More Hammett and flurries

[hildy89]

The snow is trying. It's coming down but it's not doing anything. So much for the big winter whallop they promised us.

If you can withstand sitting through their ads, Salon.com has a fascinating article on Dashiell Hammett's "Red Harvest" and its continued influence on film and tv, even though it's the only one of his books never to be truly adapted. The connections stretch from Kurosawa's "Yojimbo" to HBO's "Deadwood".

I did my usual "popcorn night" in front of the television for Oscars, mostly commented on the gowns. Judging from the pre-show stuff, I disagreed with most of the fashionistas. The really dark eye makeup was hideous on most people. One of the "guest commentators" on Style hated Cate Blanchett's dress and said she looked like a canary. I thought she looked lovely, so there.

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flurries

[zinelady.livejournal.com]

You must be near me. It started flurrying big flakes like crazy here a couple hours ago, but has piddled out to barely nothing. But the dogs had fun running around a few minutes in the snow storm.

I wish it would just snow and get it over with. When we got our John Deere lawn tractor, we ordered a snow plow and chains for it. It's all ready in the garage, but it hasn't accumulated enough to justify using it. I don't think we've gotten more than 2 inches at a time all winter long. But have we gotten a lot of rain.

We've been getting weird weather. Snowing one day, raining the next, warming to 60 the next. When I was out walking the dog on Friday, I saw that I had little white flowers blooming. Now it's snowing.

[queenbookwench.livejournal.com]

I thought Cate's dress was beautiful as well; the only other gowns that really stood out for me in a positive way were Salma Hayek's and the lady who won the costuming award...appropriate, I guess.