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Tivo, based on my recording of McLaughlin group and watching Charlie Rose seems to conclude that I would also like The Blow’Reilly Factor.

Tivo is wrong.

Wayne Wang is a rather famous indie director. This weekend I caught his release “Center of the World”. It’s a psycho-eroto-thrillier-deconstruction. The plot is basically this: dot-com millionaire hires a girl to be his companion for a weekend in Las Vegas…and it gets complicated from there.

I was curious, what sort of other movies would a person with such a leaning make?Surely more movies that dance on the R/NC-17 rating right?

• Because of Winn-Dixie (2005)
• Maid in Manhattan (2002)

Huh. Well, if that’s not subversion!

This morning I finished:

It was a very good introduction to British history.

Here’s one of the more interesting things I learned, Queen Elizabeth had beautiful handwriting:

The lineup was:

Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin, Sam Waterston, Elisabeth R?hm

Mr. Orbach died (R.I.P.) and was replaced by Dennis Farina (“Fontana”).

Elisabeth R?hm was replaced by Annie Parisse (“Borgia”)

Martin’s character (“Green”) seems to have caught a bullet and (we hope!) may survive, but has been replaced by Michael Imperioli (of “The Sopranos” fame) who portrays Det. Falco.

Hang on here

Italianate Imperioli Farina Parisse

Non-Italianate Waterston - Ex. ADA McCoy Merkerson - Lt. van Buren the DA - Fred Thompson

Interesting, eh?

For many years I have been an emacs editor user and have scoffed (loudly, with spittle) in the general direction of vi users.

Well this weekend whilst on call I took the opportunity to learn the vim editor. ‘vi’ was my first unix editor (as it is for most people) and I’m now in a position to appreciate vim’s elegance and approach. It’s not emacs, but it’s not a hunk of junk.

Thanks to Merlin for helping me re-consider this tool. It’s Not Shabby (tm).

This is one of the best movies I ever saw and I am eternally in the debt of Beth in NYC for having introduced me to it one early fall evening in Austin.

Here’s the VHS link: [ LINK ].

It’s one of the most fiercely original plots ever. If you still have a VHS player take it for a spin.

As watching episodes of the brilliant Freaks and Geeks on DVD.

The absolute accuracy with which high school identity and awkwardness is portrayed hits the mark every time — like a misanthropic, sadistic, dentist.

I’ve never winced and laughed harder at the same time.

I hate stories that portray young adults (you know, teenagers) as always doing the right thing. Because being a teen is about letting go of the black-and-white rules and accepting the grayness that adults see.

Case in point, Sam doesn’t want his sister’s parents-are-away party to get out of hand so he switches the keg for non-alcoholic beer. Sam seems pretty guy in the white cowboy hat. Moments later his love interest shows up and her cousin asks for beer immediately. Sam realizes the social power of mammals around fermented beverage and uses its status to help get in good with the cousin — and thus the love interest? Now find an adult who would deny that for some reason certain liquids make social gathering go better, not many, I’d wager.

So Sam’s situation is the real deal what growing up is like (as I recall anyway).

Bless you Paul Feig.

me: /me considers moving to Wisconsin me: http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20050412080709990012 social_bobcat: you are vile, sir me: My heart is black social_bobcat: i stand opposed to this motion me: Hey, it’s feral cats me: They’re a menace. social_bobcat: unless they’re gay cats, then fire away social_bobcat: we must defend male - female cat marriages me: you are part of the culture of life

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In the Gilmore Girls episode “Help Wanted” Amy Sherman (-Palladino) treats, I daresay, her literary creative fans to a bit if shameless titilation.

Lorelai (Lauren Graham) escorts her father (Edward Hermann) to a discount office supply story and they wax quick and quirky about the fetishes of the office place. I can only assume that Ms. Palladino (-Sherman) has killed thousands of trees and drained thousands of cyllinders of ink pursuing her craft. Here are some choice lines.

“I can’t use all those [pens]….”

“You won’t. You’ll lose half of them and then you’ll be thankful you have the other half.”

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“My goodness, look at all the Post-Its(tm) - I had no idea they came in so many shapes and colors.”