X Who Played X In That One
Only four posts in and I already have a commendation from the WBSSR!? This is great news (see comment on previous post.) Honestly I wasn't even going for it--blogging about obscure forms of wildlife just comes naturally to me I suppose.
Meanwhile it seems the only people I hang out with on the West Coast are either above the age of 30 or under the age of 8. Fair enough, I guess, but it's a fact that makes me pause and wonder.
I finally watched "Frida" the other night and found it to be surprisingly well done, with a couple of really cool animations thrown in as well. The first one, which has these Day of the Dead people talking about her accident, makes the film worth watching on its own. But anyway, I recommend it. Of note is the fact that a mere hour or so before watching it, I was drinking a rum and coke with Roberto Medina, who plays Frida's doctor in the film, and who happens to live across the street and have a child at Joe's school (one of the children in the recent batch of photos.) So I figure that's a pretty LA thing to have done. Because everyone knows that if someone mentions or suggests a movie in LA, you're supposed to then be able to come back with something along the lines of:
"Oh yeah I recently drank x with x who played x in that one."
And if you can't do that, well, god help you. At that point you can at least be sure that the valet guy is not going to be extra careful with your car.
If you're ever in East Pasadena, I do recommend the Huntington Botanical Gardens. Very nice. Lots of great plants. I was there today with a 30+ year-old and three less-than-8-year-olds.
Meanwhile it seems the only people I hang out with on the West Coast are either above the age of 30 or under the age of 8. Fair enough, I guess, but it's a fact that makes me pause and wonder.
I finally watched "Frida" the other night and found it to be surprisingly well done, with a couple of really cool animations thrown in as well. The first one, which has these Day of the Dead people talking about her accident, makes the film worth watching on its own. But anyway, I recommend it. Of note is the fact that a mere hour or so before watching it, I was drinking a rum and coke with Roberto Medina, who plays Frida's doctor in the film, and who happens to live across the street and have a child at Joe's school (one of the children in the recent batch of photos.) So I figure that's a pretty LA thing to have done. Because everyone knows that if someone mentions or suggests a movie in LA, you're supposed to then be able to come back with something along the lines of:
"Oh yeah I recently drank x with x who played x in that one."
And if you can't do that, well, god help you. At that point you can at least be sure that the valet guy is not going to be extra careful with your car.
If you're ever in East Pasadena, I do recommend the Huntington Botanical Gardens. Very nice. Lots of great plants. I was there today with a 30+ year-old and three less-than-8-year-olds.
posted by Gabriel Leigh at 10:11 PM
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Addressing the Tub Squid Controversy:
I'd like to offer two possible explanations for the origin of the Tub Squid terminology, one etymological, the other socio-cultural.
According to Professor Kohei Barabara of the Japanese National Underwater Museum, the term tub squid is actually a misnomer. The more precise phrase is Tuber Squid, technically Tubus Ikarachinasus. Tuber squid are small, very rare and shaped like a waterproof pencil, with a projecting fleshy bulb for a head. Almost never eater, the tuber squid is used primarily for decorating the dead before cremation.
On the other hand, according to Mariko Murakami, director of the Institute to Preserve Obscure and Pointless Japanese Rituals, Tub Squid is a valid term associated with a mid-winter festival occuring along northern Japan's coastal regions. Local men wearing grotesque frog masks and harpoon shoes run around the town carrying large open containers of squid parts, breaking into people's homes and throwing the squid at terrified children. The objective here, says Ms. Murakami, is to remind children that obeying authority makes more sense than ever having an individual thought. Traumatizing children in this way ensures they will remain emotionally stunted throughout their adult lives, thereby reducing the risk of sudden, antisocial outbursts.
Tub Squid anyone?
BWL
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