We should start a separate thread - a la favorite Goren and Eames lines - and save these gems for posterity all in one place. We could call it "Down the Rabbit Hole with B"

Subtitle:

"To which those of weak attention will be lost forever....'

At least you and I could finally have some company.
(Mistress has kept us here alone in the dark for a frightfully long time).

Bravo, bwalter. That is the funniest **** I have ever read!

Glad I was able to dig up the quote for y'all.

Sort of still on topic, I have been toying with putting together (yet another) fansite for our dear VDO. If you've looked at my profile, you'll have seen I have a fansite for Christopher Walken which I launched in 2003. It was a labor of love, even though I haven't religiously updated it over the past year. I would like to give VDO a similar treatment, with everything (well, as close to it as possible) in one place. I suppose if you guys think it's worth it, I might actually embark on it. I'd hate to do it just for my own personal pleasure. LOL

DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT !!!!!!!

You would do such a GREAT JOB, Rowe.

Would love to check out your site on Walken, with the understanding that it isn't updated.

Could you post a link?

DITTO! I would love for you to put up a site on VDO. AND, I would also love to check out your site on Chris Walken (loved him in the Hallmark movies!)

DO IT! DO IT! DO IT! Wait, I think I've read that somewhere before. Never mind, it was my first reaction, and doesn't it tell you something, Rowe when when you you get so many crack-of-the-whip fast resposnes to your proposition?

Lovd the VDO quote, too. I'm hoping that he gets offered some A-List parts to which his own personal twisted magic gut responds. At least he's said that he's not going kill any more women in his movies (thank you to daughter Leila D'Onofrio for suggesting that he's done enough of that).

Aw, thanks Donna...that's very encouraging!

The link is in my profile. It's waaaaay too off topic (and self-promotional LOL) to post the link here. But once you take a look, there are more pages than meets the eye. I'm particularly fond of the press kits that I have up there from some older movies - not too easy to come by - and the theater info is pretty extensive as well. It will take a while to spin through the whole thing, but it would give you an idea of how I might approach something for VDO.

thDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET!









!duwih'!

Yes, please! Pretty please! Pretty please with whipped cream and Bobby Goren on top.
Um. Well. You get the idea. I would definitely like to see you give this a whirl, rowe!

(and thanks for the congrats - the new moniker sorta seemed to fit).

(the molded cat ear look, though... a little last season... two words: fuzzy bunny... a few well-placed Booger strokes and a some glue - hook it all up!)

Yes, exactly. Lest anyone get the idea that I have VDO's best interests and recognition at heart in wishing him upward film mobility, let me set the record straight. I am thinking ONLY of myself. The residuals from one LOCI episode alone will keep him Escalades for the rest of his life. I want him to take on bigger and better roles for ME. It's all about me. (when it's not all about Naydi).

Loving' that pert little silver chapeau, Cvl. Very fetching. You may want to rethink the peacock feathers.

God, there is nothing, NOTHING, as good as a captive audience. They have to be polite, and that's more than you can say for your average cocktail party crowd. If you post enough self-indulgent crap ( I had typed 'carp' here - interchangeable, really), they'll have to use words like 'lambent'. Shallowly shallow, and proud of it.

If you really want elegant lambent wit that survives beyond fleeting topical **** , though - wit with actual depth, yes, and staying power! - you'll save Cvl and Naydi as a thread. It's a class act. (Peachy Balcer and Donna "Katie" Lucy - I know you know what I mean.)

Hello all my sweet friends here on the CI board.
It's been like a day or so that I haven't been on, and I feel like I've been gone forever. I miss you guys...lol..
Rowe, mama, are you keeping your sanity in tact?

Cvl, are we still going to Florida to see the Bears game? Who's paying?

Tell me Naydi, how is your studying going? When will you be taking your test? Oh and when will you be doing your strip speach?

bwalter, you know I love your writing, but OMG that was great..so funny I don't know if I was crying from the laughter or from hurting my back from laughing too hard...Bravo, Bravo (emoticon standing and clapping hands)

Rowe, Seraphina, Donnalucy, I can't name everyone-everyone else, how is everything going?

How is everyone handling the dry spell?
How many Tuesdays left till a new ep? The one after this one? Will it be a G/E or a L/W? Don't you guys feel like we're being gipped this year with this once a month new ep if we're lucky thing? I will usually watch SVU as well as CI on Tuesdays, and I've missed the last, I don't know, 4 new eps of SVU cause I get too annoyed to go over to NBC on repeat days, or, as last week, President talking XXXX(I won't go there ) days. Do you guys go over there? Maybe I should go over just to help the ratings, support them or something. I guess I just don't get why we're still not getting new eps. I mean, during Holidays, ok, that's one thing, but now, what? Maybe I don't know about something that's going on. Did you guys read about anything/any reason for this dry spell?

Man It's after 1AM, and once again, I'm the only one left on the board....haha
I think I'll lurk around for a while longer. Hmmm, where are all you oversea friends, b, aren't you in Sydney still, and Seraphina, how about you, I know you're across the world? I would think that some people would be on in the night.
Ok, ok, I will find you guys tomorrow.

Oh, and don't forget b, I get a percent of the profits from the topless Naydi gig, cause I'm the one that came up with the idea of filming her, Cvl came up with the topless, but still, you know, I deserve something don't I? I mean, topless without video, wouldn't bring the dollars in like topless with video, right? I gotta make some money somehow guys!

Vurtgirl

Now, I really am obsessed with cops. Earlier this afternoon, I walked my way back to the parking lot. Suddenly, I heard a WHAM! Before me, I saw two cars banged into each other. They were three steps away from me. A few more walk, and then I’m a goner. The drivers were both females. Luckily, no one was hurt. Out of curiosity, I thought I’d stay and wait for the police officers to come, so I’d take a good look on them. Too bad I had other plans, so I left.

Keiko, what is your point? Are yu are sure you are on the right thread?

Happy I walked slow and didn't get run over.

Yes. Rowe's rules say if I'm no talking about VDO, Loci, his movies or music, I should go here...

How sweet you are! Yes, this dry spell is a killer. God, what will we do if they cancel the show entirely? I mean, repeats are great to discuss, but it's not the same as a brand new episode.

I believe that Albatross with Goren & Eames is the next new ep & is slated for a week from tomorrow . It can't be soon enough.

This board will sure be humming at 10 pm on February 6th .

For any news hounds out there...I found this article tidbit interesting. Think of what we all could have done with this money -- like spending it on CI for example! What a media blitz we could have created with this mula!
PeachyBC


Article from:http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/nbc%20universal%20treasurer%20arrested_1020268

NBC UNIVERSAL TREASURER ARRESTED

Former NBC Universal treasurer Victor Jung was arrested on wire-fraud charges in New York Thursday following a federal indictment alleging that he had transferred more than $800,000 from the company's accounts to a bogus company that he had set up. The wire transfers had allegedly been made from NBC U into the dummy corporation that he called NBC U Media Productions. Today's (Friday) Los Angeles Times noted that the name is close to that of an actual NBC Universal subsidiary, NBC Media Productions (without the "U"). According to the indictment, Jung had used some of the money for lavish trips with friends to the Caribbean, spending $387,189 alone on private jets. NBC issued a statement saying that when it discovered the theft, it fired Jung and informed authorities.


26/01/2007

That was a cute story, Keiko. I might want to hang around waiting for cops too if they all looked like you-know-who...

Sweetie, they're not my rules...but thank you for making me feel important! You can basically post anything you like in the OT thread.

HA! As much as I appreciate the compliment, neither of us have the talent to have interwoven so many random historical moments into one perfect work of shear comedic brilliance! I humbly bow at the feet of quite the clever girl....

But I added the peacock feathers just for you, hon! Naydi said she's allergic (see, it IS all about naydi). Besides, fashion journo or not, I have achieved the life-altering milestone of 500 posts, while you have a mere and paltry 262. Obviously this makes me your moral superior, obliged to provide you guidance in all things, and I say the feathers work!

hrmph! Uppity little part-time posters!

Actually, this reminds me of the story my sister shared with me on Saturday, as happened to her earlier in the week. She was walking to work and came to the crossing of the 4-lane parkway, as she does everyday. She happened to be wearing her headphones, as she does everyday. Well, the light turned red and two cars in two different lanes stopped; long enough for her to have made eye contact with one of the drivers. Well, she started to cross and heard a voice, Clear As Day tell her to step back. She did a little stutter 'Huh?' move, but stepped back nonetheless. No sooner did her foot reach the curb than a van went flying right in front of her, running the red light. She hadn't even seen it coming. Well, going ahead to finish crossing the street in that 'well, I'm supposed to be crossing now' auto-pilot mode, she happened to glance at the stopped drivers, both of whoms chins were now hitting their chest. The reality of the fact that, had she consciously stopped, thought about whether she did or didn't hear what she heard and blew it off, she'd probably be dead right now, didn't really hit her until she got to work. Scary sh't, only made scarier by the fact that, I/we believe, most of us have had that same moment and not listened....

My examples:
Listened and stayed still = Didn't get run over by that ambulance I couldn't audio-locate for about 10 secs because of the echo of the parking structure underpass, when it finally flew by 2 ft in front of me against the red light.
Didn't listen and kept going = Got that $100 ticket for running a red light.

Yes, we are merely your opening act...and at our very best, the George to your Gracie. *bows to Her Ladyship* (Was going to say we were merely your fingerpuppets, but I don't want your fingers anywhere near my...ahem!)

Are you trying to tell us you've borrowed naydi's chains?


Well, I get paid on Friday, but my landlord is expecting most of it. Well, all of it. Maybe we should start playing the Lotto? Or apply for a job as treasurer for NBC? And of course, there's our share of the profits from naydi's topless speech...


If you get run over by an ambulance, it's going to be mine! How else am I going to get you in the back in four-point restraints? *makes a note: subject cannot localize sound in confined spaces*

vurtie-girl!! How u b? As I type, I've just printed out my book of an essay written for my application to RN school to remind myself about myself! Yeah, get up there and talk for 10 minutes about your experiences, what you did before choosing to pursue nursing, what brought you to that choice, what were your challenges and success, what was nursing school like, blah blah blah. You know, dredge up any and everything you've tamped down, back into your subconscious for the past 4 years as you went about the business of trying to actually live day to day: What was every thought, action and sense of being completely bled dry every minute of every day REALLY like??!!?! oye... I know it'll be fine once I get there, but, man, right now I can even think of coming up with the requested three sentence bio to give the chick introducing me! At some point today, I've got to just stop thinking about the whole thing and I'll be able to actually get it done.

The Date and Time: 2/21/07, 9:00AM

Just scheduled this morning after finally getting my authorization to test late, late Friday. Middle of the week sucks, but I've requested 1/2 day the 20th to go home, do some yoga and/or whatever the h'll else to get a hold of myself and -most importantly- make sure I get as much rest as necessary prior to The Test. From here on out - I can't talk about it. I'm waiting for my boss to come flying through with the over-hyped cringe-inducing "WELL THIS IS IT - AREN'T YOU EXCITED!!!!!! You don't sound excited!!!???" that'll make me just want to slap her...

hmmm - that a bit cynical?

HA! You don't think I knew that it was one of your Reynolds operatives out to get me?? Never, I tell you, NEEEEVERRR!!!!!


*runs semi-Gorenesque: elonged old-style white jacket arms flapping and twirling in the wind*

Claritin clear my a**! I'm sensing a slight bit of passive-aggressiveness, my dear underling? such a toll to be paid by the begrudgingly fabulous...

Wow, we seem to have similar tastes! I had a thing for Christopher Walken for years! Ever since Deer Hunter.

And of course VDO seems to have taken his place since the advent of LOCI. I'd certainly be interested in your VDO fansite. :-)

Wow - do you ladies know how to stroke someone's ego or what?! Thanks for the votes of confidence DonnaL, easter, naydi, bwalter, and Cvl...it doesn't take much to convince me, because I really do want to do it. In fact, when I read these posts last night I bit the bullet and bought a domain name...and stuck a "coming soon" page out there until I can get a decent framework up.

Me thinks I may have to move these posts to OT so I don't break the rules I enforce, eh? LOL

heeeeeeee!!

...and there was much dancing in the streets...

LOL Fantabulous! Thank you for that Naydi!

Ooooooooooh Naydi!!!! That is my all time favorite music video and I haven't seen it in such a long time!!! Thank you so much!!!!!!

Awesome video!

Hey, rowe! As long as we're going seriously off-topic, does your CW site have the famous "marsupials" clip from the Bob and Tom Show?

musicwench - he was positively beautiful in Deer Hunter. When he was very young, he was almost pretty. (Check out the bio page for an example.)

Thanks for the encouragement!

I actually don't have any sound or video clips (at least that I remember putting up, LOL) on the site. Just a link to "Weapon of Choice" (which may or may not still be valid - I need to check) and the iFilm clip on the home page. I have a lot of ideas for additional pages but never got around to expanding. I still have the notebook with all the thoughts I had. Maybe putting the VDO site together will inspire me to update the CW site.

By the way, the CW site comes up 5th on Yahoo and 20th on Google when searching for Christopher Walken. I spent a LOT of time publicizing it and submitting it to search engines and traffic sites to get it that high in the rankings.

And yes, you'll see I broke down and moved this discourse into the OT thread. I couldn't bear to be the one to steer us so far off track!

That was awesome, Nadine, Thank you for sharing! Miss C.W. so much!!!

Rowe - I am so impressed with your site for Chrisopher Walken. If you create something even half that impressive for VDO, he should crawl across broken glass to worship you ;-)

Oh and N - utterly entranced with the video. Oh to be 35 again!~

Oh, thank you girl! If the link on my site doesn't work anymore, I can put this one in it's place! One of theeee best vids of all time. And if you really want to see him dance, rent "Pennies from Heaven" with Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters. Holy schnikies!

Aw, thanks b....as long as VDO doesn't *throw* broken glass at me, I'd be happy.

OK, here's the deal. I was going to call the new fansite "chameleon" but it's been done by a fanfic site, and it's a little overused anyway. Instead, going by a quote (that I have to dig up again somewhere) in which VDO claims to choose his roles because of the story they tell, I'll be calling the site "Storyteller - the Vincent D'Onofrio Fansite"...so stay tuned.

I like that. I like that a lot. "Chameleon" is overused, and it makes him sound like Lon Chaney - as if all his work is about make-up. "Storyteller" is certainly more apt for what he does. Even in bit roles, his characters either contribute a significant part to the story, or leave you wanting to know more about that character's personal story. And I trust him to choose roles in films that (by and large) tell a story I want to see, or at the very least, tell me something I haven't thought about before (I think we all have a list of films we would never have discovered were it not for VDO, and a few that we still would not choose to watch except to see him).

Thanks Cvl - I appreciate the fact that you understand my reasoning behind the choice. I'm itching to do the darn thing now. If only I didn't have to work. Or eat, or sleep, or...

Yeah - I really like the choice of title, too; plus, is it just me, or has the whole "chameleon" thing always smacked of just a bit too much bumper-sticker cheese?


oh...it is just me?



d'AAAH well!

I cannot wait until you launch it , Rowe! Your choices of title and cover photo are excellent!

Well... Went to the nursing symposium; I got up; I spoke and I've lived to tell about it... Yippeh Ki!!!

Actually, it was kind of fun. Basically, it was a panel set up so the four of us were sitting at a table facing the audience, which, oddly, made me feel a whooole lot more comfortable by the time I got up to speak. The four were the Chief Nursing Officer; his VP of something or other, basically a woman with a biiiiig long title adding up to being a liason between Tom (the CNO), area schools and we, the 'umble student employee; a Nursing Education rep from UMass; and me. Yep - thas' right. "Title", "Title", "Title", me. Errrm herm... Well, okay then.

So, basically, what I'm finding out has seemed to have happened: I've become, apparently...you know, the woman with the biiiiig long title?....I'm apparently her new grad mentoring project. I i'int ask for it or anything. Didn't see it coming. All I did, was just show up one day at something they were having with Regis, yap as I'm prone to do, and that was sort of it. Went with Maggie, another employee who was in my class. From there - got the call that wwtblt wanted to pin me at my graduation, couldn't get that set; but she and Edricka, Tom's assistant, did attend. Then there were the flowers the day of graduation that I wasn't expecting. What I didn't tell you about is the fact that, in the very next employee newsletter, an announcement of the Regis graduation was in it, offering congratulations to me and Maggie. Then, at the monthly Medical Executive Committee meeting in early January -the one the the CNO(again), all the physician Chief of service, Executive VPs and sh' all come to- saw that the graduation was included in the CEO'S REPORT with note as to where me and Maggie are looking to work. Managed, while flipping through the meeting packet (the CEO's Report is sent to us from the Executive Office), to see it was in there before an aural announcement was made and the applause made me turn a deeper beet-red.

Well... Now we're to this week; which kind of started last week. wwtblt called me. We're having a symposium, would like you to speak as a student nurse representative. Um, okaaaaay... Guess so. (whut in the h'll....?) Alrighty. Scared sh'tless, came to terms with the fact that it was gonna happen after a couple of days; came here and told you fine people. Well, yesterday. Yesterday I get an email. From wwtblt. Next Friday is the annual meeting of the National Black Nurses Association; We've (the org) has purchased a table, would you like to come? Um, okaaaaay... (how come...?) But then I'm thinking; oh, probably just a fraternal/sorority type of thang just trying to encourage me to become involved in outside organizations, blah blah blah... Well, found out tonight that "we", in terms of the night's attendees, includes the CNO. So. yeeeAH. Alrighty.

Well, we're just gonna go ahead and, you know, just sit back and see what these people seem to want to have planned for dragging me into the profession cuz I don't know what and I don't know why - but I do know well enough to not even ask. eeeYEEGH...

(well, my dumbfoundedness took up more words than i expected, so that's pretty much my Adventures in Nursing saga for the night - g'NIGHT!)

WooHooo! I see BIIIIG things in your future girl. Chief of Nursing at Mass Gen, Mayo Clinic, Nurse-Liaison To The Free World, you name it! Keep it up, and please keep us informed...sooo nice to see one of "our own" doing so well!

Now where's my topless video?

NaydiNaydiNaydi! OI!OI!OI! So, when are you coming to speak in Sydney?

Wow Naydi,
I am so so happy for you. I'm really glad your speech went so well for you, and not to mention the new business relationship you developed. That's absolutely awesome. I am curious about alot of things you said, but I got most of it. You'll have to do a weekly update for us from now on...lol..
Congrats, congrats, congrats...Cvl & b are right on, I too see wonderful things in your future.
Good for you girl, you deserve it,
Vurtgirl