Dental, Mental, Optical

I needed to snarl this morning, on why "health care" is divided up into four classes, three of which are apparently much lesser than the others for no apparent reason. You can check it out on Daily Kos.

493 Pokemon Redone As Sexy Anime Girls

I love StumbleUpon.

Any cool pages you've Stumbled Upon lately? I love this picture of Einstein as the Jesus figure at a super-science Last Supper, the In B Flat 2.0 project, and One Sentence.

Ernest Borgnine On Acting

Yahoo has "Ernest Borgnine" Trending right now.

My first thought was, naturally, "Oh man, I hope he's all right."

He is. He's getting a Screen Actors Guild lifetime achievement award tonight.

The article is a nice little overview of Mr. Borgnine's -- sorry, Ernest's career. But what really stood out for me was a quote from him on the art of acting:

If you watch [Gary Cooper], you can see him listening and then answering in turn. The same is true for Spencer Tracy. He listened before talking. That's what acting is all about. Many actors today don't listen. They speak because it's their turn to speak. I was lucky. I worked with actors like Bill Holden and Hume Cronyn. They were marvelous people and talented. They gave it their heart and soul. That's how they were brought up. Cary Grant was a beautiful person. Everything was in his facial expressions. You want to see real acting, watch the movies on TCM.

That's a beautiful thing.

Who here is, or has been, in community theater? (I know already of a bunch of you; I just figured a little roll-call wouldn't hurt. :)