Sep. 1st, 2009

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Yesterday I discovered that, when a city lists a phone nbr as an emergency one, they have a rather elastic definition of 'emergency'. I had barely started my day at the office when a neighbor called to say that the water meter's well in front of our house was filled with water, and that the sidewalk around had sunken a couple of inches. By the time I got home, my wife had called the city. A couple of hours later nobody had shown up so I called. It turns out that they have 24 hours to respond to such emergencies. That had me wondering if I should have lied and said that the situation was so severe that our home was about to fall into Hell's muddy pit, but luckily the emergency person showed up not too long after my call.

"picnic"

Sep. 1st, 2009 08:14 am
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On Sunday evening, my wife and I watched Joshua Logan's Picnic, a 1955 movie (from William Inge's play) about opportunities taken away, opportunities never given, opportunities that we let slip thru our fingers, and opportunities finally seized.

Recommended, especially at the end of summer.
sergebroom: (Draco)


I already had the DVD of Nina Paley's 2008 film "Sita Sings the Blues", but, when the local rep theater showed it this last Sunday, I couldn't let the chance pass of seeing it on a big screen. After all, this is an animated musical about Indian mythology, where the divine Lord Rama dumps his wife Sita, who tells her story thru the songs of Annette Hanshaw.



How could I resist?
And how could this not make it to the Hugos?