late adopter

I’m a twit, as if you didn’t know.

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still watching movies

Le Dîner des Cons (The Dinner Game) is delightful.

The Lion King is better than I expected, though I don’t quite get how the rightful king prevents drought. Only one of the songs is abominable.

The Matrix (again). At 111 minutes there is a scene that could not have been made much later than 1999: a helicopter crashes into an office tower, causing a fireball.

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leftovers

The Five Levels of the Economy

Oddest spam in a long time:

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbeQn3TI3rI

The video is a TV comedy skit.

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interspecies

Yesterday we had visitors including a big dog. My boys briefly hid in the bedroom, then came out cautiously for a better look. Rocky even touched noses with the dog.

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with a twist

The local Humane Society gets a surprising number of cats with kinked tails, and I don’t mean the classic Siamese bend at the last bone; I’ve seen about six with two or more right angles.

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Panda Bramble and Rockstar Hermit Rocky

For “Black Friday” the local Humane Society has a special on black cats; so I took two, born in June. They quickly made themselves at home.

A few pix.

Faré tells me that the French for ‘play tag’ is jouer à chat (‘play at cat’).

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losses in translation

Whenever I watch a recent French movie, I miss just enough wordplay to wish it had French subtitles.

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