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Disks in Rotation: Books Lying
Open What's For Lunch? Soul-Devouring
Worry When I Grow Up:
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Thursday May 9, 2002 |
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of the Day What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do it. -- Ambrose Bierce |
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Blog Quickly to the news. • Not much of an article, some woman got attacked by two McDonald's employees, but the quote, "she got a McBeating" makes it worth a look. • Woman who stars in AOL commercials in the UK was punched in the face while being mugged of her cell phone in a high crime area of London. This brings up two issues. 1) Pity it wasn't that annoying Dell guy. 2) Why is AOL called "AOL" in the UK? I mean doesn't the "A" sort of make it nonsensical? • Autopsy results are in on Layne Staley, and as expected, he died of an OD. A speedball, to be specific, which is heroin and cocaine mixed together. Same thing that killed Belushi. He died shortly after shooting up, but wasn't found for more than two weeks, by which time he was of course all soggy and rotting. Pretty tragic end for the front man of a one time multi-platinum band. Dying alone in some crappy apartment, a junkie, and rot for half a month before anyone misses you enough to come looking. Drugs are so cool. • So some nut, Matthew Hooker by name, was stalking (my future bride) Nicole Kidman, sending her insane letters galore, etc. She eventually got a restraining order against him, and a judge barred him from coming within 250 feet of her or her home, for three years. Seems like it would be easier if she just hired some big bodyguards to let him get close, scream, "he's coming right for us!" and then beat him into a coma, but maybe Scientology forbids that sort of thing. Anyway, the guy is not really stalking her now, but he's turned his lunacy to a new tactic. He's now suing Nicole, and more of less every newspaper and magazine on earth, for $200m. Why sue? For defamation of character, which they did by reporting on his stalking Nicole. Why does he care? A silly question, he needs to clear his name so he can run for US president in 2004. I shit you not.
I think we have our "Frivolous Lawsuit of the Year" front-runner. • Seemingly every other article on UK news sites of late is about the upcoming World Cup, being held in Korea and Japan this summer. Soccer isn't much of a popular sport in the US, other than for kids to play, but it's the number one sport most everywhere else, so obviously the once every four years event of the World Cup is an obsession. I posted a couple weeks ago about a movement in Ireland to change their time to Korean time, for the duration of the Irish teams' run. This article I spotted today is pretty amusing. It talks about how worried the English are about one of their better players having a broken bone in his foot and maybe not being able to play. The funny part is at the end:
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I'm considering ditching the What's For Lunch one, since it's getting old. It never really had anything to do with lunch, since I tend to write these updates at about 2am, I never eat 3 meals a day (usually more like 2 with various snacks), and I never get up or go to bed at a normal day/night cycle sort of time, nor do I eat anything approaching the usual breakfast/lunch/dinner meals. So the concept of "What's For Lunch" was always more like, "What Have I Eaten in the Last Day or So, or What am I Considering Making to Eat Now or Later Today, That I Haven't Mentioned in the 'What's for Lunch' Site Feature Thing Within the Last Three Weeks." That would be a more accurate appellation, but hardly one that would fit into the nav bar. The whole concept is flawed, I fear. It's simply not funny. I mean who the hell cares if I had peanuts or a sammich or FFs to eat? What am I, Julia Roberts, where my every action (not thought) is an object of fascination to my legions of adoring fans? Especially when the whole mention is a two or three word description, with a semi-random letter grade attached. The grades vary by the minute, and are entirely subjective. I might love the veggie burger at 1am, but by the time I write the update at 2:47am, I'm not hungry and thinking that I've had a goddamn Garden Burger four out of the last five days. In other words, I might give the exact same food an A- one hour, and a C+ an hour later, depending on my mood. I'm just capricious like that. The concept of the food ratings was partially germinated from the Ratings Lore does on Brunching.com, which are frequently about food, and usually pretty funny. But they're funny since he has a paragraph to opinion about something odd; just the name of the food and the letter grade would be pointless. Hmm, I think I just talked myself into removing "What's for Lunch" entirely. On the plus side, I was originally planning on doing recipes on this site. Yes, real recipes, like lists of steps to take raw ingredients and combine/assemble them into something edible. I'm not a great cook, but I think for the average bachelor I'm probably halfway to Julia Childs status, which means I don't exist entirely on fast food, ordered pizza, and frozen pizza. Plus I'm mostly-vegetarian, so it would be healthy recipes. Sort of. I think I was going to originally do the "What's for Lunch" thing and link it to a recipe page, but as I'd probably have had half a dozen recipes listed, all for relatively simple stuff, that wouldn't have prolonged the life of the still born feature all that well. I should think up something different to update, since I enjoy the "Soul-Devouring Worry" and "When I Grow Up" ones. They're nicely existential, and open-ended enough that I can pretty much always think of something odd to stick in there in a sentence or less. At least I've always been able to do so thus far. However a topic for a third oddly-random subject a day isn't springing to mind. If you feel we share a mental wave length and you want to suggest something, feel free. What's for Lunch is easy, since it's a concrete object, requiring little creativity, other than when I lie about it to make it less-boring. So perhaps I'll do a "What's on My Desk" or "What Did I Last Wank To", or "Which Houseplant/pet Will Die Next" daily feature. All of which would prove just as pointless, be lied about even more, and suffer tragically-shorter lifespans than the "Lunch" one has. |
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