gee, can you vague that up for me?
Jan 31 2006
While I agree with my friends who said “hot gay cowboys – how can you go wrong?” and with my other friends who said that it was basically a soap opera on horseback, mostly I just found Brokeback Mountain to be very, very sad. I also, after seeing the credits, faintly remember reading the Annie [...]
Jan 30 2006
Very little this weekend worth reporting on. Not to say I didn’t do anything; just to say that none of it was terribly exciting. I did clean the house, which made me proud of myself. I also watched Match Point with a handful of my colleagues. It’s morally reprehensible and very, very sexy; I tend [...]
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Jan 30 2006
You’ll get through this / if you hang on – Magnet, “Hold On” The Tourniquet I love it when things suck but kexp comes through with the appropriate, uplifting, emo sentiment. I just want to go home & curl up today.
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Jan 28 2006
One upside to moving here: only in Northern-to-Central California can you go to a farmer’s market in the end of January (and have it be going strong, with the outside temperature around 60f) and buy: – strawberries – olive oil – avocados – swiss chard – grapefruit – walnuts – lavender And be reasonably assured [...]
Jan 27 2006
This weekend is the weekend of home improvement and cleaning. I need to remember this tommorow when I am lying around thinking that either a) I should sleep for several more hours, wake up, make breakfast, read a couple hundred pages of novel and go back to bed; or b) take the train towards civilization. [...]
Jan 27 2006
You know that old, hairy, best blonde joke ever that’s been going around for the last three years or so? (which someone named Eli calls perhaps Web 2.0′s first killer app). Well, someone graphed its node path with a perl script, which is pretty awesome.
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Jan 25 2006
Today I found a fabulous LCSH subject heading, if not one of the best ones I have ever encountered: Space and time — social aspects. The metaphysical implications astound me. A coworker & I were trying to figure out what such a heading might be used for. Accounts of intergalatic parties? Experiences from another dimension? [...]