It is SUNDAY! What are you doing today?
Generally get up really early to participate in a Quaker discussion group. Then visit my favorite nursery. Then come home and take a nap. Delicious!
A few months ago this movie was brought to my attention by a friend. It was made in 1999...but for some reason, I'd never even heard of it.
Well, it is just HILARIOUS.
It's about these superhero-wanna-be's. Ben Stiller plays "Mr. Furious", who's supertalent is to just get really angry. Hank Azaria plays "The Blue Raja", a turban wearing hero who hurls silverware and speaks in a British accent--and refuses to use knives, because that would be too easy. William H. Macy plays "The Shoveler"--a guy who's talent is shoveling. There are other heros, too...and the bad guy is "Casanova Frankenstein".
Man, this movie is too much.
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Today was a pretty good one. Highlight: the boys finished a new song. It was like we had it in our sights, but we had to take a shot or two to bring her down. Felt great! Had to send an email to my dad (how lame is that?!) cause when they hooked up my new house phone they brought me all the Comcast digital voice nonsense but NO PHONE CORD! Well, great. Its like the printer they sent me with everything but a cable to connect it to the computer. Nice one.
I got a hair cut also, which was great. Before that, I grabbed an Italian sausage at Shelly's Freeze. I made the mistake of getting sweet peppers AND hot peppers, which is obviously tasty, but it was hot today, and I didn't need the food to help me sweat! So, I grabbed a cold twist cone right afterwards. Yum! I was eating it, and walked across the street to catch the number 11 down Lincoln to the Hair Cuttery I like to go to (I've never had the same cuttist twice, but they always do something interestingly normal, and it's relatively cheap!).
The bus arrived pretty quickly. I sort of had a moment where the thought swam through my head "you're not really supposed to eat on CTA buses" but I've seen a bunch of sassy folks eating McDonald's a million times before, so...it should be alright.
Nope. I had my big headphones on, and a cone, and had to fish my pass out of my wallet, and she says "you can't eat that on here" and I say "I know, but come on its a hot summer Sunday and I'm eating an ice cream cone" which, as far as I'm concerned, is a good enough reason to bend the rules.
She wasn't having it. "Sorry, you can't eat on the bus."
"Come on, I'll have to wait like a HALF HOUR for the next one, the 11 sucks on Sundays." I saw no reason to hold back.
Instead of responding, she pushed the voiceover button above her seat which caused the robot voice to say "There is no eating allowed on CTA buses and trains."
Halfway through I said "Yes, I know what it FUCKING says, I ride the FUCKING bus all the time."
She says "Well, I follow the rules."
At which point I turned quickly and hurled it over the shoulder of the guy waiting behind me to get on, where it exploded all over the bus hut glass.
I turned back and said, "Now I don't have a cone, I'm not happy, and someone has to clean that up, and they won't be happy, are you happy?"
"Yes, sir, I'm perfectly happy."
I swiped my card. "Well, thank you very much" now I'm stalking to the back, talking pretty loudly "you've got a heart of fucking gold."
"Thank you, sir."
"Yeah you're probably a barrel of fucking laughs on a Friday night."
Then I got a haircut. The lady was super pleasant, she gave me a great cut. I was totally falling asleep during it for no reason (I blame a combination of the Italian sausage and the fact that my fuzzy cat woke me up at 8:45 because it just WAS time to go outside). I sort of half fell asleep for a second and woke up and she was holding my head up and smiling at me in the mirror. It was weird, it was like those falling asleeps where you're in class and you...just...can't...focus...
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...on....
zzzz...zzzz....
...smrgk! focus, um, you just can't focus on what they're saying and you try to keep awake by doodling in your notebook or writing some of what the teacher is saying down and when you look back at it later it makes ABsolutely no sense...it was like that ;)
Then we practiced. Now we're drinking wine and I'm burning a sweet Creedence compilation so we can listen to it in the backyard.
AND I still have episode 11 to look forward to. Captain Jack! Derek Jacobi!
All in all, not a bad Sundazy!
"It's all in the mind, you know.” - Spike Milligan
That was great!
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Got taken to breakfast, left alone to tinker on the car (ac is out, now is back working again), visited the father-in-law, had a family cookout (only 14 of them, so not too bad), did some Wii with my son, and now surfing PRTQ and watching the Yankees pound the Mets :(, all in all a perfect father's day...
Speechguy
I think it was "Blessed are the cheesemakers".
Sounds just perfect!
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Of course the one I attend is so liberal some people (like the people I grew up with) might say it does not count. I call it a Freewill Buddhist Baptist Church. ;-)
I'm trying to finish a story for AK (kind of like This Alaskan Life). It's about ruralsexuals.
It's the opposite of a metrosexual. A friend of mine coined the phrase and we're trying to take it global. It's basically somebody who dresses more for comfort and function than to attain status. It's a DIY approach - you can wear lipstick and makeup, or not. You can shave your legs, or not.
Michael Feldman put it this way when he took his show, Whad'Ya Know to Fairbanks last summer: “Alaskans are lucky. You have the permanent fund and salmon. And no dress code, everyone just dresses like a lesbian, basically. Takes the pressure off, you always know how to dress.” (:22)
I love this. Pocatello sounds like Fairbanks. Anyting goes here. This begs the question, "Am I a ruralsexual?"
-ez
Take this simple quiz:
Do you shave your legs - everyday, sometimes or never? Answer - Any of the above, just not out of a sense of duty.
Do you ever leave the house wearing the same Dr. Who t-shirt you slept in the night before - always, sometimes or never? Answer - All of the above, as long as you flaunt it.
Do you get more compliments from wearing the knitted hat your best friend gave you in the eighth grade or that fancy dress you splurged on at Neiman Marcus? Answer - Definately the hat.
When you get a flat tire, do you fix it yourself, no matter what you're wearing? Answer - Of course! It's a satisfying task.
Do you ever grow, hunt or gather your own food? Answer - There's nothing like a DIY mealtime.
Being a ruralsexual is an attitude, a sense of beauty being not-just-skin-deep. It's about loving who you are and wearing the clothes that feel good to you, not meeting some kind of dress code.
More on this later ...
We NEVER have sex in the city!
Janie
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"The most important attitude to be formed is that of desire to go on learning." John Dewey
Not to get an edge, but simply because I always work on the weekends. We usually record the show I work on (The Writer's Almanac) on Tuesday or Wednesday, so I take Thursdays and Fridays off instead of Saturdays and Sundays.
Right now, I'm trying to figure out what we should cover for July 25th. I've already written (in previous years) about the invention of the steam locomotive, Bob Dylan going electric, Jack London sailing for the Klondike, as well as Eric Hoffer, Elias Canetti, and Maxfield Parrish. If anybody has any knowledge of something interesting that happened on July 25, please let me know.
July 25:
Emmett Till was born.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge died.
Gallileo first observed Saturn through his telescope. Centuries later, Voyager encountered Saturn on the same date.
Louis Bleriot first flew over the English Channel. If I recall correctly, there is a good children's book about this.
Christian Bernard performed the first heart AND lung transplant. (Heart had already been done.)
Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis first performed at the Copa Cabana.
The first test tube baby was born.
The Andrea Doria and the Stockholm collided.
There were more, but these stuck in my mind. Interesting problem. I admire your work, Rob. I always enjoy Writer's Almanac!
Also on July 25, with me "on the way," my teenage parents ran away to Mississippi to get married!
Janie
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I've been preparing all day to take my sons to ride roller coasters and pan for gold in the NC mountains. First full week of vacation I've had in three years. Woo Hoo!
I wonder if I'll experience PRTQ withdrawal?
I've been busy playing Harry Potter of the plants. I wave my magic water wand at the garden center and make things...grow!
Professor Sprout of Herbology?
geek moment...
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Since it is Fatherbear's day, I'm not working too hard. Mostly relaxing, playing, and spending time with my fambly.
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