Philip Seymour Hoffman – Senso
Please Remember, As There Is A Good Chance I Will Forget
Eleven more days and I’ll be hitting my first year anniversary of blogging, which all started out with a post on two of my favorite topics — zombies and shopping.
Okay, I lied. I don’t really like shopping at all.
Anyways, if March 29th rolls around and you think of it, poke me in the stomach and remind me it’s been a freakin’ year.
Thanks.
P.S. It is not appropriate to congratulate me on a blogyear of activity on this post. You’re just going to have to set aside a portion of your brain to remember the date, and remind/congratulate me when it finally rolls around.
They’re So Incredible
Oh my I’m in heaven.
There are cheesy soundtrack songs that form the core of my being. This is one of them.
Until today I did not know this video existed.
God Bless You, Internet!
Revenge – They’re So Incredible (from the film Revenge of the Nerds)
Unconnected Tuesdays
Tomato
Bookcase
Middle Name Meme
Zoiks, another meme I have been tagged with. I better get on with it, I reckon.
The Rules:
1. Post the rules before you give your answers.
2. List one fact about yourself beginning with each letter of your middle name. If you don’t have a middle name, use your maiden name or your mother’s maiden name.
3. At the end of your blog post, tag one person (or blogger of another species) for each letter of your middle name. Be sure to leave them a comment telling them they’ve been tagged.
Bright – I’m reasonably smart. There are plenty smarter, but I do okay, I guess.
Eccentric – I’m a tad weird, and not necessarily in the oh-let’s-watch-a-documentary-about-this-interesting-chap way. I have an eclectic palate, I concentrate on odd musical things, and I routinely indulge my sense of humor that many times finds no common ground with readers of my blog. So, I’m not crazy wacky nuts, but I’m a little off (I honestly think most people have their own eccentricities which they choose to keep hidden).
Negative – I can be a real pisser sometimes. This pissiness comes out in bursts, sometimes in carefully controlled form.
Juvenile – Four words: I like fart jokes.
Anxious – I’m a hypochondriac, I have the occasional panic attacks, I’m paralyzed with fear when faced with a mechanical breakdown or a simple household repair. Anxious.
Misanthropic – Not only am I negative, I am also a little misanthropic. I think people are capable of wonderful things, but there are times when confronted with something awful I think, “yeah, that’s humanity for you”. See Dreadful Reimaginings for my misanthropy in concentrated form. And look forward to a new bitterly funny installment of this feature, Jesus and the Magic Beans, which I’ll post sometime this coming weekend.
Imagination – I’m not all rain clouds, I like rainbows too. I think the imagination is one of the greatest treasures of being alive. If you’re not using yours, you’re missing out. That’s one reason why I often have more fun talking with kids.
Nice – I’m nice! Honest!
I’m so nice I won’t tag anyone for this. However, if the ghost of Harry S. Truman wants to give it a shot, he is certainly welcome to.
A Very Resilient Piece Of Python
Yeah, I know, Holy Grail has been ruined in some ways by sheer overquoting, but this was always one of my favorite bits, and it defies catchphrasing and regurgitation.
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day!
10,500,000 Firecrackers
Bubs’ Voice In The Wilderness
I hear a faint and distant kerfuffle.
Is it the light brushstrokes of a clown painting an alligator? The sickening wet crunch of an alligator eating a clown?
No, it’s a meme lobbed thisaway from the long lost Bubs!
Rule 1) List three reasons for your blogging.
a) I gots ideas
b) I needs to tell them
c) It’s free
Rule 2) List the rules.
I am. Just be patient.
Rule 3) Tag three others with the thread.
I tag:
Arianna Huffington of The Huffington Post
Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing
Bob Somerby of The Daily Howler
Two Buck Schmuck Crisis Ending
Thanks for all your comments and suggestions regarding the recent crisis.
They gave me some perspective.
Grant Miller indicated that the cheap moviehouse in his parts actually closed down — that’s a far more heartbreaking result of cinematic hard times than having to reconsider my name, or needing to scrounge the change dish for a few more quarters.
Mr. Miller, if you get the itch for a still-reasonably priced movie, there is room enough for another schmuck at the LaGrange (although I don’t know that I would call you one — honestly, some days I wouldn’t call myself one, feeling closer to being a shlemiel).
Like many of you, I have discovered the wonders of Netflix, but I encourage you to occasionally patronize your local, rundown second-run movie theater and enjoy all the majesty of Hollywood without the wallet-busting ticket prices.
As far as my ongoing feature goes, I think I’m going to stick with my Two Buck Schmuck moniker, and just say $1.50 will be a value-added tax or some such thing. Hey, it’s the Internet. I can do anything!
We Own The World
Here’s a pointer to a great article by Noam Chomsky.
(thanks, Mom!)