Sunday afternoon update

[sabotabby]

New Gaybortion!: Overheard at Mitzi's Sister.

I finished reading The Trial of Henry Kissinger and it occurs to me that many of the things that irk me about Hitchens, such as his histrionic writing style, are present even when I agree with what he's saying. It's a good book otherwise.

Someone is playing music really loudly. I mean, it has to be incredibly loud for me to hear it in here. I can't move out of this building soon enough, I tell ya. The hot water tank is dying again.

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[rohmie.livejournal.com]

Have I told you that those t-shirts I bought from the Milwaukee Wobs are best for fall and spring? Despite the fact that they are black, my shirts are better for summer because they are one color and the spaces between the design's lines allow the shirt to breathe. By contrast, their solid, multicolor graphics do not and hence are better for wearing now.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

Clarification: I wasn't dissing their shirts - just saying why they seem new to me now, after having bought them a few months ago.

[sabotabby]

Yes indeed. They're dreadful for hot weather; they stick to your skin.

At some point we're going to make our own. brownfist had some ideas and I vetoed all of them, hah.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

Off topic: Have you seen Good Night and Good Luck yet? It's incredibly visual and just gorgeous to look at: Definitely something which should be seen on the big screen. There are a lot of awesome lines including some unintentionally funny personal ones such as when McCarthy accuses Murrow of having belonged to the IWW. On the other hand, despite being beautiful, funny, fascinating and superbly acted, it just didn't grab me emotionally. It's a powerful story, powerfully told; and yet, because I knew how it ended, the tension just wasn't there for me and it is very much a tension-based film. Still, an excellent film and definitely recommended.

Scroll up for the trailer which just doesn't do it justice. The sensationalistic negative flashes that appear in the trailer, thankfully, aren't in the film. Trailers really dumb things down - cinema-graphically as well as intellectually.

[sabotabby]

Not yet; my mom was raving about it, though. No one seems to want to go with me, so I may hold out a bit until it hits the revue circuit.

Was Murrow really in the IWW?

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

No: It was just another of McCarthy's false accusations.

I think I'll make my mini-review into a full blown post. ...