Updates, Indy and Otherwise

[lagilman]

Indy Fever continues. The earlier-referenced stalkers were indeed stalking through downtown New Haven, despite the (ugh) heat (it's officially a heat wave, with three days at 90-plus degrees). Serious stalkers, apparently, replete with wannabe Jones wardrobe, coming in from all over the US and parts of Europe.

Ford, according to the news, did not mingle with the masses, but his stunt double did. Vic's always been a class act -- and from what I've heard, he doesn't get enough to do*, even now. Ford likes to get his clothes dirty.

Reportedly, the motorbike-down-the-stairs scene was scrapped. Bummer.


Meanwhile at Ch. Felidae, it remains too warm and very busy. This weekend I have two client manuscripts to handle, plus the possibility of revising/updating a proposal for the day job (of all the things I ever thought I'd be doing, urban development proposals wasn't it!). And writing, yes. Several short stories are finally getting their chance on the screen.

And, in the world at large, some nice news -- the bald eagle has been taken off the endangered species list. Sometimes, as a species, we don't suck...



* a joke, Vic Armstrong's a damn busy man. Google him and be impressed.

Comments

[hilleviw.livejournal.com]

Harry Ford is a damned decent bloke, I'm sorry he feels he has to be sequestered these days. 20 odd (very odd, even downright peculiar) years ago I did a bunch of work for a guy in Santa Cruz, whose wife's sister was Harry's first wife. Paul's pet charity was the Homeless Garden Project, a market garden program for local homeless people. Anyway, Harry came annually for the fundraiser, gave generously, and would spend a day working in the garden whenever his calendar allowed. Not a stuck up or pretentious bone in his body.

[lagilman]

I suspect it was less a need to be sequestered and more the fact that they had a full day of shooting, and it was 90 degrees and 75% humidity in the shade....

[jesterjoker.livejournal.com]

And parts of Europe... wow. Fans in costume are infectious. O.o

It's nice to know that about the bald eagle. Yeah. Any species off the endangered species list is nice to know, but ... especially the eagle, if you look at it from an odd angle, in a patriotic sense and such.

(I'll probably comment more often; I added you to the friends as I read your journal so often anyway. :)

[riley-merrick.livejournal.com]

I have mixed feelings about the bald eagle's status. On the one hand, yay! But on the other, I wouldn't put it past this administration to somehow have changed the rules for status, and therefore, the eagle's recovery might not be as good as the status change implies. Will have to research this to sort out my ambivalence!

[lagilman]

(I'll probably comment more often; I added you to the friends as I read your journal so often anyway. :)

be welcome! More the merrier, and we were about to restock the bar and fridge, anyway...what's your preference?

[lagilman]

As part of the problem back when was DDT making the eggshells too fragile to survive, it's not all that surprising that they've made a resurgence in the bird-generations since DDT was banned. Still protected, but no longer endangered.

[riley-merrick.livejournal.com]

True, Silent Spring and all that horribleness. My worry now is that landowners and such will encroach on their habitat and send them downwards again. Already an article on CNN quotes a landowner who wants to build in bald eagle territory but had previously been prohibited due to the Endangered Species Act as saying, "Eagles don't pay taxes, I pay taxes."

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/06/28/bald.eagle.delisting/index.html

I know I'm a pessimist and cynic by nature, but this is a worrisome attitude.