Day: August 23, 2006
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Movie: Little Miss Sunshine
“You don’t talk because of Friedrich Nietzsche.” Steve Carell playing a suicidal homosexual Proust scholar in Little Miss Sunshine is funny, and he makes that line almost a howler. Trust me. He’s not alone in sparking laughs from material which by rights should not be so humorous. See this movie. The 78 from Metacritic feels…
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Track on Tuesdays
I’m noting this on Wednesday, but I occasionally get to the Kezar Stadium track on Tuesday mornings, if my friend Billy provides external motivation. Yesterday, 3x1200m and then 3x1000m. Felt good as I ran the first five at a very controlled pace with the group, so I went after the last one with the intention…
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Book: Marker
I wanted summer reading, and I found it in Robin Cook’s Marker. Beyond focusing a broadside at managed care, Cook mostly skips right along with a semi-thriller. Not having read any of the multiple bestsellers Cook has written before, I don’t know if all of them are medical. I suspect so, since he touts his…
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Movie: Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control
When I saw the title Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control in my coming Netflix queue, I thought it was a Vin Diesel type movie. I couldn’t remember why I had put it in the queue, but I was ready for a light film. Oops…wrong movie. The movie was on my list because of The…