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life and Inception (mostly the same thing)
This is what I meant to do today: sleep late, have lunch with jekkupippuri, do laundry, bask in the happy afterglow of seeing Inception again yesterday ( Read more... ) -
real life and 30 days of music
There went my resolve to post every day for a month. I didn't retreat into lurkerdom, though--I was at the Commie's with former work buddy M., once of the sweetest and most positive people I know. So that's been relaxing and nice ( Read more... ) -
about that movie everyone's talking about
Belatedly, ( Sherlock Holmes ) -
the annual I Aten't Dead post, 2010 edition
Hi, everyone! My Christmas break stretched out to extra long but I'm back in Turku now, readjusting to living life online, which is good, and to having to do things outside the house before noon, which is obviously cruel and unusual. Some of my Christmas mail hadn't arrived when I left so I had that meeting me at the mailbox, and that was really ( Read more... ) -
"the point is, Josh, people that sing about cowboys are annoying and stupid"
Walt Hasser ... knows the lyrics to just about every hit country song recorded between 1960 and 1974. Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash are his heroes. He has a beautiful country singing voice, and in his case Colbert makes a special exemption to his "no country music" rule. Following the ZSU AAA gun attack south of Al Hayy during which Hasser had ( Read more... ) -
burning down the house
Some of the locals maybe already heard there was a fire in my building last night. For the rest of the world: there was a fire in my building last night. No one was hurt, and as far as I know only the apartment the fire started in was seriously damaged. It's down the hall from mine and guys, it's charred black all over. I know nothing about how ( Read more... ) -
another bomb on another town
∼ I'd heard there was a spiritual successor to Band of Brothers in the works; I hadn't realized The Pacific was set to air next March. There was a new trailer released today that tells me The Pacific looks, sounds and feels exactly like its predecessor. I had reservations about that for about two seconds, that is, as long as it felt like co-opting ( Read more... )
