Oh, yeah—this blog’s getting highbrow this morning with a Ralph Waldo Emerson quote…but it’s the best one I could find to title this post that also announces the winner of TDOY’s Marlene giveaway, none other than Chuckie Award champion and She Blogged by Night proprietor Stacia Jones. While Stacia takes her victory lap I want to thank everyone for entering and only wish I had been able to give all the entrants a free copy of Charlotte Chandler’s MARLENE: Marlene Dietrich – A Personal Biography just for e-mailing…particularly my fellow Jaw-jan and blogging colleague Elisson, who made Sprite Zero come out of my nose when he sent me an entry that read: “I vant to be alone… mit dis book in mein hands, so I can read it at mein convenience.” (Okay, he mixed in a little Garbo there but I still thought it was funny. I think you will, too; he blogs at Lost in the Cheese Aisle—or to use the German translation, Verloren im Käsegang…) Thanks again also to the good people at Simon & Schuster for providing the free swag; I’m going to put the TDOY prize closet under lock and key for a brief spell until we’ve settled in at the new House of Yesteryear.
I’d like to be able to say that I finished packing everything in boxes and am ready to move at a moment’s notice but since I’m under oath I’ll refrain from doing so. I do, however, have some relatively good news in that my official move date into the new Rancho Yesteryear has been coordinated until next Saturday (a week later than when I originally thought). And because I have been scribbling some reviews down for one of the best places online to locate hard-to-find movies, Vintage Film Buff, I might be able to offer up a little additional content here between now and Moving Day.
Thrilling Days of Yesteryear 