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Saturday, April 26th, 2003
What a funny movie! A real nice mix of "suspense" -- set-ups which managed to be simultaneously ludicrous and suspenseful -- and comic deflation of the suspense.
posted evening of April 26th, 2003: Respond
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Ack... Well after I wrote the last post Ellen wanted to take a break; so I took Sylvia. She was crying! I took her for a drive thinking she might go to sleep but no way -- "I want to go home see Mommy!" After driving around for a while with no abatement I thought I would go to the video store and rent the "This is Spinal Tap" DVD which Mr Murtaugh recommends highly. Drove over there and when we parked and got out of the car, Sylvia actually calmed down! So I asked if she'd like to go to the library (next door) first, and she did; we went in there and she asked for a Clifford book, I asked the librarian where I could find such a thing and she pointed them out to me; we walked over there and while I was looking vacantly at the titles trying to see what she had been talking about, Sylvia pulled up a stool, climbed up, and pulled "Clifford's Birthday Party" off the shelf. (Clifford seems to me like a pretty good TV show and dreadful books, strange since it seems like the books predate the show, but still) -- I read her the book and then, the library closing, we headed over to the shop, which is called We Got Movies! As we walked in Sylvia said, "We got Rug Rats movie!" and walked over to the kids selection to look for it. Alas, no luck on the Spinal Tap, the owner said she would order it and let me know when they got it; but I figured I'd get a movie anyways. We have not yet used our DVD player; we needed a new VCR and found one for not much more money that has a DVD in it; so tonight is the inaugural use. I ended up renting "Hopscotch" with Walter Matthau which looked pretty interesting.
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It was really pouring this morning but has tapered off a bit. I took care of Sylvia this morning while Ellen took her English teaching certification test, then went grocery shopping and picked up my bike from the repair shop, and played guitar with Bob and Janice and Jim and Doug. Janice invited me to go to a blues club this evening but I am going to work on my shoe rack.
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Friday, April 25th, 2003
It happens frequently that a pun or malapropism -- or just funny-sounding phrase -- will occur to me as something that could be most humourous, were it preceded by the right introduction. What that introduction should be, almost never occurs to me; and when I do think of something it never sounds right -- does not communicate humour in any but the most labored fashion. But I want to be funny! I sometimes think I should write all of these punch lines down, and accumulate them until something is born of the mess. For now though I will go on letting them leave my mind as quickly and effortlessly as they came.
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On my way home pretty soon. I'm buying some glue and brushes on the way to the train, to be used this weekend in gluing together and finishing the shoe rack which has been my major preoccupation for about 6 months now!
posted evening of April 25th, 2003: Respond
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Wow... no sooner said than,...
posted afternoon of April 25th, 2003: Respond
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I believe the next week or so I will spend, fleshing out my list of links so it has all or most of the sites I want to link to; and making some posts. Then I will e-mail a couple of my fave blog authors, and see if I can start having other people look at my journal. Also, I want to add a "Daily" section to the list of links, which will show only for the current day pages that I am reading.
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I've been thinking for a while about starting a blog, plus I was keen to figure out ASP. So, here it is -- I will refrain from making any promises about frequent updates. Check out the cool link system on the left-hand side of the page; click on a category name to see links in that category, and click on "Show full descriptions" if you want to see my brief thoughts on the link in question.
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My inaugural post.
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