A DOC'S JOURNAL by Scott Solary

Since last update, I have been in a knock down drag out fight with my computer yet again. After 6 days of troubleshooting a strange "pulse" coming from the computer to my tape deck, I have emerged triumphant, but without a defniitive answer as to what the problem was. I'm going to blame it on a Windows update. In short I replaced my firewire card, all cables, uninstalled and reinstalled Avid (even a newer version) and finally had to rebuild the entire OS. They call it recovery, but it's quite the opposite. It's more like losing years of preferences, updates and software. All that is left to do is try to get my computer to acknowledge a drive and we're back in business. I would have posted about this earlier, but I have had a difficult time logging in to my blog. Again, the technological planets aren't in alignment for me.

While I was in my bunker and locked out of blogville, I found a few interesting things on the web.

Apparently, the Colbert speech has been put back on line as well as the Bush comedy sketch. If you haven't seen it, you must: COLBERT and BUSH

A mother's day card everyone should have passed along:

And a game that will make you feel good.

And this little jewel of a guy at Denny's about to drive home. Scary.

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A song we can't get enough of at work. A harmonious animal known as the badger.

Turn it up. Click here

A version for the more athletic badgers. A warning to my Irish friends. This one's on the Protestant side.

For those needing something a little more hectic, start at the first link and then click on "football badgers". A new window will open and start playing the other version at the same time. You may want to turn this up a little louder.

Frantic badgers!

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It's been since March that I updated this blog of mine. Some things have changed, some things have stayed the same. We're still working 10 - 6, M-F and editing at nights and weekends. The struggle continues.

Most recently, Karen Schmeer, Errol Morris' editor, gave us some constructive notes and we've been addressing them. Luci and I went to Florida to begin production on a documentary Luci is directing on my Grandmother and 4 Great Aunts. She's heading to Gainesville today to follow up on a short doc she started 10 years ago. In the meantime, I am back in New York tweaking the cut of All God's Children.

To do a little bragging, I am now in my 5th week as a non-smoker. This is quite a big step for me and one I'm very proud of being able to take.

My lack of posting here has begun to fill me with anxiety and dread so I'm going to change the format somewhat. Up to now, I've try to restrict the postings exclusively to discussing the film, but in light of the fact that continuous postings of "we're still editing" is rather boring and repetitive, starting today, I will be posting anything I feel is worth posting. Hopefully my 3 readers will find it more entertaining.

Here's a few videos that I recently saw that I found entertaining. Stephen Colbert's closing speech at the AP Dinner with George W. seated a few seats away...I was going to include the clips from You Tube, but apparently they've been pulled down. Oh well. This is how all things technology have been treating me this week.
Instead, the always insulting neo-con ,Tucker Carlson, tries to make him out to look "unfunny" here (if you listen closely, they quickly cut away before the laughter):

I hate to spread his trash talking, but it's all I can get.

Ranking right up there with William Shatner's rendition of Rocket Man (see below) was Bush's "routine" where he had a comedian doing a spot on impression of him acting as the voice in his head.

In the meantime enjoy:

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