So the Oscar nominations are out, and they’re just as I expected. I watched a lot of grown up movies this year, and by “grown up” I mean well written, well directed, and, well, totally devoid of any Happily Ever After. Mystic River had me crying a river. Monster completely ripped me to shreds. I lost myself in Lost in Translation. And Cold Mountain, good God. Cold Mountain embodied the futility of a salmon swimming upstream to mate just once…
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I was in a discussion with my co-workers the other day about restaurant food and the extra ingredients we sometimes find in them—the proverbial fly in the soup type of conversation. The thing is, we never really think it will happen to us, and it never even occurs to us to look closely at our food before we bite into it. We hear the horror stories and are thoroughly disgusted, but until we have personally experienced it, finding a fly…
Please excuse the ongoing mess. This is all new to me. I decided to switch from Greymatter to MovableType this year because I wanted to be able to provide RSS feeds without having to come up with a plug-in or a work-around. It’s a small price to pay to give people what they want, but I can’t avoid the learning curve involved—there are new variables, new scripts, and new ways of doing things. I no longer need to shave my…
My sister noticed that I’ve been back-dating my entries, and she guessed that it was due to my recent illness. She guessed correctly, by the way; since my bout with flu, I’ve been too lazy to post on time and too stubborn to give up my original plan to paint a Christmas tree in the calendar. Why? Because I wanted to end this year posting entry #300, and the tree allows for that perfectly. See, I’ve been rethinking this whole…