Alsson At Large

These are my footnotes to the collective consciousness.

I think I'm the oldest person on Tumblr and possibly the only Conservative. My posts are mostly reblogs, often with reactions and rebuttals to Liberal nonsense I'm simply unable to ignore. Occasionally, I am moved to share something personal, often from my past. I'm just messing around here, is what it all boils down to. I had a blue-collar youth and a white-collar career, both in the midwest. I built, ran and sold a business, have stayed married to the same person since 1965 and have two children and one grandchild I adore. Life hasn't always been easy, but it has been very good overall. That's me, for now.

Also, I own almost none of the photographs or videos I post. If I've used one of yours and you want me to remove it, just ask.

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1187hunterwasser:

Ridley Scott and Harrison Ford on shooting of Blade Runner. Here Ridley rehearses a fight wit Harrison - a conflict that was mirrored in a real life on the set.

Didn’t know that. Ridley is a much better director than Harrison is an actor. That gap may even have widened over time. And Ridley seems very demanding in terms of the tiniest detail of what he wants. I watched him shoot a commercial years ago, 1991 I think, for The Sheraton Hotel Corporation. He spent an hour moving a small lacquer box in the scene — an inch or two one way, an inch or two another. And that was just one object. I think it took him most of the afternoon getting 15 seconds of a 60 second commercial.