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My sister and I went to see the 1943 technicolor extravaganza The Gang’s All Here. Billed (by the local theater) as a “gay hairdresser’s acid trip” the film did not disappoint. The disembodied heads at the end, though, were a bit much.

The highlight was, of course, Carmen Miranda. They just don’t make big musical numbers in which showgirls dance with oversized fruit anymore. More’s the pity.

More amazing pancakes at http://saipancakes.blogspot.com/

Why does the do-not-call list not work?

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Trying to ignore the screeching toddler next door. She screams 1-2 times per day for 20-60 minutes at a stretch. The pitch on that girl! (Below is just audio, as heard from my apartment.)

In other news, blizzard!

I have exactly 6,666 unread email messages in my yahoo account. Gah!

Granted none of those are from friends and family (I open friend/family email immediately) but are instead of the “Your Papa Johns online coupons have arrived” and Yahoo Reminder variety—the ones that I can get all the substance I need from the subject line without actually opening the email. Really should go through and delete a few thousand but…

Also feel like I’m drowning in mail. Not junk mail—that I can just easily recycle. But the personally addressed mail from credit card companies and health insurance which doesn’t actually tell me anything important but that I feel the need to either shred because it has personal info on it (which would mean getting out the shredder, which is just too much effort) or file in case I should ever need it.
Coming soon to this blog: the 2003 Canadian film The Barbarian Invasions (or should it be the Québécois film Les Invasions barbares?). Until then, watch and discuss amongst yourselves…

When throwing a bag of trash into the communal dumpster, be sure your keys are in your other hand, or in your bag, or in your pocket, or on the ground, or basically anywhere that is NOT the hand tossing the garbage; otherwise you may find yourself joining the flies in the dumpster rooting through some really nasty stuff in search of said keys.

This is an especially good thing to keep in mind during particularly hot spells or when it is almost garbage day and the dumpster is very full.

Heard the fireworks last night and realized I have already missed one day!