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[Jackie "the Librarian"]

Grrrr to corporate crap!

Good luck, Larry! If you start feeling down mid-review, just think "Bite his nose!" to yourself.

[Heidi]

On a somewhat related subject, I saw a trailer over the weekend for a documentary about Mike Tyson, aptly named "Tyson." I'm intrigued. I want to see it.

[[deleted user]]

I'm intrigued as to why you are interested Heidi. I saw that it was coming out, and thought that it was a movie I could miss for sure.

[Félix]

My mid-year review went fine. I don't know why I worry about that stuff.

All noses are safe!

[Sally, la reina]

See? I was right.

[Félix]

Of course.

[Leslie]

Larry--I do the same thing and they always go good--I have a feeling it's the people who don't care that get the bad reviews. The people who do get stressed get the good ones. That's my theory.

I read an article in Newsweek about Tyson--it sounds good.

[Nuri]

Glad your mid-year review went well, Larry.


Right now, I'm nervously checking my hair every five minutes. I'm not especially vain, but, annoyed with how long it's gotten, I just hacked off about four inches with my Red Scissors. It alternately looks unacceptably uneven and just passably like... really ragged layering..... HM.

[Heidi]

WHY would I be intrigued? He's a man full of contradictions, Jim. I don't admire him, by any means. But his candor, at the very least, would win at least one watch. Besides, James Toback directed it. Maybe it'd be like watching a train wreck. I doubt it, though. I'm sure I'd actually like it.

I also want to watch 12 and The Foot Fist Way.

Larry, I'm glad the noses have survived your annual review.

[[deleted user]]

I understand Heidi, but I don't see him as a man full of contradictions. I see him as a person who bullied his way through life, and once he wasn't the toughest bully anymore he became nothing. He reminds me on the bully in "The Christmas Story".

[Sally, la reina]

Have you seen the preview, Jim? The movie isn't making him out to be anything he's not. It just looks like it's done well.

[Félix]

Thanks Nools and Heidi. Breathing easy again. They let a bunch of people go here recently who were considered "surplus" for about a year. I'm not in that category, thankfully.

I would like to see that flick, too. Not because I admire the man, though.

[[deleted user]]

Sally wrote: "Have you seen the preview, Jim? The movie isn't making him out to be anything he's not. It just looks like it's done well."

I have not Sally, so maybe I should wait and see.

[Heidi]

That right now he is a quiet family man who's turned to spirituality to help him deal with his anger issues is very much a contradiction to the bully image of him that I've always had. Gah, I was sad for him when his daughter died.

Again, it was in the hands of a very capable director which makes the intrigue all the more.

trailer:

Tyson

[[deleted user]]

Thanks for the link Heidi, and you are right Sally it doesn't appear to portray him as anything but what he is.

[Heidi]

See?! In the hands of a capable director, anything is possible. :) I think it'll pay off. Tyson's playing at the local indy cinema right now. I'm tempted to watch it in the theatre.

[[deleted user]]

Of forgive me Heidi, why did I ever doubt you!

[Félix]

Foolish man.

[Heidi]

Jim, you should watch it, too! Let us know what you think of it. :) You too, Larry.

[[deleted user]]

Yes Larry I thought I better get that in while I still had a nose.

[Félix]

I will make a definite point of seeing that film some time in the next 20 years (if I follow my normal pattern, that is).

[RandomAnthony]

Right now I'm in the dining room, waiting for my three sons to come inside. I have charged them with the task of picking up all the crab apples from underneath the apple tree. I am not paying them. They did not complain much at my first, but my nine year old just came inside and said, "it's not my tree, it's yours."

That argument was not, to his surprise, successful.

He's now back outside helping his brothers pick up the apples.

I have ice cream cake for them when they finish, and I will compliment them on their hard work.

[Heidi]

Randomanthony wrote: "Right now I'm in the dining room, waiting for my three sons to come inside. I have charged them with the task of picking up all the crab apples from underneath the apple tree. I am not paying the..."

SLAVE DRIVER!

(Now I want some ice cream cake. :,( ... )

[Sally, la reina]

I bet you really disappointed him when you shot that down, RA. I can imagine him out there, preparing his speech, just knowing he'd then be free for the rest of the day.

[Nuri]

Lucky for you, RA, your kids are still young enough to be appeased by ice cream cake. If my brother is in any way an accurate example of boys, nothing short of a new car will make them smile with that kind of ecstatic gratification in a handful of years.

[Nuri]

That said, I don't know that I can outgrow doing chores for food. Blessed are the simple-minded? Or the hungry? Yes, I think the second one's in there somewhere.

[Félix]

I'm listening to and watching the fireworks from the Omaha Royals/Round Rock Express baseball game across town.

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

That sounds perfect, Larry. :D

[Félix]

Now it's raining like crazy.

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

It's sunset here, Larry. You would love it - the sky is peach on one side, and lavender on the other.

[Félix]

Wow -- take a picture if you can. Sounds lovely.

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

Okay, I'll do my best. Sunsets are hard to capture well without a tripod.

[RandomAnthony]

Right now I'm listening to Sigur Ros's () disc while cleaning the house with the windows open and the rain falling...breezes blowing the curtains back. Great Saturday morning.

I live in one of those counties that's half rural/small town and half suburban. This week is the Ozaukee County Fair, where the rural side gets to come out with their cows and carnival rides and horrible food and games of chance. We went last night...I braved the ferris wheel, thank you very much.

[Michelle]

A man who cleans house, I remember those days. My husband can no longer even rinse his own dish.
Do you make apple sauce?

Jackie, are you getting any relief from the heat?

Larry, are the Omaha Royals a farm team?

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

I'm figuring out what I need at the store to make potato salad and birthday cake. It's Chris' birthday on Monday, so I need to get some buttermilk and some whipping cream, and some fresh peaches to slice up and put on top...

Michelle, yes, it's only in the low 80s today. MUCH better! :)

[Michelle]

Glad to hear the furnace has been turned down.
Are you making the cake from scratch?

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

Yes, because homemade cake is the BEST!

[Michelle]

I agree

[Félix]

pas de doute

[smetchie]

I'm waiting for my husband to come home with DAIRY QUEEN!

that's right!

[Michelle]

What would happen if the Dairy Queen hooked up with the Burger King and they had a kid? What would you call it?

[Angie]

Right now I am... debating on selling most of my books and DVDs. Hmmmmmm. The thing stopping me are all these pesky seller fees, 'cause right now I've got $8 in my debit account.

Also, I found out the local 4-H might get the axe because of money issues. So I'm thinking of doing some research and writing to the newspaper about how our county needs to step up and save 4-H 'cause without it, I'd probably be a bum now like the rest out of my county.

[Michelle]

Don't the 4-H kids do fund raising like Girl scouts?

[Angie]

My club never did, that I can remember.

[Félix]

I am about to go out into the end of a gorgeous day here in Omaha. Low temp and low humidity. Perfect! Hoping for a stellar sunset -- but it's okay if it's ordinary.

[Michelle]

Enjoy Larry

[Félix]

Thanks, Michelle. Is it nice where you are?

[Michelle]

Yes, it's very nice in K.C. this evening, thanks

[[deleted user]]

Great evening here in Wisconsin too. County fair time and they couldn't ask for better weather.

[Michelle]

Our fairs and ren fest don't start till end of August, and then the first of Sept.