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Just another brain dump…

• Dude, how did I make it some 13 years without having seen or heard of Mr. Show??? Funny funny stuff. I can see why Miss Lesley is so enamored with David Cross.
• Speaking of things I’ve recently Netflixed (if that’s not a verb yet, it should be), The Lives of Others was phenomenal. This is why I watch so many damn movies, because every now and then you’re lucky enough to stumble across something this powerful. In gratitude.
• Another great film I’ve recently seen is Notes on a Scandal — Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench really did a masterful job, and kept the film from ever dipping to its downside potential as a highbrow Single White Female.
• I was particularly intrigued by the Dench character’s obsession with class, calling the working class students “proles” and remarking with disdain on the Blanchett character’s “bourgeois bohemianism”. I don’t know that I grokked any great insight from this, I just found it interesting as the intersection of these two classes is such a recurring theme in my own life.
• In politics — well what can I say about John Edwards? A perfectly coiffed plastic politician, the Democratic answer to Mitt Romney, turns out to be a phony — and people are shocked? Good riddance I say. I think this is turning out to be a good year. With him down for the count and with the wind knocked out of Hillary, maybe we really are on the verge of seeing a great evolution in the Democratic party. Not holding my breath, just saying maybe.

And finally, rest in peace Mr. Hayes.

You’re daaaaaaamn right.