Category: play
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Beneath Hill 60
Beneath Hill 60 was our first movie on day two of the Wisconsin Film Festival. I gave it four out of five – really enjoyed it, but I was expecting to find out a little more about the difficulties of digging a mine under German lines in the middle of a war, and did not… Read.
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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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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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Rescue Me
We started watching the television series Rescue Me about a month ago after we saw Denis Leary on Jon Stewart’s Daily Show and they mentioned this would be the last season for Leary’s show. I turned to My Darling B for the umpteenth time and said that I heard that was a pretty good show… Read.
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Do-over
Even though this looks like much the same photo I took of the layout benchwork yesterday, it’s a do-over, because an unwritten but widely acknowledged law of the universe clearly states that we can’t have it exactly right the first time, can we? In point of fact, the big doughnut I cut out and glued… Read.
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Smooove
My Darling B made an avocado smoothie this morning and kept some aside for me. I eagerly slurped it up, and I say that as a man who would not have slurped up anything with avocado in it until B started experimenting with foods like this. I was not a big fan of avocado because… Read.
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Doughnut
I spent about three hours trying to figure out how to make this goddamned thing. I needed a great big doughnut-shaped piece of plywood sixty inches across I could lay a curve of railroad track on. The easiest way to do this is: Get a sheet of plywood sixty inches wide, draw a big circle… Read.
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No Such Thing
As I grabbed my coffee mug and headed to the kitchen for a refill, My Darling B asked me, “Haven’t you had enough coffee already?” Her comment provoked a puzzled frown and a pregnant pause from me. When my brain finished processing her comment and came up with nothing, I was finally able to speak:… Read.
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Oishii desu!
It’s not like Madison needs another restaurant, but we’re pretty happy that Umami opened on Willy Street anyway. We stopped there for dinner after work today and each slurped up a bowl of ramen the likes of which we’ve not enjoyed since we left Japan almost six years ago. We’ve tried ramen at a few… Read.
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