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I ATEN'T DEAD.

I watched Sin City today, which was pretty great, and then Sleepy Hollow, which was not. I think what I didn't like about Sleepy Hollow was all the ways it was different from the story I've known and loved for decades, and part of the cause of the changes is that Tim Burton likes the macabre but he's also got a terminal case of Kid Gloves (not as ( Read more... )

I saw Kung Fu Hustle today, which was silly and outrageous and a lot of fun (and, I'm sorry, I liked it more than Shaolin Soccer).

And then I came home and watched Taste of Cherry, which was somber and thoughtful and probing, the kind of film Ingmar Bergman would make early in his career if he'd been born in Iran in the 1940s. The main character ( Read more... )

Made some pasta today with carrots, zucchini, squash, red peppers, tomato, and basil in a white wine sauce. Shows some promise but needs another attempt or two before it's right ( Read more... )

Flossing's pretty weird, when you think about it. Deliberately separating one healthy part of the body from its (also healthy) surrounding tissues so that both can work more efficiently and last longer?

It strikes me as unique in physical maintenance. But, as with so many things, maybe I just don't know enough about it.

David Byrne has an internet radio station, and it's pretty cool.

Calexico's cover of "Alone Again Or" is pretty damned amazing. Hop on over and check it out. ShorDurMusSav?

Funny how going to work interferes with my efforts to get anything done.

Erm. So I finished Reading the Muslim Mind, which was an interesting & opinionated book, made much more entertaining by the earnest Protestant reader who left all the marginalia. Apparently s/he wanted to read the Muslim mind only to argue with it; the comments ( Read more... )

So, a bit late this year, I've decided to try the 52 in 52 program. I'm currently two books in, or three, if you count rereading Neil Gaiman's Sandman graphic novel A Game of You. Now I'm reading Hassan Hathout's Reading the Muslim Mind, which ranges from informative and perceptive to rather dull and defensive. He's already made a couple of ( Read more... )