I don't want to want to watch it
 

Best line from the article (atrocious grammar error nowithstanding):

• Everybody really has their pants down on that show.

Broken Flowers
 

Do not do this. Please do not do this. Why is your boyfriend living with you rent-free for a month? Why, Bilmore, why?

Broken Flowers
 

You know, her husband doesn't live there anymore. Does that change your response?

Broken Flowers
 

Shut up and see it. It's that funny.

Broken Flowers
 

Does he at least do the dishes?

Broken Flowers
 

Does he pick up his wet towels?

Broken Flowers
 

Does he go down on her for hours?

Broken Flowers
 

This is the only thing that would make me change my response.

Broken Flowers
 

Will she co-sign for his next lease?

Coltrane
 

is a very very smart person.

Outside Sebby's Box
 

So go see it and pan it (e.g., "that mime sure sucked")* and be your own man again. You have to work this issue out somehow before it tears you all up inside. I'm just sayin'.

*Yes, there is a mime, and he does the only funny thing I've ever seen a mime do. That's how good this is. I laughed at a fucking mime.

Broken Flowers
 

So, about Prague...

Broken Flowers
 

In NYC or your place in Prague?

DTB or anyone else--what is the rule on hyphens?
 

Well, at least one of them is going to win the veto. So that puts April on the block. Not that Maggie would vote for April, even though she pissed April off last week with the whole "we should pair up, but no I think I'll not use my veto."

Football pool
 

It's surprisingly normal here given that there are 125,000 more people here than when I left.

The airport was busy at noon, but there didn't seem to be that many more people on the busses and rail, and Hermann Park was surprisingly empty, even though the temperature was sort of low (89ish). I would want to get the hell out for a little while.

I suspect that the Target and the Fiesta on Main have been leveled, and I think the liquor store next to the Fiesta should be open 24 hours.

My brother said that Friday evening at the Reliant Arena was a wholly unorganized mess, but people figured stuff out to get ready for the influx of people, and Mayor White is rapidly becoming a local hero.

I'm going to have a lot of after-the-fact documentation to do in the next few weeks.

Broken Flowers
 

The book? Despite its title, it's set in Budapest. Anyway, I thought it began well, but was not terribly satisfied at the conclusion.

insert your own Coltrane joke here!

I don't want to want to watch it
 

We were channel surfing and stopped when they said, "the couple couple has sex 5 times a week, but she never has an orgasm." But it didn't take a sex expert to figure out that 3 seconds of foreplay and then cram it in her and pump like a rabbit wasn't giving her an orgasm.

I don't want to want to watch it
 

sexpert. Geez. Get it straight.

Is Batman Begins at all worth seeing? In an escapist sense?

I don't want to want to watch it
 

I thought rabbits were good for that sort of thing?

I don't want to want to watch it
 

Yes. Remember how the first Batman movie made everybody go "wow" in comparison to the tv series? It's like that, but in comparison to the crap sequels that have come since the first batman movie.

Broken Flowers
 

I've always thought of you as a feeble-minded, pathetic, thinking-inside-the-box type of guy. About as trite and uninspiring as anyone I have ever met. More a caricature of a human being than an actual person.

But I found your movie review, with it's humorous verbless sentences and faux street patois, to be oddly compelling. I'll have to check this movie out.

Football pool
 

Someone with evacuees in their house was asking about long-term hotels last week. I'm sorry I can't recall quite who. I was curious - is the family still with you or are they someplace else now? 'Cause I was wondering if you were going to find yourself, de facto, "volunteering" to keep them sort of long term.

Broken Flowers
 

I don't want to want to watch it
 

Yes and no. It's too long. About 1/2 hour too long. I saw it at the IMAX, was pretty cool (but $13 a ticket?). But you have to hear that whole story again about how Batman became Batman. Only in more excruciating detail.

And I didn't buy Michael Caine as Alfred. And I discovered that I don't really like Katie Holmes (shocking, I know). And Liam Neeson makes you think you're watching a Jedi fight. And Morgan Freeman plays a guy that you want to call Q.
Otherwise, the husband really really liked it - said it was his favorite Batman movie. It's probably because of the Batmobile.

But Batman is hot. Except for a slight speech impediment, and crooked teeth, which makes you wonder why Katie Holmes couldn't figure it out. And of course the obvious and obnoxious teaser for a sequel at the end. And I don't think there can be a better Joker than Jack Nicholson, but I guess I'll have to wait and see in 2008.

But don't wreck it.
 

You checkitout, my man. Check. It. Out.

I don't want to want to watch it
 

Assume I don't know how Batman became Batman. Would it be more fun, or less fun?

Football pool
 

It was me. They have moved temporarily into an Extended Stay America since my brother-in-law has a job and has been transferred to the Houston office of his company. They are looking for an apartment. If the New Orleans office is reopened, they intend to go back (not to Jefferson Parish, but to a lot in the country that they had already purchased and intended to build on). However, I believe their stay in Houston will extend greatly beyond the six months or so they now intend, mainly because I think it will take at least a year to find a contractor to even start on the house, given the demands on labor and materials. We may now be taking in his parents for a longer stay, as they finally made it to other relatives. (For future reference, it really sucks when the place that you evacuate TO to escape a natural disaster also loses power, water and phones for several days).

I don't want to want to watch it
 

Oh, then more fun. It sucks to hear it the second or third time around. And Batman is hot. Did I say that already?

http://www.mtv.com/shared/media/news...tless-mira.jpg

try not to think of Sebby.
http://www.reel.com/Content/Reelimag..._bale_pic2.jpg

I don't want to want to watch it
 

That is not particularly my type, but the body is nice. If I go, I will endeavor to lust appropriately.

Football pool
 

Well, I'm glad his job permitted him to transfer temporarily and keep working - that's an excellent bit of luck!

I was wondering how many people had evacuated to areas that also got pretty fucked; I'd imagine it was quite a lot. Hence my "out of city" evacuation sites - I've got alternatives lined up near Tarrytown, West Point, and the Canadian border.

BR(Just need means of getting there ...)C

We are the world
 

LOS ANGELES - Pop star Michael Jackson, who has been in seclusion since his acquittal on child sex abuse charges, has written a song that he will record to benefit victims of Hurricane Katrina, his publicist said Tuesday.

Jackson will record the single, “From the Bottom of My Heart,” within two weeks, and he plans to enlist other entertainers for the project, spokeswoman Raymone Bain said.

He added: “I will be reaching out to others within the music industry to join me in helping bring relief and hope to these resilient people who have lost everything.”

Jackson, who left his Neverland Valley Ranch in California for Bahrain after his acquittal on child molestation charges in June, will record the song on a label owned by Bahrain’s crown prince, Bain said, and donate the proceeds to hurricane victims.

Football pool
 

I just feel for soft spots in the ground. There's usually a nut burried there.

Broken Flowers
 

I liked how he gave credit to some other poster who "invented" some statement. I always notice that several people claim to be the one who "invented" most anything, and his giving credit to the inventor was a surefire way to enlist several allies to his side.

I guess Flower and i both give "thumbs up" to this review.

Broken Flowers
 

Yep. she's really a woman. You got lucky with your play on Notme, but most of the females here are actually female. Sorry to burst your bubble.

Just call me NFH
 

Didn't he *just* retire? Who is he, paigow?

Lance is considering a "comeback."

http://sports.yahoo.com/sc/news?slug...v=ap&type=lgns

I was pretty neutral about him, but he has crossed the line to annoying now.

Broken Flowers
 

What are you talking about?

Just call me NFH
 

I called one of his training partners who I used to ride with to let him know. He said to tell you to shutthefuckup and move to the France with the rest of the ignorant haters. Seriously. No offence.

Sorry
 

I just had to break up the quad-fecta (or whatever it's called).

Just call me NFH
 

He irritates the hell out of me. And yes, he just "retired" about a month ago. I guess he now wants to defend his name against the allegations of doping. So lame.

Broken Flowers
 

Poor little lizard. He never knew what hit him. But we do -- and it's a Mack truck with "dtb" on its license plate.