Published October 8th, 2008 at 11:45 am in miscellany with no comments
Tagged with buddy hackett, chicken-man, gamestop, it's a mad mad mad mad world, kmart, milton berle, xbox
The week seems to be moving apace. As I sit at lunch (well, waiting for lunch), I’ve got nothing to fill this empty space but a few random tidbits from yesterday.
First, there was the inflatable chicken-man that menaced the road from the subway to the safety of the office. Customarily, one or several papmhleteers stake [...]
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Published October 5th, 2008 at 8:00 pm in commentary, movies with no comments
Tagged with appaloosa, ed harris, rene zellwegger, unforgiven, viggo mortenson
I saw the Ed Harris western, Appaloosa, with my sister in Philly. It is interesting in that it is a portrait of relationships that, in ways, turn the familiar Western tropes on their sides. I’m not sure though that it is ultimately successful though I did enjoy it.
When you’ve got Ed Harris and [...]
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Published October 4th, 2008 at 9:00 pm in exposition with no comments
Tagged with family, frederick douglass, madden
It’s a funny, strange thing to meet family that you’ve never seen or heard of before. It’s mostly impossible to guess what it’ll be like, whether everyone will get along or if furtive glances will speak to pangs of deep misjudgment. Luckily, everyone got along just fine.
Having thus made first contact with the natives of [...]
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