{"id":21801,"date":"2023-01-11T10:33:01","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T15:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=21801"},"modified":"2023-01-11T11:17:14","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T16:17:14","slug":"11jan2023-ocf-update-all-work-and-no-play-makes-photog-a-dull-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/11\/11jan2023-ocf-update-all-work-and-no-play-makes-photog-a-dull-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"11JAN2023 \u2013 OCF Update \u2013 All Work and No Play Makes photog a Dull Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s no rest for the wicked and I\u2019m no exception.\u00a0 Fate has conspired to render this week and next awfully busy for yours truly.\u00a0 I\u2019ll be out pocket most of this afternoon and then there\u2019s more drama tomorrow.\u00a0 I\u2019ll be wearing a suit and tie then and doing my best to seem like that bright young photog of 1980.\u00a0 Well, it\u2019s a really nice tie.<\/span><\/p>\n

So, I\u2019ll do my best to fill the site with interesting content.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been enjoying the non-political stuff over the last few days.\u00a0 Let\u2019s face it, writing every day about Kevin McCarthy is not exactly an inspiring prospect.\u00a0 In fact, I\u2019d be happiest if the headline for the next two years is, \u201cMcCarthy continues to block all new spending coming from White House and Senate.\u201d\u00a0 All of his power is negative.\u00a0 He can\u2019t force Biden to do anything but he can stop him from inflicting any new damage.\u00a0 And if he\u2019s especially clever he might come up with a compromise bill that does more good than harm.\u00a0 Then I would write something nice about him.\u00a0 His epitaph might be, \u201cHERE LIES KEVIN MCCARTHY, HE CAUSED LESS HARM THAN PAUL RYAN!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been having fun mining \u201cThe Maltese Falcon\u201d for nuggets of gold.\u00a0 No work of fiction, that I know of, is all gold.\u00a0 There\u2019s always dross mixed in.\u00a0 And the Falcon is no exception.\u00a0 But Hammett had his moments and I enjoy picking apart some of his dialog for the sheer joy of its feel.\u00a0 I especially enjoy Gutman\u2019s elaborate banter.\u00a0 But there are bits here and bits there for many of the characters.\u00a0 I may do a little more digging on the Falcon if something strikes me.\u00a0 And then I\u2019ll look around to see what else is out there on the book shelf.\u00a0 I noticed that some of Hammett is already in the public domain.\u00a0 Well, it\u2019s close to a century old but I wasn\u2019t sure how much they extended copyrights the last time Disney bribed Washington.\u00a0 But Hammett may not have kept up with his own intellectual property rights at the end.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think he was doing well toward the end of his life and I don\u2019t think he had any heirs.<\/span><\/p>\n

I was watching the movie \u201cThe Boston Strangler\u201d last night.\u00a0 I\u2019d never seen it before and I guess I didn\u2019t know what to expect.\u00a0 I\u2019ll put up a review soon but it certainly was a strange movie.\u00a0 Maybe the best way to describe it is to say that although the events took place in 1963 the movie was made in 1968 and therefore absorbed a lot of the current day weirdness.\u00a0 There are gay and lesbian characters and a tawdriness and weirdness about many of the minor characters that borders on parody.\u00a0 Seeing Henry Fonda navigating this mess made me think, \u201cHow the mighty have fallen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Well, anyway, I\u2019ll try to keep my nose to the grindstone in between my errands and responsibilities and we\u2019ll see what I can come up with.\u00a0 Excelsior!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s no rest for the wicked and I\u2019m no exception.\u00a0 Fate has conspired to render this week and next awfully busy for yours truly.\u00a0 I\u2019ll<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2510,818],"tags":[77,78,157,580],"class_list":["post-21801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-literature","category-ocf","tag-dashiell-hammett","tag-maltese-falcon","tag-ocf","tag-ocf-update"],"yoast_head":"\n11JAN2023 \u2013 OCF Update \u2013 All Work and No Play Makes photog a Dull Boy - Orion's Cold Fire<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/11\/11jan2023-ocf-update-all-work-and-no-play-makes-photog-a-dull-boy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"11JAN2023 \u2013 OCF Update \u2013 All Work and No Play Makes photog a Dull Boy - 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