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Saturday, September 18, 2010
Sep. 18th, 2010 10:04 pmFasting today – mostly that means watching lots of tv to distract myself. It actually went pretty well. I didn’t even get dehydration headache. Fast ended at 7:42pm and then I had a nice dinner although I discovered that I can eat only so much asparagus even when I’m hungry.
Michael Pollan is giving a talk at my university next month! My writing program director emailed us this morning to ask if anyone would like to go to dinner. I submitted my name. I don’t know if there will be room at the English Department dinner for me, but I definitely want to at least try to get in on that. I will go to the talk, at least. I’m very excited about that. Neil Gaiman and Michael Pollan in the same week. The universe can be good sometimes.
( Highlander S5E22, S6E1,2 )
“Little Ashes” I watched this movie today; its been in my Netflix instant queue for a while. It is interesting that Robert Pattinson picked this movie after all the hoopla of his other stuff; it is good he is trying quality stuff too. The movie wasn’t the best movie ever but it was nice and interesting. I certainly knew very little about Federico Garcia Lorca, other than he was a famous poet. Pattinson did a great job playing the genius and the the related craziness of Dali. Spain is very pretty, I loved the landscape. The scene in the water with the full moon was shot gorgeously.
“The Big Lebowski” I just got bored watching it. I couldn’t make it past half an hour. I know I promised Papa I’d watch this but really I can’t.
National Geographic article on Madagascar is very depressing. And the environmental devastation, particularly of the redwood trees, can’t just be blamed on the new post-coup government. The previous, more environmentally conscious, president wasn’t exactly free of corruption. I also didn’t appreciate the picture of a cure lemur on top half of the page balanced with a picture of lemur soup with boiled lemur heads on the bottom of the page.
As I was looking for internet links today, I saw the there will be an article on Jane Goodall in October issue of National Geographic. Very timely for my class, I did post it on class website, not that they would read it.
Michael Pollan is giving a talk at my university next month! My writing program director emailed us this morning to ask if anyone would like to go to dinner. I submitted my name. I don’t know if there will be room at the English Department dinner for me, but I definitely want to at least try to get in on that. I will go to the talk, at least. I’m very excited about that. Neil Gaiman and Michael Pollan in the same week. The universe can be good sometimes.
( Highlander S5E22, S6E1,2 )
“Little Ashes” I watched this movie today; its been in my Netflix instant queue for a while. It is interesting that Robert Pattinson picked this movie after all the hoopla of his other stuff; it is good he is trying quality stuff too. The movie wasn’t the best movie ever but it was nice and interesting. I certainly knew very little about Federico Garcia Lorca, other than he was a famous poet. Pattinson did a great job playing the genius and the the related craziness of Dali. Spain is very pretty, I loved the landscape. The scene in the water with the full moon was shot gorgeously.
“The Big Lebowski” I just got bored watching it. I couldn’t make it past half an hour. I know I promised Papa I’d watch this but really I can’t.
National Geographic article on Madagascar is very depressing. And the environmental devastation, particularly of the redwood trees, can’t just be blamed on the new post-coup government. The previous, more environmentally conscious, president wasn’t exactly free of corruption. I also didn’t appreciate the picture of a cure lemur on top half of the page balanced with a picture of lemur soup with boiled lemur heads on the bottom of the page.
As I was looking for internet links today, I saw the there will be an article on Jane Goodall in October issue of National Geographic. Very timely for my class, I did post it on class website, not that they would read it.