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(cross-posted from Modern Evil)

If you don’t already know what nbt is about, go to neverbeenthawed.com and watch the trailer, maybe look around the extensive site, and then come back here to read what I have to say about it.

Now, assuming you’ve watched the trailer, you probably already have a good idea about whether or not you’ll like this film, and the basic elements that run through the experience. My review probably won’t sway you one way or the other – you either like offbeat humor, faux documentary style, and can handle (or better yet, appreciate) the humor of the skewed and hypocritical “Christian” characters, or you can’t. If this movie were rated by the MPAA, it would get an R rating for “language” and “suggestive dialogue” alone – so if you’re sensitive to obscenities, you, too, should stay away.

For the rest of you, my review:

Continue reading nbt – never been thawed : a movie review

So tonight after work I went to the Willow House and was mostly unproductive. Entirely unproductive, perhaps. Depends on your perspective, I suppose. I wrote one line in a personal journal… and … yeah, that’s all. Talked to Pat some.

Anyway, after midnight when they closed and Pat left, I went to my car and pulled out of my parking spot and across the lane and parked again because I could immediately feel that something was wrong. And I got out and looked and my left rear tire was flat. And I walked around the car to be sure the other tires were okay, and I thought that maybe I should have tipped better or something.

Then, since I’ve done this once before, I didn’t get even a little anxious (this is meaningful since I sometimes get anxiety attacks over nothing at all or passing thoughts), I just changed the tire to the donut spare and took surface streets home. Well, actually I stopped at Safeway on the way home to pick up milk, since I’d only left a literal splash of milk this morning – only to find when I arrived home that my brother had also bought milk today; I would have called him to ask if he did, but by the time the tire was changed and I was on my way and thinking about milk, it was 12:30AM and I knew he would be asleep.

So I’ll be going to bed very shortly, but I have to get up early and take care of the tire. I think my dad has something with the tire place he bought the tires from to get them patched, so I’ll call him and ask his advice first. Then, if it’s like I recall, I’ll drive across the way and drop off the tire for them to patch and … maybe they’ll have it done quickly? Or maybe dad will tell me to patch it myself – he showed me how once, and I noticed the patching stuff in the trunk. And if the tire is fixed in time I’ll probably drive to work, but if it isn’t going to be I’ll take my bike – I just got a chuck adapter so I can inflate my presta-valved tubes with the schraeder-valved chuck on the air compressor, which should make getting to the 100psi my tires like a possibility.

There was something else, but I don’t recall. Anyway, I’m off to sleep. Briefly.

Oh, yeah. Definitely need a shower tomorrow, but I’ll wait to see what happens with the tire, since changing it again will simply get me dirty again, and patching it would be worse.

Me? Mostly I’ve been working out that I can’t really afford my lifestyle as well as I’d thought I could. Part of that has to do with changes in finances since Dad moved back to Pine, and part of that has to do with my not really … tracking my spending exactly. I’ve sortof been vaguely tracking my spending.

Turns out that’s not such a sound financial course of action.

But then today a couple more things came up that further alter my financial outlook.

Continue reading how do you afford your rock and roll lifestyle?

A sentence that was not originally intended to be innuendo:

“Did you know that they don’t make insoles to fit feet as big as mine? It’s very frustrating trying to get proper arch support.”

Silliness follows (OKCupid tests results)

Continue reading OKCupid Tests Silliness

Okay, so. I’ve updated all the book pages over at Modern Evil and the corresponding pages at CafePress to link back to them. Each book now has a synopsis, the full text from the back cover, and an excerpt from the book.

Am I missing anything? Does it look okay? Is it more helpful than it was before?

I know, I know, the website is basically unreadable on many versions of IE on Windows, and I’m looking into ways to program around that. But … for those of you who can actually READ the pages, what do you think?

I should be sleeping.