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Thirteen Favorite Movie (except 1 is TV) Quotes, in alphabetical order  (Week #5) 1. a few good men   Lt Daniel Kaffee: you can't handle the truth!   2. a fish called wanda    Wanda: to call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! ive known sheep who could outwit you.  i've worn dresses with higher IQs, but you think you're an intellectual, don't you, ape? Otto: apes don't read philosophy. Wanda: yes they do, Otto, they just don't understand it!   3. alien: resurrection   Johner: i heard you, like, ran into these things before. Ripley: that's right. johner: wow, man.  so, like, what did you do? Ripley: i died.   4. apocalypse now   Lt Colonel Kilgore: i love the smell of napalm in the morning.   5. breakfast club   Bender: what do you guys do in your club? Brian: in physics we, uh, we talk about physics, uh, properties of physics. Bender: so its sorta social, demented and sad, but social. right?   6. buffy, season 5   Xander: i'm sick of being the guy who eats insects and gets the funny syphilis.  As of this moment, its over.  i'm finished being everybodys butt-monkey. Buffy: check, no more butt-monkey.   7. dr. strangelove   President Merkin Muffley: gentlemen, you can't fight in here! this is the War Room!   8. godfather   Michael: i'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.   9. mallrats   Brodie: hell hath no fury like a woman scorned for sega.   10. mystery men   The Shoveler: we're not your classic superheros.  we're not the favorites.  we're the other guys.   11. pulp fiction   Mrs. Mia Wallace: a five dollar shake. Buddy Holly: how do you want that shake: martin and lewis or amos and andy? Mrs. Mia Wallace: marin and lewis Vincent Vega: did you just order a five dollar shake? Mrs. Mia Wallace: ummhh. Vincent Vega: that's a shake. thats milk and ice cream. Mrs. Mia Wallace: last I heard. Vincent Vega: that's five dollars? You don't put bourbon in it or nothin? Buddy Holly: no. Vincent Vega: just checking.   12. silence of the lambs   Dr. Hannibal Lecter: a census taker once tried to test me.  i ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.   13. when harry met sally   Another diner in the café: i'll have what she's having.

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do i look at it or do i eat it?

compared to normal weeks, during this past one, i've been inundated with food sculptures.  actually it was only about three encounters, but i mean really, how often in your everyday life do you encounter food sculptures??  i think with this, three qualifies as overwhelmed. 

so. 

i was watching old episodes of west wing, the episodes where CJ is completely enthralled with the butter sculptures, which to my delight, are real.  there is a sculpture of the Last Supper with the Christ made out of butter and (if you watched the episode, you already know this) the butter on the table is, of course, made out of butter.

and!! i'm so excited because i also discovered there is a butter darth vader (i know i'm showing how completely a geek i am with this...)

well.  a couple of days after all this excitement, i went to a wedding which had an ice sculpture (sorry, i did not take my camera so there is no picture).  and then as i was surfing other blogs, i came across watermelon sculptures.

in honor of the terribly hot and humid summer that is going on:

and really, nothing says true love like watermelons...hee...so andrew, my dearest, this is for you!!

after all this, i just got to wondering, is food sculpture really all that prevelent in society?  i just don't see it this often, but maybe i've been going to the wrong parties?  i generally think i've succeeded if the food i've cooked isn't poisonous; i'm not normally going for fine artistic value, you know?  but maybe you are aiming higher than me.  if so, amazon.com would love to sell you 'entertaining edibles: 50 fun food sculptures for all occations' by sidney escowitz.  all occations??  so suddenly i'm wondering, would my life be quantifiably better if i incorporated food sculptures into my tuesday evenings?  no, honestly, i think i'd just get beaten up more often. 

however, even if i never attain such grandeur myself, google did teach me all about other food sculptures.  there are apparently many contests all across the globe for various types of food sculptures, none of which i will ever win but that is quite alright.  here is a cheese and dried tomato sculpture of the nina, pinta, and santa maria.  i'm not sure if columbus would be proud or not.

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colorado springs has a lot to offer

Thirteen Pictures from my trip to Colorado (week #4) 1. Colorado Springs a long time ago:   2.  Colorado Springs today:   3.  i got lost on the way to the hotel.  all i knew was that the road name started with A and was kind of a weird word.  now, i normally don't swear much but i was driving around and around and around some more because all three of these streets intersect and i could see the stupid hotel but just couldn't get to it.   4.  these are the apartments where i am working this week.  can you imagine waking up in the morning and looking out your patio doors at those mountains?   5.  i found a whole shop that just sells penguin stuff! i thought i'd died and gone to heaven.   6.  Colorado Springs is apparently the bunny capital of the world.  these are just two of the thousand i've seen since sunday night.    7.  i just thought these apartments looked more interesting than mine:   8.  there was a farmer's market/craft festival while i was in town (that is the banner) and the odd brightly colored archway is the entrance to a hotel (thankfully not where i stayed).   9.  it hasn't rained here in months...until i showed up.  it rained every day i was in town and wow, storms on the mountain top are rather impressive (though this picture doesn't really capture that).   10.  even though i was on the mountain top and being really stormed upon, i mean like serious wrath of God bearing down on me, i still wanted a picture of me by the wood bear.  i don't remember what the guy taking the picture said but clearly i was cracking up at the whole situation.   11.  but God keeps promises and when the storm ended, there was a rainbow   12.  just me standing by a fake buffalo.  hee.   13.  pretty rocks

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secret to...?

the whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well (Horace Walpole).  i think what he's saying is somewhere between variety is the spice of life and we can't be great at everything. 

i was always glad i choose to go to a liberal arts college.  it seems very important to be passionate about one or two things but to be able to hold your own in a conversation about just about anything else.  so many people can only talk about one thing (usually either their kids or work).  but does horace mean that this is the secret to having a happy life?  a contented life?  a successful life?  the secret to just surviving life?   i think this advice is just for having an interesting life, a life not terribly dull or overly stressful.  but the advice does not discuss any type of relationship with people or the divine, so i can't believe that it will result in a happy or contented life.

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happy memories and a small bit of paranoia

i'm out of town for work again this week. does anyone know what is the official term for sticking stuff onto your ipod?  neither downloading or uploading seems right.  either way, for a variety of reasons, i stuck a good portion of harry potter 5 onto the ipod before leaving.  i didn't think there would be a movie on the flight (and there wasn't) so i thought it would be good to listen to while hanging out in the hotel fitness room (and it was this morning).  

book five is mostly about early teen angst.  unless you could afford therapy, you probably remember this time in your life.  sure sure, there were some good things that happened to each of us then.  i love music and took both piano and clarinet lessons.  i enjoyed playing, it was just the dull daily practices that i hated.  i remember bringing a packed lunch to school a lot and always having star crunches inside.  i probably haven't eaten one of those in fifteen years but back then just loved them.  i remember a couple of fun birthday parties at chucky cheese's (before it became chucky cheese).  i remember going on terribly boring field trips but being so estatic about it; you don't have to go to classes if you are being bored out in the real world.  we went to look at indian burial mounds, we saw old trains and train tracks, at some point we took an overnight to memphis to visit graceland and the mud museum.  its on that trip that i have my first memory of my husband, so clearly it wasn't all bad.

but i also remember being slightly paranoid.  there was a group of popular, cute, rich girls and i always felt like they were talking about me, laughing about me.  apparently that is not particularly uncommon at all.  some researcher have determined that over 40% of people regularly worry that negative comments are being made about them.  mostly i just ignored the girls.  but as it turns out, i wasn't just being paranoid and they were halfway miffed that i ignored them.  they stepped it up a notch and started leaving nasty notes in my locker.  i don't remember it all coming to a head, i think mostly they got tired of me and moved on to harrassing someone else. 

so like all the other books, both good and bad things happen to harry in year 5.  of course, everyone continues to believe that harry is paranoid or just out right delusional about voldemort's return.  on the whole, though, it makes me glad that my early teen years are over a decade in the past.

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