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Friday, April 19, 2002
So I ended up watching Mulholland Drive last night instead of working on the comments system. Wow. What a freakish trip that was. And brilliant, I should definitely mention how brilliant the film is. If you watch it, you will, of course, be saying What the hell? to yourself for a while after the credits have rolled. In fact, to really make full sense out of the whole thing, I had to visit a couple of sites: Salon.com had a pretty solid analysis of the whole film, and the (UK) Guardian had a nice bit where they had readers write in with their interpretations, a couple of which are pretty funny.
Thursday, April 18, 2002
My first blog haiku. Actually, it's not all that frustrating, I just want to be working on the movie reviews and the comment system at the same time. I think the comment system will come first, though. And just as a warning -- the site may be down for a while later while I get this comments system up and running. Don't panic, alright? That goes for all three of you.
In the meantime, check out this news about these scientists who've supposedly invented a "thinking cap." A la Rainman. Yeah.
Wednesday, April 17, 2002
Linkage: There's a well-written article by Cathy Young over at Reason Online, lambasting both the left and the right for their hypocrisy.
How'd you like to drive a car that gets 239mpg? And it seems to me that this is one of the many incredibly wrong things that occur in our current implementation of capitalism. Egads.
Tuesday, April 16, 2002
Linkage: I can't decide which is funnier from this article -- that it took four years for a criminal to create a cipher, or that it took 4 deputies an hour and a half to break it. And have you ever wondered how much more you could get done if you didn't have to sleep so much?
Ok, so... Dogs and Peeps. Yes, those fluffy marshmallow things that used to pop up a month or two before Easter every year that now show up on a regular basis like your uncle Bob who uses any minor holiday to get just a little too hammered at a family gathering. I brought some of the unnaturally blue bunnies home the day after Easter (but only because they were half-priced down to something like 79 cents, and I've got a sweet tooth that needs feeding occasionally.) I was stowing the groceries I'd just brought home, and discovered a package of Peeps in the pantry, forgotten since some time last year. At this point, they are of course, rocks. But Daphne, my pig Great Pyrenees is already in the kitchen because foodstuffs are being handled (even if they're going into, not out of the cabinets) snuffling about, and generally being in the way. She does this the most when groceries are being put away or a food is being made that doesn't get prepared very often; I think she's trying to identify the smells to gauge whether any of it will be going into her food bowl later. My typical response to this is to allow the pup to sniff something from a semi-safe distance (3-4 inches) and then go about my business, as if to say, "You dork, it's spinach. You don't eat spinach." Well, this technique only brought about even more prancing about and snuffling. And obviously I wasn't going to be eating them, so after ripping open the package and opening the back door, I handed a stale rod of the little pink chicks to each of the dogs. Sugar (the shepherd/chow mix) took hers out to the yard, set it down, and never really did anything with it. Daphne, however, plowed into the peeps like she'd just been given a turkey carcass. Artificially-colored pink drool was soon coloring her paws. She polished off that set, and soon stole Sugar's peeps, only for them to suffer the same slimy fate. See the pictures on the photo page.
