... but I like th jpg name










--mza.

It's from SAVED! with those hep kids Maculay Culkin and Mandy Moore

... but was it Culkin or just someone Culkinesque? Well, too bad we have no way of knowing

That looks like 2001 Space Odyssey on Earth




--mza.

if that is th Big Sleep, I don't remember th shades, but that movie is totallyawesome

Watchin a movie w/ an eye toward screencapping is intense










--mza.

rock-scissors-paper in here




--mza.

that's th thing, though -- nobody passes that test. I'm guilty of an imperfect match between saying and doing, too, and it's not just lying, it's th whole suite of human weakness -- forgetfulness, pride, an excess of feeling, plain idiocy ... but I find that th less I say, th more harmonious my being is. It's like that saying, "Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies"

As for other people's actions, well, once you've gotten used to disregarding their words, they're just like dogs -- a whole new universe of th truth opens up -- tone of voice, body language, patterns of behaviour over time ... and den you know how to react, just like w/ a dog:

If it's growling, you do this

If it's trying to jump up on you, you do this

If its tail is tucked between its legs, you do this

If it holds eye contact w/ you while in tripod position doing a poo ... well, no dog has ever done that w/ me, so I dunno

Th wife remarked to me th other day -- I think while watching a movie or TV show in which a man was asking a woman how she was feeling -- that I never ask her how she's feeling. I thought about it for a minute and couldn't recall an instance in th last 3 years ...... I said, "Well, do you feel known?"

That's what anyone wants, I think, to be known, and th more you can get there w/o words, th closer you are to telepathy













--mza.

asking my wife how she's feeling can communicate a lot of things, and it might mean I care how she's feeling, but it could just as easily not mean that. It might mean "I am very accustomed to saying this phrase to th woman I'm with"; or "I have a favour to ask you, so I'm going to pretend to be sensitive first"; or "I'm very scared that if I don't ask you how you're feeling, you won't like me"; or (this one's extremely dependent on tone) "LGBNAF". In th end, #TJW, and if she tells me how she's feeling, #TJW, too. Same goes for "I love you", "You are th one", "You had me from hello", or even just "Hello". Words are fine, I love 'em, I couldn't live w/o 'em, but they're easy come easy go

Aw that's a cool story. See, if she stayed loyal to him right to his deathbed, she can say I hate you and it still means I love you

--mza.