IMDB submission - Kiki's Delivery Service

My one and only submission to the Internet Movie Database.

Reference: 060523-222343-275000
Date/Time: 2006-05-23 15:23:43
Summary: Majo no takkyûbin (1989)

Alternate Versions - 1 item added

Fun Stuff: Alternate Versions
Action: New #1
Alternate Version:

When the Disney dubbed version aired on the Disney Channel, shortly after the VHS release, there were two brief lines of dialog removed. After "rescuing" Jiji and replacing him with the stuffed cat, Kiki and Jiji are flying home and she tells about meeting the artist and adds that she (Ursula) wanted to paint of picture of her (Kiki). Jiji's question, "Naked?" and Kiki's embarrassed reply, "Jiji!" are both removed with a jump cut.

Submitted 11 months ago and this still hasn't been added to the IMDB.
Perhaps they don't believe me? :)

(written 4/27/2007; back-dated to 5/23/2006)

Edwin J Hill Social Club Bash

Margaret, a friend at work, who is leaving Wednesday has a son who acts in local theater, as does his roommate. And together, with others, they have created 7 episodes, 30 or so minutes each, of a local sitcom titled The Edwin J. Hill Social Club [MySpace Group]. There was a free showing at Studio 35 [Official Site] this evening.

We got to see:
Episode 2 - the Sliding Doors parody
Episode 3 - George's Mom
Episode 4 - Hypnoboobs
Episode 7 - Vice Versa

As for Edwin himself, he is shrouded in mystery. But you can check out his MySpace Profile.


(written 5/24/2006; back-dated to 5/23/2006)

Sunday Watercolors

The daughter and I did a some watercolors in the afternoon. She still paints much faster than me - at a rate of 4 to 1. These are not done, as I want to outline them with a fine tip black pen or marker. The scanner is on the blink again. Can you tell that these were photographed?



I'm not overly happy with the evergreen trees. I put the trunks in after the fact and it really shows. But I think I did a good job on the still-life. What started as a banana in the fruit bowl is looking more like a pear every time I look at it.

(written 5/24/2006; back-dated to 5/21/2006)

Retro Post - PLANETES theme

Look here for the post on the theme music for the Anime Planetes that I simply can't stop playing.

Old friends from Qwest

I can't recall the last time I was over at Nutt org, but it can't have been all that long ago. I'd say less than three weeks - tops. It looks like Eric, is reinventing his website again. For six years it's been like Madonna - changing, different, moving. I always like what he does. I should use this inspiration on my own neglected Tripod pages. I'll stay tuned and see what takes shape.

Thinking of Eric makes me want to check in on Jeremiah. I've not seem him online in ages. And he never has sent me any commentary on my short story.... Hmm.... DesignBox Media is still there and has some changes made this year. I will send him an email before the month is out.

I also had an instant message from Tony, another Qwest alumni. I will get back to him before the week is out.

Kochi Photos

Chatted with Matt for a bit this morning. He sent me a pair of huge (file size) photos from his 5 mega-pixel camera. He's getting a great eye for photography. I will eventually post those other photos from his Camera Phone.

He said that he would get the daughter's letter to his student who wanted to correspond and I should have a reply back for her soon.

Here are his photos:

Click for larger views. These are reduced to about 30% original size but still nice.

Time Traveling with Netscape 4.76

I'm over at the city library and browsing around a few sites. My blog and others look totally different on this older PC. Some dont' even load completely. It's running Windows 98 and Netscape 4.76 - in fact, blogger is telling me that this post might not save so I'll be brief.

Funny thing is that my friend David's site looks pretty good in it. I'll try either Publishing first and if that doesn't work, I'll at least try to save. Here goes.

Amazing! It worked. It's funny how different this all looks though. Like just now, I saw the link for editing this post while I'm signed in, but it was just the underline - the in-line image was not there. It's also funny how the images show up and all can be clicked and load up in driectly in the browser window. Backgrounds, at least in Blogger don't seem to show and tables are all funky