December 2010
35 posts
I saw (and smelled) a scruffy-looking fox crossing the trail. (Is there any other kind?)
Kansas City Confidential (1952): Jack Elam has a wonderful, drawn face—like he’s about to be quartered. Some nice twists. 3/5
Alberta needs a new tire, and should have her front end alignment checked.
The King’s Speech (2010): A tour de force for Colin Firth. 4/5
And Then Came Lola (2009): If Lola had e-mailed the comps, things would have gone much easier for her. 2/5
Rebuilt a Windows XP machine from install disks. Many, many progress bars later…
My neighbor is not going to be happy: today’s winds blew a couple of sections of siding off his house.
Toy Story 3 (2010): Loved Chatter Telephone. 4/5
Mele Kalikimaka!
We’re having a bit of a white Christmas: fresh flurries this morning.
Easy A (2010): Still wondering what a motorboat is. 3/5
Making gingerbread cookies from Kim’s kit.
I’m really sorry I missed Matt Wilson’s Christmas Tree-O when they visited the skinny end of the 5th floor, but they’ve been preserved on digital. Happy holidays, everyone!
Why is the Scientology building at 16th and P trimmed out with Christmas lights?
4 UCSF faculty signatories to a letter questioning safety of TSA’s full-body scanners, as reported by Peter G. Neumann.
Traffic rumbling over temporary steel plates in Massachusetts Avenue, like someone slamming open all the drawers in an empty cabinet.
Black Swan (2010): Not much of a ballet movie, but I liked the POV fouettés. 3/5
Killshot (2008): Wonderfully skeevy work by Joseph Gordon-Levitt. 3/5
On the lectern at the studio this week: Chase-Dunn and Barbones, Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives.
“Things got a little miscombooberated.”
It’s snowing! Break out the beet molasses. Yum! (Thx: DCist)
June has a mention in Hilton Als’ review of Oklahoma!
Made in U.S.A. (1966): “a political movie… Walt Disney with blood.” Uses sound like a weapon. 3/5
This morning, a frosting of snow on the cars and the grass.
S: Knock-knock.
D: Who's there?
S: Refudiating cow.
D: Refudiating cow who?
S: ...
D: ...?
S: Oh, were you expecting this conversation to make sense?
I submitted my ballot for FCT’s It’s a Wonderful Life, and I am done with WATCH assignments for the year!
My resolution for the new year is to visit new performance venues, and I got started early with the Folger Consort in Gaston Hall.
For our anniversary, Leta made a very generous contribution in my name to the Friends of Huntley Meadows Park.
Vintage: JYC demonstrates Aqua-Lung.
Groundhog Day (1993): Still sweet. 3/5
The stretch of the trail near Isaac Newton Square that has been slumped and cracked just got a new layer of blacktop.
Leta is opening in On Golden Pond for RLT this evening.
“Packed like lemmings into shiny metal boxes”: Chris Burden’s work-in-progress Metropolis II. (Thx: k.o)
Don’t get mad, get refactoring.
Today is the first day of meteorological winter.