What a great movie! By far, the best of the Batman movies, and even one of the best movies I’ve ever seen. Such a great cast - Christian Bale is the perfect Batman, and even Katie Holmes was pretty good. Liam Neeson, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Gary Olman, Cillian Murphy, all fantastic. It wasn’t goofy like the other movies; this one was dark and intense, but with the occasional one-liner thrown in at just the right time. Really well done. Highly recommend it.
Archive for June, 2005
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are engaged. Apparently, he proposed at the Eiffel Tower, which makes me hate him for marring my new favorite city with their sham of a relationship.
Thanks a lot lady, like I didn’t have enough to do today already 
But here goes:
Number of Books I Own: Hmmm, I just got rid of a bunch, so now I probably have about 200. We’re trying to simplify around here. I didn’t read much for years and years and now am devouring them like candy, so I’m sure there will be many more added.
Last Book Bought: Like Kate, I just bought a bunch at once:
- The Pact, Jodi Picoult
- Mercy, Jodi Picoult
- I’m Not the New Me, Wendy McClure
- The Solace of Leaving Early, Haven Kimmel
Last Book Read: I just finished The Solace of Leaving Early, which was awesome, and have now moved on to The Pact.
Five Books that Mean a lot to Me:
- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
- Jitterbug Perfume, Tom Robbins
- Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafizi
- The Prince of Tides, Pat Conroy
- HIs Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
Blah blah, not guilty, who cares, blah blah. Maybe he’ll just go away now and we can never hear of him again. That would be fine with me.
There are just so many things wrong with this story, I don’t know where to begin, but I’ll try:
- If you are so afraid of your dogs that you lock your son in the basement so the dogs can’t attack him, shouldn’t you remove them from your home?
- If your dogs are aggressive because one or more of them is in heat, maybe you should get them NEUTERED.
- I’m sorry, it wasn’t Nicky’s "time to go". You are a fucking IDIOT and it is purely YOUR FAULT that your son is dead. She also puts all the blame on him - "I told him to stay in the basement and he didn’t listen to me."
Crap like this is not good for my rage. As the extremely cautious owner of a pit bull, stuff like this really piss me off. There is nothing inherently wrong with pit bulls, it’s all about how the owner treats them and if they know how to handle them. We know our pit, Daisy, is sensitive, and we know her well enough that we know what situations will make her uncomfortable and we go out of our way to avoid them. This woman is clearly awesomely stupid and irresponsible and knows nothing about her dogs, or her kid for that matter.
I am so freaking tired. The whole car fiasco (I know, I know, I said I would never speak of it again) totally drained me, physically, emotionally and psychologically. Now it’s all resolved, but it will take a few days to recover from the stress.
Then yesterday I spent the day with our wonderful friend Alicia, who just moved here from S.F., and we went to lunch, went shopping on Larchmont, then the four of us (me, Hawk, Alicia and Cooper) drove down to Huntington Beach to the art show our friend Beth was co-curating. That was really awesome. I felt so cultured, going to an art show and everything. The stuff ranged from the beautiful, to the awe-inspiring to the downright bizarre, but it was all really cool.
Today Alicia and I went maternity-clothes shopping with our friend Christine, who is expecting a baby in December (yay!). That was really fun. I had no idea that maternity clothes had gotten so trendy, or so expensive. We went to Pea in the Pod and they had maternity jeans made by Seven and Joe’s Jeans, and all sorts of Juicy Couture stuff. I’m sorry, but I just can’t pay $200 for a pair of jeans, even if they do have a neat stretchy panel built in to accommodate the growing tummy. Crazy. It did get me all excited for the day when I get to do that kind of shopping!
Now I am just totally wiped. I’m going to try to do absolutely nothing tomorrow. We do need to go visit Hawk’s grandfather, who just had brain surgery to treat his Parkinson’s Disease. This is nuts - they installed a wire electrode in his brain that will eliminate the tremors that for the past ten years have prevented him from feeding himself, brushing his teeth, shaving, or even signing his name. Talk about a life changing event. It’s just really sad that Hawk’s grandma isn’t around anymore to be able to see it.
Sleep now. Zzzzzz….
So we took the devil car back to the ghetto car lot where we bought it, and after some pleading and bargaining, they took it back. At first I was totally convinced they were just going to tell us to fuck off, because the evil saleswoman just kept shoving pieces of paper under our noses, saying, "But you signed this", "I told you about the accident", which was TOTAL bullshit. There was one sheet that I remember signing that had a checklist on it of different disclosures they were making about the car, and when I signed that sheet, there were NO checkmarks on it, I am 100% positive. However, yesterday when she showed it to us, there were checkmarks on the sheet next to "Body damage" and "Frame damage". I about flipped out when I saw that.
But since they took it back "as a favor", we had to pay them a $700 restocking fee, plus the $291 they had spent on registering it. Fuckers. We could have played hardball with them on the fee, but to tell you the truth, by that time I just wanted to wash my hands of the whole thing.
So, on the way home from returning the car and getting a cashier’s check for it, we happened to pass Honda of Pasadena, and decided that we would stop, just for the hell of it, and lo and behold, there was a perfect Certified Pre Owned 2002 CR-V EX, with anti-lock brakes, side impact airbags, a moonroof, and 6 disc CD-changer. It is a lovely maroon color, with perfect tan interior, and now, she is mine.
I’m just going to pretend that the other nasty thing didn’t even happen.
Look! Somebody made a comic strip out of the episode of Angel where he gets turned into a puppet! Cute!
So it turns out that my lovely new car is a ticking time bomb of disaster. We were defrauded into buying a car that had been in a major front end collision, and the guys at the Honda dealership where I took it tell me that it’s not safe to be driving AT ALL. The clunking sound I had been hearing was a problem with the rack and pinion, and is so damaged that even if they were to replace it, there is a possibility that the new part wouldn’t fit/work because the car is so fucked.
So these people at the lot sold me a car that a) wasn’t the model they told us it was, b) in an accident when they told us it hadn’t been, and c) NOT SAFE TO DRIVE. My new buddy John at Honda was horrified when I told him I had been driving it all weekend. We’re taking the car back to those fuckers and demanding our money back.
This really pisses me off. Sure, we should have been more careful about what it was we were buying, but COME ON. To be so flagrantly lied to is just unacceptable, and not only that, but they put me in danger. They sold us a car that is not road-safe, and that just makes me want to go medieval on their asses. Lawsuits for everybody!
