Scattered musings:

RNC: Yeah, I think you're right on there Mike (judges, another Nobel Correctness Prize For All-Encompassing Rightness please). No one's watching the RNC that isn't already planning to vote Bush. However, I do think there are undecideds that catch snippets on news programs, and that might sway them one way or another.

I also wanted to point out that, while it was full of bad writing and movie cliches, I actually thought Arnold's speech was really good. He was enthusiastic and energetic and made some great points.

The highlights have to have been Gulianni and Miller. Rudy used humor more effectively than any politician I've ever seen, underscoring his serious points. And Miller's vigor was quite engaging, considering his party affiliation. I loved his points about Kerry's voting record regarding the military's weapons like Cruise Missles and such, asking if Kerry wants the armed forces to throw spitwads at the enemy. Biting and firey.

"unsimulated": So I clicked your little link Chris...and nearly spat out my coffee...because I was at work, with the 50-year-old secretary behind me with a clear view of my screen. At any rate...there's a lot more "unsimulated" sex in film than I'd thought...which makes me even more sure that society is all messed up with their notions of love and sex. That there's even one actor willing to literally screw another one for "the film" or for "art" astounds me...let alone many. Quite surprising. And how many of them have made money? Probably not many...because I suspect the main audience for people who want to see real sex unsimulated is probably already sitting in a dirty chair at a porno house.

What's most telling to me is that the entire Brown Bunny film up until that scene appears to be (from Chris's review as well as countless others) boring, slow, uneventful, and consisting of no point. Which tells me that the unsimulated scene was the starting point in Gallo's mind for the film. "I know, I'll make a movie where an actress gives me oral pleasure...FOR REAL! It'll be great." "Mr. Gallo, what should the rest of the movie be about?" "Well it won't really matter now will it, once word of the realistic sex gets out--hell, just shoot me filling up my tank on the way to the bj set. I'll make it into this pretentious arty statement about realism, come on, get the camera." I also have to wonder if Miss Sevigny would have been so morally confused to do this film had she not started out making Kids (the mother of all "manipulate and exploit children for the director's fetish fulfillment" films), and then Boy's Don't Cry, and so on. Seems her career path is leading her directly to porn or at least a Paris Hilton video.

Bottom Line: No actor who gives an unsimulated bj to another actor for "art" has an appropriate understanding of love or sex or how the two work together.

Football: I have three fantasy leagues, and in two my first opponent has the word 'purple' in their team name. Does that mean anything?

Also, Woodson is a chump. He's lazy, and the talk that he wanted money is just bogus, or he wouldn't have caved and signed for less. He's just a selfish veteran who doesn't think he should have to go through camp. He'd never be on my team, but I don't have a team so.....

Road Rage: The next person I see who stops at a red light, then runs it out of selfish impatients....I'm going to scream. When did society get so bad that red lights are simply optional?! I've seen three wrecks this week from antsy people running red lights to try and get a leg up. If it's ever me in one of these wrecks caused by ignoring traffic lights...I'm going to sue. I'm going to sue hard, because it's blatant and wrong. And now my rant is done.