I am a target market

I know that I promised Gloryholes and Blowing for the next post... but that post is not quite ready yet... so consider this post the first 25 minutes of Entertainment Tonight - you know what I am talking about.

I plugged in the television the other day at previously mentioned loft. Not a good idea. Anyhow, I have discovered that public access television will often run in their entirety fashion runway shows.... and that I am a market segment. Apparently TBS is for me. Except I don't like any of the sitcoms that they carry. Their movie choices are delightfully and complusively watchable... They are currently doing a marathon of that chic flick "Bridget Jones' Diary" and I am currently trying to avoid getting sucked into the second airing... That embarassing disclosure aside.... I orignally got sucked into watching TV via an Opera special on "Extreme Makeovers" which was just too weird - basically they try to cram as many surgical procedures that they can on a person over a short period of time! One guy got - liposuction (face, neck, chest, stomach, hips, back, legs), eyelift, chin implants, jowl implants, eye lift, hair weave, a number of dental procedures, and Lasik, from what I can recall. What is so strange about this show is the fact that after the "transformation" everyone says that they are both more confident and becoming what they already are.... but one woman revealed to Oprah that she signed up in hopes of winning a free lasik procedure - and considered everything else just icing on the cake. She got over 8 procedures including a nose job. "Nip and Tuck" is now a show I kinda want to see now... but I'm not sure I can handle the gory nip/tuck scenes (which may result in me missing out on perhaps some important parts of the show)....

But back to Outback Jack - I generally take a stand against reality television - but gee golly - which box would you check? I mean - the outback is exciting enough as it is even without Jack.

Lack of internet access

The fabulous loft apartment I am staying at this summer doesn't have high speed internet access. In all other respects it is perfect. I am cat sitting for someone I know and her (subsidized) apartment is the top floor of one of the oldest brownstones that line the northern side of Washington Square park. I can totally see why people who live down here think that 14th street in the Northern edge of Manhattan. But that only partially accounts for my lack of posts. I have been a busy little beaver studying french (un castor petit et occupé étudiant le français). The past couple of days have been beautiful in NYC and I have been spending times outdoors as much as possible. I have also taken on the project of tanning away my farmer's tan - more on that as progress is made. Next post: my trip to Corning, NY entitled "Gloryholes and Blowing."

Up in upstate New York...

For the most part the drive up into upstate new york was pretty scenic and mellow. Driving through Whitney Point, NY what do we see parked on the side of the road but a full on tank. And I thought SUVs were bad....

Past week...

I saw Carandiru - a gritty brazilian film loosely based around the eponymous prison massacre in 2001. I thought it was a pretty decent movie that humanized the prisoners in ways, that unlike the episodes of OZ that I've seen, actually make you care about what happens to the murderers and the robbers (though, curiously, not the rapists). Saved! is a parody turned satire that doesn't quite manage to pull itself off the ground, which is unfortunate. Aside from occasional movie forays into the world, shopping at Daffys, and hosting dinner parties, I've been busy with français.... I've learned - présent, imparfait, conditionnel, passé composé... what 3 weeks of Intensive French will teach one....

Circulating on friendster....

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence along with these instructions.

Depending on how one counts sentences my sentence is either "French has no progressive form (i.e., auxiliary to be plus present participle." or "Consequently, il étudie can also be translated as he does study, depending on context."

Mmmm.. cake.

I am terribly spoiled - not only do I get gelato and sorbetto on a daily basis, but some days I wake and get chocolate cake with strawberry and kahlua frosting. Mmmmm.