Archive for March, 2008
Posted by bbc on 31 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: movies, musings
It would be implausible to say that a movie star is haunting me, but he's turning up everywhere. A few weeks ago I wouldn't have been able to tell you who Ryan Phillipe was. He looked familiar when I saw a picture of him, but I couldn't name any movie ...
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Posted by bbc on 26 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: musings
Some of my friends might say that my life always seems to be upside-down (and who knows what strangers may say). But I don’t tend to look at it that way. So some things that might seem abnormal to an outsider are just business as usual to me.
There is one ...
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Posted by bbc on 25 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: musings
I try to ignore these things, but it just doesn’t seem possible. I can be drowsing along in a post-lunch, darkened-room, PowerPoint-slides-full-of-dense-text presentation when suddenly I’m wide awake. There on the screen, buried in the middle of the text, is a misspelled word. My mind has been running along on ...
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Posted by bbc on 24 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: musings
I've been eating a lot more eggs this winter. I think it's something about the protein or maybe just that it's a hot breakfast rather than yogurt and fruit. In either case, my body seems to want warm food because it's cold outside and not that warm inside. I never ...
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Posted by bbc on 18 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: musings
It shouldn't surprise me as much as it does, but I'm still amazed every time I see something on EBay that I have sitting on my shelves. This time it's a basic cooking pot. I've had mine for years -- since the days when avocado green and harvest gold were ...
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Posted by bbc on 14 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: musings
We've hit March, the season when I watch daytime TV without giving it a second thought. Normally, I never turn the TV on before dusk. I've never been a person who watched TV news in the morning. I have newspapers, or radio, or even the internet, so TV isn't my ...
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Posted by bbc on 11 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: movies, musings
When somebody tells you that a vibrating bed is part of a featured scene in a movie, you assume that it's a sex scene of some kind. But, in the case of "Bonneville," you'd be wrong. There is indeed a vibrating bed, but it symbolizes being shaken out of your ...
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Posted by bbc on 10 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: musings
I foget what P stands for in the periodic table. (My chemistry classes were long ago) But I'm using it to stand for the spring and summertime "vitamin" of pollen. It's the one you get as a side effect if you're out trying to get a dose of the very ...
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Posted by bbc on 09 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: musings
I'm not really a shopper, but I do like to thumb through ads and see some of the products I'd never have imagined. The Sunday ads are usually a good source of entertainment if not amazement. Today there was spray-on salad dressing. I see what they're trying to get at ...
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Posted by bbc on 05 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: heard in the park blocks, birds
Who cares if it is 37 degrees and windier than I expected. I’m waiting for the streetcar at 6:45 AM and trying to remember why I agreed to meet for coffee this early. Of course, I didn’t know then that I’d not get to bed till 3:00 AM, but that’s ...
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