Cold Night

Sunday I went to Devon Street with a friend from church who's from Uzbekistan (sp?). Coming back from the El, after dark, I saw two people sitting under the train overpass on the concrete supports. One was a middle-aged woman with lots of dark brown hair, the other was a middle aged man with a stocking cap and a beard. She held out a small stuffed animal dog. As I passed them the man reached out to stroke its face and the woman said "Snuggles".

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What are you sniggering at?

Adam McCune, describing with characteristic panache, the progress of his next film:

"Yes, all I have to do for that scene is show two imaginary friends walking away from two people"

"I decided to use all caps because that is what they did in Lord of the Rings"

further McCune Watch update: he now wears his hair in a 1" ponytail/tassel

Also, on the way back from work I passed high school football players wearing purple jerseys: one, though, had orange polka-dot zoobas as well.

Which is still nothing compared to the synchronized "running and leaping and praising God" that Baxter once witnessed, but it was enough to make me smile the rest of the way home.

Duncan and the Electoral Process

A moment ago I was unobtrusively microwaving my lunch (yummy leftover Indian food) in the faculty lounge.

A table of faculty were discussing "their favorite deposed dictators," and as I left one man was nodding with satisfaction while another discussed how the actual Macbeth ruled happily and the original Duncan was ousted in due process by an electoral function...

I like eavesdropping on odd conversations.

Sleazy movie characters and my limited visual memory

In the last week I've had two guys express interest in me only to realize later that I've replaced their faces in my memory with images of obscure, kind of sleazy-looking movie characters.

I've never had that great of a visual memory, but what does it say about me that I can remember what the parking garage attendant in Ferris Bueller's Day Off looked like but not the guy at Blockbuster I talked to yesterday? And I work with the other guy, so I see him at least once a day. Still, I replaced him with the image of the father from Pieces of April, which I saw about two years ago.

They do both kind of look like the actors (Richard Edson and Oliver Platt) but neither of them give off the greasy, sleazy vibe that the movie characters' images do. They may have made me feel a little trapped by trying so hard to be friendly, but that's awkward, not creepy. Am I screwed up?

Naturally she had a chip on her shoulder, not being Lutheran.

Zimmie is not a lutefisk and does not wish to be a housekeeper for Mr. Harsano.