two birds, one stone, twenty-two cds
Changes to my schedule have interrupted my steady progress through Ulysses, and NPR has changed in a way that has made it much less interesting to me, so I am going to try listening to this for a while. Floyd has already finished, but she and the oversight committee at itinerant autumn have officially approved this as a legitimate method of finishing the book. I wonder how one hundred minutes of Joyce per day is going to influence my outlook.
those floating mexican skeletons were right, my life is over
On an unrelated note, for the past week, Floyd and I have been using the Batman voice to narrate the mundane details of our domestic existence. When I accidentally used the Batman voice to address another neighborhood parent at the school bus stop early one morning, Floyd was literally DOL and almost wound up ROSL.
(image via Community, updated watermark via mumblelard)
infinite summer redux or oom of the system
Floyd and I both read Infinite Jest as part of the Infinite Summer project. We are almost positive that this was the first time we have read the same book simultaneously, but there is probably some we are forgetting. It wound up being a fun experience, so after a short break we decided to read The Broom of the System together. After this one, we have a few things to get to from our individual reading piles, but then we are thinking of reading the big one.
kafka’s pest kontrol
Johnson County (Kansas) Library Courier Trucks
I would enjoy seeing one with the Enfield Tennis Academy logo and the pre-Tavis motto, “Te Occidere Possunt Sed Te Edere Non Possunt Nefas Est.”
(via jessamyn via jocolibrary)
popcorn destroys house
Last night was movie night. We made pizza, some popcorn, and the girls got to stay up late. Real Genius was my pick and it was a mixed success as a movie night pick. It started off badly because some real genius at the library did not realize that the dvd was two-sided and they wrote cataloguing information all over the widescreen side. We had to use the ‘backup’ copy that I found. (Plan C was Spaceballs. I have been picking 80s movies because it is fun to see how they react to the movies I saw when I was younger.)
Finn and Fall enjoyed the wacky slapstick scientist parts including the indoor ice skating, indoor water park, secret tunnels behind the closet, and of course the house that was blown up by a laser and a giant jiffy pop pan of popcorn. The popcorn house received Finn’s goofiest belly laugh when she realized what was going on. They are still talking about it this morning.
We were all bored by the military conspiracy plot that framed the fun parts. Having rewatched several of them with kids (and adults), these types of movies are much more successful when the source of complications that drive the plot match the tone of the fun parts(see Goonies, Home Alone).
