Phil Hartman Books

This booklet is an excellent resource for educators (elementary through college, families, and resource management/research groups) with need for a practical and easy to use guide to identify juvenile salmonids in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. The 32 page soft covered booklet is easily slipped into a daypack or coat pocket. The guide is printed on water resistant paper that will not fall apart even if it accompanies the user on an unexpected icy cold plunge into the stream. Mud and slime wipe clean from the pages with a moist cloth.

The content of the book is excellent. Included are color illustrations and photographs of all the species described, including Atlantic salmon which are more and more often finding their way into Pacific Northwest streams. Also included are pen and ink drawings that help the user identify key diagnostic feature. Having the three views of each species is very helpful in arriving at a correct identification.

In addition to information pertinent to any basic taxonomic key, the guide includes helpful clues about habitat usage, behavior and life history that direct users to the best locations for finding each species. This booklet accompanies all my crews when they take to the streams for salmon management and research activities.

The plastic bag viewing chamber is a great addition for the identification of juvenile salmonids. The illustrations are very understandable and the photography is very good, with standardized backgrounds a real plus. This manual will be very useful for our salmon and steelhead restoration project for making sure those involved will have a resource for checking the identification of salmonids that is of the highest quality.

This is one of the funniest movies of all time. Mike Myers best and most memorable performance. The scenes with Charlie's father (Stuart McKenzie, also played by Mike Myers) are so funny they will make you laugh until your stomach hurts. Heeeed, paper now!

I was looking to replace a lost copy of this movie and thought I put in my two cents. This movie has it all, murder mystery, martial arts, poetry, songs and dance plus bag pipes and yes, Phil Hartman. This was a great date movie for my husband and I before we got married, and now we watch it every year on our wedding anniversary. If you like the old Saturday Night Live type of humor you'll love this. This movie is like a fine old wine, it gets better with age!!

There aren't so much as five seconds of this movie that aren't hilariously funny. Mike Myers stars as Charlie, a San Francisco coffeehouse poet with a serious fear of commitment and a track record of ending relationships over imagined flaws. When Charlie finally meets the beautiful Harriet (Nancy Travis)--who happens to be a butcher--a series of revelations have him convinced she's Mrs. X, who marries men and murders them on their wedding night. The movie is full of very funny characters and great performances, including Amanda Plummer as Harriet's oddball sister Rose, Brenda Fricker as Charlie's lustful, conspiracy-obsessed mother May, Anthony LaPaglia as the frustrated undercover cop, Alan Arkin as his too-nice police captain, and funniest of all, Mike Myers in the additional role of Stuart, Charlie's belligerent Scottish father (evidently based on Myers' real father). Some of the funniest scenes involve Charlie's poems parodying the "beatnik" style, including the unforgettable "woman woman woman" poem and the "Harriet, hard-hearted harbinger of haggis" poem. You won't be able to stop quoting most of this uproarious movie.

Unlike most people I actually pay attention to critics as I have burned by the hype way too often. Like most great cult films though they really missed on this one. The one liners are top 100 classic and the great supporting cast get the film through potentially slow points. Nancy travis is especially brilliant in a role that is designed to be ambigious. Bottom line, get the DVD, watch, repeat.

Charlie Mackenzie (Mike Myers) has a bit of a commitment problem. It doesn't matter how perfect his girlfriend is, he finds some reason to end the relationship.

Then, into his life, walks Harriet Michaels (Nancy Travis). With just one smile, she melts Charlie's heart. It's love at first site, and Charlie is ready to leave his bachelor days behind him.

There's just one little problem. Reports are circulating the country about a Mrs. X who kills her husbands on their wedding night. And Charlie thinks that Harriet may be Mrs. X. Is he just coming up with another excuse not to commit? Or is he signing his life away by asking Harriet to marry him?

I'm not normally a fan of Mike Myers' comedy, and this movie reminded me why. The reliance on sexual jokes and situations for comedy never appeals to me. Mike also plays Charlie's dad Stuart, and I just found that character annoying.

To further complicate things, the story is rather dull. We know what's coming, and the movie takes too long getting there. If I had been enjoying myself along the way, I wouldn't have minded. But since I wasn't, I didn't. I actually enjoyed the sub-plot about Charlie's friend Tony (Anthony LaPaglia) and his disappointment in his job as a cop more then the main story.

The only thing that gives the movie that second star is the climax. It was actually funny and interesting. It's not enough to make the movie worth watching, but at least it was entertaining.

Die hard Mike Myers fans do love this movie. The rest of us can just move right along.