Ramblings...

Okay, then, so I'm watching You've Got Mail on TNT, for the second time this evening... I'm not really clear why...(though I did miss the first few minutes the first time around)... then I just spent about 40 minutes trying to figure out why I still can't use underlining, boldface and italics only to discover that apparently the commands aren't supported in my browser! Ugh! I tried to open Explorer, but like most non-Mac applications it doesn't work for shit. So... my blog would have remained wildly bland until TPTB make their font features run in Safari--except that I decided to give a last ditch effort and delve into archaic mini-code within the text to accomplish something that should take the click of a button or two key strokes! --This was going to be a very mellow post about how much I love movies set and beautifully filmed in New York, and how I can't wait to move home, but now... I'm just too frustrated.-- This is one of the reasons I haven't blogged very often. It didn't allow me to be expressive enough. I need more control over the texture and emphasis than plain text affords. Apparently, to have that--I need to be grateful for my childhood love of messing with control boards and not fearing crashing my computer by screwing around with code. I haven't attempted code since high school. Oh, well, as evidenced above, I still know a little bit of what I'm doing. That's actually sort of exciting. And if you're still reading this, bless you, I wouldn't have blamed you for bailing... I've just discovered that spell check doesn't work in Safari, either, so! Oh, well. I seem to be writing that phrase a lot tonight. My apologies for misspellings, I should own a dictionary, but I don't. But wait! Once again, past experience with computers comes through. Blogger's spell check doesn't work in Safari, but: ta da! Safari's own spell check under Edit still works! Wow, I keep being tempted to throw in the towel just a moment too soon... interesting.

As I was planning to write (or at least partly): this movie is one of the weaker romantic-comedies, despite being written by the Ephrons, directed by Nora and based on an old film that some consider a classic. It just aged so quickly. Sure, the leads are still charming as ever, the city's still beautiful, but who still uses dial-up or AOL? Okay, I'm sure a few people still do, but not wealthy business people in Manhattan! Nonetheless, it's still on in the background as I've been fighting with my own computer this evening. I had completely forgotten that Dave Chappelle was in this, and I never tire of watching him. Hell, his delivery is always perfect. Even when he didn't write what he's saying! And of course, Greg Kinnear playing a completely pompous, self-absorbed character masquerading as a bleeding heart is hysterical. Thank God or Whomever for the acting, setting and direction, because the premise was a little dead in the water. But, there really is nothing better than a movie that shows New York City in all of its myriad seasons--When Harry Met Sally... does it the very best, of course. And there is the small fact that I'm a sucker for a good voiceover--Carrie's throughout Sex and the City come to mind, and voiceovers are used well and performed well in this, too. So, in the end, perhaps enough reasons to watch it twice after all. I suppose I must have just been in the right mood.

And now, I'm finally tired. Maybe I will find my way to bed and sleep. May you all have a lovely weekend. Go see a movie... :) Or just watch one you've already seen...