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Sunday, June 24, 2007

I must look like Wes Anderson

Twice this weekend, as I was hanging out on the street waiting for Debz to come out of a screening at the L.A. Film Festival, someone asked me if I was a filmmaker.

I don't even own a camcorder. But apparently, I either look like someone who should be a filmmaker or someone who actually is a filmmaker.

I told these hopeful starseekers that I was not in the biz, although had I sensed the opportunity to score free stuff by answering in the affirmative, I may have chosen that route.

I like free stuff.

Thursday, June 14, 2007

Mercury rising

While Debz and I were driving to lunch today, I checked her car's clock to make sure we weren't running late. As a punctual and responsible employee, I am never late.

"Holy crap!" I said. "We're late! My sense of time is all screwed up. I thought it was just after noon, but it's already 1:13."

Debz glanced at the dash. "That's not the time, that's the temperature."

Now, as the sun has just set, we're down to a cool 104. Better break out the long johns because tomorrow only will be a high of 108. Welcome to summer in the desert. Or as I call it, "Four straight months of me bitching about the heat."

Sunday, June 3, 2007

They don't even have a gorge

Simpsons Movie

So the good souls of Springfield, Minnesota have decided they want no part in a contest that declares the winner the official home of the Simpsons. They probably don't need thousands of Homer fans flocking there because the town's prime location in the middle of miles of cornfields in southwest Minnesota already has them overrun with tourists and their pesky dollars.

I really hope it doesn't suck. The Simpsons movie, I mean. I'm almost as big a Simpsons apologist as Morgan is for Mr. Lucas and his butchered prequels, but even I have to admit the quality of recent seasons has slipped. The movie almost surely will suffer from the same problem as the Seinfeld finale and Episode I: failure to live up to the incredible hype. I have hope that, unlike the two cited examples, The Simpsons movie at least will be decent and not a horrid, legacy-staining turd.

"Who knows what adventures they'll have between now and when the show becomes unprofitable?"

- Troy McClure (R.I.P.)

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