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Post by Matthew on Jun 12, 2010 23:54:38 GMT -5
Watching Going Postal for the second time, this time with brother and parents. I'm quite impressed, dad seems to really be into it.
What a fantastic movie this is!
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jun 12, 2010 23:54:50 GMT -5
Interesting! Also, I don't know Gerald Durrell. I'll have to check that out. My family and Other Animals is a great place to start. Durrell is a revelation. Julia will have (and has probably already detailed) more and better recs for Durrell's work, both memoir and professional. And I still refer to awkward little boats as "bootle-bumtrinkets" in honor of that book. It's funny that Riff used the phrase "Softly Softly" elsewhere, because Durrell named a Dourouculi monkey that, in The Drunken Forest. I like that book, The Whispering Land and My Family and Other Animals best, although all of the animal collecting ones are great (if the African ones distressingly colonialist). Julia, v. tired and looking forward to The New Mattress, night two.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jun 12, 2010 23:55:50 GMT -5
Watching Going Postal for the second time, this time with brother and parents. I'm quite impressed, dad seems to really be into it. What a fantastic movie this is! Wait, how? Where? Julia, are you flying with your family?
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Post by SpringSummers on Jun 13, 2010 8:46:45 GMT -5
Hmmm Homemade kanimaki, chicken teriyaki onigiri, mushubi, mango nigiri for dinner and homemade azuki bean ice cream for dessert. What do you think, is it enough of a bribe to make Kathy say yes to performing the ceremony? Keep your fingers crossed for us? Kathy said yes! She was extremely excited about the whole concept. Wonderful! It should be a great event.
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Post by Squeemonster on Jun 13, 2010 9:17:27 GMT -5
Tonight's football? It's going to be an England win. I'll say 2-0. Let's hope it's better than France and Uruguay last night. A good cure for insomnia, that one. Riff: John Oliver, on the Daily Show last night, did a hilarious report on the US/England match-up. Suck it, USA.Oh my god, that was hilarious. ;D
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Post by Squeemonster on Jun 13, 2010 9:29:52 GMT -5
Final result 1-1, which was fair, I think. See, this is why professional soccer has never taken off in the US. A competitive game that ends in a tie and doesn't go into overtime so that one trounces the other and emerges the victor? It's unamerican! I was talking to my mom yesterday about how I can't understand why soccer isn't more popular here. It's come along way in popularity over the past 10 years or so, but it's still only a tiny drop in the ocean of popularity across the world. I just don't get it--the game is so intense and breathtaking and brutal, and the athletes are in perfect shape--it's much more physically grueling than baseball, American football, basketball, etc. I would think it's perfect for the American mentality of faster, harder, more. And the men super hot. My nephew has been obsessed with it since he started playing at 6 yrs old. I'm still frustrated he hasn't gotten up the nerve to try out for our soccer team here. He has so much natural talent, if he'd just put forth the effort to train I have no doubts he'd make it onto the team. After all, it is just a minor pro team in Alabama; how good could they be? ;D
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Post by Riff on Jun 13, 2010 11:16:54 GMT -5
Final result 1-1, which was fair, I think. See, this is why professional soccer has never taken off in the US. A competitive game that ends in a tie and doesn't go into overtime so that one trounces the other and emerges the victor? It's unamerican! Oh, they do that later in the competition. Half an hour of extra time and, if there's still no winner, a penalty shootout. The shootouts have about as much going for them as tossing a coin, but they're fun to watch, as long as you don't care who wins. Otherwise they're probably dangerous to one's health.
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Post by Riff on Jun 13, 2010 11:18:17 GMT -5
Interesting! Also, I don't know Gerald Durrell. I'll have to check that out. My family and Other Animals is a great place to start. Durrell is a revelation. Julia will have (and has probably already detailed) more and better recs for Durrell's work, both memoir and professional. And I still refer to awkward little boats as "bootle-bumtrinkets" in honor of that book. I'll get a hold of a copy.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jun 13, 2010 11:21:01 GMT -5
Seriously exhausted this morning: too much yard work plus too much wedding in a venue witha long flight of staris.
Sumner, for reasons I cannot quite unpic, is full of event venues in the upstairs of random buildings (this one was in a loft over a chimney company/self storage place?). I guess it's a combination of available space (a lot of the rooms used to be places where berries and bulbs were sorted and packed; the one before this one had juice stains high up the brick walls) and a crying dearth of places for big parties.
In any case, they're all tyified by narror stairs as the main entrance, and absolute defiance of ADA, and I suspect are also a result of Pierce County having really rotten planning ordinances.
Julia, any time you cross the Pierce County line by road, the ugly increases exponentially
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jun 13, 2010 11:59:13 GMT -5
My family and Other Animals is a great place to start. Durrell is a revelation. Julia will have (and has probably already detailed) more and better recs for Durrell's work, both memoir and professional. And I still refer to awkward little boats as "bootle-bumtrinkets" in honor of that book. I'll get a hold of a copy. It helps to remember, when reading that book, that Gerald Durrell was the baby of the family where the writer and diplomat Lawrence Durrell was the eldest brother; "Larry" was actually with the foreign service in Albania during the period covered by MF&OA, and if you can find the humorous memoirs he wrote of the period there's a fun counterpoint to Gerald's memoiries. The incidental characters in MF&OA also exist as a sort of roman a clef; some major literary figures of the period dropped in on the Durrell household. Julia, something I didn't realize for decades
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Post by Matthew on Jun 13, 2010 12:22:30 GMT -5
Watching Going Postal for the second time, this time with brother and parents. I'm quite impressed, dad seems to really be into it. What a fantastic movie this is! Wait, how? Where? Julia, are you flying with your family? Ahyup! A friend arranged for the transatlantic flights last weekend, a week after the show aired. I know it's already being offered for sale, but I'm sure that's just Region 2, and a buncha preorderly nonsense. I can find booking information for you (one of your spawn could do the arrangements, perhaps?). After all, it would just give you a relatively brief jump on the inevitable day when you are able to purchase your own copy of the dvds in Region 1. Anyone else interested in booking a flight, holler at me via PM.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jun 13, 2010 12:25:20 GMT -5
Wait, how? Where? Julia, are you flying with your family? Ahyup! A friend arranged for the transatlantic flights last weekend, a week after the show aired. I know it's already being offered for sale, but I'm sure that's just Region 2, and a buncha preorderly nonsense. I can find booking information for you (one of your spawn could do the arrangements, perhaps?). After all, it would just give you a relatively brief jump on the inevitable day when you are able to purchase your own copy of the dvds in Region 1. Anyone else interested in booking a flight, holler at me via PM. For reasons which cannot be easily explained this led me, inevitably, to the "oh gawd must order Daria for Franklin for fathers day oh gawd oh gawd my VISA is going to have a meltdown." Julia, the new mattress continues to soothe, however
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jun 13, 2010 13:33:08 GMT -5
Wait, how? Where? Julia, are you flying with your family? Ahyup! A friend arranged for the transatlantic flights last weekend, a week after the show aired. I know it's already being offered for sale, but I'm sure that's just Region 2, and a buncha preorderly nonsense. I can find booking information for you (one of your spawn could do the arrangements, perhaps?). After all, it would just give you a relatively brief jump on the inevitable day when you are able to purchase your own copy of the dvds in Region 1. Anyone else interested in booking a flight, holler at me via PM. Not worth the noise from Mr. Space, who is a downloading fundie. Julia, it's teaching me patience, I guess.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jun 13, 2010 13:34:24 GMT -5
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Post by Riff on Jun 13, 2010 15:42:38 GMT -5
I'll get a hold of a copy. It helps to remember, when reading that book, that Gerald Durrell was the baby of the family where the writer and diplomat Lawrence Durrell was the eldest brother; "Larry" was actually with the foreign service in Albania during the period covered by MF&OA, and if you can find the humorous memoirs he wrote of the period there's a fun counterpoint to Gerald's memoiries. The incidental characters in MF&OA also exist as a sort of roman a clef; some major literary figures of the period dropped in on the Durrell household. Julia, something I didn't realize for decades Thank you for the heads-up, Julia!
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