Amusing

Blue

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^^^That ain’t me.

My new judo­gi came in tonight. It’s very blue.

Also: I’ve become hope­less­ly addict­ed to the new Bat­tlestar Galac­ti­ca series. A co-work­er (thanks, John!) loaned me the first cou­ple DVDs the oth­er day, and I watched them; now I’ve got the next three discs. Must… pace… myself.

It was amus­ing, though, to show the movie A Sim­ple Curve at the Evans this past week­end. It’s a good film; I enjoyed it more than I expect­ed to. But the fun­ny part? See­ing Michael Hogan (BSG’s uptight, angry Colonel Tigh) play Jim, an aging but still-imma­ture hippie.

Doug, here’s my favorite line from the movie, para­phrased from memory:

[dis­cussing a moment in Jim’s past sex life]
Caleb: Oh God, it was a hip­pie three­some?
Jim: No. No, no, no. [paus­es] We, uh, we took turns.

Tonight: some more writ­ing, and then I think it’ll be bedtime.

Flickrblogging — “The Disappointment” (IMG_3280)

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Dis­cov­ered in worstelen.org’s Flickr photostream. 

Lat­er, in the bar

“Dude, why did you inter­view him?”

“C’mon, John­ny, don’t you know who that was? Did­n’t you rec­og­nize him?”

“No.”

“John­ny, that was the Green Gob­lin! What a scoop!”

“Dave…”

“What?”

“Dave, that was­n’t the Green Gob­lin. That was some guy in a green mask.”

“…Seri­ous­ly?”

“Yeah. Seri­ous­ly.”

“Aw crap, man, that’s like eighty bucks worth of tape I used. That’s gonna come out of my salary.” [Drinks a shot of whiskey] “Heh, you’re just yankin’ my chain, sure. That was the Green Gob­lin. I’ll be fine.”

“No, Dave, that was some guy in a mask. Dude, you’re a lit­tle too cred­u­lous, you have to work on that.”

“What­ev­er. I sup­pose you’re gonna tell me that ain’t Wolver­ine that was tend­ing bar, too, right?”

“Dave, that’s just a guy who needs to trim his fingernails.”

Tech­no­rati: Flickrblogging

Crazy Ideas file, #1

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This one came to me yes­ter­day on my way home at lunch. I’ve writ­ten the first 200ish words, but I don’t yet have a sat­is­fac­to­ry ending.

Every­one in the entire world sleeps a deep, 24-hour sleep, and expe­ri­ences the same dream. When they awak­en, night has been ban­ished for­ev­er. Some­one or some­thing has turned the Earth inside-out, plac­ing a small sun­like body at the cen­ter of the hol­low sphere. What comes next? Guess I’ll find out as I write.

Title: DAY.