Huh. I was just reading an article at Fametracker that mentioned the actress Bijou Phillips, who was in “Almost Famous”. I just finally saw that film on the airplane back from Australia, so I went to the IMDb to see which groupie she was. Imagine my surprise, then, to be reading through the trivia section and see references to a section of the movie (a near plane crash?) that I didn’t even see. I guess they must’ve cut it so people who don’t like flying wouldn’t get freaked out. Have you seen the movie? What happens in the scene?
Category: Random Links
Links that I’m reading/watching/listening to/thinking about
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McDonald’s
Salon’s article about McDonald’s and mad cow disease really turned my stomach. For the past year and a half I’ve been congratulating myself on not giving in to paranoia and fear (I bought some hamburger just last night to make chili… yum!), but even I begin to crack when faced with phrases like “mechanically recovered meat.” Tell me again why I should be a vegetarian, Brigita?
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Time flies
Snookums and I were discussing this experiment at AOL London today. Apparently all clocks and watches were covered up to see if people would work more efficiently when they weren’t stressing about how much time they had to finish their tasks. Unfortunately I don’t think such a thing would work for me. Ever since college, I’ve had a pathological inability to get anything done unless I have a deadline staring me in the face. (Which reminds me, check out my new watch!)
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Dubya
I was just chatting with my mom on IM and expressing my disgust at the fact that Dubya is apparently going to give this year’s commencement address at ND. She responded with the perfect encapsulation of what I hope 50% of the American public are currently thinking:
Mom:yeh, well, he’s kinda turning into a weenie or else I was pretty blind before
Ahh, the remorse of the Republican voter. Is it too early to start chanting “Gore in ’04”?
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Shoot Phil
Do you watch EastEnders? Do you hate Phil Mitchell? Now you can shoot him yourself. (Unfortunately I keep hitting Pauline.)
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Bobby Knight
Apparently Bobby Knight is giving a talk at my university tomorrow. Seeing as how he just got a new job, the media scrutiny should be pretty intense. Why couldn’t anything interesting happen while I was there?
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Dubya
Whenever I start to get homesick for the U.S., President Bush goes and does something that puts it all back in perspective. Excuse me while I go look up the words to “God Save the Queen”.
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Phantom Tollbooth
Mama Snookums recommended “The Phantom Tollbooth” to me during our visit and I stayed up late one night reading it. It was fantastic. Coincidentally, I was reading NowThis today and came across a link to an interview with Norton Juster, the book’s author. He sounds like an interesting guy…
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Boo.
No free taco. My dad will be disappointed.