“Round, like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel…”
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It’s a new “No Bad News” Thursday in the valley. And this one comes to us complete with grey skies and impending storms. S’okay though, we’re still one day closer to the weekend.
Last night, SaraRules! fixed Pad Thai for dinner. To my understanding, it was her first time making it… and it was good. After dinner, I hit Pin-up Girl Espresso for a cup of game night go-juice and then it was off to Hastur Hobbies to meet up with
“Watch your back, shoot straight, conserve ammo, and never, ever, cut a deal with a dragon.”
Nevertheless, we walked away with our lives and the item we were searching for… without having to (try and) kill the dragon. Which was good for us.
Back at home, SaraRules! and I watched The Thomas Crown Affair. The original. With Steve McQueen. And Faye Dunaway. It was good. I kept juxtaposing it with the 1999 version (Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo), although they were different movies to some degree. Both were heist movies, but the original featured a bank heist, where the more recent one had an art heist. Both SaraRules! and I agreed that both movies were good and were representative of their respective times, but we appreciated some of the nuances and subtleties of the older movie just a bit more. For example:
- 1968: Faye Dunaway’s Vicki Anderson quietly – and quite effectively – seduces McQueen’s Crown over a game of chess, while investigating him in relation to a recent bank heist
- 1999: Rene Russo’s Catherine Banning shows up at an event at which Brosnan’s Crown is a patron, wearing a sheer (read: “pretty much totally see-through/non-existent”) dress, and rather overtly flings herself at flirts with him during a spicy tango… while investigating his involvement with a robbery at an art gallery
I first saw the 1999 version of the movie about… eight or so years ago; last night was the first time I’ve seen the original. There were similar elements in both movies, but there were enough differences to keep them distinct and fresh. But, one of my favorite similarities – and best surprises – was that the original movie also featured Windmills of Your Mind, which I count as a favorite song (although, I prefer the version by Sting to the Noel Harrison one).
Stray Toasters
- At California Mental Hospitals, Fear Is Part of the Job
- A Fixture of Hollywood’s Past, Now Tarnished by Strife
- Swords and battle-axes pushpins
- A slew of banks, retailers affected by Epsilon email breach
- Spring 2011 Trends Without the Fuss
- The Disney Princesses: If They’d Had Mothers
- From the “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot…?!” file: Adzookie will pay your mortgage in return for daubing your house with ads
I suppose that I shouldn’t be so surprised by this, as I’ve heard of the same thing being done with automobiles… 
- Woman single-handedly cuts off two countries from Internet
- Police Lesson: Social Network Tools Have 2 Edges
- NASA Telescopes Join Forces to Observe Unprecedented Explosion
- By way of Corey (and Tosh.0): Big Black Dudes Are So Polite…
- Maine ranked ‘most peaceful state’; Louisiana the least
- Tesla fires back at boss of BBC’s ‘Top Gear’
- From the “Well… DUH!” file: IKEA Is Designed Like a Maze So You’ll Buy More Stuff.
And for my next amazing feat: Three meetings in a row!
Namaste.
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