Suspect Reviews

12:46:58 PM EDT
Hearing steven chow interview

Saw this movie on a perfectly hot summer night, outside the art gallery with 529 other people.  Not sure the open sky is the proper venue for film noir, so I might not have "got" the point, in between socializing with co-workers and standing in line for free ice cream (cucumber frozen yogert). 

1.  Sure and no buddy wud belief dat Orsson iss "Black Irish."  The accent he tried was studied but not convincing.  Sort of distracting, along with characters calling him "Mike" so often. 

2.  I thought the scene with the mirrors made it all worth while.  Now that I've looked at IMDB, I see that many people rate this film highly, and other films have copied it's style.  Many of them admit to seeing it 5 times before understanding (and they still can't explain the plot.) 

Well, once was enough for me. 

 

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12:19:56 AM EDT
Hearing x-files promo

Here's a short story by Ernest Hemingway.  I think it's pretty good.  If you google it, you'll get to see a lot of authors who tried to write a 6 word short story--with less success.  Maybe I'll write on myself.  Anyways here it is:

 

For sale:  baby shoes, never worn.

 

 

 

 

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1:42:15 AM EDT
Feeling Exhausted

In China, there are a lot of people, and the roads are crowded with cars, buses, bicycles and pedestrians.  But they don't do road rage.  I guess they've discovered we're all in this together.  It's not personal. 

The hotels gave out cards to explain to the taxi drivers where to go.  The hotels also had signs that said don't drink the tap water.  And we were warned to make sure the bottled water cap was sealed, not a refill. 

We ate with chopsticks and enjoyed the food. 

They are really working on getting ready for the Olympics in August.

My photos are now online at http://www.flickr.com/photos/stationary1/

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4:49:36 PM EDT
Feeling Adventurous
Hearing elm street

Went to Minneapolis in May to see Kat and Unknown.  They were very hospitable--thanks!  The man of the house arrived from Ireland on Saturday, and we went around town and ate asian food:  Holy Basil is hot!  He also played a good song on his accordian.  Makes me smile. 

Lady Z took me to see art and culture.  I still have some of the licorice/mint candies from the Sweedish center, if you want to try them. 

It's a good place to go.  Thanks again to my hosts! 

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10:02:07 AM EDT
Hearing 1812

Doug and Jim,

Just now on the Today Show, the Navy beat the Marines in a Memorial weekend Tug-Of-War match. 

This just in...  The Navy team lost in the second match against the Today Show staff.  Who knew those news anchors were so solid? 

 

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11:31:08 PM EDT
Hearing bourne

Flight or Invisibility—If you could choose a super power, what would it be?  This is a great question to use to start conversations at parties.

 

John Hodgeman recorded a radio spot on this subject for This American Life, a radio show on Public Radio International.  I heard it on a CD set called Crimebusters + Crossed Wires.  It’s a great set of stories for a long road trip.  (More for adults than kids.)

 

Or you could, as you drive across country, ask your co-travelers to choose either flight or invisibility.  If you would be the only one in the world with a super power, which would you choose?  It’s “one simple question that reveals everything about yourself that you don’t want anyone to know.” 

 

I never had the classic dream about flying or falling…until a few years ago, when I started swimming more, and doing flips under water.  Then I had some wonderful dreams about pushing off from the ground and launching above the house.  Flying feels like a combination of swimming, and of pumping your legs to make the swing go higher.  Try it sometime—it’s great!  Arthur Dent would tell you that flying is simply a matter of falling, but at the last minute, distracting yourself, so you forget to land.*

 

Like I said, I only thought about flying recently.  On the other hand, I have always wanted to be invisible, ever since I heard these radio show words:

 

“Who Knows What Evil Lurks in the Heart of Man?  

 

THE SHADOW KNOWS!”

 

Anyways…John Hodgeman has asked the Flight or Invisibility question so many times, he has noticed the answer-er goes through Five Stages Of Choosing Your Superpower.  Listen to his recording.  It’s very… i-n-t-e-r-e-s-t-i-n-g. 

 

 

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*Don’t Panic.  Learn this and many other secrets about life, the universe and everything in Douglas Adams’ trilogy(+) of Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. 

 

 

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11:21:41 PM EDT
Hearing Everybody Loves Ray

Due to changes in banking, I got a free safety deposit box.  He said it was 3 x 5, and "not big enough to hide a gun."  So I was imagining that I'd have to fold or squeeze the papers into a space the size of an index card. 

When I went over, she let me walk into the vault and pull out the box.  It was 3x5 on the end, but it is more than a foot long.  So papers just have to be rolled a little to fit. 

Cool. 

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10:09:08 PM EDT
Hearing interview w Dann

"Random events occur in bunches," said my old pricipal in high school. 

So this weekend, I have two days of historic re-enactments, a board meeting, one concert, one banquet, some art gallery events I'd like to attend (Bone is at the Wexner!), and of course Mother's Day.

Something's going to get cut...

 

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2:35:52 PM EDT
Hearing scanner

"The poor you have with you always," said Jesus.  The numbers say he was right.  We will always have at least one person who has less than the others.  Even in an affluent society, the modestly wealthy is poor. 

The highest salary is called, "Rich," and the lowest salary is called, "Poor."

I mean, compare the resources available to the poor in the U.S. to those of the upper crust of the Third World. 

Communism attempts to correct this by giving equal pay.  It hasn't proved possible yet.  It falls apart if you happen to give one person a little extra.  Then everyone else would be poor.   

 

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12:18:40 PM EDT
Hearing commentary on Philip K. Dick

Tuesday skewed my week.  I felt a day off after that.  "What day is it...?"

At work, we hosted a press club from out of town.  At lunch, I was giving the typical history talk (a few paragraphs), and got interrupted.  Several times.  By two representatives, a senator and the governor.  Later, the attorney general came in.  After he left through the side door, a Fox reporter ran after him down the hall. 

We decided to let the servers put out the food (boarding house style) during all these speeches, so the food wouldn't get cold. 

So that's an extraordinary incident from my life. 

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