My Threads

• Thu, 06:09: Dreamt I was in a conference of some sort, and when I went through a door I suddenly found myself in Wallace, Idaho, and after a moment I realized I was standing in front of the house Mom and Bill used to live in. It was a much bigger house in my dream. It had sort of decorative stone walls here and there around it. Because I can fly in my dreams, I immediately self-levitated. Because of course I wanted to get a picture. The angle would be better from several feet in the air! I found myself trying to get a shot through a hole in one of the stone walls, apparently standing in the middle of a front yard. But, my phone seemed to be stuck on this wildly powerful zoom. It was deeply frustrating, trying to get a wide shot of the house, and all I could see on my screen was a washing machine through a darkened window. Not the fucking picture I want! Out of nowhere, a bunch of agents of some sort, all of them in dark suits, swarmed the property and the house. One of them looked remarkably like Harrison Ford. I was told I could not take any photos, and with a new sense of urgency I desperately tried to reboot my phone so the fucking camera app would finally work properly. I was still hovering at this hole in a stone wall the whole time. When my phone finally rebooted, it was converted into a rectangle of cooked spaghetti noodles. I woke up while I was still desperately trying to figure out a way to take a photo using the rectangle of noodles. ... . . . Honestly the spaghetti-phone thing was the only reason I was compelled to share any of this. I'm sure you're all feeling immensely fulfilled with literary satisfaction after reading this post.
• Thu, 16:38: Second Wilcox Family Farms tour in as many years! Including the hard boiled egg plant; their famed mobile pastures; the scenic Nisqually River; the old, one-room Harts Lake Schoolhouse;and the raw egg plant featuring what they called the “Egg Disco.” https://t.co/5iEbqfDgAq
• Thu, 23:43: Both a step forward and a parade of homages to the past, a combo that works surprisingly well. I had a blast. https://t.co/AWSXlc8EAK

badmovielands

— पांच हजार छह सौ अट्ठावन — Yesterday I wound up taking the bus downtown, thanks to a glitch with this new PriceGeneration module in HQ that resulted in some wonky shit I needed to correct before I left the office. I had wanted to leave at 4:15 to walk downtown, and meet Laney at Pacific Place at 4:45, but I was unable to leave until like 4:23, so I caught a bus. Which was fine. I just read my library book while riding. And then, once Laney and I met up and I had used the bathroom and we got into the theater with only a couple of minutes to spare before the countless trailers started, we saw Badlands. And it was bad. I already knew it was getting bad reviews. I did not realize that, by yesterday, it was Metascore-rating-27 bad. I might have bagged the whole thing had I known that. When I last checked, the rating was in the upper forties, abd this was the kind of movie I was still good with giving a chance because it was possible it could be mindless fun of a sort where critics were missing the point. Nope! This movie was actively bad. It had certain elements that were average rather than terrible (I actually generally enjoyed Jack Black as Claptrap the robot, as did Laney), which was why I gave the movie a grade as good as a C-minus. Which means it's a toss-up between this movie and Fly Me to the Moon as the worst movie I have seen this year. — पांच हजार छह सौ अट्ठावन — — पांच हजार छह सौ अट्ठावन — I walked with Laney after the movie, from Pacific Place up the hill on Pine Street to Broadway. Then I walked the rest of the way home, about six blocks, reading the aforementioned library book (Sea of Tranquility). Shobhit had dinner prepared when I got home. I dished myself up, and went to the bedroom to spend the next hour or so writing the movie review. After that, Shobhit and I watched a relatively show episode of season two of Interview with the Vampire. We have two to go. After that I set about getting ready for bed. — पांच हजार छह सौ अट्ठावन — Today's the last day I am in the office until Wednesday next week. I may post blog posts between now and then, but it's relatively unlikely. Or, I may post brief ones to post links to photo albums that will be yielded by multiple days: the Wilcox Farms Tour tomorrow; whatever I do with Danielle on Friday, if we do indeed hang out; going to Jetty Island with Lynn and Zephyr on Saturday. Sundy we finally head out to the coast for the Third Biannual Family Vacation. So much going on! And I am so looking forward to it all. — पांच हजार छह सौ अट्ठावन — [posted 12:29 pm]