the groundhog day project

(Note to my future self: do not cite this entry if you end up doing your thesis on the currently being proposed topic; that would be cheating.) First, let's get this out of the way. Yesterday as Groundhog Day played on my iPad, I was running the movie on the computer as well, skipping around to grab screencaps of the interiors of the Cherry Street Inn. Obviously, that is not the interior. That is the exterior as shot in Woodstock. The interiors, as I mentioned the other day, were in a warehouse in Cary, IL. This is the side of the building (from Google Street View): So, here's the thing I need to get out of the way: Phil's room is designed in such a way that it could not possibly be in this building as it actually exists. Here's my diagram again: The stairs go down to the left there, which would be west since the three windows at the bottom of that diagram look south . Now, if Phil's room was where it should be, at the top right of the Cherry Street ...

No time for words today. The movie has just ended, and I spent the whole time putting together these: Which got me this: And I also put together these: And these: Near as I can tell, that is not the same hallway as the following images. Mrs. Lancaster comes into the scene from the left, another hallway. But, Phil leaves toward us to the right, which implies this is the same hallway as below. Maybe the hallway from which Mrs. Lancaster comes from is immediately next to the stairs down. And, finally this. The stairs from the previous image are coming down from the left. The stairs going down on the right head toward the front entrance to the Cherry Street Inn. Today’s reason to repeat a day forever: to just go ahead and capture every frame of Groundhog Day separately, already.

As far as deja vu jokes go, Top Secret! --which has absolutely nothing else to do with Groundhog Day , except I just watched the former after not having seen it in many years and am now watching the latter--has a good one. Du Quois introduces the Resistance members. The first group is "Chevalier, Montage, Detente, Avant Garde, and Deja Vu." That last one looks at our lead, Nick Rivers (Val Kilmer) and says, "Have we not met before, Monsieur?" Actually, I thought I found another link between Top Secret! and Groundhog Day when I saw that IMDb lists Top Secret! 's release date as June 8, 1984, the same day Ghostbusters , starring Bill Murray and directed by Harold Ramis, came out. Except, on closer inspection, i.e. Box Office Mojo , I confirmed that Top Secret! actually came out 2 weeks later, the same day as Rhinestone , which I am sure Rita Hanson just loved. But Ghostbusters was still number one at the box office. And, since I've reminisced recently ...

There will be no math today, not even 1+1-- arguably, it is 2 --because that stuff is tiring and I'm guessing at least a few of you-- I would guess a percentage but that might be construed as math-- in fact, I'm wondering now if use of the term few was mathematical --and I wouldn't want to present even the mildest appearance of impropriety --found it boring. Or inane. Or, if you really know math, you might have been thinking in the back of your mind, who is this moron, thinks he can suddenly pretend expertise in math just because he's got expertise on Groundhog Day ? Who does he think he is? To you-- and I am not going to look up what percentage of the population is good at math, or calculate/construct a Venn diagram to find the overlap between the set of people who are good at math and the set of people who read this blog-- now, that was mathematical, so I must apologize --because that would be wrong --I should apologize... except if you've been p...