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The Peeve
Went to see The Grudge with Drella today up in Marin. To quote Crow T Robot: “This movie’s really not very good!” It wasn’t awful, I guess, and there were some genuinely creepy things going on. Especially at the climax. And I did like that they kept it set in Tokyo, and explained adquately why…
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Free at Last?
This is the first weekend I’ve had that I can remember where I wasn’t either at work or feeling like I was supposed to be at work. It seems that this entire year has been one long crunch mode. Over and over again I’ve turned down offers to go out and do stuff, because I…
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Signs from the cab seat
Last night, in celebration of the game’s finally going into CQC (something quality control, meaning that the game’s almost done), I went out to a bar with Alex and Bailey. As the night wore on and we drank more, the conversation turned to a religious “debate.” I can’t say that it was all that deep,…
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No hay venda
Another night, another long-winded movie review. I watched Mulholland Drive last night, even though it was way way too late. I kept thinking I should cut it off, but it was so compelling I had to keep watching. I’ve been hearing about the movie for years, but all I’d heard was that it was “long,…
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What was that all about?
Well, I’m blaming last night’s little panic attack episode on a combination of job stress, lack of sleep, and reading my friend’s very dark and cynical short stories right before I tried to go to bed. And, of course, the typical self-indulgent whining. But hey, this is a blog, after all. Job situation is almost…
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Desperately Optimistic
Well, if this is a journal, and the whole point is for me to become a better writer, then I guess I have to write down the bad stuff as well as the good. I’m always hearing from people that I’m grouchy, or surly, or cynical, or hard to read, when I think anyone who…
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Go Team Venture!
“I dunno. They just do that.” Cool things seen tonight: The Venture Brothers, which didn’t get me at first, but now I think it rocks all kinds of ways. Granted, anything with Patrick Warburton in it is guaranteed to be at least entertaining, because he’s just the coolest. At first, I’d dismissed this series as…
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When the Child was a Child…
On the drive into work this morning, I kept thinking about Wings of Desire for some reason. It’s really a beautiful movie overall — very European in that it has absolutely stunning sequences but kind of meanders and doesn’t hold together all that well, plus it has an American TV personality (Peter Falk) playing himself…