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- I slayed the Christmas shopping beast this morning. (Well, almost. The part that was stressing me is over.) I try to teach my boys not to manufacture needless urgency, but my approach to the shopping this year was an awfully poor manifestation of that ideal. Hell, I don’t even have to do most of it (thank you, Lea), and I still managed to make it hurt.
- Clementines! There is a box full of juicy, sweet goodness on my kitchen counter. (There’s a box of clementines, too. Heh.) Every year when they arrive, they remind me of the Mackinaw peaches.
- The final scheduled broadcast of Larry King Live is tonight. King doesn’t offend me, but I have never understood his appeal at all. Obviously it is substantial for many people.
- Going to lunch with my work group tomorrow. Soul Burger is a Huntsville institution, but I am a Soul Burger virgin. So are at least two other folks who will be attending. Should be a good time.
- TRON: Legacy and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader are slam-dunks over the break. BamaDan asked about my interest in True Grit earlier this week, and I’m just not sure the Coens and I are on the same page anymore. Plus, it’s a film that needed to be “reimagined” (or whatever the current fashionable term is) about as much as Beyoncé needs liposuction. However, it is definitely an opportunity to hang, and we’re overdue for a flick together, he and I.
- Picked all of the bowl games for the season-long work competition today. I’m badly out of contention, but hey, college football is so painfully brief; why pass it up?
- Blake Edwards has died at 88. He was a talented man, and I’ll also celebrate here that he was married for 41 years. RIP.
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You guys should go see Tangled. Ooooh, or Yogi Bear! Ha ha ha. We are going to the Voyage of the DT on Saturday, sort of a weird birthday outing idea from the kids for me. That particular book is my favorite of all the Narnia entries, so I guess I am okay with it.
I want to see Tangled but the boys nixed that idea pretty quickly. 🙁
This is probably a no-brainer, but what does it mean in the Soul Burger menu when is says “all the way”? Is that some sort of code for what condiments are on a sandwich? I’ve never seen that phrase on a menu before. It looks like an awesome place though (and cheap!)
Lea, really? We can make Tangled happen.
Mirth, you got it. It means “with everything.” I’ve never considered that it might be a Southern term.
Lea – you should go, even if you have to go by yourself. It was hy-frickin-sterical. And besides, there’s an entire band of thugs that play a major part. Soldiers. Con men. Dudes with swords and battleaxes. It’s not just about the girl with the hair.
Coens lost you on _No Country For Old Men_ I take it. I’d like to see what they could do with _Blood Meridian_ or _Outer Dark_ from McCarthy’s works. I didn’t read NCFOM, but I thought the movie was good to excellent, not great.
_True Grit_ looks like fun at least. It’s been long enough, and it’ll have to be better than _3:10 To Yuma_ as a remake.
Now somebody put _City of God_ on blu-ray please.
Voyage of the Dawn Treader was my favorite Narnia book too, followed by the Silver Chair. I hope Voyage is better than the reviewers are saying. Those stories are sacred to me.
BamaDan, I didn’t hate No Country for Old Men, but I found it unusually weak for a Coen film. It’s too impressed with itself, and I thought it lacked cohesion. I didn’t think any of its good qualities (the landscape photography, a couple of the individual performances, and so forth) particularly served a whole.
Cheryl, as excellent as the first two installments have been, I’m not terribly concerned. They’re some of my favorites too.