Monday, May 30, 2005
MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND RANDOMNESSA recommendation:If you're looking for a some Memorial Day reading, I suggest Bill Whittle's "Sanctuary," parts 1 and 2.  A true story:A confession and a question:Only within the past day or so have I realized that Pat Roberts (Republican senator from Kansas) is just two letters away from having the same name as Pat Robertson (arguably the Mayor of Loonyville). And vice versa. Should I have? A confession by way of a question:How bad is it that I just replaced the filter in my Brita pitcher on Friday for the first time in nearly two years? A set of questions that first occurred to me while watching Pulp Fiction on TV late, late last night: - Do you think that when Bruce Willis' French girlfriend kept arguing for the sexiness of pot bellies on women that she was trying to persuade him they should have a child together?
- In the monologue where Christopher Walken is talking about the gold watch, is he speaking to an actor (whether a stand-in or the kid seen in the movie is immaterial) or to a point in space?
- When Marvin is accidentally killed in the back seat of Jules and Vincent's car, does the carelessness that leads to it owe anything to do with Marvin's earlier forgetting to tell them that Seinfeld-looking shooter lurked in the bathroom at the apartment they'd just left?
- Can the scene where Quentin Tarantino plays Jimmy, a layabout white man married to a black nurse and who uses the the N-word comfortably with an old African-American friend who also happens to be an organized crime enforcer be legitimately viewed as director Tarantino's attempt to portray himself as an authentic interpreter of American blackness?
A vindictive observation: Five or so years ago, Radiohead had three out of four number-one debuts counting the US and UK charts in the span of a year. Now, Coldplay is badly outsold on the first week in the UK charts by a goofy ringtone remix of a 1980s instrumental associated with Eddie Murphy. This makes me happy.
A curiosity:Vivamus aliquam, mauris et semper consequat, magna leo vehicula nulla, at elementum erat velit venenatis libero.
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