Ages ago, Jakub got himself a new digital camera and was playing with it and took a close-up of his eye. I got the picture and was playing with GIMP and turned it all blue. And now Jakub’s big blue eye is being used in the print brochure for the Edinburgh Festival’s production of The Wonderful World of Dissocia. And Jakub and I got a photo credit!
Makes me feel so important and warm inside.
Stop the ride I want to get off. Stop the world I want to get off. Stop the floor, I want to get off. Stop the room I want to get off.
I don’t want the world, I just want your half. I just want a controlling percentage of shares outstanding. I just want the portions west of the Charles and inside 128. I’ll settle for Porter and Davis if I can have visitation rights to Boston proper, including but not limited to Allston/Brighton, Fenway, Back Bay and the South End.
Fine, it’s yours. See if I care.
“We will never show weakness in the face of these people who have no soul.” Turning this into a crusade is among the worst ideas I’ve ever heard. Bob Woodward’s book is selling like hotcakes over at my favorite bookstore and it’s thanks to the megalomania and general blindness that Our Leader has exhibited, from day one. Even those who supported a war now say, had they known how it would be run, they would not have supported one done like this. (see Matt Iglesias and D-Squared for background).
On the other hand, it may be a popular mistake. I got a pre-recorded message about how the MA supreme court had gone against the will of God and we’d have to show up at the state house to remind them that church and state were meant to be unified, or something. Now, I know Mr. Meeks is an antidisestablishmentarianist, but I’m still in (polite) disagreement that the combination of the Anglican church with the British state has been any better than having the two of them apart. I mean, you’d still have nationalist upheavals, but at least they wouldn’t be religious and nationalist.
I admit I only added that last bit because I wanted to say “antidisestablishmentarianist.” Let history judge my love of big words as it may.
Nothing.
Within twelve hours of a missed dose, the patient experiences headache and nausea, progressing to irritability, then ringing in the ears, a tingling sensation in the extremities and scalp, dizziness, diarrhea, violent mood swings, and… well, I don’t know. Probably after a day or three it goes away and you’re back to normal, whatever normal is.
Kill Bill, Part 2: As good as the critics say. The violence varied from the first movie: less of it, but much crueler and less cartoonish. I particularly liked the sequences with the kung fu master. I keep looking for deeper themes in Tarantino’s movies, but I think that for the most part they’re just surface: cool action, badass characters, tributes to movies and entertainment overall. Although the little girl will be screwed up– but that’s basically just a nod to “Shogun Assassin.”
Hitachino Nest Red Rice Ale: Most of your wierd-ingredient beer tends to be very complex in flavor, often to its detriment. This is tangy and crisp, with a color just a little more red than most red ales I’ve encountered. Would definitely buy again.
Cambridge, One: owned by the same folks who do Audobon and the Miracle of Science, and filled with the same angular slate tables that scream “no toddlers, please,” this one does ultra-thin gourmet pizza and fancy salad. A very short menu prepared well and quickly, an open kitchen, and truly delicious spicy breadsticks. Try the arugula and bresaola salad, or the potato and green-onion pizza.
I have a clever girlfriend. She ran out to do errands and asked if I could just dust off this one cabinet in the bathroom. But having done that, I noticed a small area under the towel hooks, where condensation had stuck towel fibers to the wall, and then dust had gathered, and… well, I’ll be doing this all day until I’m satisfied or I give up. Time to mix up a bucket of Oxy-Clean and get out the step ladder.
Includes choice quote from Gary Trudeau about his pal Aaron McGruder: “When I was starting out, my editor once said, ‘You can write about Vietnam this week, but you damn well better write about football next week.’ His point was that you have to take your knee off the reader’s windpipe from time to time.”
Quick Update, mostly from BoingBoing:
Weird advertising news.
Continued advances in psychiatric research of happiness, satisfaction, and inner peace.
Tax deniers. Some people call them tax protestors, or tax cranks, but they actually deny the existence of the income tax, sort of like holocaust deniers think the holocaust didn’t happen. When I grow up, I want to be a crank, but not like these folks.
Bookdwarf has a post on influential books during one’s teenage years (that is, “which books are you embarrassed to have liked back in the day?”). I’m cringing now.
Brad DeLong continues to be excellent with coverage of the coming housing crash; I need to finish that article pronto and start circulating it in Boston newspapers and mags.
I would start sentences with “Candy historians speculate that… “
Secretly Ironic 
