Category: play
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garden vs. big band
I asked My Darling B to go with me to see The Fountain Big Band Sunday night, but the weather was so warm and sunny that, when she went out in the morning to play in her garden, she couldn’t leave it for anything. She had to keep on playing in the dirt, so I… Read.
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first ride of the 2013 season
To find out just how out-of-shape I’d become over the winter, I set out on my bike to ride around Lake Monona this morning. After being shut inside, slouched in a chair for so many months, my body feels more like a non-Newtonian fluid than flesh and bone, a puddle of slop that rears up… Read.
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ceremonial
Sometime last week I grilled a big slab of salmon on the Weber for the first time this season, but it doesn’t count as the first ceremonial cook-out. That would’ve been last night when I boiled brats in beer, then grilled them to crispy brown perfection over hot coals. Man, that’s good eatin’! Read.
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Princess Mononoke
I actually lured Tim out into public today by dangling the promise of a free screening of Princess Mononoke in front of his nose. He had to think about it for a moment or two, but not too hard before he agreed. The show was part of a program put on by the University of… Read.
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Room 237
I am never going to understand conspiracy theorists. Room 237 was a documentary about people who have watched Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining and have become convinced that it’s about anything but a remote, haunted hotel that twists a man’s mind and makes him want to kill his wife and son. One person watched the film… Read.
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made it!
I somehow managed to remain upright and awake all through the day yesterday after staying up way past my bed time every night last week during the film festival. I’m pretty sure I didn’t go to bed before 11:30 on any night, and several nights I was up past midnight, only to have to get… Read.
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tickets!
Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing was our final film of the festival. Twenty-seven films in seven days! Read.
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Anfang 80
Anfang 80 is the story of Rosa and Bruno: how they meet, how they fall in love, and how they die, all in the space of just a few months. I really wanted to like this movie. In fact, I really did like this movie a whole lot, even though I felt very strongly that… Read.
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Computer Chess
We had to duck out of Computer Chess, too, except that My Darling B was the one to tap me on the shoulder this time. I didn’t hesitate to grab my jacket and scurry out of the theater right behind her, though. Whatever kind of humor they were using in that movie, the audience was… Read.
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Comrade Kim Goes Flying
We saw two really good films today, the first one at the beginning of the day and the other one at the end of the day, that sort of bookended the day and made it worth going out for. And we saw two stinkers. One of them stunk so bad it took under thirty minutes… Read.
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