Take whatever preconceptions you have about Jean-Claude Van Damme.
Toss them out the window.
Then watch this totally awesome indie movie where JCVD plays an exaggerated version of himself, stuck with a dying career, custody battles, and a cash flow problem. He gets caught up in the middle of a robbery, and the police think he’s pulling the job.
It’s a Watch Instantly movie on Netflix (it’s dubbed). I cannot recommend it highly enough.
WATCH IT!
Alternate subheading: Job Security.
Joss Whedon’s in absentia Bradbury Award Acceptance Speech.
Why wasn’t he there? “Because I am filming a movie that I feel certain will cause you to take this award back away from me.”
- Warren Ellis wrote an hour-long animated GI JOE thingamajimmie that is on a series of tubes. Oh, Warren. You had me at:
Snake-Eyes gets to impale someone while travelling at a hundred miles an hour.
- If you’re going out to eat next Thursday, April 30th, please ignore the egregious misused apostrophe on the front page and select from one of the Dining Out for Life participants. 30% of your bill will go to organizations in PDX that help people with AIDS. You remember AIDS, right? Contrary to popular belief, people still get it and there is no cure. I’ll be moseying over to Por Que No that night.
My brain woke me up this morning with the thought, “You need to do something esoteric with sweet potatoes.”
More as this thought develops (which won’t be tonight, I tell you what– I’m working the OT [it brings many shiny rocks that you can trade for goods like sweet potatoes!])
Oh, the title is from the song “Woke Up this Morning” by Alabama 3. If you heard the song, you’d know it. A small snippet of the song was used as the theme of The Sopranos. Alabama 3 is awesome, you should go seek out some of their music.
Those two things would be SALE! and SUNBLOCK!
Yes, I’m Californian. Yes, I’m part Mexican. Yes, I sunburn. Not the neat, a little redness and then a nice tan kind of sunburn, either. We’re talking second degree sunburns with the blistering and the owie and the FRUENDLABEN! I also have super sensitive skin, so some sunblocks will give me rashes. ICKY.
So I was on Drugstore.com shopping for a blood pressure monitor and a large cuff (why, yes, I do have tickets to the gun show) when I saw that they’re having a Buy one, get one 50% off for Neutrogena Sunscreen products… INCLUDING the fabulous SPF 60 Sensitive Skin sunblock.
Home from the beach now, would much rather be back there. Will have a nice roundup post on Newport eventually.
But last night, it was such a lovely evening and I didn’t want to go right home, so I stopped by the Fire on the Mountain Burnside location. Nom’d a full dozen wings in Medium sauce and drank a very, very fine Kolsch from Double Mountain Brewery. Must remember to return there on another lovely night to drink it again.
(But that will probably have to wait until the case of Hazelnut Brown Ale from Rogue is gone. Yes, I bought a whole case, there was a SALE!)
***WARNING: Violence Trigger***
Back in 1993, I was a 7th grader sitting first period Orchestra class when a teacher came in and told everyone to leave.
I was the last student out the door, and I overheard the orchestra teacher ask the other teacher what was going on.
“There’s a kid with a gun shooting people.”
I ran out of the dark building into the blinding sunlight, searching for my friends.
The rumors were running far and fast. Twelve people were dead, the principal was dead, my English teacher had dodged a bullet, then tackled the kid and taken the gun away from him.
Turns out the last bit was true.
Final casualty count: 2 wounded students, both survived. The student with the gun was arrested and disappeared into the Youth Authority, I can’t even remember his name any more.
Events like the Columbine shooting hit me pretty hard. For obvious reasons. I also know how much the media and the rumor mill can spin something out of control.
According to a new report, everything you have heard about the Columbine shooting was wrong.
Excerpt:
It’s a portrait of Harris and Klebold as a sort of In Cold Blood criminal duo — a deeply disturbed, suicidal pair who over more than a year psyched each other up for an Oklahoma City-style terrorist bombing, an apolitical, over-the-top revenge fantasy against years of snubs, slights and cruelties, real and imagined.
Along the way, they saved money from after-school jobs, took Advanced Placement classes, assembled a small arsenal and fooled everyone — friends, parents, teachers, psychologists, cops and judges.
“These are not ordinary kids who were bullied into retaliation,” psychologist Peter Langman writes in his new book, Why Kids Kill: Inside the Minds of School Shooters. “These are not ordinary kids who played too many video games. These are not ordinary kids who just wanted to be famous. These are simply not ordinary kids. These are kids with serious psychological problems.”
#amazonfail is explained and discussedhere. Short version?
Sunday, news broke that Amazon.com had begun marking certain titles as “adult” — mostly gay- and lesbian-themed books (including “Heather Has Two Mommies,” for pete’s sake!), as well as some about feminism or sex and disability — thus stripping them of their sales rankings, making them both more difficult to find in a search and less likely to pick up sales from automatically generated links throughout the site. Authors who were affected went (rightfully) apeshit on blogs, Facebook and Twitter — #amazonfail has been the top-trending hashtag for nearly a day now — and Amazon’s only response was to call the whole mess a “glitch.”
In that article, also, is the link to the Powell’s Bookstore Twitter feed, with the following twit* from Sunday night:
@zentinal A GLBT sale sounds like a great idea to me. I will check to see if this is something we can get going
Oh, Powells. I love you so. I want to have your many book-y babies.
Actually, considering my bedroom floor is pretty much carpeted in books from Powells, I believe I’ve already succeeded. NEED MOAR BOOKS! MANY, MANY BOOKS!
*I maintain the plural is tweet, the singular is twit.
Holy Week Schedule of Services
St Philip The Deacon Episcopal Church
120 NE Knott St Portland, OR 97212
April 10th – Good Friday
Noon – Ecumenical Procession in the Community
7 PM – Good Friday Liturgy of the Word
April 11th – Holy Saturday
11 AM – Rite of Reconciliation (Confession)
7 PM – The Great Vigil of Easter AT ST. ANDREWS (7600 N Hereford Ave
Portland, OR 97203, Google Map)
April 12th – Easter Sunday
9AM – Festival Eucharist of the Resurrection
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You’re invited. Tell ‘em Mary Sue sent you.
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