Rushmore

Fabulous new discovery: the Internet Movie Car Database. Par example: it lists all of the cars in North by Northwest including Eve's with the famous slanted headlights. Remember? Remeber when Eve (Eva Marie Saint) fired blanks into Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) in the Mount Rushmore cafeteria? She drives her white 1958 Lincoln Continental Mark III convertible through a Freudian birch tree forest for a final farewell with Roger because the spies she is counter-spying on are going to fly in a small plane to the "other side" (some pre-glasnost Eastern European country) from South Dakota. "Why Leonard, I think you're jealous." Remember this trick if you're ever trapped upstairs in a pseudo Frank Lloyd Wright House. Have a matchbook handy. Write a message on it with a tiny, expensive pen and toss it over the interior balcony onto the high-shag carpet below. Leonard, being fastidious, will pick up the book off the carpet and drop it on the coffee table in front of Eva Marie Saint. James Mason will bite his fist.

Removes plaque

This morning I was keynote speaker at an on-site retreat for a toy company here in San Francisco. It was just a steep stairway walk down from my Telegraph Hill place. Perfect weather. I carried a cuckoo clock with me and in the spirit of How Things Work I expounded on the physics of the clock on the sporty dais. Remember: the shorter the dog's tail, the faster it waves.

The retreat food look like the usual congealed gravy type so I skipped it. Before I climbed the steep hill back home I stopped by The Fog City Diner for an early dinner and was immediately seated in my regular booth. There were the brass plaques of the booth's regulars: Norm Sobel, John Folan, that Republican creep Hal "Morning in America" Riney, strawberry-haired Sandy Dalis and rubber heiress Elsa Trexler. Mine was stolen!

Stanley Kubrick and Milk Chan

This is a montage with Joy Division playing in the background. I just realized how much the pods resemble Tetsuko in Super Milk Chan from our previous blog.