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so to speak...  lately, i have been remiss in staying in touch with many of my friends, and nowhere is this more true than with my friend D., who has not given up on me, and continues to send lovely things to me making more effort that I in remaining in contact. I am doubly shamed to admit D. is one of the friends that I have held the longest, certainly one of the earliest friendships I developed upon my move hereabouts... 
I got a holiday card from her in December, and she always (Always!) remembers to check in on me, no matter how unsociable and uncommunicative yourstruly attempts to be. I have loved for her a long time, she is truly one of my dearest friends and is currently undergoing a trial and test to her spirit and strength, a struggle not uncommon to a lot of women. 
okayokayokay, you're probably gettin' pretty damn tired of alla this by now, so we be wrapping up this nearly mid-January Howdy. Watched a bunch of things on video over the holidaze (we had to be at the j-o-b on both eves as well as the day after so it was just a nice day off, two weeks in a row), some of which were things we revisited and appreciated even more the second (or third in some cases) time around. These days, if you have access to DVD player and rental source, well, don't waste your time w/tape,'kay? Unfortunately, depending on what neck of the woods you are lodged in (like some kind of horrible hairball possibly) you may have Limited Access, and then, frankly speaking, most the titles I am going to mention here are beyond the pale of a good many video emporiums. Some pretty good online resources for the aquisition of the offbeat and unusual so if you are in a bind and want some suggestions, drop me a note. O K, here we go: Very condensed long story- yourstruly once managed what was at one time a singularly fine videostore, got most of my film education thru that experience, with the additional benefit of living in Berkeley and it's Pacific Film Archive, the late lamented U.C. & Rialto theatres, Telegraph Ave. Repertory Cinema, well, I AM a silverback, you know... I viewed once again Tarkovsky's Solaris, because I'd read that Stephen Soderburgh may be involved in a new film based on the Stanislaw Lem novel. We could go on and on about this, but we won't. Next up: Visions of Light. If you have never seen this, seek it out, and then, after watching the first time, watch it again with pen and pad in hand to jot down all the film titles and then see each of the films. That, my wayfaring minstrels, is a pretty good cinema 101. Yah, yah, yah, okay, next, City of Lost Children which we will NOT EVEN begin to attempt to describe, will only say See It! it should be understood that what we would really recommend is if you have ever the opportunity to see these films in the way intended, in a theatre, projected, do so. that's it for now boyz & girlz, am weary and i think you've had enough of us and our monkey business. I do want to say hello to a few folks, so HI! to S.J.G.; S.L. (sometimes better recognized as SD perhaps even D.O. but i hear some of his nearest & dearest call him Mr. Cranky), C.J. (who has now made me deeply envious of his possessing an old Gibson); M.T. soon to be M.C.; Peony2; Jess; Jessamyn; the good Doctor; Tony P; woof woof to Riley Dog; A.A.; all monkeys, dangerous, trained and otherwise; the mighty Tomeks; J. Footprints; Becky; M.G.; the Esteemed Mssrs Baum, Davis and Woods. Please, my memory's going, not as quickly as Hal's but going nevertheless, so I know I forgot a lot of you, but you're all a part of my universe. 
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