This morning, I made my way to Gimme Coffee per usual for my morning work routine. Given that it's a Saturday, I didn't get there until 10-ish. Left a couple hours later. Normally I don't return to Gimme after leaving. One coffee/tea is enough. But I felt guilty for doing so little work, so I left home, 4-ish, to put in some more work. En route, I ( Read more... )

Last night, I finally saw the Aristocrats. (The homepage loads slowly. Here's imdb's info. What can I say? Except that everything you've heard about this movie is true. Vile, inappropriate and politically-socially-racially-incorrect. I had a great time. I think the key is to allow yourself to laugh at absolutely absurd situations. Don't think to ( Read more... )

An interesting opinion in the New York Times about the latest documentary March of the Penguins. Basically, Jonathan Miller explains how conservative groups are interpreting this documentary to espouse values such as monogamy and child-rearing while promoting an intelligent design ideology ( Read more... )

Okay, I'm behind the times. But I finally watched A Very Long Engagement. And I didn't like it. I was hoping for another human story like in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amelie. It wasn't ( Read more... )

Last night, a couple of my jewish friends went to the Hill Cumorah Pageant with me. The LDS (mormon) church puts on the "largest outdoor pageant in North America" on the site where Joseph Smith discovered the golden plates, which he translated into the Book of Mormon. The pageant depicts stories from the Book of Mormon ( Read more... )

A couple of friends from DC visited me over the weekend. But, being in little Ithaca, it's easy to run out of things to do. So naturally, we ended up at the movie theater. We went to see War of the Worlds. My overall assessment: don't waste your money. It's captures, pretty well, the sentiments of the book, so there's no interesting interpretation ( Read more... )

Tonight, I saw Imaginary Heroes. It was the last showing in Ithaca, and I'd been meaning to see it. I'm very, very, very glad that I dragged myself to it ( Read more... )