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Aaron

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About Me

This is classified under the Official Secrets Act

My Interests

Collecting old cinema, watching old cinema, reading about old cinema, writing about old cinema, etc., sea mysteries

I'd like to meet:

Lea Thompson & Sarah Jessica Parker, preferrably in a sauna filled with J-ello

Music:

Jolson, elevator music, bagpipes

Movies:

Monkey Business, Horse Feathers, Duck Soup, A Night at the Opera, Our Hospitality, Sherlock Junior, The Navigator, The General, Steamboat Bill Junior, The Cameraman, Spite Marriage, Ben-Hur (1925), The Big Parade, The Penalty, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923), He Who Gets Slapped, The Monster, The Unholy Three, The Phantom of the Opera (1925), The Blackbird, The Devil's Circus, The Torrent, Brown of Harvard, The Road to Mandalay, The Temptress, Exit Smiling, The Magician, The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, Nosferatu, The Flesh and the Devil, The Red Mill, Tell It to the Marines, The Unknown, Twelve Miles Out, Man Woman and Sin, West Point, The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg, The Crowd, Laugh, Clown, Laugh, The Patsy, Across to Singapore, The Mysterious Lady, Our Dancing Daughters, While the City Sleeps, Show People, White Shadows in the South Seas, The Wind, West of Zanzibar, A Woman of Affairs, Wild Orchids (1929), Desert Nights, The Pagan, Where East is East, The Single Standard, Our Modern Maidens, The Mysterious Island (1929), The Viking, The Kiss, Anna Christie, Anna Karenina, The Big House, Bombshell, The Broadway Melody, Chained, Comrade X, Dinner at Eight, Four Girls in White, Freaks, A Free Soul, Fugitive Lovers, Gone with the Wind, Grand Hotel, Laughing Sinners, Mad Love, Manhatten Melodrama, Mata Hari, Meet the Baron, Min and Bill, Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), Ninotchka, Possessed, Skyscraper Souls, Sidewalks of New York, The Thin Man, Safety Last, Speedy, The Strong Man, Paths to Paradise, Hands Up!

Television:

You Bet Your Life, Hancock's Half Hour, Star Trek, The Wild, Wild West, Doctor Who, The Avengers, The Prisoner, Spongebob Squarepants

Books:

MacTeague by Frank Norris The Barrier by Rex Beach Dracula by Bram Stoker Quality Street by J. M. Barrie Dark Star: The Meteoric Rise and Fall of the Legendary John Gilbert by Leatrice Gilbert Fountain Beyond Paradise: The Life of Ramon Novarro by Andre Soares The Day the Laughter Stopped by David Yallop The MGM Story by John Douglas Eames Harpo Speaks! by Harpo Marx Memoirs of a Mangy Lover by Groucho Marx Fields for President! by W. C. Fields

Heroes:

Roscoe Arbuckle, Lon Chaney, Sr., Buster Keaton, the Marx Brothers, the Three Stooges

My Blog

Springbank Park

Took mah kids to Storybook Gardens, that magical land in the city's most popular park.  Wow, that place sure has changed since "my day."  It's been re-landscaped, and much new stuff is to be...
Posted by Aaron on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 05:13:00 PST

It's Very Safe

Yesterday morning I had my massive root canal session.  Much to my surprise, it wasn't the agonizing procedure I'd have been expecting due to much folklore I'd heard in my youth, though watching ...
Posted by Aaron on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 08:23:00 PST

Milestones

Happy Birthday, Madison and Alyssa!  Three years old today, or six, depending on how you do the math.  I love you!
Posted by Aaron on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 07:06:00 PST

Is It Safe?

      Well, today I had the first part of my root canal surgery.  Trying to keep my spirits up, I skipped down the street to the dentist's office, singing gaily.  To...
Posted by Aaron on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:21:00 PST

Milestone

Today my son is eleven.  Happy Birthday, Scott!  I love you.  Papa
Posted by Aaron on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 04:30:00 PST

The Birds

Now the geese and the ducks are gone, but four blackbirds were at the pool.  The question is, where are the other twenty?
Posted by Aaron on Sat, 26 May 2007 08:16:00 PST

Goosed

      Now I've seen everything.  After watching ducks make the local swimming pool their home, the other day what do I see hanging around in there but two large Canada ge...
Posted by Aaron on Thu, 24 May 2007 11:18:00 PST

Where Ducks Dare

      It just gets crazier and crazier...  Now I'm walking along, and I see three ducks standing around quacking on the roof of a two-storey house!  Who would have g...
Posted by Aaron on Thu, 10 May 2007 07:23:00 PST

Top Ten Greatest Three Stooges Movie Titles

10.  Sock-A-Bye Baby  9.  Some More of Samoa  8.  Space Ship Sappy  7.  Whoops!  I'm an Indian  6.  Termites of 1938  5.  Beer Barrel Poleca...
Posted by Aaron on Thu, 03 May 2007 02:34:00 PST

What's Up, Doc?

      This morning I saw the most extraordinary sight.  Two (count 'em, two!) rabbits.  So what, you say?  They were apparently fighting!  Or playing,...
Posted by Aaron on Wed, 02 May 2007 02:49:00 PST