2010 and what do you get? Another year older and Deep Space Nine

Or something like that.

With all the Who-anticipation of this day^*, I'd completely forgotten, until digitalemur referenced it, that 2010 has a bit of sci-fi significance all to itself. I saw 2010 in Rochester in late 1984, right around the time it came out; it's one of those I associate with a place and time, and the place was the oddly-designed (and long-gone) Todd Mart cinema, a strip-mall duplex with almost 3D-looking futuristic frames around the screens. Since those were stone-knive-and-bearskin days of film releases, it would be many years before I'd actually see the film's much more heralded predecessor, and in the end I always liked 2010 more, for its stronger message of hope (more so after the real 2001 turned out the way it did).

Both have Jupiter as part of their storylines, moreso the sequel which ends with Jupiter becoming something even more significant, but thoughts of that planet also reminded me this morning of yet another old memory of it: a New Yorker cartoon by Roz Chast from my college years, which for the life of me I cannot find on Teh Interwebs. My roommates found it, and its punchline became a catch-phrase for many years; it was titled something like "Tuesdays on Jupiter," and featuring your basic Roz Chast characters standing around in your basic Roz Chast poses, it featured four panels, captioned, best as I can recall,

Kinda big....

Kinda hot....

Kinda gassy....

All in all, kinda neat!

I wish all of you, for your 2010, at least the first and fourth of those:)

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Our 2009 ended with a double feature of our own: Up, which Eleanor's already written about, just because we'd never gotten round to it in the theaters until now; and Rain Man, which she'd never seen before but thought of after hearing of the death of the inspiration for Dustin Hoffman's character sometime last week.  Both had amazingly poignant moments that we didn't expect, even though we'd each seen or heard of many moments from each (and in my case, at least, even though I'd seen Rain Man full through at some point).  Both of the grrls have had some stomach distress in the past 24 hours, so we're staying close to home today, but tomorrow is still on for encounters with a princess, a frog, and a pizza. Probably even in that order;)

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^*Sorry to be a beggar again, but despite efforts to obtain a more reliable fix, I seem to be all alone out there again with regard to securing EOT2. So far, the northwest and southwest corners of this country have most graciously represented; any help from all time zones and zip codes would be welcome this one last time:)

Prettying up the place

I'd been with the same journal layout for years, and it had gotten a little old, so I switched to something a bit different while still keeping things more or less in the same places. The link list has also been updated (eep, there were links to Hometown AOL blogs on there, which got killed off ages ago). I know most people never see this, but I do constantly, so it was about time. Some favorites of many (such as Things I Learned From My Patients) are now on there. As is my disappointingly low Books Read list, and a tag list- hey, guess I better start using those again, huh.

Just got back from my first gym visit in the three weeks since Eleanor's accident, which coincided with my feeling that I'd pulled something in my right arm or shoulder. It's gotten better, though it's still there (as is some residual Pain In The Ass from my pratfall the other day), but at least cardio doesn't seem to make it any worse.

Another college application is out in the ether: RISD, this time. I find it awesomely cool that my kid is considering the alma mater of Talking Heads.



Supplement to the last post for the Dexterites here: I vaguely remembered that Roy "Captain Bridger" Scheider starred in 2010, but I'd forgotten that John Lithgow is one of the other lead actors, as is a much younger-than-the-Queen Helen Mirren. I've netflixed it, and it should be fun.