Heat and Cold

"Hot" activities include: cooking, pyrotechnics, sunbathing, drinking tea, exercising, sleeping, welding, glassblowing, farriery*, and arguing.
"Cold" activities include: refrigerator manufacture, ice skating, snowball fights, Antarctic exploration, cryogenics, and sticking your head in the freezer.



*black-smithing to you

Excitement with Potatoes

While it may sound rather like an oxymoron, I assure you that it is true: potatoes can be rather exciting at times. Like when you boil them for a half an hour. Then they char and coat the bottom of the pan with a lovely shade of black. Don't put bleach on it. Baking soda works best. Also, potatoes that have been thus treated tend to make rather tasty mashed potatoes. Enjoy!

U2 Unwittingly Predicts "The Hunger Games"

It just occurred to me, listening to U2's "A Man and a Woman", how well the lyrics seem to capture the love story of Katniss and Peeta of "The Hunger Games". If Katniss and Peeta were inclined to singing, this song would be their debut. I shall now proceed to point out the Areas of Uncanniness, in the form of what could be viewed as a script for a musical. Great heavens, what a mix!

THE HUNGER GAMES, RETHOUGHT: THE MUSICAL OF DEEP PHILOSOPHY AND SELF-EXPLORATION, OR SOMESUCH ROT
SCENE: KATNISS and PEETA have taken a brief hiatus from the suspense and thrill of the original story and are musing, thoughtfully. They are on opposite sides of the stage, with their backs turned to each other. PRIM enters center stage and kneels reflectively in the front. U2, lurking back-stage-left, visible to the audience but not to Katniss nor Peeta (for effect, you must understand), begin to play.

KATNISS, to PRIM: Little sister... Don't you worry about a thing today
Take the heat from the sun
Little sister
I know that everything is not OK
But you're like honey on my tongue

PEETA and KATNISS: True love never can be rent
But only true love can keep beauty innocent

PEETA: I could never take a chance
Of losing love to find romance
In the mysterious distance
Between a man and a woman
KATNISS: No, I could never take a chance
'Cause I could never understand
The mysterious distance
Between a man and a woman

CHORUS, to KATNISS: You can run from love
And if it's really love it will find you
Catch you by the heel
PEETA: But you can't be numb for love
The only pain is to feel nothing at all
How can I hurt when I'm holding you?

KATNISS: I could never take a chance
PEETA: Of losing love to find romance
Both KATNISS and PEETA, in harmony: In the mysterious distance
Between a man and a woman

PEETA: And you're the one, there's no-one else
who makes me want to lose myself
In the mysterious distance
Between a man and a woman

Brown eyed girl across the street
On rue Saint Divine
I thought this is the one for me
But she was already mine
You were already mine...

KATNISS, to PRIM: Little sister
I've been sleeping in the street again
Like a stray dog
Little sister
I've been trying to feel complete again
But you're gone and so is God

KATNISS and PEETA: The soul needs beauty for a soul mate
When the soul wants...the soul waits ...

KATNISS: No, I could never take a chance
PEETA: Of losing love to find romance
BOTH: In the mysterious distance
Between a man and a woman

CHORUS: For love and FAITH AND SEX and fear
And all the things that keep us here
KATNISS: In the mysterious distance
Between a man and a woman

PEETA: How can I hurt when I'm holding you?

Lights fade as KATNISS and PEETA turn to each other and make minimal eye contact. U2 continues playing to the end of the song even as the stage darkens.

Lyrics from www.sing365.com
Song (lyrics, music) by U2

Eight-Twelve Status Report

Injuries: Sore Muscles. Curse You, High School PE.


Mood: Sleepy, mildly vexed, expectant.

Hungry? : Naw.

Outlook On Life: Aarrrghhh


One Wish: A very long, warm, deep bath with an excellent book.


Another Wish: A frock coat.

Quote That Happens to Describe Me: "You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling." --Eames, "Inception" :JT)


Alter Ego for the Day: My own point woman Original Character, as of yet unnamed. Re: :JT)


Comfort: What is this comfort of which you speak?


... I should greatly like to see "Inception" again. Mehhhhh

INCEPTION

(meant to write this ages ago. La ti da)

INCEPTION!!!!!
I love this movie. That has got to be the most worthwhile 2.5 hours I've ever had the fortune to experience. Well, at least I think it was 2.5 hours. It may have been shorter. I dunno. I don't place time limits on awesomeness.

INCEPTION'S CLAIMS TO GREATNESS

Arthur the Point Man

The Breakneck Action

Arthur the Point Man

The way Ariadne understood Cobb in an unobtrusive way

The intelligent plot and the idea of Dreaming

The movie's ability to make several hours very enjoyable

Arthur the Point Man

The Hotel Fight Scene

Testing Kicks on Arthur

Eames, occasionally

Arthur's Ability to Wear a Vest With Charisma

The driving skills of Yusuf the Chemist

The Unpredictability of Mal Cobb

The Minor Allusion to "TITANIC" in the beginning, har har

Arthur the Point Man

Ariadne's wise naiveté

The Penrose Staircase

The Lovely Cliffhanger, which carries the possibility of a Sequel, within a Sequel, within a Sequel, in Limbo. >:}

Have I mentioned Arthur the Point Man?

Watermelons and Energy

The two types of energy are kinetic and potential energy. Kinetic energy is the energy of motion, and potential energy is energy that is stored. A hurled watermelon has kinetic energy, and a precariously perched watermelon has potential energy. The hurled watermelon is moving, and the perched one has the potential to fall and create kinetic energy.
The precariously perched watermelon is an example of gravitational potential energy. A watermelon in a catapult has elastic potential energy, for when the catapult goes off the stationary watermelon becomes a hurled watermelon.

One-thirty-six Status Report

Injuries: None. Scars, on the other hand...


Mood: Hot, restless, and otherwise content.


Hungry? : I have not eaten lunch yet.

Outlook On Life: Won't high school up and begin already?


One Wish: A deerstalker hat.


Another Wish: An Inverness overcoat.

Quote That Happens to Describe Me: "Oh, no, no, that's all right. You go get the girl. I'll get the bomb." Al Giordino, from "Sahara"


Alter Ego for the Day: I'm channeling Tony Stark a little.


Comfort: It's hot. Feels muggy, too. Otherwise all is well on the Holmesian front.