The bestest movie in ages is Hustle and Flow. See the trailer here. Terrence Howard was the director character in Crash. Also the guitar player-player in The Best Man, and underrated, fun movie. I can't say enough good things about Hustle and Flow. I went out of duty, and was converted within minutes, prolly from the sighting of the bright yellow, ( Read more... )

Gobble smack! cuz we had the tasty yummies tonight, oh yes. Pecan-encrusted salmon with herb butter, spinach and blood orange salad, tomato-basil salad, carrot cake. I could describe more fully, but the entry would turn downright pornographic. Yes folks, the downside of dieting is the all-encompassing obsession with food. And yes, I do occasionally ( Read more... )

Tired, tired, ass-draggingly tired. But getting a small shot of energy from listening to Doctor Brown. Saw TWO movies today--Torremolinos '73 (B) and Mad Hot Ballroom (B-)--and learned that Our Fair City is lucky enough to have the subtitled version of Howl's Moving Castle instead of the dubbed one. Yeah, we cool like that ( Read more... )

Well actually the ides of June was two days ago, but I should've been-ware (bewared?) then, because a vicious stomach flu was ramping up then. Woke up Tuesday feeling blorky, then was late to work due to blorking, more blorking at work, so I had to come home, where I spent the day alternately sleeping and blorking some more. Yecch ( Read more... )

Last month's catastrophic AC failure in the Civic ate a lot of the vacation funds. My sweetie and I were supposed to go to the beach for a long weekend. But my stupid injury caused us to have to cancel that trip. Grrr. Well in a couple of weekends we *will* get outta town--to Apollo Con and to an Astros game (Jeff Bagwell, get well soon. Please.). ( Read more... )

Many things today. First, my son's 25th birthday. I was remembering him this morning as an egg yolk in the shell, the way it flips and slips smoothly from end to end when you turn the egg. He was a placid baby in utero, unlike the demon child, who practiced karate in utero. The demon child made a Death Star birthday cake for him, very fine, pix ( Read more... )

Cuz we went out with a friend-of-a-friend (who seems eminently friendworthy to us) to the Pink Martini concert! It was held in a neat venue, where they had table seating and you could bring in a picnic basket. So we noshed on dried fruits, not-dried fruits, nuts, and cheeses, while bopping to the beat.

The left hip is still, uh, out. It's not ( Read more... )

Went to Ed's memorial service today. Lots of *great* Ed stories, then we all trooped out to the memorial garden, where Ed's bro laid down a cigar and poured a bottle of Guinness by his urn. Then we all went to lunch, and it was great to hang out with folks from 20+ years ago. We all agreed that we'd missed that hanging out. Then we came home and I ( Read more... )

because I'm 6 pounds lighter! Somehow (well it may have had something to do with eating less overall, eating more fruits and veggies, and exercising) I've shed 6 pounds since May 11. Since that was just two weeks ago, prolly a good portion of this is water weight, but hey, I'll take it. My dietician wouldn't finagle the scale to encourage the ( Read more... )

Just came in the door, to lots of tasty smells coming from the wok. Fortunately, this is not tonight's entree, though I might try to sell my mother-in-law on the hufu pierogis...