This is the archive of tumbledry happenings that occurred on 26 August, 2005.
I was cleaning out my planner and found this: it’s what my planner looked like at the end of last semester. I do hope this is not repeated in subsequent semesters - more work, but more organized, perhaps?
Not a bad idea at all, people should find 15 minutes a day and just move around.
I cannot help but laugh as I am reading this because as I am sitting here I am eating cold pizza, in a sleevless t-shirt, with the curtains drawn like so many troglodytes. That mental image alone should be enough for all of you to start training for the next possible triathalon.
Great caricatures - Clint and Einstein are my favorites.
Most people who know me quickly learn I am a great fan of physical comedy: the bus rolls through the camera view, a crash is heard from screen left. Minister of Silly Walks. That stuff makes me laugh. In a departure from that usual style, I would like to formally recommend the following scene be added to whatever Stiller/Wilson/Vaugn/Ferrel movie approacheth from Hollywood’s ever-predictable jukebox stuck on repeat.
A man or woman commits to a personal training regime (preferably because they are pursuing some goal central to the plot). On screen agony commences with slow motion pans of tremendous feats of pain, driven by a personal trainer. “Take My Breath Away” plays in the background.
Watch for it in the next big screen comedy: you know screenwriters are Googling “funny comedy ideas” just like anybody else doing research.
Slate, on reality TV - Oh please read this. It’s so full of great turns-of-phrase and insight.
“I hate the way [teens] express personal inadequacy through car accessories and vandalism.”
“…that doesn’t change my instinctive revulsion any more than knowing that sharks eat people because they need the protein.”
It’s as if our entire culture has reached the halfway point in a gigantic bag of Cheetos and just collectively decided to go ahead and finish it off.
— Sam Anderson, in an article about the current reality TV trend