Thursday miscellanea #202

• Isaac’s certainly not moving very quickly.  Hoping and praying for as little destruction as possible on the Gulf.
• Football today!  There are games five days in a row to start the season!
• The Dark Knight Rises is not a terrible movie—it expectedly excels in sets and effects, for example—but neither is it a great one.  There are routine sins, like a plot hole you could fly the “Bat” aircraft through, and a little-too-obvious Subaru product placement.  But the main one is what, to me, sinks more promising present-day movies than any other:  excessive length.  It checks in at 2:45, and should have been at least two films.  Here is solid proof that Christopher Nolan can disappoint.  5/10
• After extricating myself from the blast radius of some mediocre storytelling earlier this week, I thought of a couple of stories I told when I was in college that play rather poorly in my memory.  I didn’t think I was bad at it then.  I hope I’m not way worse at it than I think I am now.
• I have a couple of access ramps in my commute that are long, smooth, and gentle, and I’m not afraid of law enforcement on them, so if there’s no traffic I sometimes just go as fast as I can.  Had the Technical Writing Express up to 93 mph yesterday.  What a daredevil!
• You know, I don’t really care, but I keep a little bit of a soft spot for Lindsay Lohan.  I wish she’d figure out how to only get in the news for movies for a couple of years in a row.
• Finished the Disney dining reservations.  That was the last bit of stress, I think.  Now to the “gazing with childlike wonder” part!

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