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Old 06-01-2005, 01:10 PM   #3526
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Because she's not bad; she's just drawn that way.

Oh, and paigow, did you see "Empire Falls" on HBO? What did you think? I like Ed Harris, but I don't think that he was a good choice -- Miles is supposed to be a bit of a schlub, and Ed is too cool and handsome for the role. I never would have thought of casting Dennis Farina as Walt, but he's got the perfect blend of aging cockiness.
I know this was directed at Paigow, but I figured I'd throw down too. I was very disappointed. Helen Hunt's terrible Maine accent was overshadowed only by the fact that her face has gotten so thin and drawn she looks like a corpse. Paul Newman was okay, but I think he overplayed the role. And all in all, the adaptation just didn't draw out the characters the way it should have. The narrator was given that function, and the movie suffered terribly for it.
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Old 06-01-2005, 01:11 PM   #3527
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The ellipses leave open the possibility that this whole thing is a huge misunderstanding.

Dollars to donuts Donald Moffat will play him in the inevitable TV movie.

So they interviewed the neighbors yesterday. Most of them saying they still think he's a good guy and are OK with what he did. Some of them, however, think that he betrayed his position by exposing a huge conspiracy that no one really knew the extent until the leakage. Nixon lovers.

That said, he seems truly happy to have the weight of the secret off his shoulders.
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Old 06-01-2005, 01:18 PM   #3528
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What's your indication that summer is here?

Some friends of mine were talking about how it's not summer until they hear the Fresh Prince's Summertime on the radio.

I'm more likely to simply think of the Memorial Day holiday weekend as the start of summer, since it's quite possible that I'd been swealtering in the heat for several weeks previously. This year, my air conditioning has been on only since May 9, but we've already hit the 90s several times.

I'm more likely, though, to die of hypothermia than heat exhaustion. Air conitioning is set at sub-arctic levels around here right now.
Interesting. There are many songs that remind me of summer, but the one that really nails it is All Day Music by War. I know it's really old, but the radio stations seem to play it every year.
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Old 06-01-2005, 01:33 PM   #3529
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OK trying for the trifecta.

49ers diversity training film offends entire city.

The San Francisco 49ers' front office is under fire for an in-house training video that including lesbian porn, off-color racial jokes, a parody of gay marriage, topless blondes, and star linebacker Julian Peterson playing the part of a panhandler,the San Francisco Chronicle reported Wednesday.
The video was shown to 49ers players last year at the team's training camp in Santa Clara after a diversity workshop, which Reynolds organized after an anti-homosexual comment by running back Garrison Hearst.

Excerpts - in one scene, a topless, lesbian wedding takes place at the city's famed Mitchell Brothers' O'Farrell Theater and administered by Reynolds, who acts as the mayor.

"I know the courts say we can't do this," Reynolds says in the film, "but like my predecessor, we make our own rules here in San Francisco.''

After the the couple takes their vows, they drop to the floor and engage in serious petting. One of them says, "Go 49ers'' as the camera turns away.

In a scene in Chinatown, then-team trainer and martial arts expert George Chung — wearing glasses and with buck teeth — translates an article in an Asian newspaper:

"Tim Latte (Rattay, a Niners quarterback)," Chung says. "He feel good now. He feeling good. No plactice with the team, so most of the time he play with himself."

Chung later says, "49ers love being in community. Very patriotic . . . support president and his George Bush erection."

"Erection?" Reynolds asks.

"Yes," Chung responds. "It say, ‘You like Bush — then you like his erection.'"

Chung also says, "My name is Suck Hung. My brother's name is Suck Young — my whole family suck."

In the final scene, Reynolds gives a final set of instructions in a dressing room in which there are three topless blondes. He says, "what you do is not only a reflection of yourself. It's a reflection of the San Francisco 49ers."

The women then throw themselves all over Reynolds for a group hug.

Public relations director Kirk Reynolds, who developed the video, is now looking for a new job.

Man, talk about offending an entire city.


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Old 06-01-2005, 01:48 PM   #3530
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OK trying for the trifecta.

49ers diversity training film offends entire city.

The San Francisco 49ers' front office is under fire for an in-house training video that including lesbian porn, off-color racial jokes, a parody of gay marriage, topless blondes, and star linebacker Julian Peterson playing the part of a panhandler,the San Francisco Chronicle reported Wednesday.
I like the paper's disclaimer on the video
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Old 06-01-2005, 01:51 PM   #3531
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OK trying for the trifecta.

49ers diversity training film offends entire city.

Maybe they should concentrate on not sucking ass next year?
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Old 06-01-2005, 01:52 PM   #3532
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I like the paper's disclaimer on the video
At least they had the sense to have one video as just the lesbians.

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Old 06-01-2005, 01:56 PM   #3533
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What's your indication that summer is here?

Some friends of mine were talking about how it's not summer until they hear the Fresh Prince's Summertime on the radio.

I'm more likely to simply think of the Memorial Day holiday weekend as the start of summer, since it's quite possible that I'd been swealtering in the heat for several weeks previously. This year, my air conditioning has been on only since May 9, but we've already hit the 90s several times.

I'm more likely, though, to die of hypothermia than heat exhaustion. Air conitioning is set at sub-arctic levels around here right now.
My measure used to be when women started walking around in open-toed shoes (meaning I could break mine out too). Now I live in a place that allows for open-toed shoes year round. I think that June Gloom is supposed to be my new measure, but I find it is basically summertime year round. Except when it is raining.
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Old 06-01-2005, 02:05 PM   #3534
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My measure used to be when women started walking around in open-toed shoes (meaning I could break mine out too). Now I live in a place that allows for open-toed shoes year round. I think that June Gloom is supposed to be my new measure, but I find it is basically summertime year round. Except when it is raining.
June Gloom is causing me to have mood swings on a daily basis. I start out depressed every fucking day, then perk up when it burns off. I may have to start taking vacations in late May/June.

That said, it is summertime year round and I love love love it. Summertime without excessive heat and humidity.
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Old 06-01-2005, 02:09 PM   #3535
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Smells -- the first whiff of fragrant vines - honeysuckle, or the one on my neighbor's fence that I can't think of the name of right now. Honeysuckle is an esp. strong indicator for me because the house on the corner by my elementary school bus stop had a huge honeysuckle, and I will forever associate that smell with the feeling of freedom that starts in early June, with half days of school, field days, and the sight of papers flying out of school buses. (Similarly, the smell of crayons and Elmer's Glue transport me to fall at any time of year.)

Also, of course, the smell of burning Kingsford.

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2. Except in NYC the smells are the smells of pee, oil, garbage ooze and general grime on the streets, released as the asphalt warms up. You can tell summer has come to NYC when the streets start to reek. And tar - I love the smell of tar when the road crews begin repairing the winter damage. And there are the smells eminating from the dank winter coats of my fellow subway riders who have not yet figured out it is warm and therefore dumped the outerwear they have been wearing continuously for 5 months.

From childhood, my "summer smell" memory is the smell of rain - I grew up in a place with pretty bad air pollution (no longer, but in the early '70s is was bad), and you could always smell the rain about 5 minutes before it hit because it carried all the air pollution down with it. Sometimes I smell the same thing in NYC, but not as often. Anyhow, to this day whenever I smell some spa-goo called "rain," I find it disorienting because it smells nothing like rain is supposed to.

However, I did get a whiff of Kingsford this weekend, when my upstairs neighbors lit up the hibachi on their fire escape (and spurted me with lighter fluid while I was sitting below on mine).

This all sounds rather dismal, but I actually love most of these smells (except for the rancid winter coat smell). But then I looove the smell of gasoline as well.
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Old 06-01-2005, 02:27 PM   #3536
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Maybe they should concentrate on not sucking ass next year?
Or, failing that, at least have a hefty supply of unopened toothbrushes.






Which reminds me, how do you know that the toothbrush was invented in Alabama? Because otherwise, it would be called a teethbrush.

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Old 06-01-2005, 02:29 PM   #3537
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2. Except in NYC the smells are the smells of pee, oil, garbage ooze and general grime on the streets, released as the asphalt warms up. You can tell summer has come to NYC when the streets start to reek. And tar - I love the smell of tar when the road crews begin repairing the winter damage. And there are the smells eminating from the dank winter coats of my fellow subway riders who have not yet figured out it is warm and therefore dumped the outerwear they have been wearing continuously for 5 months.

From childhood, my "summer smell" memory is the smell of rain - I grew up in a place with pretty bad air pollution (no longer, but in the early '70s is was bad), and you could always smell the rain about 5 minutes before it hit because it carried all the air pollution down with it. Sometimes I smell the same thing in NYC, but not as often. Anyhow, to this day whenever I smell some spa-goo called "rain," I find it disorienting because it smells nothing like rain is supposed to.

However, I did get a whiff of Kingsford this weekend, when my upstairs neighbors lit up the hibachi on their fire escape (and spurted me with lighter fluid while I was sitting below on mine).

This all sounds rather dismal, but I actually love most of these smells (except for the rancid winter coat smell). But then I looove the smell of gasoline as well.
You like the smell of pee? Perhaps RT's sister will set you up.
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Old 06-01-2005, 02:38 PM   #3538
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OK trying for the trifecta.

49ers diversity training film offends entire city.
Damn - I had diversity training the other day and it wasn't nearly this much fun. I feel like I missed out.

On another note, here is an amusing (maybe just to me) conversation that I had recently with my non-bf. We were talking about people we have had sex with:

me: blah blah blah
him: I had sex with Jeff Garcia's girlfriend.
me: you're gay? Fuck.

I was actually kind of squicked by that but whatever. I'll get over it.
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Damn - I had diversity training the other day and it wasn't nearly this much fun. I feel like I missed out.

On another note, here is an amusing (maybe just to me) conversation that I had recently with my non-bf. We were talking about people we have had sex with:

me: blah blah blah
him: I had sex with Jeff Garcia's girlfriend.
me: you're gay? Fuck.

I was actually kind of squicked by that but whatever. I'll get over it.
Squicked why? Because it means you have, second- or third-hand, fucked about a million people? Assuming that JG is promiscuous.
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Squicked why? Because it means you have, second- or third-hand, fucked about a million people? Assuming that JG is promiscuous.
I just find him squicky, and his "girlfriend" by association. Also I don't buy that he's not gay. That shouldn't squick me out, but it does when I think about having sex with people he's had sex with. I can't help it.
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