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If you’ve never seen Skin Deep, DO click the link. The funny is at the very end (they really should have trimmed off the first half).

She means the first half of the movie clip.

I think.

That sounds cool.

Is the photo yours? If so do you mind if I ask how you took it, as I have recently been experimenting with night-time photography.

Yes, thanks. I did actually take that last night. I popped off three shots totally handheld, standing in the garden just at dusk. Not even a wall to brace against. That’s not how good I am, that’s how fucking unbeLIEVable my Nikon D40 is.

Actually, it didn’t convert to black and white all that well. Here it is in color:

I adore that camera. I hate using flash and I like shooting in low light. The D40 is brilliant for that.

I would have puddled. No doubt about it. I can get spooked pretty easily. I had never heard a fox, though. Sounds almost like a large crow or something. Great picture. My moon pictures always look like a picture of a white spot.

Heavenly shades of night are falling
It’s twilight time
Out of the mist your voice is calling
It’s twilight time
When purple colored curtains
Mark the end of the day
I hear you my dear at twilight time

Foxes are crazy sounding bastards. We had a whole family of them chattering away one nite just outside the downstairs bedroom window. Sounded like a pack of monkeys. Weird it was.

When the deep purple falls over sleepy garden walls
And the stars begin to twinkle in the sky—
In the mist of a memory, you wander back to me
Breathing my name with a sigh…

Deep Purple, lyric by the great Mitchell Parish.

Parish/Wiki: His best known works include the lyrics to songs such as “Star Dust”, “Sweet Lorraine”, “Deep Purple”, “Stars Fell on Alabama”, “Sophisticated Lady”, “Volare” (English lyrics), “Moonlight Serenade”, “Sleigh Ride”, “One Morning in May”, and “Louisiana Fairy Tale”, which was the first theme song used in the PBS Production of This Old House.

Song/Wiki: Larry Clinton and His Orchestra recorded the one of the most popular versions of the song. Featuring vocalist Bea Wain, the Clinton version was a huge hit. Released in December 1938 on Victor Records, the Clinton recording was number one on the U.S. popular music charts for nine consecutive weeks in 1939. The next one popular version was made Artie Shaw with vocalist Helen Forrest. The song is a sentimental ballad. The tune was a favorite of Babe Ruth, and Peter DeRose performed the song at Ruth’s birthday parties for about a decade. The song remained a traditional pop favourite, recast in 1957 as a doo wop classic by The Dominoes with vocals by Eugene Mumford. Screamin’ Jay Hawkins (best remembered for his rendition of “I Put A Spell On You”) also released his version of “Deep Purple” on his 1958 album, “At Home with Screamin’ Jay.”

1939 soundie, Helen Forrest with the Artie Shaw Orchestra.

The version everyone knows, Nino Tempo & April Stevens.

Thanks to MCPOAirdale for making me think of this one.

Great pic, Stoaty!

Dear Stoaty: Would you fish my previous comment out of the spam filter, pretty please? Too many linkses. Either that, or the Obamacare spy-team got me ….

They can make an amazing variety of sounds:

http://www.foxforest.org/upclose/voicescarry.shtml

I can hear our urban foxes squabbling outside the window at about 4:00am occasionally – really eerie noise, if you don’t know what it is.

Could have been worse, could have been the Hound of the Baskervilles, or an American Werewolf on tour…….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6PIke8r51E

ok,weez, you responsible for this?
http://cuteoverload.com/2009/07/14/theres-always-room-for-ferret/

‘sfunny, scubafreak – American Werewolf is exactly what the sky here has reminded me of these past few nights.

Which is, of course, just what I said to Her Ladyship, when she came in with her fur standing on end.

The very soul of tact, I am.

There is some comfort knowing there really aren’t all that many big mammals in the UK, and none of them are rabid.

*ahem*

On Sunday we picked up a wolf pup (about 75% wolf.) It was a rescue. The stupid bastards who had him didn’t realize that a wolf pup howls like a wolf, and abused him.

I love it when he howls, gives you that tingly feeling. 🙂

Speaking of Werewolves, UB, can you and Stoatie get to this site?

http://www.hulu.com/watch/25757/the-dresden-files-hair-of-the-dog#s-p2-so-i0

Alas, Scoob — losing Hulu was one of the sadder sacrifices I had to make:

I can get it, but I have to go through an IP scrubber. Which gums up the transmission sufficiently to give grievous buffering problems.

It’s hard being a ferriner.

Too bad, The Dresden Files are a favorite of mine…. All 12 episodes that aired……

Think Harry Potter gets expelled from Hogwarts and sets himself up as a private dick in Chicago……..

Ahem, Allen — puppy pictures?

Sure thing Weasel. He’s still a little spooked right now, but I’ll try to get a decent one this evening.

Ha, he’s still just a little guy but if he grows into his feet he’s going to be a heavyweight.

“The Dresden Files are a favorite of mine…. All 12 episodes that aired……”

It was a pretty good adaptation. Better than they usually are.

It’s available as a box set over here, for peanuts:

http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/3384376/The-Dresden-Files/Product.html

Which is, of course, just what I said to Her Ladyship, when she came in with her fur standing on end.

BWAAAAAAHAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA!