DIARY
– WEEKEND – Friday was relatively quiet. I read the Wolf Baron’s script (after spending over a week trying to convert it from Word Perfect), and then Jess and I walked out to a Diner over in the Heights – Happy Days – and had the Usual. We got back a little after one.
– Saturday was relatively quiet. Jess has been tearing up on Final Fantasy IV Easytype. But I finished the Wolf Baron’s script, did some cleaning, and then Jess and I watched a movie, The Bright Sunshine of the Blemishless Brain. Or something like that. I can’t recall the exact title. But it starred John Kerry and it was really good.
– Sunday was relatively quiet. It was hot as blazes. Which was appropriate from the day’s main activity; going to see an Inconvenient Truth. I had expected the film to be convincing, but I was surprised at how poetic it turned out being. While I never thought Al Gore was as chronically boring as every late-night talk show accuses him of boring, I never thought I’d be sitting through a two hour power-point montage on his behalf. But it was actually really, really good. And, just as the trailers promised, scary. Matt came along, and afterwards we stopped at Habana Outpost, one of my very favorite spots in Brooklyn, for their famous Mexican corn.
Back home I did some cleaning. Jess and I called our parents to wish a Happy Father’s Day. Nobody showed up to the Gothic Funk meeting. Nothing new there. (I may have to rethink the GF plan for this summer). And onto the bad news:
We’re afraid we have bedbugs. Given that the little beasies can hide in cracks in a wall (which we have) or travel via luggage cross-country (which we’ve done) or just down the street from your stanky ghetto laundromat (which there is), and that New York City in particular has had a troubling time with infestations lately, and that Jess has been getting persistant mosquitolike bites during the night with an uncanny absence of mosquitos, it’s unfortunately looking like the most likely of possibilities.
So, we opened up the futon and slept in the living room. We moved the TV in there, and it took a couple hours to fall asleep, but at least we had reruns of Frasier and Cheers.
Despite all this, I had a really good feeling about the weekend in general.
– WHAT IS VERY GOTHIC FUNK – Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
– WHAT I DO NOT KNOW HOW TO DESCRIBE IN TERMS OF GOTHIC FUNK – An Inconvenient Truth.
– WEATHER – While it (the weather) is definitely going on, I don’t feel like there’s all that much to talk about. A cold front will move into the Northeast, mitigate the heat and bring rain. Florida is receiving daily bouts of precipitation typical of this time of year. The most unusual news is that heavy storms are moving across the northern rockies, with the eventual result of flooding in Texas. But that’s all for now.
– TIGERS – “He reaches a milestone on Father’s Day in Wrigley Field,” said first baseman Chris Shelton. “Come on — it’s almost storybook.”
After sweeping the CUbs (you wouldn’t have heard that a couple years ago) the Tigers are once again #1 in baseball. On the way, Kenny Rogers won his 200th game. The score was 12-3. This all makes me very happy.
– JUNE – Is dairy month.
– TODAY – Is Juneteenth.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Blaise Pascal.
– NEWS OF THE WEEK –
CBC News: Catalonia chooses semi-autonomy in binding Spanish vote.
Los Angeles Times: Acerbic GOP Resolution on Iraq Passes 256-153.
CNN.com: Police don’t have to knock, justices say.
Minneapolis Star-Tribune: U.S. Catholic bishops approve new Mass translation.
MSNBC: Bill Gates plans to step back from Microsoft.
New York Times: Marine Calls Song About Killings a Joke.
– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
Is there any kind of insect that squicks you in particular? What kind?
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