Dreams

Sigh...

Dreams about Kim and Andrea have become a standard metaphor in bad dreams, like the classic 'naked in high school' or 'have an exam today for a class you didn't even know you signed up for' dreams. They are always about loss, about being replaced by someone else, about the anguish of feeling so much and getting nothing in return.

I guess I should just be grateful I don't wake up and feel morose all day after dreams like that these days. Still, it would be nice to have something good to dream about for a change...

Sadly, I suspect as the weeks of my impending uemployment drag on, the experience is likely to trigger more stress dreams and agnst over where my life has ended up after all those years of wasted effort trying to build a life instead of just a career--particularly when the career thing stops paying the bills...

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God bless The Onion

What do you think? "Troops to Stay in Iraq"

"Boy, the Iraqis better develop a fun pop culture with cute cartoon animals and grown women in schoolgirl uniforms, or this will be a complete waste." - Sammy Marsh, Security Guard

"If our soldiers must be involved in a lengthy occupation, at least it's in a place without any dangerous weapons of mass destruction lying around." - Martin Stearns, Systems Analyst

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Pirates of the Caribbean

This movie rocked. The plot is too thin to have any holes in it. Never mind that Aztecs wouldn't have metal imprinting technology to make coins. Never mind that Orlando Bloom's outfits span 100s of years into the future. Never mind that the one girl pirate is a model. Never mind that the way to remove the curse is completely arbitrary. Never mind that a certain 'zombie pirate' should have had significantly more flesh on them given the timescale. Never mind the ending is trite and predictable. Never mind that the previews for Haunted Mansion make it clear that Disney plans to visit us with a plague of theme-park-ride inspired trash.

Never mind all that... Johnny Depp makes every scene of this movie a delight. Throw in awesome special effects and lots of shit blowing up and you have the best summer movie ever.


League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

This movie has style to spare. Besides, how many steam-punk films have ever been made? Wild Wild West was a comedy. This effects are cool, the characters are whacky and fun, and the action is right out of a Jules Verne novel. Fun movie with cool soundtrack to boot. The ending is a little too obvious setup for a sequel, but who cares! Bring on the vampire chick in cool goth outfits!