So it goes
Vonnegut leaves us at 84. Kilgore Trout lives on.
Two Enter, One Leaves
Alamo Drafthouse, the worlds greatest movie theater, has teamed up with my favorite pancake purveyor to return Mad Max to the big screen.
Featuring Australian ranter Mel Gibson as a nomadic leather-fetishist who stumbles onto a town run entirely on farts where latter-day gladiators compete inside a huge dutch oven known, as “Thunderdome”. The movie also stars Tina Turner as the singing mayor of Bartertown who sends our hero into the arena against the formidable Master/Blaster, the baddest symbiotic-two-person-bullying- entity-composed-of-one-mildly-retarded-guy-and-one-evil-genius since Bush/Cheney.
I’d love to add to that, but they’ve really summed it up perfectly. But in case you needed just a little more, the trailer they put together is awesome – Mad Max III as a Volkswagen commercial..
Monday Zen
Well. There’s a couple of ways to think about this. Maybe god or gravity, or some combination of the two decided the didn’t approve of my current arsenal of dental hygiene tools. Maybe they thought I needed an apt visual to sum up the craptasticness of this particular Monday. Maybe this is a message that my septic lines need cleaning.
Or perhaps I just shouldn’t store my toothbrush in the cabinet above the toilet. Or moreover, what the hell am I doing taking pictures of my toilet ?
All worthy avenues of self examination.
Lactose Intolerant in Greenwich Village
My sister’s neighborhood in NYC was host to an Iraq-style firefight lastnight.
It was unclear last night what lay behind the first shooting at the pizzeria, DeMarco’s at 146 Macdougal Street. The police said the gunman, wearing a fake beard, walked into the restaurant and was given a menu by Mr. Romero. When Mr. Romero turned away, the authorities said, the gunman shot him 15 times in the back.
Her response: I’m glad i don’t eat pizza.
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Vegas
Aside from the feeling that you constantly want to wash your hands, this place is petty damn interesting.
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Alamo
300 comes out this week, accompanied by many in-depth explanations of the the Battle of Thermopylae, complete with a nauseating number of extended histories, cultural refreshers and so forth.
The release is interestingly timed. This past week (March 6) marked the 171st anniversary of the fall of the Alamo – a defining moment in Texas history, a military clusterfuck of epic proportions and the linchpin for one of the finest grassroots propaganda campaigns on the 19th Century.
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Overheard on the Instant Messenger
You know you’ve arrived when you go to Starbucks and they add a free espresso shot to your coffee everytime. I am finally someone.
Capitolism Bites
Some people,” writes Howard Schultz, Starbucks Corp. founder and Chairman, “even call our stores sterile, cookie cutter, no longer reflecting the passion our partners feel about our coffee.”
Cookie cutter ? You guys ? No way, I mean, all your stores have such a unique flavor.
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Sweet Up and Down
The database that drives the content for this site seems to have eaten itself, hence the recent slowness. Thus I’m going to go through one of my ‘design rethinks.’
Keep your fingers crossed that this is like the smooth fall 2006 redesign, and not the debacle of June 2005, of which we will never speak of again.
Fried Chicken Covered in Cheese
I’ve made no secret of the utter craptasticness of my week. I’ve had blown deadlines, migraines and a web site that’s supposed to launch in three hours that’s still non-functional. This is naturally problematic to my sense of calm.
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