July 31, 2005
I'd never seen it all the way through - just snips, mostly of the end, as best as I can tell. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly was playing today at the Michigan, and Keith was dying to see it on the big screen. So we went.
I really wanted to like it. I wanted to see what everyone else seems to see in it. Mostly, I was bored. I mean, there were beautiful shots and some very comic moments. But oh the l o n g meaningful stares. And that whole war thing. Was that really necessary? ...
July 28, 2005
Besides, there's nothing like a good dose of being left alone to make a man appreciate his wife. (Mrs. Morehead, The Women)
Get me a bromide - and put some gin in it. (the Countess)
Oh baby, oh baby
I told ya before,
The more I drink whiskey
I love ya the more
(Lucy)
July 25, 2005
I put up a bunch of pics from the beer fest at Flickr. Keith was toting his cam all afternoon too and merged his pics and mine into a
30-second video. It makes me giggle.
The festival was very good. Absolutely great crowd, everyone friendly and laid-back. I tried lots of different wheat beers, including a 'chocolate wheat' which was, well, gawdawful. It tasted like coffee beer. Maybe good in the winter or something, but all wrong on a hot summer afternoon. The one I liked best was at
Lily's - it was not too sweet, had a vague but not overpowering fruit taste (no, it was more like a fruit ...
July 24, 2005
How useless is painting, which attracts admiration by the resemblence of things, the originals of which we do not admire!
- Blaise Pascal
July 22, 2005
Inspired by Dr. Mandrake's post over
here, Keith 'vlogged' the art fair over
here.
July 20, 2005
CRW_6925
Originally uploaded by
paanta.
Ah yes, another Ann Arbor Art Fair. Oh, the excitement! Oh, the crowds! Oh, the rows and rows and rows and rows of crap!
That said, I'm sure we will go take a look at some point. The original
Ann Arbor Street Art Fair has promised a return to 'art for art's sake' instead of this gawdawful crafty junk that the 'judges' of the other shows deem to be art.
July 19, 2005
If you read my blog from an rss feed, you should change the url in your reader. I've set up some redirects for the old urls, and hopefully they will work, but you can find the new ones by visiting the page and searching or by going
here. As a bonus, there is now a feed for comments!
July 18, 2005
We were planning on going to the
Townie Party tonight, but this makes it look like it's just not gonna happen. Looks like
Après Vous instead.
(I live just about where the first A in Ann Arbor is.)
I've ditched Movable Type. I just can't justify paying for a new version when there are terrific free tools out there. So I'm on WordPress now, and frankly, I'm just loving it.
This is an 'out of the box' theme by
Clemens Orth and I will probably fuss with it, but I think it looks awfully nice as is. I haven't got all my links in yet, and there are probably some broken images here and there. I'll be fixing those up over the next few days, but if you find any, please feel free to write me or leave a comment here.
Hope you like the new look and the new features here. I've added ...
July 17, 2005
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.
- James Madison
