The Weak in Review 8/03/99
I cooked-up some chicken legs on the BBQ tonight. The
first time I lit the fire it burned for a few minutes and went out, so
after that I really soaked the charcoal good with lighter fluid, then I
carefully guided a match into the ideal cranny between the briquettes at
the base of the pyrimid... HHHHHHWWMP [the sound your laundry makes when
you try to shake the wrinkles out]. It was such a classic idiot
move, but I never saw it coming. I no longer have any hair on my
right hand, but as my roomate pointed out, at least I won't look like a
gorrilla.
Movie Review: Rushmore
It was good: wierd,
different, and entertaining throughout.
I liked this movie and
wrote half a line about it, whereas I didn't like that last movie (Eyes Wide
Shut) and wrote a solid four paragraphs- which is really the better movie?
Is it possible for a film to be thought-provoking and yet suck ass?
Can a film really be good and yet provoke no thoughts? I don't have
the HTML skills to put these upside down at the bottom of the page, and
you probably wouldn't want to roll your monitor over anyway, but
the answers to the above three questions are: Rushmore, Yes, Yes.
Mia Hamm did a book signing on campus yesterday. I
promised the undergrad in our lab a mention on the web site if he yelled
"take your top off" at her (hey, I said "heckle" and that was what he came
up with). He wussed out, but in retrospect, it would have been a
brilliant move: there was no way he could get in trouble because he could
have just told the bouncer guys that he had seen a woman soccer player
take her shirt off on the news and on the cover of Sports Illustrated and
on the cover of Newsweek and he thought that that was what women soccer
players did. He could have made his own crassness seem like a commentary
on the objectification of female atheletes by the media. He could
have become the first guy to yell "take your top off" and be politically
correct in so doing. But no, instead he mumbled "she looks like she
looks on TV" and kept walking.
Yet again I am Late Show t-shirtless after my online entry
for "top ten things Niel Armstrong would say if he walked on the moon today"
of "If things weren't so cloudy I could recognize the incontinence" was
passed over for the likes of "Damn, I locked my keys in the lunar rover
again".
Archive:
Weak in Review 7/26/99
Weak in Review 7/12/99
Weak in Review 7/05/99
Weak in Review 6/20/99
Weak in Review 6/02/99
Weak in Review 5/19/99
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