For want of something better to write, I’ll play along with this little meme via Iowa Voice (who needs a little help, by the way) and LaShawn Barber. Four jobs I’ve had in my life: Sales assistant at Toys’r'Us (fired for swearing in earshot of the …

Four Movies I Could Watch Over and Over, and Have:
Blast From the Past,Gone With The Wind,The Shootist and Big.

Favorite Blogs- Michelle Malkin, La Shawn, Drudge and Ankle Biting Pundits

Represhing to post something different other than politics…I love your style La Shawn

Four Places I Haved Lived- New Haven, CT. Leemore, Ca, Jacksonville, FL and Germantown, TN

Ok. No one tagged me on this directly, but I’m taking my lead from Gus, Tracey, and

Movies: Godfather 1 & 2, Any Bond(Connery or Moore), Any Star Trek, Ground Hog Day.

Lived: Houston, Playa Del Carmen, Las Vegas, Austin.

TV: Star Trek Next Gen, Simpsons, Battlestar Galactica, ABC Soaps.

Vacation: Costa Rica, Cayman Islands, NYC, lots of spots in Mexico.

Daily Websites: LBC, Michelle Malkin, Drudge, Turningpointonline.org (great Christian site…GO THERE!)

Fav Foods: Tex-Mex, Barbeque pork ribs, Filet Mignon, Shrimp.

Rather be: Love life right here(Austin, TX)…just wish there was more time to spend with loved ones.

Saw this at LaShawn’s blog, and thought “what the heck, I’ll play along.”

Four Jobs I’ve Had in My Life:
Delivery driver (put me through college in the late 1980s.
Restaurant “X”. Assistant manager from 1993-2003. Some GM work, as they s…

“Wow…there aren’t too many female Trekkies out there, let alone Black females.”

Now you know of two.

La Shawn: I cracked up at the not-smiling thing.

4 Movies:
Raising Arizona
Princess Bride
LotR
Tombstone

4 Places I Have Lived:
Spain
Hawaii
Winter Harbor ME
Pensacola Florida

4 Favorite TV Shows:
24
House
ummmm…. that is about it
No wait, King of the Hill

4 Vacation Places:
Camping (just about anywhere)
East TN
Hawaii
The Caribbean (only went there for work but long to return)

4 Websites:
Blog and MaBlog (dougwils.com)
Michelle Malkin
TeamPyro
Drudge

4 Favorite Foods
Grilled Steak
Chicken-n-Dumplins (my wife’s only, please do not invite me over to try yours)
Cornbread
Fried Chicken

4 Places To Be Right Now
Heaven
On the beach
Home with my wife and kids
Did I say Heaven?

Four Movies I Could Watch Over and Over, and Have:
The Wild Bunch
The Outlaw Josie Wales
The Shootist
The French Connection

Four Places I Have Lived:
Fort Worth
Austin, TX
Evanston Wyoming
San Jose

4 Movies:
Stormy Weather(love the music and dancing)
Singing in the Rain (best dancing)
Steel Magnolias
Jurassic Park

4 Places I Have Lived:
Phila., PA
Bowie, MD
Millington, NJ
Lansdale, PA

4 Favorite TV Shows:
Lost
Gilmore Girls
The Cosby Show (Huxtables)
St Elswhere

4 Vacation Places:
Wild Wood, New Jersey
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Banff, Alberta, Canada
Disney Land

4 Websites:
La Shaun Barber’s Corner
Earl Paulk CapWeb Log
Right Wing Sparkle
Yahoo Groups – UK Royalty, Black Conservatives,etc

4 Favorite Foods
Shrimp
Steak
Porto Bello Mushrooms-Grilled/Sauteed
Freshly Juiced Blend – Mango,Peach,Orange & banana

4 Places To Be Right Now
Anaheim, California
Montreal, Quebec
London
Paris

Well, I saw this meme over at La Shawn Barber’s Corner and thought it would be fun: Four Jobs I’ve Had in My Life: Busboy Waiter (much better busboy than waiter!) Short Term Missionary: Reach Out Singers Computer Programmer Four

I always think of recipes more as guidelines, anyway. If you have a fair idea what interacts how and what tastes how, it’s easy to experiment. You learn something even from failures, then have fewer of those.

I “discovered” your website this last week and have returned several times already. Today I was amazed to see that GWTW was one of your favorite movies. I’ve known people, black and white, who are very critical of this movie because of it’s positive portrayal of the ante bellum South.

Several years ago when I lived in Atlanta, I started some family tree work and discovered that North Georgia was the land of my “roots” and that many of my ancestors were right in the thick of things when Sherman came to call.

I had always heard that Margaret Mitchell wrote GWTW using stories that she had heard while she was growing up down there. I ran across a news article from 1939 describing how some older women in the Howell family (my great-grandmother’s name) were upset with Miss Mitchell because she had borrowed several stories from that family and had not asked their permission. The story about Scarlett leading Melanie and her new baby away to escape the Yankees with a cow in-tow was “borrowed” straight from the family of Captain Evan P. Howell. It is interesting that the same family ran a very successful lumber mill after the war and were criticized heavily for doing business with and being too friendly to the Northern occupiers.

I guess my point is that while GWTW is a romantic fantasy of sorts, it is not ALL fiction. Even some of the characters are probably based on people with whom Margaret Mitchell was familiar. For example, you can read about a man named James Dunwoody Bulloch and even Raphael Semmes and see a little of Rhett Butler in both of them. Bulloch’s mansion in Roswell survived the war and was not far from another business owned by another Howell family. (My Howells, by the way, were the poorer cousins!) As insulting as it is to the politically correct crowd, accounts of “faithful” servants like Pork and Big Sam are abundant.

I apologize for the length of this comment but I just thought you might be interested. Thanks

My wife and I make sure there is at least one episode on the Tivo ready to go at all times. Because if nothing else good is on, you know Cold Case Files will satisfy.

If you don’t have the utmost respect for cold case detectives after watching one episode of that show, well, you must be clueless!

It’s a fascinating and engrossing show.