Category: entertainment
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improve
I’ve spent the morning and part of the afternoon making a few improvements around the house, starting with the book cases in the extra room. It used to be Tim’s room, but we’ve been using it as an office. That’s a highfalutin way of saying we put a desk in there that’s been buried under… Read.
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airborne
Zombie on a plane! How come nobody’s made that movie yet? A guy gets mugged on his way to the airport and, unbeknownst to him and everyone on the place, the zombie apocalypse has just begun. Even though the mugger manages to drag the guy to the ground and bite him the guy manages to… Read.
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werdz
Robert Plant is such an atrociously bad singer that I had no idea Whole Lotta Love was such a filthy, dirty song until I heard this version of it by Those Darn Accordions. Absolutely lascivious. Here, listen to it yourself: Read.
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towering
There are five books in a teetering tower on top of my bedside book case. I think of these as the books I’m currently reading, even though I’m only really reading one of them right now: Empire of the Summer Moon. Before my birthday came along I was reading a dozen or so pages each… Read.
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heaven
This is the library of the Shiba Ryotaro Memorial Museum in Higashi Osaka, Japan. I want to live there for the rest of my life. Photo from the article in the blog Architect Day about the architect Tadao Ando, who designed the library. Read.
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stars
Oh I have just passed a most happy hour watching Brian Cox explain how atoms work. No, really. You may think you don’t have an hour to watch a video about a subject that you think you’ve never been interested in about knowledge you think you’ll never use, but just give him at least ten… Read.
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stamp
Right in the middle of the movie The Adjustment Bureau when the men in the sinister gray hats lost control of Matt Damon, they called in “The Hammer” to fix things. If you were a movie director and you had to cast a guy who would look menacing just by walking into the scene, who… Read.
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adjustment
Here’s what I got out of The Adjustment Bureau, one of Matt Damon’s latest flicks. I know it came out last summer but I mostly see films after they’re released to DVD and I can rent them from a local store. After the last local video store is killed off by Netflix and Amazon direct… Read.
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swag
My Christmas morning prezzie from The Great Big Cosmic FU* was a plugged-up bathroom drain. It was starting to drain slowly earlier this week so that by Sunday morning I was standing in a deepening pool of my own effluvia as I washed up. There is but one way to unclog the bathroom drain, but… Read.
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troll
If there’s still a video rental store in your neighborhood, go pester them to get a copy of Troll Hunter so you can watch it. If there isn’t, ;-( Read.
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