{"id":731,"date":"2002-12-01T15:37:17","date_gmt":"2002-12-01T23:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2002\/12\/01\/731.html"},"modified":"2002-12-01T15:37:17","modified_gmt":"2002-12-01T23:37:17","slug":"this-and-that-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2002\/12\/01\/this-and-that-5\/","title":{"rendered":"This and that"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I use that title a lot, usually as the subject line of an email.<\/p>\n<p>Some miscellany: <\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li>Friday I did end up reading a lot of subs. I also did something else, but\n    I'm not quite sure what.<\/li>\n  <li>Jon Carroll's column from Friday is a nice little <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/chronicle\/archive\/2002\/11\/29\/DD34241.DTL\">musing\n    on agnosticism<\/a>. I particularly like the slogan &quot;WWID&quot; (What Would I Do?),\n    and the ending of the column. I think he's being perhaps a bit glib about the\n    real issues facing those who don't believe in God in modern America, and I\n    don't know that I agree that prayer is a good thing regardless of whether you\n    believe in God, but I like the column nonetheless.<\/li>\n  <li>Weekend hasn't gone at all as planned&#8212;which is fine; probably good for\n    me to be a little spontaneous now and then.\n    <ul>\n      <li>Yesterday instead of reading\n        submissions all day as planned, I accompanied Arthur to the Dickens Fair,\n        which is to Victorian England roughly as a Renaissance Faire is to Elizabethan\n        England. Some good shops, assorted interesting entertainments. Ran into\n      a couple of high school friends I haven't seen in a while. Watched someone\n        ride a penny-farthing bicycle. Attended a couple of not-very-good theatrical\n        entertainments (including the extremely disappointing birds-of-prey demo,\n        which consisted of 20 minutes of bad and poorly performed attempts at\n        comedy followed by a couple of brief flights of a falcon), and one good\n        theatrical\n        entertainment: the compressed version of <cite>Pirates of Penzance<\/cite> that\n        Pam was in. They did a good job of paring it down to an hour, and the\n        singing and acting were decent, and the Pirate King was not only splendid\n        but mighty\n        cute.<\/li>\n      <li>After the Fair, I read some subs, and then went with Kam to see <cite>Die\n        Another Day,<\/cite> which was entertainingly over-the-top as expected\n        and desired. Pierce Brosnan and Halle Berry, yum. Interestingly dark\n        opening for a Bond film (and, warning, there are scenes in the opening\n        sequence that may be kind of squeam-inducing for some people), lots of\n        spectacular stunts and special effects, lots of opportunity to laugh\n        with delight at the sheer over-the-topness of it all. Also a huge number\n        of <span class=\"foreign\">double entendres,<\/span> most of them so unabashed\n        as to be entertaining rather than annoying (though some were just dumb).<\/li>\n      <li>This morning, after a slow start, I had a leisurely lunch with the\n        high school friend I mentioned in a previous entry, and her husband,\n        across the street from our high school. After lunch, we wandered around\n        the grounds for a while and reminisced; I hope it wasn't too boring for\n        D., who didn't have any of our reference points.<\/li>\n      <li>This evening there's a potluck welcome-back dinner for Kam. I'm hoping\n        I can get enough submission reading done before then to not feel totally\n        unjustified in going to that.<\/li>\n    <\/ul>\n  <\/li>\n  <li>Submission reading should be less urgent for a bit, since <cite>SH<\/cite> is now (as\n    of this morning) closed to fiction subs for a month.<\/li>\n  <li>Nonetheless, I should stop procrastinating and go read.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I use that title a lot, usually as the subject line of an email. 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