http://menningitis.net gifted with this sweet infirmity Tue, 27 Mar 2007 02:27:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en i write as i pull free of the sociogravitational pull of los angeles, in a dark plane shot with dusky yellow streaks of dawn slipping in through uncovered starboard windows. the 4 am wake up call did not come soon enough, and the dense fog on the 405 is ... http://menningitis.net/2007/03/gilt-gorging-guilt-and-gouging this was like a cross between murakami’s “wind up bird chronicles,” and mitchell’s later work “cloud atlas.” that might sound like it’s a bad thing, but it’s not. while both of those books are probably better than this one, both of those books are excellent, so there’s little ... http://menningitis.net/2007/03/number-9-dream i decided to dust off another book that i hadn’t read in many years. this book is fun, and goes by remarkably quickly for a book of its length. http://menningitis.net/2006/09/the-dragonbone-chair i quite enjoyed this movie. ed norton was as always superb, and biel and giamatti pull their weight as well. http://menningitis.net/2006/09/the-illusionist fun nonfiction. not the most substantive text, but entertaining to be sure. http://menningitis.net/2006/08/bringing-down-the-house lea and i have watched through the first season and the first half of the second of this series. it is quite good. http://menningitis.net/2006/08/battlestar-galactica i liked this even more than hard-boiled wonderland. i’ll probably have lea read this this year for our christmas exchange. http://menningitis.net/2006/08/the-wind-up-bird-chronicle walking lucy tonight, i rounded a corner to see a bulldog sitting, unchained, about thiry feet down the sidewalk. the bulldog got up and started trotting towards us. some of you know how afraid i am of dogs, but i’m proud to say that my first thought was ... http://menningitis.net/2006/08/protective-puppy-parent hilarious. note to self: this would be a great film to watch on halloween. http://menningitis.net/2006/06/dawn-of-the-dead we got this, thinking, “a comedy would be nice.” i’m not sure how they bill this movie as a comedy, since it’s really more of a drama, complete with buzzkill artistic moments, and only occasionally pushing the awfulness factor up to comedic levels. http://menningitis.net/2006/06/the-family-stone