So the movie meme I posted earlier does not seem to be functioning for some reason. I went through and made all the movies I have seen bold, but they don’t seem to show up as such here at home. It’s really annoying me. I cannot find a reason for it not to work. Grrrr. Any suggestions anyone?

In the continuing spirit of getting as little work done as possible, I took the Teachout Cultural Concurrence Index or TCCI today. I got a 64% which I found surprising. I like Teachout and I enjoy reading him, but I thought our tastes more divergent. I guess I was wrong. There were some I thought he got just plain wrong (yes, I realize this is a completely subjective test). The Sopranos over the Simpsons?! Pul-eeze. Liz Phair over Aimee Mann? C’mon. And I found the Hotdogs or Hamburgers one of the most difficult.

I took last Friday off to give myself a four day weekend. It was lovely. So lovely, its hard to get back to work. So instead, I am posting about this movie meme thing I came across here and here. I am not sure what the criterion for the movies are exactly. It seems more or less like a list of random movies. Basically you bold the ones you have seen and add three more at the end. So now you can see what I watch and make fun of my movie-watching habits. Just click below and fire away.
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My friend Josh told me about Wind Scorpions today. Otherwise known as suns spiders, these little beauties have stronger jaws than a great white—relative to size obviously. Last night I actually had a nightmare about spiders. They were large furry brown ones about the size of a dinner plate and they were attacking me. I think these wind scorpions, which are actually more spider than scorpion, might be my new no. 1 fear. So thanks Josh.
By the way, you can see a delightful picture of Josh here.