soapbox

I’ve been reading a blog called Overheard in New York which is all about people repeating things they’ve heard on the subway or in offices or whatever. Of course, it’s mostly about sex because those sorts of topics are the ones most worth repeating.

There was a particularly funny non-sex post today though:
Pop Quiz: To Which of These Women Is This Conversation Most Insulting?
Girlfriend: Come on, I really wanna see that movie about Jane Austen.
Boyfriend: She was the one that lived with the chimpanzees, right?
Girlfriend: No, that was Jane Seymour.

Three college football myths to avoid: this Wojci post has something for everyone - Bashing the BCS system, making fun of the Heisman voters, and commenting on Nebraska’s fallen star.

I don’t think that a 8-team playoff is necessarily practical, but certainly a 4-team/2 round playoff is perfectly reasonable and would at the very least be a huge advance over the current “duct tape and stubbornness” of the BCS. </rant>

No, no Mexican girls or Marty Robbins, but if you want to see a movie you should go see No Country for Old Men, the new Coen brothers movie.

Kirsten and I went to see it on Thanksgiving evening and it’s one of the more interesting movies that I’ve been to in a long time. Being as the movie takes place in the Southwest, I assumed that it would be at least something like Raising Arizona, maybe a little bit of suspense, but mostly a funny story. It’s not.

There’s very little I can say about the movie without giving away a lot of the plot, but two things struck me. First, setting the movie in the harshness of the desert Southwest was a good thing. It could just as easily been placed in a city somewhere, but the expansive landscapes and the climate’s disregard for life do a great job mirroring the themes of the movie. Second, it raises a huge question, is there anything that can be done against evil? If there is someone truly evil about, is there any solution other than rubbing it off the planet as soon as possible? And, if that evil doesn’t want to be found is there any solution at all?

Anyway, good movie, go see it.

I am certain to forget some detail, but I’m trying to cover the important bits, and Nathaniel please chime in with comments. This is pretty long, so I’ll put the [more] break here. (more…)

Happy Turkey (or, if you prefer, Tofurky) Day, Y’all!!!

Don’t eat too much!

Hooray Turkey! Hooray Thanksgiving!

Here’s something that I’ve now found to be the absolute truth. 33 degrees is colder than 25 degrees. Last night in Hanover was “freezing” although technically it was above freezing. This morning in Manchester was actually freezing, but it wasn’t actually that cold.

My conclusion therefore is that 25 is warmer than 33.

I’m back home now, but I really enjoyed seeing everyone and hanging out this winter. Whenever I head up to Dartmouth it reminds me that I have a lot of good friends out there.

Success to everyone over the holidays.