Jan
29
Yoga, no Cali, and snow on golf courses
January 29, 2008 | 1 Comment
I’ve been doing Bikram yoga since early December. I was a bit unsure about trying it because it seemed kind of wussy. I mean, stretching? I regularly ride my bike anywhere from three to six hours up and down hills in hot and cold temperatures. Surely yoga is a walk in the park compared to [...]
Jan
13
The L Word take two
January 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment
And now onto “The L Word.” I’m starting to enjoy the meta-meta humor about Jenny’s movie. “Would Mina sleep with Shawn?” Hah! The second show is directed by Jamie Babbitt, which is hopefully a good thing.
Could Bette be such a control-freak that she could force her daughter to become an artist at such an early [...]
Jan
13
The New hotness
January 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Without being much of a fan of Ah-nold, I really liked “Terminator 2” when it came out in 1991. Why? Probably it had a little bit to do with my nascent attraction to women. And towards that end, it had a whole to do with Linda Hamilton, a stringy muscular vision of hotness that set [...]
Jan
11
Laughing at announcers and promoters
January 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment
There was an amusing letter in VeloNews.com this week:
“Why are all race announcers so annoying? You go to a bike race and what do you get? Some guy yelling into a PA system:
“WOW!!!! WHAT A GRRRRREAT DISPLAY OF POWERRRRRRRR!!!”
“HE IS PUTTING DOWN THE HURT TO THE OTHERSSSS!!!!!!!!”
It seems that nearly every race I have gone [...]
Jan
11
Snotty head
January 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment
My sinuses are expanding, and my brain is being squished. Ow!!!
Watch out, everyone, for the illness I continue to battle. I’ll call it the Solid Snot Sickness. The damn stuff just won’t go away. I wake up coughing and keep nearly blowing out the entire contents of my head onto a series of snot rags. [...]
Jan
9
It’s so warm out that I have my windows open. There’s a breeze blowing through the house. From outside.
The sun is bright. It actually is producing heat. It feels like crocuses will start popping up from the mud beside melting snowbanks.
What is going on???
Jan
8
Top flicks
January 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment
These come from my Netflix queue, because I don’t seem to go to the movies anymore:
The Battle of Algiers (1965)
The Conformist (1970)
Irma Vep (1996)
Volver (2006)
Days of Glory (2006)
The Lives of Others (2007)
Wow, I’m not much of a patriot. Those films are from France, Italy, Spain, and Germany.
How about the worst of the year? (But I [...]
Jan
8
2008 has come upon us and I never bothered to get around to creating my own “best of”s to add to the ubiquitous 2007 year-end lists. I thought at least I could assemble a list of my top five favorite songs. I can only come up with a few songs that I listened to obsessively [...]
Jan
7
On Humanities
January 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment
When I was in graduate school, I shared an apartment one summer with a good friend of mine who was an astrophysicist. He’s since disappeared into grown-up land, with a real job and a wife and a child, so I haven’t heard from him for ages. But in those days, we could sit out on [...]
Jan
6
The joys of being a lesbian
January 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment
One of them is that “The L Word” is technically marketed to me. That makes it the only thing in corporate America for which I am the target audience! Yes, I shelled out for Showtime in order to watch it. Unfortunately, Showtime also gives me some embarrassing, wounding products, including “OurChart.com,” whatever the hell that [...]
