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Breakin' All The Rules - at Cambridge Court

mood:

busy

Today is May 3 and I'm not positive that there's a rule against drying your towels on the balcony, but I wouldn't be surprised if there was. The web page title comes from " The Pass" by Rush. I was doing some laundry today and noticing that my Presto t-shirt is looking a little worn. Thinking I might find a replacement from whence it came ( actually the Presto tee was my like first or 2nd purchase from there, way back in spring of 99), I started searching for Presto memorabilia. So then I had to listen to some songs from it. La de da. In a litle bit I'll be leaving to meet up with Brent and Reilly at the Euclid Perkins. Should be a fun time.

Cookie would still be a tramp though

mood:

mellow

Today is May 8. So I was thinking. What if the movie Best In Show was about cats instead of dogs? We'd get to hear Catherine and Eugene (I have purchased all the SCTV box sets so far - I think we're on a first-name basis) sing "God Loves An Orange Cat". Because let's face it, the cat role of Winky would have to be played by an orange cat. Butch, aka Rhapsody in White would be a stereotypical "diva," white long-haired persian, Hubert could be a Maine Coon or maybe a black farm cat - a good mouser to continue with the hunting theme, Michael McKean's dog (Miss Agnes - I had to look it up) would be an Asian breed like Tonkinese or Burmese, and Beatrice would be a Russian Blue.

Now I realize writing a song where you know from the get-go you have to include the word "orange" is tricky. But I think I could do it.

God loves an orange cat, yes he does
god loves an orange cat, that's because
Orange stripy soft and sweet, Meowing is how they greet
Lick to keep themselves so clean, mostly toms but sometimes queens
Every one a real winner, You can call 'em ginger
God loves an orange cat

Original version lyrics found at mopie.com

(Later) This video clip courtesy Corwin.

Yay for library movies

mood:

tired

Today is May 12. I had to work last night and then today day so I'm pretty tired right now. It's very raining outside. I'm watching Chuck&Buck, movie. Other library selections include Foxy Brown and Goodfellas. C&B is pretty good so far. Very different, very SUB film-ish. Any movie with a play in it is usually good. I feel like I worked pretty hard at work today. Lots going on. Right in the middle of a 7-day run. We start the rotating schedule next week, so that will be cool. So you know if it's a week 1 and a monday you know what time you're working or if you have the day off.

I just thought of checking and the Dee Moines now has a craigslist. Does it cheapen or un-cool the whole CL concept somewhat that DSM has one? Yes, I think so. Not much activity on there. But what about Free Paint--All Colors? That might be nice.

Lesbian bar fight? Why not?

mood:

weird

Today is May 15. Again with the movies. Right now watching the Foxy Brown. It kind of makes you want to kill whitey. Her fake name was Misty Cotton. A guy I know, his fake name is Sebastian. He had a last name too but I forgot it.

So I had a good idea for a date. You can go to a FB game in a small town and pretend like you're popular kids who had a date in high school to go to the game. Not too small of a town or you will stick out, they will know right away you don't belong. For added realism, you could eat at McDonald's afterwards then go make out in your car.

I have wondered for some time whether I could walk to Wal-Mart or not. Today I walked part of the way there and then turned around and came back. After the little row of shops, there is no more sidewalk but there is a railroad track. I walked on the tracks or on the rocks and grass beside for awhile, under the 1-235 overpass and past E3. It was getting dark and it just seemed like a Bad Idea to continue further. Though I'm sure if for some reason had to walk to Wal-Mart I could, Kate Shelley style, on the tracks and then over the bridge.

Episode III And More

mood:

content

Today is May 20. Wednesday night at 12:30 I joined Adam, Crystal, Molly and Lawrence at Star Wars episode III at the Jordan Creek theater. It was a really good time. Ewan McGregor was very awesome, as was Yoda. Also some parts were scary and I had to look down from the screen. so the evil guy's icky face wouldn't get burned into my brain. I have some other comments but I will save them for when i can do a longer review and have it as a separate link for "spoilers."

Thursday I mostly slept in and goofed around. I watched Goodfellas which was freaking awesome. It's one of those movies where you're like "Whyyyyy did I wait so long to see this?" Ray Liotta just dominates. I liked also all the different music and fashions/decor to show the passing of time. Joe Pesci, I'm sorry, I can take or leave. But DeNiro was super great before he had to be all funny and become a parody of himself. I might have to check it out again and watch with the commentary done by the real Henry Hill.

So lately I've been noticing that my netflix are coming scary fast. I finally looked at the return address and noticed that they are no longer going back to KC but right across town to a PO Box in DSM. Yay for me and my fast movie watching ways. And yay for netflix that they have enough customers to open a DSM processing office :-)

Right now I'm watching the Penn and Teller "Bull$hit" series (from Showtime). Recommended by Chris. It's very entertaining. I recommend it for any skeptic/agnostic/atheist type folks, or people who enjoy cursing in general. Penn Jillette has no neck. He seems to do ok for himself though.

PS ARRESTED DEV RENEWED FOR SEASON 3 WOO!

Double Dare: The E! True Hollywood Story

mood:

bored

Today is March 25. Brent came down to DSM for a job interview so we did the typical brent-and-rachel-in-dsm stuff which is go to the D+D Market for Killer sandwiches, and shop and Half Price Books. At the market I had egg salad. Then at the bookstore I found two of Neil Peart's books. Kind of surprising. I picked up Ghost Rider, leaving the Masked one for another fan to discover. They were located in the travelogue section which I guess makes sense but an argument could easily be made for the Rock & Roll books section.

Ok, explaining the title. Brent found a VHS tape on clearance called "Double Dare: The Inside Scoop." Subtitled "A behind the scenes peek with Marc Summers," we decided the dollar sticker price was well worth the approximately 45 minutes of entertainment it was sure to provide. For some reason it didn't play on my living room VCR/DVD combo, so we watched it on the TVCR in my room. It brought back a lot of memories from childhood. Of course we didn't have cable, but Jonno and I caught our fair share of Nickelodeon at Grandma Rose's house (and later Doris's in the summer). It was cool to see the trial version of the show, as well as bloopery or silly stuff that happened. Afterwards we watched "Let's Get Sloppy" from Mr. Show season 3. (this is embarassingly similar to what happened a few days ago - after watching Goodfellas as described below, I had to watch Mr. Show's "Pallies.") After watching the DD tape, it was obvious that Tom Kenny is a genius because he totally nails the Marc Summers impression. Especially him imploring Bob and David's characters to "keep going!" as Summers did for his kid contestants.

Other item of note - the black Apple Pro keyboard my seller packaged with Graphy has become seriously hosed. Here are some of its new features:

You type You Get

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[left arrow] [left arrow][carriage return]

'g' 'g''^*

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Today: A Good Day To Be Me

mood:

giddy

Today is May 27. A run-down on the plusses of the day. On time to work. No major screwups at work. Ate lunch with Molly. Signed up for speed dating with cupid.com. Got home, I had received my Newsradio DVDs from Amazon and my t-shirts from Diesel Sweeties in the mail. I made one of those box dinners that you bake for dinner, and that was tasty. Now I'm watching my NR DVDs. I learned I'm super hardcore since I knew that the character of Jimmy James came from Ocala, FL while the ppls doing the commentary claimed the show "never said" where Mr. James was from. W3RD. Only real annoyance happening for me right now is that kitty is being a whiner. He is having some porch time so he can [in voice of Will Forte] COOOOOOOOL OUT.

Speaking of orange cats, PvP has a nice strip today on the topic. Is it a little rip-offish of Puss in Boots from Shrek 2? That's your call mister. In SK's defense it's probably just that all cats walk that line between being super cute and horrible little wads of evil.

Correction from yesterday - the deli we like is the B&B Grocery, 2001 SE 6th, Des Moines IA 50315. Home of the Killer Sandwiches

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