josh delivers the left over turkey parts.
12:53 pm on December 21st, 2014
B, I went to your FB page and I suggest that you make some changes. As I said before, date of birth is important in identity theft. The hackers know you just had a birthday. They could get the year with not much effort because you also say you’re retired, where you retired from, and where you went to school.
12:55 pm on December 21st, 2014
WE have finished the very last drop of the Turkey soup and now are working on the leftover slow cooker beef drippings. We heated it up, then removed any hard parts and gave it a twirl with our hand held blender. Now we have decided to use it for both meatball gravy flavoring and some broth for Dad who seems to love broth over everything else. (He doesn’t have to fight with his teeth)
We caved on the nut bread this morning.
1:04 pm on December 21st, 2014
B, I hope I didn’t scare you. It’s just that these hackers are relentless. It’s too bad we’re now in an age where we have to watch every step we take.
1:24 pm on December 21st, 2014
Happy Chetspeak Day!
Happy Winter Solstice Day!
I am happy because it is the first day of Winter, and Mom is happy because the sun begins its return journey.
There are reasons Rio and I stay away from facebookie.
1:24 pm on December 21st, 2014
Mollypop’s Mom: Talking about personal information – my paranoid dad has his birth date listed on the wrong day AND the wrong year. As a result, we always have a good laugh over his Facebook “friends” wishing him a happy birthday on the wrong day.
Oley Howlers: May we join you in this evening’s Howlfest?
1:27 pm on December 21st, 2014
SiberH! A simultaneous post! We will see you there.
1:29 pm on December 21st, 2014
Rio, From my newspaper: The Mets and the Rockies have been in talks to
work out a deal that would send Tulo to the Mets.
Gasp, I think I’m gonna be sick.
1:31 pm on December 21st, 2014
Trigger, I’ll be there!
1:55 pm on December 21st, 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxRUKlI4yWM
Funny dog singing with his buddy.
Siber-H…OH NO! Not Tulo!
1:55 pm on December 21st, 2014
Thank you Mollypop’s Mom. I think I’ve made the changes. (When my friends on FB were talking about the hack, one of them wrote that the North Koreans had done it.)
1:58 pm on December 21st, 2014
MPM – how does one eliminate birthdate from fb? We can’t find anyplace to do so, and we had to submit it to sign up. We don’t have ANY other personal information on there, and never click on “what movies have you seen?” or any of the other questionnaire type stuff.
2:11 pm on December 21st, 2014
Wose: I am so happy to see you posting.
I have been reflecting today about how blessed my family and I are. Admittedly, we have seen heart breaking loss. But here we are, about to come together to celebrate Christmas. We have each other, I have a job I love. I am discovering my blog family. We get to make a difference. We have the Iditarod to look forward to. Life is good.
2:16 pm on December 21st, 2014
Tupper’s Mama: On FB, click on your name (top right hand side on my screen), then click on “about” under your picture or near top of page, then go to “contact and basic information” and you can edit. You can do the same for “work and education.” I’ve chosen “only me” on most things.
2:19 pm on December 21st, 2014
I’ve been thinking about which of Dante’s Circles in his Inferno to put hackers. I’ve decided that Circle Eight, Bolgia Three where the punishment is to be buried upside down with flames burning feet is fitting.
2:27 pm on December 21st, 2014
Royal Mum, FB has to have your birthdate to know you’re old enough. Even if everyone lies. It should not have become part of your online profile. Go to profile at the top left. I’m like Trigger’s Dad, I entered a fake birthday.
Then go to the top right, after the globe is a lock. Click on that to set your info to friends only.
2:27 pm on December 21st, 2014
Stover, My Gosh, I am laughing.
Martha, That is a very nice post.
2:31 pm on December 21st, 2014
Mr. Siber H, Yes, we like Martha’s post too. So glad to have a part of the family with us still 🙂
2:33 pm on December 21st, 2014
Interesting – today is the darkest, shortest day, yet we here have sunshine and Bluecat found it to lie in. Plunderers have each other and OFA and Snowhook. With Martha, we’re grateful for life.
2:40 pm on December 21st, 2014
MPM – done and done.
Martha – sniff….thank you for that lovely thought.
Bee – bet we would come up with even better circles of hell. Let’s put our heads together.
2:44 pm on December 21st, 2014
Martha: We love having our fellow Plunderers, Martha & Zoe, on this here blog with us.
Blukat: I was looking for that same spot. Alas it is not to be found, at least not today.
MPM: Thank you for the Facebookie security info.
2:46 pm on December 21st, 2014
Happy Sunday and Chet Day. I think Mom is finally finished decorating. She is very happy with how it turned out. She went antiquing with a friend yesterday and bought a desk/table that she didn’t need but wanted very much. It is beautiful! She says she will get on a serious budget after the holidays.
Here is a small scene from her decorations. Rio’s friend’s church is part of it.
2:46 pm on December 21st, 2014
Tupper’s Mama: LOL! Let’s….
2:58 pm on December 21st, 2014
Bee – it should start with something really uncomfortable. We suggest starting with a barb wire thong, two sizes too small.
Next?
3:02 pm on December 21st, 2014
Happy Winter Solstice, Egg Day and Chetspeak! This is a day I look forward to from June 21st onward.
Martha: Life is good!
I am going to check out my facebook page and make sure my birthdate is not on there. If it is I will change it so that I am about 30. Heh!
3:11 pm on December 21st, 2014
Tupper’s Mama: How about a matching bra….
3:14 pm on December 21st, 2014
Dawson: Excellent way to grow younger!
3:15 pm on December 21st, 2014
Bee – ok, as long as it is an underwire, push up style. And now for the sh o e s – platforms made entirely of thumbtacks? All in a point-up position of course.
3:16 pm on December 21st, 2014
Good news alert
*Sadie can do stairs this morning! I am keeping her on aspirin one more day and she will still see the vet tomorrow.
*There were 2″ of fresh snow on the ground this morning. I loved it and I bet our favorite mushers loved it also
Only fly in the ointment….the dreaded “check engine” light came on in the car. I know from experience that Subaru cars can do this in the winter so I don’t know yet if this is a false alarm or not. Boo
I will change or eliminate my b-day on FB but I do enjoy friends wishing me well on my day. Sniff.
3:23 pm on December 21st, 2014
Tupper’s Mama: And she has many blisters on her feet.
3:50 pm on December 21st, 2014
Bee – ok, now we need to find a location to put our well dressed hacker. May I suggest a jungle setting, replete with venomous snakes and insects and very hungry carnivores (two of four legged, doesn’t matter)I would say quicksand, but alas, that would be too sparing on the feet. So, how about running on a hard packed path, with rhinoceroses in hot pursuit. And huge spiderwebs full of hairy 8-legges, right at face height.
3:54 pm on December 21st, 2014
Stover and Tupper’s Mama, and perhaps a really tight halter over the barbed wire push up bra/
3:56 pm on December 21st, 2014
Hobbit – I like the birthday greetings too. So I left my date, but changed my birth year. So I am now confirmed to be 109 years old.
Take that you barbwire, jungle running, spider bitten hackers!
4:02 pm on December 21st, 2014
I’m cracking up.
4:07 pm on December 21st, 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YgFG08GrTs
The Longest Night
4:15 pm on December 21st, 2014
Gah! I think we need some pug-lip kisses, no matter what now!
4:15 pm on December 21st, 2014
Pucker up Rio, the HOH is ready to take you on 🙂
4:39 pm on December 21st, 2014
So you who like public birthday greetings, what then when someone wishes you a happy 55th or 60th birthday. Why not post all your passwords too? Email, text and actual birthday cards are nice too.
4:46 pm on December 21st, 2014
Hack!….Tupper and Stover, you could just send that guy here and make them eat her mother’s food….chorkel!
5:13 pm on December 21st, 2014
We are back from our hike. It was great. Pop started a fire in the wood stove in our
summer kitchenwinter tavern, so we could warm up after the howlfest. Trigger, we are happy you will be joining us for the Solstice Howlfest.Mom likes Happy Birthdays from her fb friends too. She only allows friends to see anything, and she never shares the year. Heavens! A lady never shares her age!
5:21 pm on December 21st, 2014
Solstice is at 6:03pm EST.
5:22 pm on December 21st, 2014
Rio – what would your Friend’s mother say about the barb wire thong and push up bra???
5:30 pm on December 21st, 2014
S O L S T I C E..bring it on! We are ready for more light 🙂
5:58 pm on December 21st, 2014
Okay, let me make one more suggestion before I throw my hands up in the air. Use password protection with software. I use Dashlane but there are others. It’s free, it holds all your complex passwords (which you also have recorded in a little book just in case), and has one master password protecting the encoded file. If you forget the master password, the whole thing disappears (but you have it all written down in a little book.). The ease of all this is Dashlane logs you in to the websites automatically. You don’t gave to keep looking up the complex passwords.
6:19 pm on December 21st, 2014
Liz and red dog down under, enjoy your summer solstice!
6:48 pm on December 21st, 2014
MPM: thank you for all your suggestions! You’re tip top in my book!
Anchorage has another 1/2″ of new snow and it is coming down nicely. Yay (even though I have already shoveled once and might have to do it again later).
I’m trying to keep Sadie from using the stairs but bless her heart she went down all 18 steps to the dog yard to do her business and back up. Take that Rio!
6:50 pm on December 21st, 2014
MollysMaw!…I know the feeling of throwing my paws up in the air and giving up…heh!heh!…We here do use the little-book technique, but it is nice to know about this Dashlane software….snort!…But what if it gets hacked?…gurgle!..Also, complex passwords are a very good idea! Do not make things simple…heh!
6:53 pm on December 21st, 2014
Stairs!…CHobbit, I have seen those stairs from the top and I know there are way more than 18 actually. More like 100 x 2…gasp!…Sadie must be feeling a more on the tip-top side today. That is a huge relief…chuffle!
6:57 pm on December 21st, 2014
I think it is all the blogs fault. I seem to be in a cooking mode. Now I am making meatballs. From the Joy of cooking. The Swedish ones that start out as german! I am in the simmer for 15 minutes part right now. There will be another batch simmering soon.
Smells delish!
Dawson left me some instructions for Dad’s food and I made one of them today. It involved Susan Stanberg’s cranberry sauce recipe, yogurt, grapes, beets and cucumbers. Dad came into the kitchen and said “What is that I smell?” Good work Dawson!
(I added the beets and cucumber)
7:02 pm on December 21st, 2014
Staff, you go on the cooking thing, and your dad noticed! YOu lucky dog!
7:27 pm on December 21st, 2014
B: We have had a lovely evening and have ended up having a discussion about grammar.
“All I want for Christmas is you.”
Is this grammatically correct? Strangely enough, I do not know why we need to know this.
7:44 pm on December 21st, 2014
Tavern tIme is over. Solstice Howlfest is over. Time to nestle under the blankies and watch the very last Colbert Report.
7:44 pm on December 21st, 2014
Hobnitt–Delighted to hear the news about Sadie!
Staff and BSD–Thank you for the videos which I am now enjoying with my strengthening American sparkling wine.
I have a suspicion that I may be the only fan of the Xena, Warrior Princess series on this blog, but in case I’m not, here’s a link to one of my favorite episodes: A Solstice Carol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45zdOIBgeO0
7:47 pm on December 21st, 2014
Ah, a Strengthening Cocktail. What a good idea, Diane C.
Happy Winter Solstice, all. Raining/sleeting/snowing here. A few more minutes of light (not sunlight, alas. Haven’t seen that for over two weeks) each day will not go amiss.
7:53 pm on December 21st, 2014
…that ws supposed to be “Hobitt” it’s the wine speaking.
Bee and Tupper’s Mama–I caught a glimpse of “barbed-wire thong” and had to spend some time tracing it back…so, Bee, I’m thinking since this is a form of fraud (identity theft, though not as we use the term), maybe malbowge 10 of circle 8 would be appropriate–afflictions in body and mind (and the barbed-wire lingerie would be an appropriate conduit for bacterial affliction).
Hmm…must be the wine speaking…
7:58 pm on December 21st, 2014
Billy’s Buddy–Yes, and strangely warming for a chilled beverage. We had a happy overcast solstice day and it’s dark ALREADY and not even 5 p.m. here!!! So I will appreciate the extra light coming even more.
Dear Friends, I’m sorry to have missed the Howlfest, but I doubt I have the voice for it anyway. Sleep well, those of you headed for slumber, and grace and good wishes to all (and if you haven’t seen that Xena episode, I really do recommend it, the “Greek” toymaker Sentocles (get it?) alone is worth it…
8:00 pm on December 21st, 2014
Cocktale!…What a great strengthening idea!…yes!…What a busy weekend…snorkel!
8:00 pm on December 21st, 2014
Diane – we used to love Xena. Saw an episode not too long ago and realized how much we didn’t get the first time through.
Martha – I can just hear the conversation at your house re “All I need for Christmas”; your kids could take that and run with it for hours.
It has to be correct, even though we don’t much care for Marian. But how else could you say it?
8:01 pm on December 21st, 2014
Plus!…I hear Hebrew National Hot Dawgs are on the menu tonight…chuffle!
8:10 pm on December 21st, 2014
All y’all are cracking us up tonight, BUT we will be going nighty night directly so that we can be ready for big days in the near future! Love our blog family 🙂
8:23 pm on December 21st, 2014
I will recap today’s hacking because I see it’s not completely understood.
A hacker got B’s FB password and took over her account. All her friends were looked at but the hacker wanted more so friend’s requests were sent out. That brought in some more friends accounts to look at. He did it all quickly and disappeared. By then B. Was notified and changed her password. Done.
So if anyone thinks any data their friends can see is safe, this shows that hackers can see it too.
There was no real B and fake B. There’s only one B’s FB account and it was in the hands of hackers while B sat in her easy chair.
If the hacker hadn’t gotten greedy and wanted more friend’s accounts, this might have happened with no one knowing.
So now I need a strengthening cocktail!
8:29 pm on December 21st, 2014
Martha: Yes, that sentence is grammatically correct.
I like your idea about Circle eight/ten Diane.
8:38 pm on December 21st, 2014
MollysMaw!…Security watch-dawg for this here blog!…snort!…We do appreciate it and you do deserve that strengthening cocktail, by all means…heh!heh!…Hackers thrive on the human-nature of wanting to share and interact with each other…sniff!…The hackers are the dirt between my toes.
8:43 pm on December 21st, 2014
Mollypop’s Mom
We appreciate all you do.
The purchaser of the cat pillow has been identified but has requested anonymity. (I had to look up the spelling of anonymity) It will be on it’s way tomorrow morning unless I see a really really long line at the post office and then I might wait until AFTER the big holiday.
8:57 pm on December 21st, 2014
Staff!….That is hilarious! The guy who actually bought the Kat Pillow does not want anyone to know it?….heh!heh!chorkel!…Now that is funny!
9:02 pm on December 21st, 2014
Diane,
My daughter and I were big Xena fans when it originally aired. Like Tupper’s Mama, I think I would see it differently now!
9:30 pm on December 21st, 2014
I bet it was Spence that bought that cat pillow. Heh!
Or possibly Mr. Staff! He has been known to buy really nice birthday and Christmas presents and he is kind of shy.
9:33 pm on December 21st, 2014
Me too!
Mollypop’s Mom: I appreciate it too because I know nothing.
9:55 pm on December 21st, 2014
Spence!…Buying Kat Pillows?…snort!….This I would have to see first paw….horkel!snort!
10:16 pm on December 21st, 2014
Night all. We are just watching the end of the first disc of Broadchurch. It is very good, but it takes a little time to understand what they are saying. We have a hard time with the British accents. Does anyone else?
10:46 pm on December 21st, 2014
Barb – the accents are very thick, especially the Scots accent of the head detective.
Conversely, we have started watching Gracepoint – seen 3 of the 10 episodes. So far the similarities in scene and dialog are remarkable.
Looking to see how they will change it.
But we do prefer the chocolate lab in Broadchurch to the GSD in Gracepoint.
11:49 pm on December 21st, 2014
I promised Snowbella not to tell but Rio, I will say that it is sort of funny that the buyer won’t let us tell. However the reason is a good one so I will just keep my mouth zipped. If you want to guess I will not stop you. Heh heh heh. It might even make me laugh.
That Dawson is a pretty good guesser.
I personally, before I found out so it counts, thought is was Masquers.