Three Totally Unrelated Things.
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captainsblogWe had a kitchen fire this morning. Eleanor had slow-cooked a pork barbecue on the stovetop the other day, and evidently just enough grease got out from it and landed in the burner pan, so when she started cooking some stuff for her lunch today, it conflagrated real good.
Fortunately, the windows were all still open (that'll be changing this weekend), and all we lost in the salvage effort was a ratty old bath towel.
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How did I miss this movie these past few years?
It's ostensibly a film adaptation of the humongo 18th century novel Tristram Shandy, but what it REALLY does is send up the moviemaking business in a bigger set of flames than we had in our kitchen earlier. It may be the absurdest piece of comedy I've seen in ages, and that covers a lot of absurdity. It doesn't lower the "fourth wall" so much as detonate it with a nuclear device. To United Statesians, Gillian Anderson is probably the most recognizable suspect, but the rest of the cast is chockablock full of the usual gang of Britophilia that we keep swallowing whole over here, including gobs of yobs from Gosford Park, roughly a third of the cast of Intermission (which we also saw recently and loved), and Stephen Fry playing an amazing range of bizarre characters, including, bizarrest of all as always, Stephen Fry.
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Speaking of nuclear, however it's pronounced:
This might just be the concisest, and yet funniest, summary of our past eight years of Bushian governance. I don't know the author, but it was metaquoted earlier:
Oh ye gods. I have just seen a vision of the near future. It all makes sense now.
January 15, 2009 - AP/REUTERS - George W. Bush Delivers Presidential Farewell Address (TRANSCRIPT)
President Bush enters conference room and approaches podium
BUSH: My fellow Americans...
President Bush spreads his arms in an encompassing gesture
BUSH: THE ARISTOCRATS!
Fortunately, the windows were all still open (that'll be changing this weekend), and all we lost in the salvage effort was a ratty old bath towel.
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How did I miss this movie these past few years?
It's ostensibly a film adaptation of the humongo 18th century novel Tristram Shandy, but what it REALLY does is send up the moviemaking business in a bigger set of flames than we had in our kitchen earlier. It may be the absurdest piece of comedy I've seen in ages, and that covers a lot of absurdity. It doesn't lower the "fourth wall" so much as detonate it with a nuclear device. To United Statesians, Gillian Anderson is probably the most recognizable suspect, but the rest of the cast is chockablock full of the usual gang of Britophilia that we keep swallowing whole over here, including gobs of yobs from Gosford Park, roughly a third of the cast of Intermission (which we also saw recently and loved), and Stephen Fry playing an amazing range of bizarre characters, including, bizarrest of all as always, Stephen Fry.
----
Speaking of nuclear, however it's pronounced:
This might just be the concisest, and yet funniest, summary of our past eight years of Bushian governance. I don't know the author, but it was metaquoted earlier:
Oh ye gods. I have just seen a vision of the near future. It all makes sense now.
January 15, 2009 - AP/REUTERS - George W. Bush Delivers Presidential Farewell Address (TRANSCRIPT)
President Bush enters conference room and approaches podium
BUSH: My fellow Americans...
President Bush spreads his arms in an encompassing gesture
BUSH: THE ARISTOCRATS!
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Date: 2008-11-08 09:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-09 06:00 am (UTC)Ah, The Aristocrats joke.
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Date: 2008-11-09 06:33 pm (UTC)