Disclosoholic What?

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and not in the good, Michael Jackson way. Oh Rocky Balboa, must it be?

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I went out on Friday night with a friend of mine. We saw “Stranger Than Fiction” which should have gotten better reviews than it did, though it was flawed (it was, however, adorably flawed). After the movie, we decided we should discuss it at our favorite neighborhood bar down the street from the theater. It was a busy Friday night, and the bouncer immediately asked me for my ID. As I was fishing around, my friend dug through her purse to find hers. The bouncer told her not to bother because he recognized her. My friend was surprised and the bouncer said, “you have a distinctive face.” She said that she came into the bar with me all the time and that I also have a distinctive face. The bouncer replied, “No, not so much.”

Anyway, for a whole host of reasons, we will not be frequenting that bar again anytime soon.

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Friday's Feast 120
Friday, December 01, 2006

Appetizer: Have you ever flown in a helicopter?
Yes, when I took myself on vacation to Hawaii in 2005.

Soup: What color is your warmest coat or jacket?
It’s white wool toggle coat with black toggles and a black (fake) fur collar. The inside is quilted. When I was in Alaska, I called it my 15 degrees coat, because I can only wear it if it’s going to colder than about 15 degrees. I haven’t worn it once since moving to Chicago, by the way.

Salad: What is your favorite rainy day activity?
Napping, reading, drinking tea, wrapping myself in a blanket and watching movies, or taking a hot bath and listening to opera.

Main Course: Describe your hands.
I have beautiful hands: long palms with very distinct lines and short but not stubby fingers. My hands are the size of a child’s; I wear XS size gloves and still they are big. My fingers are slim (ring size 6.5), and I have long nail beds and naturally long nails, which were a problem during my guitar playing years—my nails naturally end (or begin, I’m confused) at the very tip of my fingers, so in order to cut them short enough to play I had to cut them till I bled. It was not pleasant.

Dessert: If you could eat only one nut for the rest of your life, what nut would you pick?
Cashew! Cashew butter…cashews in chocolate, cashews in jello…Yum!

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is eating my post. damn you, blogger!

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Obviously—to anyone who has glanced at my blog in the last two months—I am a fan of NBC’s Heroes. I don’t think it’s the best written show I’ve ever seen (of those I’m into, that would probably go to Veronica Mars, Doctor Who, or maybe season 1 of Lost), nor is the best acted show (again Veronica Mars, Lost and Doctor Who have got it there), but there’s just something so sweet about it that I love. But you know what I don’t love? The forum posters on TWOP who can’t discuss the show without making allusions to other comic book universes. I understand how sometimes you need to refer to other, outside sources in order to better understand context, to put things in a frame, but at some point you have to assess the text on the page (or show on the screen) for what it is. Half the posters on the boards are missing interesting plot points and instead having discussions like, “If Peter is Rogue then how come he doesn’t suck life energy from the people whose power he absorbs?” Um, maybe because he is NOT Rogue; he is a character created by someone who did not create Rogue, and he exists in a universe completely different from that which Rogue occupies. Ugh. What if I did that with books all the time? What if I read something with a love story, like maybe Graham Greene’s “The End of the Affair,” and I had only this to say about it: “Well, is Bendrix like Romeo or what? I mean, Sarah dies, so she’s obviously the Juliette, but he just goes on living. I thought Romeo died. Why didn’t Bendrix die?” BECAUSE THEY’RE NOT THE SAME BOOK, LET ALONE THE SAME CHARACTERS. Ahem. Anyway, it’s probably no use getting worked up about this, as it’s just a highly watched television show on NBC, and by that description is no different from, say, Deal or No Deal. Ooh, but I must mention that I learned that

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Earlier today I came across this story. I'm going to lie down go to sleep for a very long time now and hopefully wake up in better times...

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Somewhere in Indiana my car passed the 200,000 mile mark. Hooray, Captain, still running strong!

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I understand that a show like Prison Break depends on a high-level of tension in order to work, but really, for once, can't someone just get away and be safe? I wasn't a huge fan of C-Note last season, but I really like him this season, and after the episode where he and his crew orchestrate his escape with his wife AND child, I've been rooting for them to be the one happy family to get through it. I don't want to see his wife arrested like that and I don't want him to bite it like Abruzzi and Westmoreland. And this is sort of different, but I think T-Bag is one of the best conceived bad guys I've ever encountered. I've never loathed someone so much yet still wanted him to win. It was a realyl good move on the writers' parts to have Bellick chase after him, making us side with slimy or slimier (and I'm not sure which is which). But I've got to say, I sort of want to see him walk away a winner, sort of like Steve Buscemi at the end of that horrible movie, Con Air. And Michael and Linc (pillars of hotness), will they ever catch a break? But most of all, can Sucre please just make it safely to something? I guess he will since he'll have to confront Maricruz and Hector in Mexico. I just don't want my emotions toyed with by the idea of his possibly being shot out of the sky, you know?

OK, and Heroes? So dorky, so wonderful. I can't really say much more, as I'm currently in la la land thinking about the incredible hotness of DL.

OK my bloggy friends, have a good night. I'll try to have a real blog post soon. Maybe some writing or something, in honor of the hard-working, novel-writing friends of mine.

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