{"id":598,"date":"2006-08-08T16:41:58","date_gmt":"2006-08-08T22:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/brain-droppings\/"},"modified":"2006-08-08T16:41:58","modified_gmt":"2006-08-08T22:41:58","slug":"brain-droppings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/brain-droppings\/","title":{"rendered":"Brain Droppings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody must think my blog is a depressing read because I&#8217;m getting completely hammered with spam for an antidepressant that rhymes with &#8220;smell boot trim&#8221; over the past 24 hours. I&#8217;m not the only one having this problem as David Sifry&#8217;s latest <a title=\"State of the Blogosphere, August 2006\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sifry.com\/alerts\/archives\/000436.html\">State of the Blogosphere<\/a> says that 70% of the pings that Technorati receives are from known spam sources.<\/p>\n<p>Janet Jackson is <a title=\"Janet Jackson Vibe Cover\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wral.com\/apentertainmentnews\/9641840\/detail.html\">still hawt<\/a>. I had a bit of thing for her on Good Times and Different Strokes. I think my infatuation reached it&#8217;s peak around the time &#8220;Anytime, Anyplace&#8221; was released. I was living in NYC at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of NYC, JMG <a title=\"JMG: 1 Arm 1 Leg\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/joemygod.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/1-bdrm-1-bath-1-arm-1-leg.html\">posted about rents there<\/a> today. I had a one room apartment in the East Village for $800\/month and it was a dump. I imagine it&#8217;s probably doubled by now.<\/p>\n<p>The Internets are <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Jon Lebkowsky's Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.weblogsky.com\/archives\/000992.html\">full<\/a> of <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"BoingBoing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2006\/08\/04\/love_frontman_arthur.html\">tributes<\/a> to Love frontman Arthur Lee who died last week. Where the hell have I been? I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever even heard of this band and neither had The Wife. We consider ourselves fairly saavy. Why didn&#8217;t anyone tell us? Bastards.<\/p>\n<p>New <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Rescue Me\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fxnetworks.com\/shows\/originals\/rescueme\/\">Rescue Me<\/a> tonight. Season three is drawing to a close and the show still doesn&#8217;t disappoint. The opening sequence last week was awesome. Fire plus apartment marijuana growing operation equals stoned firefighters and ensuing hilarity. I&#8217;m sure that must&#8217;ve actually happened at some point although the smell should&#8217;ve been enough of a clue to don the respirators.<\/p>\n<p>I watched <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Zathura on IMDB\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0406375\/\">Zathura<\/a> on Sunday night with the kids. There&#8217;s lots to recommend it. I&#8217;d kill to have the house in the film. The set design is excellent. Several funny lines from both kids. I had a hard time separating Dax from his Punk&#8217;d persona and I&#8217;m inclined to like almost anything Tim Robbins does. I liked it better than <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Jumanji on IMDB\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0113497\/\">Jumani<\/a>, the other Chris Van Allsburg book I&#8217;ve seen adapted to film. I never saw <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Polar Express on IMDB\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0338348\/\">Polar Express<\/a>. Plus, Peter Billingsley, aka Ralphie from <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"A Christmas Story on IMDB\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0085334\/\">A Christmas Story<\/a> was a co-producer on the film. How could you not like that? And as a completely random aside to see if Scott H. is reading this, any idea why Peter Billingsley got a &#8220;thanks&#8221; credit on <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Mysterious Skin on IMDB\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0370986\/\">Mysterious Skin<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>P.S. This is a personal best for most IMDB links in a single post.<\/p>\n<p>[tags]mysteriousskin, peterbillingsley, zathura, rescueme, love, arthurlee, janetjackson, spam, davidsifry, nyc, realestate, joemygod[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody must think my blog is a depressing read because I&#8217;m getting completely hammered with spam for an antidepressant that rhymes with &#8220;smell boot trim&#8221; over the past 24 hours. 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