Twitter

Now that I'm on Twitter, Moira gave me a big list of prominent Tweeters to follow--people like Bradley Whitford and Gary Shteyngart. I'm also following people like Stephen Fry, who said the solar eclipse looked like the Apple computers logo, and Michiko Kakutani.  

I've also added quite a few newspapers and magazines, because they often post interesting articles and reports. Moira enjoys the threads of comments that can accumulate on some entries.

Today I had lunch with John Snow at the Schnitzel Hub.  I said goodbye to the waitress but almost forgot to say goodbye to John!

Tonight I saw the documentary Dawson City:  Frozen Time at the Bloor.  It's about a cache of over 500 reels of silent film they found in Dawson City, Yukon Territory, almost forty years ago.  

What a story!  Dawson City was the "end of the line" for many movies, appearing there years after their first release, so distributors often wouldn't pay to have them returned.  The local Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce man, in charge of such dealings, thus ended up with a basement full of boxes containing such films and was eventually told to get rid of them. Many such films had been burned or thrown in the river, but the local recreation centre was filling in its former swimming pool so the rink that covered the area would have a more even surface.  

The guy let the boxes of films be used as landfill there, and one day, long after the recreation centre had been torn down, someone was digging there and turned up some films. They contain varying degrees of water damage, but many of them would otherwise be completely lost! (The documentary also tells a lot about the Klondike gold rush and Dawson City's later history.)