Archive for December, 2003

Christmas Observations

Thursday, December 25th, 2003

Kate has to work today — 16 hours, a double, on Christmas. We got up at 5:30, I strung some lights as a surprise while she was in the shower (no, not in the shower, though that likely would have been surprising as well), made some tea, and we opened our stockings, sitting on [...]

I don’t have the best relationship with my brother.

Wednesday, December 17th, 2003

In my dream, I’d been comissioned by salon.com to write an article detailing my participation in … well, let’s just call it a menage a trois and leave it at that. I’m in a hotel room, laying on a bed, about to earn a paycheck by getting nasty with two hotties; I’m unbelievably pleased [...]

Paint.

Tuesday, December 16th, 2003

http://www.spirek.de/paint/
If only I weren’t so damn hirsute, I’d try one of these one designs in a flat second.

odd

Tuesday, December 16th, 2003

Flew from Philly up to Boston tonight. Uneventful flight, though as I was buying crappy airport food in the crappy airport food court, I saw a group of 10-12 year olds performing the most perfunctory line dancing I’ve ever seen, to prerecorded country music. They were all, down to the last boy and girl, [...]

Tuesday, December 16th, 2003

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003): Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Billy Boyd, Peter Jackson
As of this writing, RotK is scoring a staggering 100% positive rating on rottentomatoes.
The challenge at this point will be keeping my already stratospheric expectations low enough to not be disappointed when the theater floor is sticky [...]