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Sep. 19th, 2006
-I got some fillings this morning around 8:30, but by noon, my upper lip was still half numb from the novocaine. It's hard to drink a soda without dribbling when you can't feel your upper lip.
-I've been having small chunks of "Madame Bovary" emailed to me via "Daily Lit." They only have older classics available, but I think it's pretty cool. You can set it up to mail you every week day, or just M-W-F. If you finish your chunk, you can immediately have it mail you the next chunk. I'm already half-way through Chapter 2. This is cool. I'll have to see if they have other literature I'm interested in when I've finished MB.
-"Date Movie" was really lame. It had funny moments; I loved when the "Pimp My Ride" guys turned her into a chubby Darth Vader. But the implication that fat women also have bad hygiene and hairy backs and are completely undesirable to any man really rankled. None of those chubby Hispanic or black guys in the body shop wanted to date a fly chubby chick? I think not. I know I'm dealing in stereotypes, but so was the movie. And they said she was 380-odd pounds, when she looked like maybe 250 at most. Nobody in Hollywood has any idea what a 200-pound vs. a 300-pound vs. a 400-pound woman looks like. Any woman bigger than J-Lo must be at least 300 pounds, right? The worst thing, though, was that it was supposedly spoofing a bunch of movies, and a lot of the jokes didn't make sense if you hadn't seen those movies. Even if you had seen them, I don't think regurgitating scenes from another movie line-for-line counts as "spoofing." Like I said: lame.
-I've been having small chunks of "Madame Bovary" emailed to me via "Daily Lit." They only have older classics available, but I think it's pretty cool. You can set it up to mail you every week day, or just M-W-F. If you finish your chunk, you can immediately have it mail you the next chunk. I'm already half-way through Chapter 2. This is cool. I'll have to see if they have other literature I'm interested in when I've finished MB.
-"Date Movie" was really lame. It had funny moments; I loved when the "Pimp My Ride" guys turned her into a chubby Darth Vader. But the implication that fat women also have bad hygiene and hairy backs and are completely undesirable to any man really rankled. None of those chubby Hispanic or black guys in the body shop wanted to date a fly chubby chick? I think not. I know I'm dealing in stereotypes, but so was the movie. And they said she was 380-odd pounds, when she looked like maybe 250 at most. Nobody in Hollywood has any idea what a 200-pound vs. a 300-pound vs. a 400-pound woman looks like. Any woman bigger than J-Lo must be at least 300 pounds, right? The worst thing, though, was that it was supposedly spoofing a bunch of movies, and a lot of the jokes didn't make sense if you hadn't seen those movies. Even if you had seen them, I don't think regurgitating scenes from another movie line-for-line counts as "spoofing." Like I said: lame.