Singin in the Rain 

I've been looking for this song, in video, for years -- and today I found it on YouTube, while flying from NY to SF on American Airlines flight 15.

It was the closing song of the Hollywood Revue of 1929, the first talking picture, which is actually in the public domain. I'd like to download an archive of this video in case it disappears from YouTube (one that was there about a week ago did disappear, for no good reason, since it is public domain).

I know who a few of the actors are, but I'd like to know the names of all of them.

A young Joan Crawford is the second in the review.

Two later is Buster Keaton, the only one who isn't singing.

I'm sure Jack Benny is in there somewhere, as is Conrad Nagel.

Marie Dressler is the old woman, third from last.

Who is this guy? He looks like he could be a friend of mine (of course no matter, all these people are long-dead).

The 1930s was a golden age of movies. So much great stuff, culminating in one of the best years -- 1939.

First post from 38K feet 

I'm on an American Airlines flight from New York to San Francisco. It has wifi from Gogo Inflight.

Aside from immediately posting a note on Twitter, I checked to see if it had enough bandwidth to access my Slingbox, and it does. I'm listening to the roundtable on This Week while I write this.

Before we left I took a picture of the plane and uploaded it. Maybe later I'll take some morepics .

I got a special offer of 25 percent off the $12.95 price.

All the more reason for American Airlines to have clip art for blog posts now that we're going to be blogging from the air.

According to Speakeasy, I'm getting 1201 kbps up and 269 down.