After work, I met up with Raz to go see Burn After Reading, which was an espionage comedy with a grisly sense of humor akin to that of the Coen brothers' previous The Ladykillers. In addition to the comical paranoia (which was much, much more effective than it had any right to be), there is, as usual for a Coen brothers picture, an extremely game ( Read more... )

SCORING REALITIES
I've often reflected that since what I love film music is that it tends to be inherently dramatic, much of the source of my attraction to it is exactly what many people avoid when listening to music. That's too bad, because every once and a while, you just get perfect matches to what's actually going on ( Read more... )

"Me in a metal tube, deep underground with hundreds of people in the most aggressive city in the world?"The train ahead of mine broke down at the Roosevelt Avenue station. They managed to get the train I was on into the station just enough to open the doors and evacuate it before taking it out of service. While I have been riding the subway all ( Read more... )

My internet went out yesterday, an infuriating development because I had plans I couldn't fulfill. It also appears that there is some serious shit going on in some people's lives (you know who you are, you can call me if you like ( Read more... )

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TAKING ADVANTAGE OF SOME OF THE NEW FEATURES LIVEJOURNAL OFFERS, THIS POST IS IN PINE FRESH SCENT.

waystone alerted me to a bumper sticker today she observed today and (correctly) felt that I might get a kick out of:


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happy birthday
mortimusmonk!!!Okay... jury duty was boring right until I was on a panel of prospective jurors for a particular case. I am not, as yet, in the jury box, but I was in the audience, and the way they've been whittling away at people, they might get around to me today. I actually found the jury selection process fascinating, and I have to admit ( Read more... )

The wrist of my right hand is giving me some pain. Everybody I have mentioned it to has brought up that it might be carpal tunnel syndrome, but I'm not so sure as CTS tends to be gradual, and this came upon me pretty quickly ( Read more... )

This has nothing to do with anything, but...

I HATE BREAST IMPLANTS

I've never seen a woman look better after getting them.

Ever.
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I snoozed my alarm clock and woke up two hours later. I must have hit the wrong button. Or been abducted by space aliens, but not only do I think that they only rarely do so in urban areas at 6:00 AM, but I also don't feel the aftereffects of the anal probe ( Read more... )