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Cowboys & Aliens
That was a good example of going in to a movie with low expectations and coming out thinking it wasn't bad. That's the best I can say about this movie, eventhough for a while last year I was hopeful it would be good or even very good. But nah, it's too long and the dialog is predictable. OTOH, Daniel Craig being a quite believable man-with-no-name ( Read more... ) -
Walking in Amazonas
The weather was surprisingly mild, although we did work up a sweat even at the slow pace we had to take in the rain forest, because some of the trails were not that easy. Machetes were out making a way for us. So we were noisy, which was not good for any kind of wildlife watching, but it did give us a chance to be inside the forest, be quiet and ( Read more... ) -
Typhoid, yellow fever, etc.
Got shots Friday and now we're taking typhoid pills this week, getting ready for the trip to Brazil. We'll only be there for a week, but it's on the Amazon and Rio Negro, so this means we're spending a scary amount of money on making sure we don't get sick. This also means getting long lists of all possible side effects of taking so much stuff, as ( Read more... ) -
Food with eyes
At the farmer's market I got a whole chicken. ( Not for vegetarians. ) -
Things, out of my mouth.
It might be OK, at some dinner parties, to say something like "Gore Vidal might have been very much into the ass fucking, but apparently he was too much of an asshole for a reach around*", but it wasn't at tonight's particular dinner party.
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Hitch-22
I'm getting a great deal of pleasure out of hearing Christopher Hitchens reading his memoir "Hitch-22", which serves as a consolation over the latest episode of Supernatural (which I had to stop watching 15 minutes in, partly because I was too tired from other tv watching, partly because of the bad jokes) and what seems a sharp turn for the soap ( Read more... ) -
One asshole coming up
Finished hearing "Eating Animals". Felt like another push in changing how I eat, but ask me about it in 3 months to see if I really changed my habits, because right now I full of easy disgust, horror and pissed-off-ness at factory farming, and cannot be trusted to not be talking out of my ass ( Read more... ) -
Eating Animals and other audiobooks
Had credits waiting to be used on Audible, so this morning I downloaded "Eating Animals" by Jonathan Safran Foer and "Hitch-22" by Christopher Hitchens. A lot of the time I favor books read by the authors themselves, although I have to say my favorite audiobook of all time (so far) has been Susanna Clarke's "Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell", read by ( Read more... ) -
Risen Jesus v. Tomatoes
We're late in planting tomatoes this year. Last Sunday we finally were going to get to it, but forgot it was a religious holiday and so Mr. L's family wanted to do something. *sigh* I was cranky about it, but got over it - sort of. Religious beliefs really do blow my mind* and its hard for me to not get pissy when they poke into my life even a ( Read more... )