2003-02-05 - 11:53 a.m.
"Appearing for one night only here at the Turf Supper Club, let's give a nice warm welcome to ... SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO!"
How soon do you think it will be before the martini becomes The-Nation-Formerly-Known-as-Yugoslavia's national drink? I'll have mine dry. With slivovitz. And a twist of lemon, no olive.
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And people wonder why I think watching CNN kills brain cells:
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If you're looking for my Uncle Bob rantlet from a couple of days ago, sorry, I deleted it. While I'm flattered that it had enough panache to prompt The Man himself to write in my guestbook, in re-reading it I find it not up to my usual standards, and mean-spirited to boot. I don't normally shrink away from a little gratuitous cruelty--I'm an evil genius! Gratuitous cruelty is what gets me out of bed in the morning--but poorly written and unstylish cruelty brings me no joy. And it's never good form to insult a man's home entertainment system.
I do have some things to say about caring for one's pets, but I need to let the subject stew for a few days. All I'll say right now is that it's a very personal issue for me.
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Went to my workout yesterday for the first time in over a month, and afterward I was too sore to go anywhere, so I skipped my Tuesday-Night Booze-Up and sat at home watching Buffy and 24 instead.
I stopped writing about Buffy here a while ago because, for me, the show has already jumped the shark several times over and I only watch it in real-time (as opposed to taping it and watching it later if/when I get around to it) when I have nothing else to do. However, I will say that the actress playing Willow's new lesbo proto-Slayer love interest can't act to save her life. And her relationship with Willow is so forced, so lacking in chemistry, and so let's-get-us-some-girl-on-girl-action-for-February-sweeps that it makes Buffy/Spike look tasteful.
At least Giles isn't some incorporeal evil thing, though.
24 continues to rock, too. It's so cheesey and so intense at the same time that I can't help loving it. I'll say it again: This is the sort of role Kiefer Sutherland was destined to play by the time he turned 40.
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