tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811987615829975890.post3231772771802194960..comments2024-03-28T01:45:31.400-07:00Comments on Diary of a Fat Slob: Rififi, and six more moviesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811987615829975890.post-59028368875223308882023-01-17T17:15:05.013-08:002023-01-17T17:15:05.013-08:00I took the same photo about a second later. Anothe...I took the same photo about a second later. Another photographer and I wanted to catch her in that wonderful concentration pose in the match that would give her enough points for the championship. We were jostling each other, trying to not make a commotion. My photo looks just about like that, but one of her fingers is in a slightly different position. And, although his camera cost three or four basketthejohnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811987615829975890.post-27774661953897343072023-01-17T16:41:32.434-08:002023-01-17T16:41:32.434-08:00I googled Jennifer and see that her Wiki page has ...I googled Jennifer and see that her Wiki page has a photo of her from the 2002 US Chess Championship in Seattle. Yours, Basket John?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811987615829975890.post-1611123446458331202023-01-17T13:59:41.809-08:002023-01-17T13:59:41.809-08:00Great story, and wow, $400 is a *lot* more than I&...Great story, and wow, $400 is a *lot* more than I'd expect them to pay for one photo. Must've been a damned fine photo.<br /><br />I don't pay much attention to big time chess, but I have actually heard of Jennifer Shahade, and specifically remember browsing her book <i>Play Like A Girl</i> the last time I was in a physical bookstore (which must've been at least five years ago).<Doug Hollandnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811987615829975890.post-45267812881797789582023-01-17T13:51:29.137-08:002023-01-17T13:51:29.137-08:00[cont'd] In 2002, there wasn't a separate ...[cont'd] In 2002, there wasn't a separate women's US championship tournament. Women competed against the men and the woman with the highest score at the end of (I forget) eight or ten matches was named the US women's champion. I was a smoker back then, as was one of the women in the tournament, a pretty 19-year-old Philadelphian attending NYU named Jennifer Shahade. The matches johnthebasketnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811987615829975890.post-56808722271792014652023-01-17T13:50:43.797-08:002023-01-17T13:50:43.797-08:00No big deal. It was a photograph, not an article. ...No big deal. It was a photograph, not an article. And I was on the chess beat, not the beat beat.<br /><br />In 2002, the US chess championship was held in Seattle at the Seattle Center. I had been shooting with my Kodak digicam for about a year, and I decided that if I was going to watch the best chess players in the country I might as well watch them close up.<br /><br />So I dressed as a johnthebasketnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811987615829975890.post-22631382275553930192023-01-15T16:17:16.302-08:002023-01-15T16:17:16.302-08:00Whoops, wait, you've been published in Smithso...Whoops, wait, you've been published in Smithsonian? And long ago, when the magazine was better? What did you write about? And why do I suspect it was music?Doug Hollandnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811987615829975890.post-15938748140382169432023-01-15T16:13:47.829-08:002023-01-15T16:13:47.829-08:00As I lose weight, I'm hoping to get a bit bett...As I lose weight, I'm hoping to get a bit better toned.<br /><br />Dude is singing in French. I can't do that.<br /><br />What sir, is you very favorite Cohen song? And a free bonus question: What's the longest Cohen song?Doug Hollandnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811987615829975890.post-78585028547618667562023-01-15T16:10:05.436-08:002023-01-15T16:10:05.436-08:00Pretty sure everybody at anyplace branded Smithson...Pretty sure everybody at anyplace branded Smithsonian reports to the same ultimate Smithsonian-in-Chief.<br /><br />The point behind everything I write is to be honest about my feelings, failings, shortcomings, misgivings, and everything else. Nothing gets toned down.Doug Hollandnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811987615829975890.post-56780008227619224052023-01-15T14:13:55.167-08:002023-01-15T14:13:55.167-08:00. . . and 40 years later as an old man who couldn&.... . . and 40 years later as an old man who couldn't afford to carry an oud player but carried one anyway. . . <br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RYy_8u4blk<br /><br />jtbjohnthebasketnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811987615829975890.post-64941177014954690142023-01-15T14:06:53.613-08:002023-01-15T14:06:53.613-08:00I was briefly published in Smithsonian the magazin...I was briefly published in Smithsonian the magazine, but that was long ago. <br /><br />Doug, you write better, I think, when you keep the politics toned up. Not unlike Leonard Cohen, who was and will always be Québécois.<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU2xKDcXn1g<br /><br />jtb<br /><br />johnthebasketnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811987615829975890.post-80520499034792123382023-01-15T11:45:02.059-08:002023-01-15T11:45:02.059-08:00I've subscribed to Smithsonian the magazine fo...I've subscribed to Smithsonian the magazine for many years and I don't think the channel and the magazine have any staff in common.<br /><br />You write better I think when you keep the politics toned down.6070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811987615829975890.post-81533293775515509952023-01-15T11:04:16.559-08:002023-01-15T11:04:16.559-08:00I was resistant to Phantasm most of the way, but t...I was resistant to <i>Phantasm</i> most of the way, but the accumulated kookiness won me over toward the end.<br /><br />Everyone says good things about <i>Kenny & Company</i>, so it's already on my watchlist, and if I like it I'll move onward to <i>Jim The World's Greatest</i> and Coscarelli's other stuff.<br /><br />Yeah, the pretense of hard work that pays off is everywhereDoug Hollandnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811987615829975890.post-29279443710318127892023-01-15T08:28:59.077-08:002023-01-15T08:28:59.077-08:00I'm kind of indifferent to Coscarelli, and som...I'm kind of indifferent to Coscarelli, and somehow evaded being completely enamored with Phantasm like so many other kids my age. I really like his first two films, though, Jim The World's Greatest, and (especially) Kenny & Company. Neither are genre films, just stories about suburban So-Cal youngsters, like all the non-E.T. scenes in E.T.<br /><br />https://youtu.be/GCk2CAA9HkY?t=661Claude Complainsnoreply@blogger.com