Friday, August 10, 2007

 

And then I laughed so hard my laugh came out as an almost unhearable whistly high-pitched squeak, like a constipated kettle or perhaps the mating call of a particularly repulsive squid.

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Thursday, August 09, 2007

 

Get your movie mojo on: Title Sequences by Saul Bass.

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Follow along with Giant Steps.

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Monday, August 06, 2007

 

Oh, what Victorian-era national stereotypes won't do for the love of a heaving bosom.

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Actual doctors review episodes of House. While many medical students I know are totally obsessed with House, they often do pick bones - ha - with the actual medicine being practiced in the episodes. It must come with the professional school territory -- when I was in law school, we did the same thing with episodes of Law and Order. Bestest thing ever: a guy leaping up during an episode and yelling, "Objection! Hearsay!" at Sam Waterson.

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Sunday, August 05, 2007

 

Better Measurements, Better Living

I bought a new scale. I had become frustrated with the old one's whismical attitude towards my weight. I was sick of being told I had gained five pounds between bedtime and getting up in the morning, a feat that seemingly defied the laws of thermodynamics. I had come to wonder if I was not some sort of fat-alchemist, turning the otherwise indolent oxygen so prominent in the atmosphere of my home into body weight overnight. I have also been on a kind of half-assed diet all summer. Yet my scale informed me that I was gaining weight. So I upgraded to a whole-assed diet, and the scale still continued to inform me that I was gaining weight, even though I've been living off nothing more substantial than gazpacho, yogurt, and fading dreams for a couple of weeks.

Still, I probably would have soldiered on in this manner indefinitely, had I not mentioned the problem to a friend of mine who said, "Yeah, your scale is all fucked up. I weighed myself on it when I was at your house two weeks ago and it told me I weighed eight pounds more than I've ever weighed in my entire life."

So I trekked out to the Bed Bath and Beyond yesterday and picked up a new scale. And voila, I am instantly lighter! I have altered gravity! Ha ha!

In other weekendly news, I have played muchly with the oranges poems, and produced 10 copies of the indian summer mix CD. Whee!

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