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Another random thought, got woken up this morning and wound up checking what's new on SPC-1, and a couple weeks ago the Chinese company Huawei posted results for their Oceanspace 8100 8-node storage system. This system seems to be similar to the likes of HDS USP/VSP, IBM SVC in that it has the ability to virtualize other storage systems behind it. The system is powered by 32 quad core processors or 128 CPU cores.
The thing that caught my eye is in every SPC-1 disclosure is the paragraph
Unused Storage Ratio: Total Unused Capacity (XXX GB) divided by Physical
Storage Capacity (XXX GB) and may not exceed 45%.
So what is Huawei's Unused storage ratio? - 44.77%
I wonder how hard it was for them to get under the 45% limit, I bet they were probably at 55-60% and had to yank a bunch of drives out or something to decrease their ratio.
From their full disclosure document it appears their tested system has roughly 261TB of unused storage on it. That's pretty bad, 3PAR F400 has a mere 75GB of unused capacity (0.14%) by contrast. The bigger T800 has roughly 21TB of unused capacity (15%).
One would think, that for Huawei, they would be better off using 146GB disks instead of the 300GB, 450GB and 600GB disks (another question is what is the point in mismatched disks for this test, maybe they didn't have enough of one drive type which would be odd for a drive array manufacturer - maybe they mixed drive types to drive the unused capacity perhaps after having started with nothing but 600GB disks).
Speaking of drive sizes, one company I know well has a lot of big Oracle databases and are I/O bound more than space bound, so it benefits them to use smaller disk drives, their current array manufacturer no longer offers 146GB disk drives so they are forced to pay quite a bit more for the bigger disks.
Lots of IOPS to be sure, 300,000 of them (260 IOPS per drive) and 320GB of cache (see note below!), but certainly seems that you could do this a better way..
Looking deeper into the full disclosure documents(Appendix C page 64) for the Huawei system reveals this little gem
The creatlun command creates a LUN with a capacity 1,716,606 MiB. The -p 0 parameter, in the creatlun command sets the read cache policy as no prefetch and the -m 0 parameter sets the write cache policy as write cache with no mirroring.
So they seem to be effectively disabling the read cache and disabling cache mirroring making all cache a write back cache that is not protected? I would imagine they ran the test and found their read cache ineffective so disabled it and devoted it to write cache and re-ran the test.
Submitting results without mirrored cache seems, well misleading to say the least. Glad there is full disclosure!
The approximate cost of the Huawei system seems to be about $2.2 million according to the google exchange rate.
While I am here, what is it with 8 node storage systems? What is magical about that number? I've seen a bunch of different ones both SAN and NAS that top out at eight. Not 10? not 6? Seems a strange coincidence, and has always bugged me for some reason.
HP serious about blade networking
I was doing my rounds and noticed that HP launched a new blade for the Xeon 6500/7500 processor( I don't yet see news breaking of this on The Reg so I beat them for once!), the BL620c G7, and they have another blade the BL680c G7, is a double wide solution, which to me looks like nothing more than a pair of 620c G7s stacked together and using the backplane to link the systems together, IBM does something similar on their Bladecenter to connect a memory expansion blade onto their HX5 blade.
But what really caught my eye more than anything else is how much networking HP is including on their latest blades, whether it is the BL685c G7, or these two newer systems.
- BL685c G7 & BL620c G7 both include 4 x 10GbE Flexfabric ports on board (no need to use expansion ports) - that is up to 16 FlexNICs per server - with three expansion slots you can get a max of 10x10GbE ports per server (or 40 FlexNICs per server)
- BL680c G7 has 6 x 10GbE Flexfabric ports on board providing up to 24 FlexNICs per server - with seven expansion slots you can get a max of 20x10GbE ports per server (or 80 FlexNICs per server)
Side note: Flex Fabric is HP's term referring to CNA.
Looking at the stock networking from Cisco, Dell, and IBM
- Cisco - their site is complex as usual but from what I can make out their B230M1 blade has 2x10Gbps CNAs
- Dell and IBM are stuck in 1GbE land, with IBM providing 2x1GbE on their HX5 and Dell providing 4x1GbE on their M910
What is even nicer about the extra NICs on the HP side, at least on the BL685c G7 and I presume the BL620c G7 is that because they are full height, the connections from the extra 2x10GbE ports on the blade feed into the same slots on the backplane, meaning with a single pair of 10GbE modules on the chassis you can get full 4x10GbE per server (8 full height blades per chassis), normally if you would put extra NICs on the expansion ports, those ports are wired to different slots in the back needing additional networking components in those slots.
You might be asking yourself, what if you don't have 10GbE and you only have 1GbE networking? Well first off - upgrade, 10GbE is dirt cheap now there is absolutely no excuse for getting these new higher end blade systems and trying to run them off 1GbE. You're only hurting yourself by attempting it. But in the worst case you really don't know what your doing and you happen to get these HP blades with 10GbE on them and want to connect them to 1GbE switches -- well you can, they are backwards compatible with 1GbE switches. Either with their various 1GbE modules, or the 10GbE pass through module supporting both SFP and SFP+ optics.
So there you have it, 4x10GbE ports per blade standard, if it was me I would take 1 port from each network ASIC, and assign FlexNICs for VM traffic, and take the other port from each ASIC and enable jumbo frames for things like Vmotion, Fault tolerance, iSCSI, NFS etc traffic. I'm sure the cost of adding the extra dual port card is trivial when integrated onto the board, and HP is smart enough to recognize that!
Having more FlexNICs on board means you can use those expansion slots for other things, such as Fusion I/O accelerators, or maybe Infiniband or native Fibre channel connectivity. Having more FlexNICs on board also allows for greater flexibility in network configuration of course, take for example the Citrix Netscaler VPX, which, last I checked required essentially dedicated network ports in vSphere in order to work.
Myself I'm still not sold on the CNA concept at this point. I'm perfectly happy to run a couple FC switches per chassis, and a few extra cables to run to the storage system.
ISilon gets taken out by EMC
Looks like EMC did it after all, buying Isilon for $2.25 Billion. Probably the biggest tech deal for the Seattle area for quite some time.
I haven't paid too much attention to Isilon recently but it does seem like they have a nice product for the scale out media space, lots of big files and high throughput. Isilon, along with Panasas seem to be unique in tightly integrating the storage controller with the NAS side, while other solutions were purely gateway approaches of one sort or another.
So who's next?
Red Hat jacks up RHEL pricing
I didn't think they would do this, but Red Hat, along with RHEL 6 introduced some pretty dramatic price hikes.
They seem to have done away with the "unlimited socket" licensing and have at least two tiers - two socket and four socket.
What used to cost $2,499 for Red Hat Advanced Server Premium for unlimited sockets, now costs $6,498 for four sockets, a 260% increase.
That is very Oracle-esque, maybe even worse than Oracle, the biggest hikes I recall Oracle doing was in the 30-50% range. Wonder if there will be any push back from customers.
They don't seem to mention socket licensing beyond 4 sockets.
RHEL 6 Launched
I didn't even notice it, as The Register put it, it was a very quiet launch. While I have been using Debian on my home systems for more than twelve years now, I do much prefer to use Red Hat Enterprise at work.
And RHEL 6 looks like a pretty decent upgrade
- Significantly improved power management (aka lower cpu usage for idle VMs) - hello higher consolidation ratios
- Hot add CPU and memory (wish there was hot remove - if there is I don't see it mentioned)
- 85% increase in number of packages in the distribution - yay, maybe there will be a lot less things I will have to compile on my own
Sorry I still can't help but laugh at the scalability claims
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 has been designed to deliver performance and scalability without sacrificing data integrity. It allows scaling to 4,096 CPUs and 64 terabytes of RAM, providing a solid foundation for supporting upcoming generations of hardware.
It is interesting that the max file system size for the ext4 file system is the same as ext3 - 16TB. Seems kind of dinky.
XFS goes to 100TB which also seems small, maybe just "tested" limits, I would expect XFS to scale far higher than that given it's SGI heritage. The XFS documentation says for 64-bit Linux you can go to 18 Exabytes, which I think is just as crazy as Red Hat's CPU claims but as long as you can safely do a few hundred TB that is more than enough for these days I think.
I can't imagine anyone committing a petabyte or more to a single file system for a good long while at least.
I'll let others play with KVM until at least RHEL 7, until then it's VMware for me.
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Not long ago, Google announced they would be giving every employee in the company a 10% raise starting January 2011. One super bad ass engineer is apparently going to get a $3.5M retention bonus to not go to the competition. Lucky for him perhaps that Google is based in California and non competes are not enforceable in California.
Now Yahoo! has announced somewhat of the opposite, no raises, in fact they are going to give the axe to 10% of their employees.
It's too bad that Yahoo! lost it's way so long ago. There was a really good blog post about what went wrong with Yahoo! Going back more than a decade, really interesting insight into the company.
Extreme VMware
So I was browsing some of the headlines of the companies I follow during lunch and came across this article (seems available on many outlets), which I thought was cool.
I've known VMware has been a very big happy user of Extreme Networks gear for a good long time now though I wasn't aware of anything that was public about it, at least until today. It really makes me feel good that despite VMware's partnerships with EMC and NetApp that include Cisco networking gear, at the end of the day they chose not to run Cisco for their own business.
But going beyond even that it makes me feel good that politics didn't win out here, obviously the people running the network have a preference, and they were either able to fight, or didn't have to fight to get what they wanted. Given VMware is a big company and given their big relationship with Cisco I would kind of think that Cisco would try to muscle their way in. Many times they can succeed depending on the management at the client company, but fortunately for the likes of VMware they did not.
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Nice to see technology win out for once instead of back room deals which often end up screwing the customer over in the long run.
Since I'm here I guess I should mention the release of the X460 series of switches which came out a week or two ago, intended to replace the now 4-year old X450 series(both "A" and "E"). Notable differences & improvements include:
- Dual hot swap internal power supplies
- User swappable fan tray
- Long distance stacking over 10GbE - up to 40 kilometers
- Clear-Flow now available when the switches are stacked (prior hardware switches could not be stacked to use Clear-Flow
- Stacking module is now optional (X450 it was built in)
- Standard license is Edge license (X450A was Advanced Edge) - still software upgradable all the way to Core license (BGP etc). My favorite protocol ESRP requires Advanced Edge and not Core licensing.
- Hardware support for IPFIX, which they say is complimentary to sFlow
- Lifetime hardware warranty with advanced hardware replacement (X450E had lifetime, X450A did not)
- Layer 3 Virtual Switching (yay!) - I first used this functionality on the Black Diamond 10808 back in 2005, it's really neat.
The X460 seems to be aimed at the mid to upper range of GbE switches, with the X480 being the high end offering.
New NetApp boxes
So it looks like NetApp launched some beefy new systems yesterday, though I got to say if I was a customer of theirs I would feel kind of cheated on the 3200 series systems since they have stuck to dual core processors, when quad core has been available forever. In the "world of Intel" in my eyes there's no excuse to release anything that's not at least quad core unless your trying to squeeze your customers for every last bit (which I'm sure they are...).
Companies like NetApp could take a hint from someone like Citrix, who has a few Netscaler load balancers that they software rate limit the throughput but give you the same hardware as the higher end boxes. So take the 17500 model rated for 20Gbps, you can software upgrade that to more than double the throughput to 50Gbps. But the point isn't the increased throughput via the software upgrade. The point is having the extra CPU horsepower on the smaller end box so that you can enable more CPU intensive features without incurring a noticeable performance hit because you have so much headroom on the system CPU wise.
NetApp introduced compression as one of their new features(I think it's new, maybe wrong). That is of course likely to be a fairly CPU intensive operation. If they had quad or hex core CPUs in there, you could do a lot more, even if they limited your IOPS or throughput to X amount. Maybe they don't have a good way of artificially rate limiting.
But even without rate limiting, it costs them a trivial amount of money to put quad core processors, they just want to squeeze their customers.
Even 3PAR put quad core processors in their F400 system more than a year ago. This is despite the Intel CPUs not doing much work on the 3PAR side, most of the work is done by their Gen3 ASIC. But they realize it's a trivial cost to put in the beefier processor so they do it.
Their new 6200 series controllers do have quad core processors, among other improvements I'm sure. The previous 6000 series was quad socket. (in case your wondering where I'm getting these processors stats from it's from the SPEC disclosure)
NetApp was fast to post both SPEC SFS results for their 3200 and 6200 series, as well as SPC-1E results for their 3200.
All in all very impressive results for SPEC SFS, very efficient results for SPC-1, both heavily assisted by 1TB of their flash cache. Interestingly enough at least on the SPC-1 side since full cost disclosures are there, the cost per usable TB and cost per IOP still doesn't match that of the F400 (which has many more drives, and running RAID 1+0, and more than a year old so would consider the F400 at a great disadvantage but still wins out). SPC-1E isn't a full SPC-1 test though, it's more about power efficiency than raw performance. So time will tell if they do a "regular" SPC-1 test, their SPC-1E IOPS is about the same as their 3170, and the 3270 has much faster CPUs so I'd think it's pretty safe to say that the controllers have capacity to go beyond 68,000 IOPS.
Nice upgrade for their customers in any case.
Next Gen Opterons — to 20 cores and beyond?
So I came across this a short time ago, but The Register has a lot more useful information here.
From AMD
The server products ("Interlagos" and "Valencia") will first begin production in Q2 2011, and we expect to launch them in Q3 2011. [This includes the Opteron 6100 socket compatible 16-core Opteron 6200]
Since Bulldozer is designed to fit into the same power/thermal envelope as our current AMD Opteron™ 6100/4100 series processors we obviously have some new power tricks up our sleeve. One of these is the new CC6 power state, which powers down an entire module when it is idle. That is just one of the new power innovations that you'll see with Bulldozer-based processors.
We have disclosed that we would include AMD Turbo CORE technology in the past, so this should not be a surprise to anyone. But what is news is the uplift – up to 500MHz with all cores fully utilized. Today's implementations of boost technology can push up the clock speed of a couple of cores when the others are idle, but with our new version of Turbo CORE you'll see full core boost, meaning an extra 500MHz across all 16 threads for most workloads.
We are anticipating about a 50% increase in memory throughput with our new "Bulldozer" integrated memory controller.
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Newell showed off the top-end "Terramar" Opteron, which will have up to 20 of a next-generation Bulldozer cores in a single processor socket, representing a 25 percent boost in cores from the top-end Interlagos parts, and maybe a 35 to 40 per cent boost in performance if the performance curve stays the same as the jump from twelve-core "Magny-Cours" Opteron 6100s to the Interlagos chips.
That said, AMD is spoiling for a fight about chip design in a way that it hasn't been since the mid-2000s.
with Intel working on its future "Sandy Bridge" and "Ivy Bridge" Xeon processors for servers, and facing an architecture shift in the two-socket space in 2011 that AMD just suffered through in 2010.
Didn't Intel just go through an architecture shift in the two socket space last year with the Xeon 5500s and their integrated memory controller? And they are shifting architectures again so soon? Granted I haven't really looked into what these new Intel things have to offer.
I suppose my only question is, will VMware come up with yet another licensing level to go beyond 12 cores per socket? It's kind of suspicious that both vSphere Advanced and Enterprise plus are called out at a limit of 12 cores per socket.
The cool kids are using it
I just came across this video, which is animated, involves a PHP web developer ranting to a psychologist about how stupid the entire Ruby movement is. It's really funny.
I remember being in a similar situation a few years ago, the company had a Java application which drove almost all of the revenue of the company(90%+), and a perl application that they acquired from a ~2 person company and were busy trying to re-write it in Java.
Enter stage left: Ruby. At that point (sometime in 2006/2007), I honestly don't think I had ever heard of Ruby before. But a bunch of the developers really seemed to like it, specifically the whole Ruby on Rails thing. We ran it on top of Apache with fastcgi. It really didn't scale well at all (for fairly obvious reasons that are documented everywhere online). As time went on the company lost more and more interest in the Java applications and wanted to do everything in Ruby. It was cool (for them). Fortunately scalability was never an issue for this company since they had no traffic. At their peak they had four web servers, that on average peaked out at about 30-35% CPU.
It was a headache for me because of all of the modules they wanted to install on the system, and I was not about to use "gem install" to install those modules(that is the "ruby way" I won't install directly from CPAN either BTW), I wanted proper version controlled RPMs. So I built them, for the five different operating platforms we supported at the time (CentOS 4 32/64bit, CentOS 5 32/64bit Fedora Core 4 32-bit -- we were in transition to CentOS 5 32/64-bit). Looking back at my cfengine configuration file there was a total of 108 packages I built while I was there to support them, and it wasn't a quick task to do that.
Then add to the fact that they were running on top of Oracle (which is a fine database IMO), mainly because that was what they had already running with their Java app. But using Oracle wasn't the issue -- the issue was their Oracle database driver didn't support bind variables. If you have spent time with Oracle you know this is a bad thing. We used a hack which involved setting a per-session environment variable in the database to force bind variables to be enabled, this was OK most of the time, but it did cause major issues for a few months when a bad query got into the system, caused the execution plans to get out of whack and massive latch contention. The fastest way to recover the system was to restart Oracle. The developers, and my boss at the time were convinced it was a bug in Oracle. I was convinced it was not because I had seen latch contention in action several times in the past. After a lot of debugging the app and the database in consultation with our DBA consultants they figured out what the problem was -- bad queries being issued from the app. Oracle was doing exactly what they told it to do, even if it means causing a big outage. Latch contention is one of the performance limits of Oracle that you cannot solve by adding more hardware. It seems like it could be at first because the results of it are throughput drops to the floor, and CPUs go to 100% usage instantly.
At one point to try to improve performance and get rid of memory leaks I migrated the Ruby apps from fastcgi to mod_fcgid. Which had a built in ability to automatically restart it's threads after they had served X number of requests. This worked out great, really helped improve operations. I don't recall if it had any real impact on performance but because the memory leaks were no longer a concern that was one less thing to worry about.
Then one day we got in some shiny new HP DL380 G5s with dual proc quad core processors with either 8 or 16GB of memory. Very powerful, very nice servers for the time. So what was the first thing I tried? I wanted to try out 64-bit, be able to take better advantage of the larger amount of memory. So I compiled our Ruby modules for 64-bit, installed a 64-bit CentOS 5.2 I think it was at the time(other production web servers were running CentOS 5.2 32-bit), installed 64-bit Ruby etc. Launched the apps, from a functional perspective they worked fine. But from a practical perspective it was worthless. I enabled the web server in production and it immediately started gagging on it's own blood, load shot through the roof, requests were slow as hell. So I disabled it, and things returned to normal. Tried that a few more times and ended up giving up -- went back to 32-bit. The 32-bit system could handle 10x the traffic of the 64-bit system. Never found out what the issue was before I left the company.
From an operational perspective, my own personal preference for web apps is to run Java. I'm used to running Tomcat myself but really the container matters less to me. I like war files, it makes deployment so simple. And in the Weblogic world I liked ear files (I suspect it's not weblogic specific it's just the only place I've ever used ear files). One archive file that has everything you need built into it. Any extra modules etc are all there. I don't have to go compile anything, install a JVM, install a container and drop a single file to run the application. OK maybe some applications have a few config files (one I used to manage had literally several hundred XML config files -- poor design of course).
Maybe it's not cool anymore to run Java I don't know. But seeing this video reminded me of those days when I did have to support Ruby on production and pre-production systems, it wasn't fun, or cool.

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Nobody seems to have understood "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"
06-06-2014, 12:48 AM (This post was last modified: 06-06-2014 06:14 PM by Michael_Tadlock.)
Nobody seems to have understood "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"
WARNING SPOILERS INCOMING (duh)
I just watched Ben Stiller's "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" and I really enjoyed it. It had a whimsical , glowing fantasy feel where the main protagonist, played by Ben Stiller, navigates through a series of adventures on a path of self discovery. Ben Stiller's character, Walter Mitty, is a meek character prone to drifting off into daydreams. He has two motivations in the movie, one a love interest Cheryl Melnhof, played by Kristen Wig, and another a dick boss handling the merger of the company he works for, Life magazine, played by Adam Scott. When world famous photographer Sean O'Connery, played by Sean Penn, sends in his master work to be the cover of the final printed issues of the magazine, the most important photograph is some how missing from the reel. Walter Mitty goes around the world looking for Sean and his master photograph, only to find out he had the print in his wallet the whole time. In the process he becomes the kind of person he always wanted to be and gets the girl.
The story begins with Walter using the Eharmony dating website, the same website he overheard his love interested had signed on to. He tries to "wink" at her, similar to a poke on facebook, but there is some kind of technical failure and the "wink" doesn't go through. In the next scene Walter is on tech support with a jaunty, and a little more than uncomfortably nosy eharmony guy, "Tod" played by Patton Oswalt. Tod tells Walter that he doesn't know why his "wink" was unprocessed, and urges him to complete the "been there, done that" section of his profile, which Walter had left blank. Walter tells Tod that he hasn't really been any place or done anything worthy of putting in his profile. In the middle of his conversation with Tod, Walter goes into his first fantasy, diving into a building to save his love interests three legged dog (among other things). Throughout the movie, Tod continues to call Walter pestering him about his profile, and as Walter's character progresses and he does more things he eventually tells Tod about his adventures. By the end of the movie, Walter has an impressive "been there, done that section" and is the recipient of hundreds of "winks".
On the surface the movie appears to be nothing but a feel good RomCom, with nothing more to offer than attractive CGI and some gentle laughs. Indeed this is what all the reviews on the internet had to say about the film:
However, I think all the critics missed the "Secret Life" portion of Walter Mitty's character. Walter Mitty is prone to day dreams, he drifts in and out of reality several times before going on his grand adventure, and during his adventure he occasionally drifts in and out of reality thinking about his love interest, Cheryl Melhoff. This sets up Ben Stiller's character as an unreliable narrator. The big question of the movie, I believe, and one that seemed lost to the critics, was did Walter's grand and life affirming adventure actually happen or not?.
The movie does a brilliant job of weaving in both believable and fantastic fantasy elements into the second act. Walters adventure begins after he stares into a photograph of Sean O'Connery, and he imagines him beckoning to him in the black and white still. In the next scene, Ben Stiller is running past famous covers of life magazine, with the last one being Walter in a space suit and the heading "The making of a brave man". Walter catches a plane, and as it leaves the tarmac you see the words "Lifes Purpose" painted on the run way. Where these fantasy elements imposed on real life, or they visual cues that Walter is in yet another one of his fantastic daydreams?
Walter has several "is this real life" moments within his adventure. After being rescued from a shark in the icy waters of Greenland, he touches a crew mans face to reassure himself that what had taken place actually happened. This could be Walter coming to terms with living an adventurous reality he had previously only dreamed about, or it could be another reminder to the viewer that all may not be when it seems. Throughout the movie from that point onward, various character mention his proneness to fantasy. The eharmony guy, Tod, calls Walter while he is riding a bike along a Greenland highway on his way to "the volcano" on a tip left behind by Sean O'Connery. He asks him about his "been there, done that" section on his profile, and Walter relays his previous adventures to him. "I jumped out of a helicopter into an oceans and wrestled with shark," he tells Tod. In his response Tod implies that Walter must have been day dreaming. Later Walter's mother, Walter himself, and Tod the Eharmony guy, this time in person, all bring up Walter's day dream again. This begs the question, is all of this actually real?
The movie is loaded with allusions, symbolism, and metaphors. When Walter lands in Greenland he rents a car from a strange man in a booth. "Do you have any cars here" he asks, "yeah, a red one and a blue one" the man say. "I'll take the red one," says Walter. Does this remind anyone else of this familiar scene?
The central plot of the movie is Walter trying to find this mysterious "25th print". The missing negative from the roll, what Sean O'Connery called "his greatest work", and "life quintessence". When Walter finally tracks down Sean, deep in the Himalayas, Sean is trying to snap a photograph of the elusive snow leopard. This dialogue is exchanged between the two characters.
Quote:Sean O'Connell: They call the snow leopard the ghost cat. Never lets itself be seen.
In the film Walter had never met Sean before, only communicated through him in correspondence. His job was to process the photos that Sean took. In the film Sean is a rugged and adventurous character, traveling all over the world and navigating danger. Walter clearly admires Sean and wishes he could be more like him. Perhaps the snow leopard is a metaphor for Sean himself, whom Ben Stiller's character spends most of the film trying to track down? A man Walter had never met before, and proved exceptionally difficult to find, much like the snow leopard.
When Ben Stiller finally finds Sean he learns that the missing negative had been with him the whole time. It was placed in a flap in his wallet, a gift Sean had given him for his birthday. In the wallet was the life company motto:
To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. That is the purpose of life.
Walter learns at the end of the film that the photo was of Walter examining a negative. In a very real sense, Walter had gone around the world looking for this photo, only to realize that he had it the whole time. "Life quintessence", very literally, is himself. The search for the missing print has become a metaphor for his whole adventure, and represents Walter's transformation from a weak and timid character with no story and no life to a strong character with rich experiences.
There were many more elements of the movie to be picked apart and dissected, but the last few seconds of the movie was probably one of the best examples of the central theme of the film. Walter is walking away with his love interest, Cheryl, and the film screen goes black. A bright light, almost as if a person is opening their eyes, fills the screen for a few seconds, then it goes to black again, holds for another second or so, and the credits roll.
In my opinion, the "Secret Life of Walter Mitty" is a subtle cerebral film, that does a great job of exploring its main protagonist and reflecting on the meaning of life. If Walter's adventure was a fantasy then it represents his deepest and most sensitive desires. If its real then its a realization of what Walter always wanted for himself; a grand evolution of what was before a very unremarkable character. By making the plot ambiguous you get to have it both ways; you are left hoping it was real but internally believing that it wasn't. You feel compelled to live your own fantasy and realize your own dreams, because it is what you wanted for Walter. In this way I think the movie pays brilliant homage to the original story, while giving it a more modern and upbeat feel for today's audience. If you haven't seen it I highly recommend it. If you have, please let me know, what did you think of the movie?
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RE: Nobody seems to have understand "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"
(06-06-2014 12:48 AM)Michael_Tadlock Wrote: ...
Thank you for this review. It was a pleasure to read
(except for the typos so don't let Vosur see it)
I remember seeing an earlier version... Danny Kaye was it? I'm not sure.
Or at least I remember being in the room while my father watched but I was too young to properly understand what was going on.
All I remember vividly was that feeling of hoping it was real but thinking it probably wasn't. The same feeling I had after watching Little Big Man (Dustin Hoffman).
I won't be watching this version even though your review tempts me so to do. I simply find Stiller too irritating.
I recall when it was released over here (in Singapore) and seeing the trailer and thinking "oooh! good!... Oh damn!" as I realised that Stiller had been chosen for the lead...
I was left believing it was real but internally hoping that it wasn't.
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RE: Nobody seems to have understand "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"
The past tense of 'understand' is 'understood'. As in "Nobody seems to have understood..."
RE: Nobody seems to have understoond "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"
(06-06-2014 03:06 AM)EvolutionKills Wrote: The past tense of 'understand' is 'understood'. As in "Nobody seems to have understood..."
Thanks. Fixed.
RE: Nobody seems to have understoond "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"
(06-06-2014 03:09 AM)Michael_Tadlock Wrote:(06-06-2014 03:06 AM)EvolutionKills Wrote: The past tense of 'understand' is 'understood'. As in "Nobody seems to have understood..."
You're getting warmer.
I've recently grown rudimentary legs and am now making the move from water to land.
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RE: Nobody seems to have understoond "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"
Haven't seen the new movie, but I always liked the story best as an album...
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RE: Nobody seems to have understood "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"
Nice review and breakdown. This film has made it to my favorite movie list, absolutely loved it. I'll have to watch it again keeping your review in mind.
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RE: Nobody seems to have understood "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"
Just rematched this movie for the second time. Although I really enjoyed it. I class it in the feel good genre of films. Not that that is a criticism in any way. As I watch too many 'feel good...'.
The ending was a little hollywood boy gets girl. But apart from that, Ben Stiller does seem to portray Walter's character very well. I do like him in his more character roll playing movies. He adds a sense of 'hey this guy could be me down to earth with a normal job'. But with probably a lot more imagination and courage to jump up and rise to the challenge of dropping everything and just going for it. So still hope for me yet. Made my saturday a little better.
RE: Nobody seems to have understood "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"
(03-10-2015 01:31 PM)wombatm8 Wrote: Just rematched this movie for the second time. Although I really enjoyed it. I class it in the feel good genre of films. Not that that is a criticism in any way. As I watch too many 'feel good...'.
I don't know why but I don't like Ben Stiller. I looooove his father and his mother, Anne Meara, was a very, very funny Irish lady , she passed away this last year, but for some reason I can't stand Ben Stiller. I don't find him funny or interesting and I certainly don't find him attractive in any way. I avoid his movies.
Loved the book though.
Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors.... on Donald J. Trump:
He is deformed, crooked, old, and sere,
Ill-fac'd, worse bodied, shapeless every where;
Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind,
Stigmatical in making, worse in mind.
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I liked what I've seen of the old one more.
But It also is a problem of Ben Stiller in some way. He too often plays that type of role and really it gets grating. The only times he really shines as a good lead in a role in my book is when he's been different like in Zoolander or (what i at least liked, Startsky and Hutch)
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roasted whole fish*
* i realise the title of this post isn't exactly specific: 'roasted whole fish'. yeah, okay, what kind of fish? does anyone know what kind of fish this is…? is it a red snapper (i don't think so)? or is it a loup de mer (i think it is)? i can never remember these things… all i know is it was freshly fished 'à la ligne' – meaning the fish was fished with an angler rod (is this the right term?) and not with a net. gee, so many questions today. but this fish is just to pretty. and well, it speaks for itself (blubb-blubbb-blubb). so, we roasted it, the nameless fish, and it was jolly good.
did i say jolly? and gee? in one post? god…
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Monday, August 15, 2016
Review: Princess of Thorns by Stacey Jay
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Oh, that's unfortunate. I've wanted to give this one a try but when I attempted to read it, I was bored. It sounds like it failed on so many aspects. Boo.ReplyDelete
Aw, I actually liked this one and I really appreciated how it wasn't just a straight-up retelling. Sorry this one didn't work for you. I still have to read Of Beast and Beauty, I've great things about it.ReplyDelete
Sorry this one didn't work for you Z! I really loved Of Beast and Beauty as well, so I was hoping to get to this one at some point. I like that it's not a direct retelling of Sleeping Beauty, more Sleeping Beauty adjacent, but her name being Aurora does throw you off a bit! Thanks for your thoughts:)ReplyDelete
I haven't read anything by this author, so I'm sorry to hear you didn't like this one. It's good you enjoyed another title by her though, so it shows she IS a good writer. Some books just don't work. As for the cover, I don't know! It looks like she's flying or something. hahaReplyDelete
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I completely forgot that, way back on March 19, I was supposed to take part in "Blog it Forward" - An idea from SF Girl By Bay.
I was supposed to write about what inspires me.
Well - Lots of things inspire me, but here are the things that help me get into that "creative zone":
A clean, organized workspace
I wish that my house looked this tidy and organized! These are from Chez Larson. I love visiting her website - lots of great decorating & organizing ideas + lot's of great "How-tos".
A routine
Things have been a little crazy lately. No two days are the same. We're always coming and going - getting up early, staying up late. I can't wait for life to settle back into some sort of boring routine. Apparently a routine is important to a lot of creative people - I found this blog -Daily Routines - that is all about "how writers, artists and other interesting people organize their days" - very interesting
(except for some good, mellow music or an audio book or a podcast)
I can almost always turn to fabric prints when I need cookie design ideas or color schemes (sorry - I had these designs saved on my computer - no idea where they came from!)
Other Blogs
I've started an "Inspiration File" on Tumblr to store all of the great ideas I see on other blogs. I used to have a bunch of 3-ring binders full of ideas I'd ripped from the pages of magazines but, in the interest of keeping my house clean and organized - I've moved to the Tumblr.
Diving In
Sometimes I just don't feel creative or inspired at all. But - the show must go on - so - I just have to dive in and do it. Sometimes that's when the best ideas come.
I made these cookies for a first communion last weekend.
Please go visit some of the other blogs that participated in "Blog it Forward". I know you'll be inspired!


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Don't worry, I didn't forget.. ^^And I'm making up for yesterday's post today also, aite? So here goes…
Day 2: First Celebrity Encounter
I guess I would have to say that my first celebrity encounter is with local singer, Ning Baizura. Actually, you know what? I think it was with local singer Aishah but I don't have much to write about it other than the fact that I saw her perform up close when covering the story back when I was working with Star. So yeah, I pick Ning's experience. ^^
She dropped by East Coast Mall two years ago with husband Omar Shariff Layton Dayton for the launching of uSqueeze from Ogawa, the brand she's a spokesperson for. I felt kinda nice because I was amongst the very few press there (which I was quite surprised at; I mean it's Ning Baizura!), and, so I could get close up shots of her. Nothing to shout about though. But maybe it was because I'm not much of a fan. ;p But she's really nice, I can tell you that. ^^
And the best part? I found out that Ning shared the article that was published on her site. And I found that out 2 freaking years later. How dense can I get? == Anyway you can read the article on her website here if you're interested. =)
Day 3: Favorite Celebrity Encounter
Wel… I haven't really had one yet, but I KNOW that there will be one upcoming one!
xDD 2PM in Malaysia!!
And I seriously don't think there will be any better 'celebrity encounter' better than that. Unless, of course, luck decides to be VERY kind on me. *blinks innocently*


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World Premier trailer of Doctor Strange dropped via Jimmy Kimmel.
World Premier trailer of Doctor Strange dropped via Jimmy Kimmel.
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Mark 9:2-9
Six days after this, Jesus took Peter, Jim, and John with him to the top of a high mountain. While they were there alone, right before their eyes, Jesus changed. His clothes lit up, a brighter white than in a bleach commercial. Elijah and Moses appeared from nowhere and were talking with Jesus.
Then Peter interrupted, saying to Jesus, "Teacher, it's a good thing we're here. We'll make three kiosks: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah." They were all so shocked, he didn't really know what he was talking about.
Just then, a cloud came casting a shadow over them, and from the cloud they heard a voice saying, "This is my son whom I love. Listen to him." As suddenly as it had all appeared, they looked around and there was just Jesus, by himself.
As they descended the mountain, Jesus ordered them not to tell anyone what they'd seen until the chosen one had lived beyond death.
Peter's response is like looking at a light bulb and going blind instead of looking around the room and understanding what the light from the bulb reveals.
Here in the middle of the gospel, we get a vision of Jesus. With Moses and Elijah who represent the law and the prophets who came before, and with the voice of God ringing in our ears, the gospel proclaims that this is unmistakeably the one at the center of the movement. Like the succession of Elijah, this is not a matter of genealogical inheritance (Mark doesn't include a genealogy) or the result of a popularity contest. It's a matter of vision. It's a matter of hearing and following. Jesus is the one on whom the spirit rests.
At the same time, here in the middle of the gospel, we find the tension between the vision that the movement stands for, and the tendency to reduce that vision and movement to an institution. Peter's attempt to nail the movement down to a particular time and place voices our constant propensity to turn Jesus the person into Jesus the business model. Mark's response to that impetus is clear, "Peter didn't really know what he was talking about." A living movement cannot be captured in one snapshot moment. A living movement lives from one moment to the next. The moment it gets nailed down is the moment it starts to die. Thus, it's at the moment Peter proposes turning the movement into a building that the dark cloud appears. It's the same darkness that covers the sky at the cross.


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Mumbai: The preparatory camps for all the teams in the multi-million dollar World Series Hockey will begins on Saturday.
Most of the international players and coaches will arrive in India and assemble with their respective squads before Saturday, a statement from WSH, a joint initiative of Nimbus Sport and Indian Hockey Federation, said.
The first batch with international stars like Sung Min Lee (South Korea), Stephenson Lloyd James (New Zealand) and Andreu Enrich (Spain) have already arrived, and the next set of international players including the Pakistanis will be arriving in the next couple of days, the statement added.
Former India coach Jose Brasa, who is the head coach of the Chennai team, said, "All the teams are a fine mix of international superstars and fantastic local talent. However the players would be playing as a cohesive unit for the first time."
"The preparatory camps have been designed to build team bonding and create a winning strategy using the diverse skills each of the players bring to the table," the Spaniard said.
South Korea`s Sung Min, who will be a star player for the Mumbai outfit, said, "I am eagerly looking forward to meeting my teammates. I have already had a few interactions with my captain Adrian (D`souza) and my coach Andrew Meredith."
"The coach has a very interesting scheduled chalked out for the preparatory camp."
The eight-team franchise-based league will held across different cities of the country from December 17 to January 22, next year.


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Even though Justin Bieber has technically stayed true to his promise to stay away from Instagram, he still has a presence on the app...kind of. His dog, Todd the Stud, has an Instagram, and it's kind of the cutest.
Justin Bieber's Fluffy Pup Has His Own Instagram & It's Too Cute
Seriously, regardless of what you think of the Biebs, you have to admit that Todd is as studly as his name promises. Todd isn't the first of Bieber's pets to get in on the Instagram game. Esther the Cutie is a mini-IG celebrity with 706,000 followers. Todd only has 129,000 followers — for now. We're sure he'll catch up soon. Scroll just a little further and you'll be ready to follow him yourself.
Here's Todd with Bieber's little sister, Jazmyn.
Here's Todd, just chilling:
Here's Todd with his sister, Esther:
Here's Todd, napping and looking adorable:
It's not clear if Bieber is running the account himself, but with dogs this cute, it's pretty much a given that he's personally taking enough pics of them for several Instagrams.


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There may be some point in your life where you can say that you are badly in need of rest and relaxation. You can go to a massage parlour or you can opt to book for plane tickets and at a luxurious Danang spa resort for an overall treatment to get rid of all the stresses and worries in life. There's nothing like getting into a traditional therapeutic massage in a place where authentic traditional massage is offered. Here are some of the health benefits that you can get out of booking in a spa resort.
- Peace of mind and isolation from the causes of your stress. When you book in a spa resort, you can enrol to a basic yoga class, get into daily health regimen aromatic therapy and other health and wellness techniques that eases the tensions of the mind and body. With the right massage approaches, your blood circulation increases including the flow of oxygen in your body. Apart from that, proper massage delivers the right nutrients to the different parts of the body and its cells.
- Another advantage of booking in a Danang spa resort is that you can easily schedule for a wellness and treatment session that stimulates the lymphatic system. Ample stimulation of lymphatic system helps in removing toxins in the body thereby making your cells healthier. It will also promote anti-aging reactions on your cells.
- Getting into a spa resort allows you to gain treatments that could get rid of your muscle pains and other bodily pains such as spasms in the muscles, arthritis and sciatica. A therapeutic massage is suitable for those who are physically stressed with urban activities and badly needs for the muscles to rest and rejuvenate.
- With spa treatment including sauna allows your cells to breathe thereby giving you a glowing skin that will make you radiate.
A Danang spa resort can be in demand so it would be best to place your booking in advance especially during peak seasons. Booking in advance also allows you to gain discounts for room accommodations and other hotel services.


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South African hip-hop artist Molemo 'Jub Jub' Maarohanye has been released on parole, the Correctional Services Department has confirmed.
He and Themba Tshabalala served four of the eight years handed down to them for culpable homicide.
Both men have been granted parole and will continue to participate in correctional programmes.
Maarohanye and Tshabalala crashed their Mini Coopers into a group of school pupils in 2010 while racing down a Soweto street, killing four of them and leaving two brain-damaged.


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U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio scored two big endorsements this week, plus the criticism of from one of those Democrat-leaning MSNBC talking heads, which kinda counts as an endorsement.
About 1:10 in the video above, Hardball host Chris Matthews takes Rubio to task for Tweeting about how the conflict in Iran might be different if protesters there had the Second Amendment right to bear arms.
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WDRB's Lawrence Smith recalls close call with tornado
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- WDRB reporter Lawrence Smith got an up-close look at the March 2 tornado in Henryville Ind. -- and he was lucky to escape with his life. On Friday afternoon -- roughly one year later -- he recalled the terrifying events.
He and a WDRB photographer had just gotten off I-65 and were heading toward Henryville when the tornado approached. When they saw the tornado Smith, ever the journalist, said his first thought was, "Get the video." It was only after shooting that video that they sought shelter.
Smith says he and his photographer were lucky, because they had a choice of two gas stations to take shelter in.
"We went right," Smith said in 2012, "and we were fortunate. If we'd gone left, we'd have been in the building that was totally destroyed."
He said they huddled in the gas station with several people as the tornado passed, shaking the building the entire time.
"We watched it literally pass by us," Smith said immediately after the event. He said he saw the swirling motion of the tornado and saw structures coming apart.
Smith said the lights started flickering in the gas station, and then went out. There were concerns about a gasoline leak after some of the station's pumps were knocked over, but those turned out to be unfounded.
After the tornado passed, Smith and his photographer went outside, only to find themselves in a hailstorm. The building across the street was "gone," Smith said, down to the foundation, and nearby apartment buildings were also leveled. Smith saw people from that apartment complex being taken out on stretchers. Recounting his story on the air later, he commended emergency crews for their quick response.
The tornado didn't spare them entirely, though -- the windshield and side rear-view mirror of their live truck were smashed, but they were able to drive the truck back to Louisville.
"I never want to get that close to a twister again," Smith said.
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Earl Medlin, age 81, passed away peacefully on Thursday, March 19, 2015 at his home.
A private graveside service will be held 2:00 PM Tuesday, March 24, 2015 at Montlawn Memorial Park in Raleigh.
He is survived by his wife, Doris Bryant Medlin; daughter and son-in-law, Pearl and Donald Lovitt; son and daughter-in-law, Dennis and Joanna Medlin; four grandchildren, Keri Lovitt, Lara Lovitt, Adams Medlin and McEiver Medlin; brother, Raymond Medlin; two sisters, Evangeline Lee and Gloria Chilcoat; and several nieces and nephews.
Mr. Medlin will lie in state at McLaurin Funeral Home until service time.
The family requests in lieu of flowers that memorials be made to Heartland Hospice, 4505 Falls of the Neuse Road, Raleigh, NC 27609.
Online condolences may be made to the family at www.mclaurinatpinecrest.com.
Arrangements are with McLaurin Funeral Home in Clayton.


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Seth Rogen Ends Feud With Justin Bieber After Seeing Penis Pics: 'I Want Him On My Side'
It's over! Justin Bieber and his favorite comedian, Seth Rogen, have finally resolved their 'beef' — and it might be thanks to the 'Sorry' singers recent nudes! Click inside to WATCH!
Seth Rogen, 33, is ready to let bygones by bygones when it comes to Justin Bieber, 21. The Night Before actor was more than happy to bury the hatchet with the Biebs on Wednesday, Nov. 11, during an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, where he revealed the reason why he really wants Justin on his side.
Yes, it's official, Justin Bieber and Seth Rogen are friends again! Or, well, maybe just friends for the first time… but either way, their feud is over and hopefully for good. While talking to Ellen, Seth shared that the two of them had a "beef" because he called Justin a bunch of "mean" things on Twitter. However, the actor explained that he did it for no reason in particular, and now he and Justin were ready to move forward.
"All of this time I had only met him once, very briefly, and it was honestly a very pleasant interaction," Seth told Ellen. "I finally saw him today in the hallway of your show and I guess we made up, which is fantastic." It is fantastic, Seth! As you can see in the clip, Ellen is really happy to see these two getting along again, too.
However, Seth revealed that he wanted to make up with Justin thanks to his, ahem, naked pictures. "In light of recent photos I want him on my side," Seth joked, which had the audience cracking up. Too funny!
Even better? Later on in the interview Justin comes out wearing a huge mask of Seth's face! Just before the clip ends you see Justin take off the mask and shake Seth's hand on-camera. As HollywoodLife.com told you EXCLUSIVELY, Justin was really hoping to mend his relationship with Seth because he's such a huge fan of the actor. So, thanks to the magic of Ellen, this celebrity feud has come to an end!
Tell us, HollywoodLifers — Are you glad Seth and Justin are friends now? Do you think they'll work together in the future? Comment below with your thoughts!
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Who paid Will Folks? He was allegedly offered money. A LOT of money. In fact, RedState now confirms through a whole heap of sources that he's been trying to sell this story for a year.Best I can tell, all our Mr. Folks has accomplished is that he has branded himself as a dishonorable and self serving punk. That, and he inspired a Rule 6. I doubt his Momma would be proud.
We know who bit.
We know who didn't bite.
We know who paid Will Folks to push this story out there.
Oh, and you guys in the media, you've let Folks string you along. We're going to string you along.
Tune in later for the answer.
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Momma Warned Me About Boys Like Him
Seems like Will Folks is what my Momma would call a "cad"-an emotionally immature little twit that is "all blow and no show". Once upon a time a younger Mr. Folks probably thought himself quite the king of the locker room. He never noticed the other guys rolling their eyes as he told his fantastic stories of conquest. Pity. A hard lesson then might have spared him a harder lesson now. Erick Erickson at RedState hints that a hard lesson may be just around the corner:
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Aga is a mistress in love with shoes. When she buys a shoe, she likes to find out how strong it is. And the best way for her to find out how strong the shoe is is by using it to trample her slave. She likes to make sure that she buys strong shoes because she uses them to trample and punish her slaves whenever they have made any mistake.
Mistress Angelique loves to role play. She enjoys having all kinds of fun with her role play and she always makes her slave role play with her. But her new slave did not know and did not like to role play. She was pissed off and made him pay for it. She trampled him with her shoes and made him cry out in pain. That made him learn to role play.
Madame Marissa was broke and could not pay this slave his salary. So she decided to look for a distraction. She looked for a scapegoat to be angry at him and prevent him from asking for his salary. She trampled him using her high heels and even trampled his laptop and destroyed it completely. When she was done, she went away and knew she had bought herself another week before she paid him.
Jamie Kate knows how to get slaves and losers to confess. She knew this slave had done something but he was not owning up to it. So she gave him a taste of her medicine to make him agree to his mistake. She trampled his bare chest with her high heels and then with her bare feet before doing the same to his face. He told her everything after that.


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You drive around the city and as the night goes on more and more people appear on the sidewalks dressed as clowns, witches, cowboys, pimps, driver's licenses, nuns, boxers, cartoon characters, ketchup and mustard bottles, and cops. And more witches. Some of them get into your cab - my favorite this year was a young lady who was being "Miss Scarlet" from the game Clue. (She did it in the billiard room with the rope.)
But one of the hazards of these nights - it seems to happen every year and this year was no exception - is that I may find that I'm not sure if my passenger is wearing a costume or not! After all, this is New York City.
It becomes one of those awkward social situations. I want to comment on the costume, assuming it is a costume - but I don't want to offend the passenger in case it's not.
"What are you? A pimp?"
"I beg your fucking pardon, asshole, this is how I look. You got a problem with that?"
"Oh... sorry!"
Now that would make for an uncomfortable ride. On the other hand, if it's one of these borderline costume situations and you get it right, well, maybe you have made the passenger's night. A few years ago a young man got in my cab wearing a bright white suit, a white vest, and a black shirt opened three buttonholes down to reveal a gold chain. We exchanged some chit-chat en route to his Tribeca destination. I really wasn't sure if this was a Halloween costume or not. Finally, I took a stab at it.
"Tony Manero?"
His face lit up in a huge grin. "You got it!"
This year's version took place on Saturday night at 2:15 am. I was cruising down 5th Avenue and a teen aged kid stepped out from the curb to hail me. I saw from a distance that he was wearing what, for lack of a better term, I will call an "inner city" outfit - on over sized baseball cap, with the bill of the cap off to the side, and a sleeveless t-shirt. Now if you're a taxi driver, this is not what you want to see hailing you. "Inner city", "teenager", and "taxicab" are not a good mix. If ever there was a candidate to beat you for a fare, it is this. So I was actually thinking of passing this kid by, but then I realized that he was standing alone on the corner of 87th Street, right in the heart of American Aristocracy territory, where no inner city kid would ever be standing alone in a million years.
I realized this was rich kid wearing what for him was a Halloween costume. I stopped and he got in. His destination was 76th and 5th, a mere 11 blocks away.
"Going to a party?" I asked.
"Who are you supposed to be?"
"Someone from Long Island."
I discreetly refrained from informing him that I myself had been born and raised on Long Island and continued the ride. At 76th Street he handed me a twenty dollar bill for a $3.80 fare and said, "Keep the change, this will be the best tip you'll get all night!"
Now this was truly remarkable for a few different reasons. First, kids are never good tippers. Second, members of the American Artistocracy are never good tippers. And third, it wasn't my best tip of the night!
Earlier in the evening, at 9:20, a beautiful and intriguing Englishwoman named Ann got in for a ride from Times Square to the Gansevoort Hotel in the Meat Packing District. She was quite interested in all aspects of taxi driving, especially celebrity stories. I wound up telling her my Leonardo di Caprio story which ends with Leo asking me who my best celebrity tipper had been. I told him it had been John McEnroe, who had given me double the meter. Leo then said, "Well, I'm going to give you triple the meter!" And he did.
Ann informed me that although she was not a celebrity she was going to outdo Leonardo di Caprio and give me four times the meter and proceeded to pay $40 for an $8.60 fare. (Which is actually five times the meter and secures Ann a plaque in the Best Tippers Hall of Fame.)
I've got to start telling that Leonardo di Caprio story more often.
Now as great and fun a night Saturday was, it was outdone by Halloween II on Wednesday. Not because I made more money, which I didn't, but because of the Halloween Parade. This is the night when Greenwich Village, which is crazy on a normal night, really goes wild. This thing gets bigger, more surreal, more Dali-esque every year. Here are some shots...
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I ran into my friend Michelle today at Wal-Mart. "I'm tired of seeing the devotional," she said. When am I going to post something new? she wanted to know.
Well, Michelle, here it is.
I can't do it all. It's that time of year, and I'm starting to get a little grumpy.
I know I promised I wouldn't, but I am. Just a little bit. No real threat of canceling Christmas next year.
I just can't seem to get it all done. I'm hoping my Christmas cards will be mailed by Easter. For all the non-gift giving we're doing this year, I still have a lot to buy. Nothing is wrapped. Nothing is baked. Nothing is getting done. Yet I'm still running around all day without a minute to spare.
I'd love to post pictures of Griffin's baptism, Meghan's piano recital, and the Christmas party we went to tonight. I'd love to blog about the new CD I just bought (Merry Christmas to me!) that I L-O-V-E, and my thoughts on all the sweet little Texans who are complaining about the "cold" weather (here's a hint: wear a scarf!) … but I just don't have time. I can't figure out how to fit it all in.
So you're just going to have to wait a little while longer for a new blog entry. If I really love you, you'll get my infamously hilarious Christmas letter soon. Or in April. At least I did get the letter written.
Oh, January, how I long for you!