Hey, you.

He’s super bad.

I have a love for the movie Black Dynamite that is probably unhealthy.

I find it hilarious, beginning to end. I’ve watched it many times, listened to the director (Scott Sanders) and writer/Black Dynamite his ownself Michael Jai White discuss it. I think it has as many great quotes as Princess Bride (or pick your own quotable movie) but because it’s rated R it’s just a little harder to work them into conversation (not that I don’t try).

I love this bit, where Black Dynamite is talking to Gloria (who happens to be one of the few people in the movie with a normal-sounding name):

BD: It may be bigger than you and it may be bigger than me, but it’s not bigger than you AND me; can you dig it?

Gloria (hesitates): Yes, I think so.

So, yeah, I love this movie, it is an awesome distraction, and it doesn’t bring out the emotional response that so many movies have (how come every damn movie works in something about divorce nowadays?) so it is a bit perfect for me at the moment. It allows me to not dwell on that thing that is bigger than me, the train wreck I’ve been riding for a long time.

Do you see where I’m coming from you jive motherfucker!

See? And that quote is mild, and the page linked here leaves out the really offensive stuff 😛 such as this entire scene, which is a wonderful homage to this scene from 35 years ago.

and the rain rain rain

came down down down.

As I’ve said before, we are in the middle of a drought, so we don’t generally mind a little rain. Last night, however, wasn’t just “a little” rain, I think estimates are for 6 to 10 inches of rain. In about an hour.

So the house flooded, several inches in several rooms. Cleanup is still happening, insurance adjuster has been called, not sure if it’s badly damaged – sheetrock, dontchu know. More to follow 😛

My apartment fared much better, being upstairs, we lost power and internet at various times but that’s it.

as bare as you dare

I have been laughing so hard at this today. Bwahahaha!

“Which barefoot shoes do you have?”

😛

edit to say: I realize that as sporadic as I write things (and where I write various things) that you may not know this about me; so while it feels a little like stealing the punch line from a joke, I wanted to add this- I run barefoot, and have generally for almost two years. Did a couple miles this morning, in fact. I’m not preachy about it, I have heard all of these things at some point (thank you, internet). Yes, I’ve read Born to Run. I do not run in “barefoot shoes” but I do have some funky sandals I made myself from a kit (not surprisingly I purchased the kit from the guy who made this video, he’s great). I prefer to be barefoot but not if it makes other people uncomfortable.

OK, enough about that, if you wanna hear more about it just ask, I promise I will never make you take your shoes off to visit my blog.