Catching Ducks

Recently I bought I new ACE bandage. I wanted one just like my old one, but the store only had "self-adhering" bandages. I went ahead and bought one, but I hate it! It's hard to re-roll it after I'm do using it (it sticks together like saran wrap) but even worse, the end stopped sticking after just a few uses. Now I have to tuck it in. Blech. Bring back the old-fashioned bandages! What's wrong with using a clip??

Labels: health

I've gotten back into watching The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. This time, however, I'm only watching the opening monologue. It's the best part! Here's an example:


The NBA has instituted a new dress code for basketball players who sit on the bench. Did you hear about this? They've got a new dress code. They can't wear the backwards hats and the bling bling anymore. It's not allowed. They have to dress "business casual". It's true! Which is a departure from the old dress code, which was known as "thug formal".

Labels: random silliness

I've been catching up on my DVDs of The L Word, which makes me think of Ani DiFranco. In particular, her song "If It Isn't Her":


standing like john wayne
she is full framed
she is center stage
and my imagination is
rattling in its cage
I didn't really notice
when everything else disappeared
but as far as I'm concerned
if it isn't her
it isn't here

she says "do I know you?"
I say "well, no, not biblically
but I've been waiting for you come
and talk to me
I have been playing
too many of those boy-girl games"
she says "honey you are safe here
this is a girl-girl thing"

I told him I loved him
so he thought I'd roll over and play dead
he was god's gift to hypocrisy
with weak knees and a big fat head
she says "honey don't tell me
that old story
you are boring me
just tell me do you like me
tell me what you're gonna do
now that you're free"

standing like john wayne
she is full framed
she is center stage
and my imagination
is rattling in its cage
I didn't really notice
when everything else disappeared
but as far as I'm concerned
if it isn't her
it isn't here
as far as I'm concerned
if it isn't her
it isn't here

Labels: ani difranco

Does anyone remember La Femme Nikita?


Nikita: What are you doing, Walter?

Walter: Building a bomb.

[pause]

Nikita: Should I come back later?

Labels: TV

I've spent the last week lying on my couch, trying to hack up a lung. It's not fun.

I'm particularly annoyed because I've been taking better care of myself the last six months than I have in years, and yet I've been getting sick more often. My dad suggested that it was exposure to the public, but I've been getting the same exposure for eight years.

I'm getting super bored, too. Today I started typing up my recipes! If I don't get well soon, I may lose my mind.

Labels: health

I saw the third Bourne movie yesterday. I liked it. I'm hoping they'll make a box set that has all three movies on DVD.

This quote was in the trailer, but it was still funny in the movie. Bourne and CIA Deputy Director Vosen are talking on the phone:


Vosen: [in a car, talking on his cell phone] Perhaps we can arrange a meet.
Bourne: Where are you now?
Vosen: I'm sitting in my office.
Bourne: I doubt that.
Vosen: Why would you doubt that?
Bourne: If you were in your office right now, we'd be having this conversation face-to-face.

Labels: movies

Today I picked up my brother's wedding present (a personalized, cross-stitched wedding record) from the frame shop. The wedding was at the end of June, so I felt a little bad that it was being finished so late.

When I picked it up, the woman at the frame shop said that they had been talking about how impressed they were that I had finished it "in a timely manner". She said that most wedding records are framed three to four years after the wedding. Now I don't feel so bad!

Labels: random silliness

I rented two movies this week (and by "rented", I mean "checked out from the library"). Surprisingly, I enjoyed both. The first was Ella Enchanted, a very sweet, funny, and modern twist on the Cinderella story. The other was Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, a very funny, rather violent, film noir-ish parody. Sort of. It's hard to describe! But it was definitely funny. Val Kilmer plays a P.I. named Perry who's supposed to teach Robert Downey, Jr's character (named Harry) about being a detective for a movie role. As they head to a stake out, Harry is smoking a cigarette...

Perry: Do you have to smoke?

Harry: Do you want me to put it out, when we get near the [stake out]?

Perry: Yes. As soon as you find a large, brown clump of shrubs, just throw it in there.

Labels: movies