Archive for September, 2008
What Is Lasik Surgery?
Posted by Steve Kremer in Laser Eye Surgery on September 9th, 2008
Since I re-started this blog back in April and began looking at my Web stats I was surprised to find that lots of folks are coming here after doing a search on lasik, lasik surgery, lasik eye surgery, kremer lasik surgery. What the heck? Um, we don’t do eye surgery here. I’ve got a large scar on one of my fingers from a big mistake I made with my swiss army knife. Believe me you don’t want me anywhere near you or your eyes with a knife or laser! So I did a little Web research and found that Dr. Frederic B. Kremer, M.D. performed the first Lasik procedure in North America. His bio is here. He has Kremer lasik eye centers in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware. Dr. Kremer is no relation but a big congrats to him for his invention. I wear glasses but know lots of folks who’ve had lasik surgery and it’s been great for them. So if you are looking for lasik eye surgery, look for someone like Dr. Kremer, not me. The only laser I wield is the toy Star Wars laser sword circa 1977.
The Scorpion King…um… Not really.
Posted by Steve Kremer in Friends & Family on September 9th, 2008
I’ve had a couple of posts in the past that I have called “Only In L.A. Moments”. With this story I am expanding out to an “Only in California Story”. My son Dan lives in the O.C. more specifically North Tustin in Orange County, California. He lives in a house with several friends including a filmmaker. The filmmaker is in the middle of shooting the short film The 20 Second Rule with a sub-plot line that involves a character of a Voodoo Princess. Dan returned home late Saturday to find a film crew at the house wrapping up a day of shooting the Voodoo scenes. The filmmaker roommate took Dan aside and said he had some really bad news. While they were filming a scene with the Voodoo Princess a live scorpion they were using as part of the scene escaped. They tried to find him but had no luck. So there’s a live scorpion somewhere in the house. Of course since this is a movie, they couldn’t use a little scorpion that wouldn’t show well on camera. They had to use a really big scorpion. The good news was it was the kind of scorpion that is not venomous. It’s the kind whose sting won’t kill you, but it is painful. The woman who brought the scorpion thinks, but is not sure, that the scorpion had his stinger removed. She went on to tell everyone that scorpions apparently like dark cool places like closets and to be careful putting on your shoes. I joked with Dan that it was better they liked shoes instead of something like an underwear drawer.
UPDATE: One week later the scorpion was caught! Here is a picture of the scorpion in a jar…and here is another picture showing how big and ugly the scorpion is.
Don LaFontaine “The Voice”
Posted by Steve Kremer in Strange True News on September 4th, 2008
You may not know who Don LaFontaine is…but you have heard him. He is the voice of movie trailers who often started with…”In a World…” He was feature in the GEICO commercial as “that announcer guy from the movies.” Here’s a link to that commercial on YouTube.
The bad news is that Don passed away this week. Being a former radio announcer I wanted to pay tribute to Don by featuring the video above. Don along with the most famous voiceover announcers there are. You may not recognize the faces, but you will recognize the voices.
