Month: March 2011
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13 Assassins
There’s no way I could top this on-demand movie review from Ground Zero: “13 Assassins” takes the men-on-a-mission cliche of Westerns and samurai movies and dresses it in crazy pants. The movie is just this: Twelve samurai and one fool are dispatched to kill the evil Lord Naritsugu, who’s protected by both his political associations… Read.
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Pink Saris
Here’s the blurb for the movie Pink Saris that made me want to see it: Sampat Pal Devi doesn’t take any guff. A short, powerful woman in a hot pink sari, she fearlessly challenges and intimidates men twice her size in a community where she is considered a second-class citizen at best. Leader of the… Read.
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elevate me
I’ve loved elevators since I was a kid. I think just about every kid does. The sliding doors aren’t the novelty they once were, but the idea of a little car that you can drive up and down a vertical hallway is way too nifty for words. I ride elevators wherever I find them, even… Read.
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Haircut
Day off from work today with My Darling B – AWESOME! And not just today but tomorrow and Friday, too, so we can cram as much movie watching into the five days of the Wisconsin Film Festival as possible. The festival doesn’t kick off until six o’clock this evening but we took the whole day… Read.
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Wakey Wakey
God damn, I hate going to bed but not going to sleep. The weirdest thing about sleeplessness is that it’s so goddamn boring, and yet somehow not quite boring enough to make me nod off. I’ve been in staff meetings so boring that I can’t keep myself awake no matter how long I hold my… Read.
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Chap my lips
Chapped lips. I spent the whole day trying to soothe the worst case of chapped lips I’ve had in recent memory. I wasn’t sure what to do, because I don’t usually get chapped lips, and when I do I’m conveniently close to the teensy little jar of Carmex I keep by my bedside, but not… Read.
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Heepah!
I think our dusty house may be trying to kill us. By the time we get to the end of the winter season, when the windows have been closed more or less continuously since October, our house has dust bunnies so numerous that the president takes them off the endangered species list. Granted, that’s mostly… Read.
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Stooges
Watching the legislature work is like watching The Three Stooges trying to fix leaky plumbing. Larry does one thing, Shemp does another, Moe wangs them both over the head with a monkey wrench, yelling “Because I said so!” and makes them do it his way. In the next scene the botched job blows up in… Read.
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Routine
As I stood beside the tub this morning with one hand under the shower head, waiting for the running water to get just a little bit warmer than frigid, my brain cell woke up just enough to notice that there were no clean towels on the towel rack. Good brain cell! Good boy! Can you… Read.
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frigid
Was I right about last week’s warm weather being a tease? Yes, I was! I got it so right when I said we’d all be freezing our nipples off this week! BOOyah! Why can’t I be right about something useful, like lottery numbers? Read.
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