aw, darn.

In a bid to update my wardrobe some from its monochrome spartan-ness (both for my own benefit and over time as a yoga teacher), I decided to get a little at a time, starting with this shirt.

And then spent a night and a day being disappointed by a lack of reaction to said shirt. I got one person say that they'd seen it somewhere before, which they probably had, being quite clever in their own fashion sense. When my girlfriend noticed, she thankfully had a gratifying reaction, immediately saying that is was certainly a shirt suited to me (yay girlfriend!). And then a guy at work looked at it quizzically, then laconically pointed out that if someone didn't know what a haiku was, the shirt is basically nonsensical. As the guy next to him laughed uncomfortably, knowing he should be laughing but not really understanding why, I felt kind of bad in the end.

The lesson? Just take satisfaction in displaying what amounts to my sense of humor upon my chest.

In other news, this is basically like where I work. Except with less rancor.

let's see, y=25, minus...hm..nope.

The Number 23, with Jim Carrey and Virginia Madsen. Well, it was better than I expected, considering the poor reviews I'd heard of it. I think a darker ending than the kind of complacent one it had would have served it better, though the whole premise was kind of shaky to begin with (the numbers thing being like a horoscope in that you can apply it nigh however you want). The dream-y bits depicting what's happening in the eponymous book are fun, though.

Kind of tempted.

oddly reminiscint of respective national character

Layer Cake, with James Bond and Chief O'Brian, and The Bourne Ultimatum, with Maaaat Daaamon, and the shrew from 10 Things I Hate About You. In two sentences. The former movie (limey), is very stylish, high quality cinematography, well put together, and full of clever twists....but plaid (as Kevin adroitly put it, a twist at 60mph is exciting, while a twist at 10mph...not so much). The latter (merrican) is kind of excessive, shaky, badass, in-your-face, and awesome.

interesting posit:
"The fact that Palestinian nationalism developed later than Zionism and indeed in response to it does not in any way diminish the legitimacy of Palestinian nationalism or make it less valid than Zionism. All nationalisms arise in opposition to some 'other.' Why else would there be the need to specify who you are? And all nationalisms are defined by what they oppose..."

Kind of a scary headline(reminds of some novel I read in like 6th grade, I think, about a space plague or something)

la la triviaballon

Mmm, eerie pretty

Go spiders, go spiders...you're the...uh...spiders! (aka go team!)

I applaud the clever

From Wyatt, best football game ever

would make a fun comic book

City Infernal, by Edward Lee. Ironically, for as much as one might think that a story mostly set in hell might be the most shocking and disgusting of Lee's stories, it's really not at all. The bits that are a bit shocking just aren't really, in just being so over the top and fantastic as to be ludicrous. That's not to say it isn't kind of a fun read, with a few twists and turns and a very (oddly, fun) imaginative take on the concept of hell. I just can't get the notion of the whole book being kind of silly out of my head. Weird.

Wyatt's counter

Posit: running off the idea that "all models are inherently incorrect on some level - some are useful," isn't reality as we perceive it simply a model constructed by our sensory input? Reality as a useful, but ultimately inherently incorrect model. Hm. Puts one of yoga's goals of "seeing things as they are" in a whole new light.

Hopeless romantics unite!