Archive for August, 2008
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
Funny Flashback
Yesterday’s post reminded me of a joke that my Dad’s been telling for as long as I can remember. It goes like this:
Last night I had a dream that I swallowed a giant marshmallow. I woke up this morning and my pillow was gone.
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
Dream Theory
I rarely remember my dreams and I have a theory as to why that is. I suspect it’s because I don’t use an alarm clock so my natural sleep patterns aren’t interrupted.
While that might explain my lack of dream memory, it doesn’t answer the question of why I wake up with music in my head. [...]
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Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
How Do You Define Genius?
This scene from The Hudsucker Proxy by Joel and Ethan Coen does it for me. Roger Deakins, their director of photography, should have received an Academy Award for the sheer beauty and exuberance of it. I love how the young boy is tapping his foot in time to the hoop and the slo-mo section just [...]
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Friday, August 1st, 2008
Me Want Read
My desire to read comes in waves. I’ll read a bunch of stuff then I kinda drop off and not read so much. I’m in a bit of a pickle though cause I’m at the crest of a reading wave and I got nothing on the bookshelves that interests me. I like fiction and non-fiction [...]
