Nobody Knows Anything

• New blog post: Twitter Updates for 1969-12-30 http://www.nobody-knows-anything.com/2010/07/twitter-updates-for-1969-12-30-4.html ->

• New blog post: Twitter Updates for 1969-12-30 http://www.nobody-knows-anything.com/2010/07/twitter-updates-for-1969-12-30.html ->
• New blog post: Twitter Updates for 1969-12-30 http://www.nobody-knows-anything.com/2010/07/twitter-updates-for-1969-12-30-2.html ->
• New blog post: Twitter Updates for 1969-12-30 http://www.nobody-knows-anything.com/2010/07/twitter-updates-for-1969-12-30-3.html ->
• @wonkybutt Just a little, it would seem. Sigh. in reply to wonkybutt ->

• New blog post: July remodeling http://www.nobody-knows-anything.com/2010/07/july-remodeling.html ->
• Because the apostrophe tells you the "s" is coming. ->

• New blog post: Dear Hollywood, you suck http://www.nobody-knows-anything.com/2010/07/dear-hollywood-you-suck.html ->

• Totally serious question asked today by, well, me: "Who is LeBron James?" No Nike shoe = no idea. ->
• Anyone else keep double-clicking the home button on the iPad and then wonder why you get the search screen? ->
• C'mon, I get some kind of prize for actually sitting down and doing the bills, right? ->
• @pookster Nobody told me I was going to have to use real money to pay these off! in reply to pookster ->
• I think I may be the wrong person for this gig. ->
• @pookster Let's just say I could use a whole bunch of minions about now. in reply to pookster ->
• Do you realize Nicolas Cage became Hollywood's go-to guy for weird when he was 22 years old? Dang. ->
• @MonkeySmash *weeps* *realizes she hasn't eaten yet* in reply to MonkeySmash ->
• I am only eating Phish Food as a protest because @monkeysmash and @wonkybutt won't share their homemade gelato. ->
• On the one hand, this means I shouldn't sweat the cost of our remodel too much: http://bit.ly/d0O4Jy ->
• Meg Whitman is attacking Jerry Brown his $1.8m house. Around here, that's a fixer-upper. Around Meg, that's the proles getting uppity. ->
• According to my Twitter feed, this year a whole bunch of Americans actually care about the World Cup. ->
• @HitFixDaniel Henry Fool >> Amateur for funny though. in reply to HitFixDaniel ->
• @pookster Are you Hapsburg or Habsburg? Name your favorite colonial expansion techniques. Austria: friend, foe, or client state? in reply to pookster ->
• @pookster Hey, I'm trying to use SCIENCE here! in reply to pookster ->
• Spending an enormous amount of time at naturallycurly.com and discovering many things I hadn't known about having curly hair. ->
• Me: "Now we can go back to not pretending to care."

  D: "I've never stopped not pretending." ->

• Ran into a friend in the camp check-in line.

  "I'll Skype you!" she said.

  "Don't do that! I don't have Skype!" I told her. ->

• The perils of free wi-fi: one chick is taking up 3 seats at this Starbucks, along with their electrical outlets. ->
• now "plops" her hair after rinsing it in cold water and then "clips" it after appropriate "leave-ins". She may have joined a cult. ->

Okay, this isn’t really from July—I think most of these pictures are from June—but I’m posting it now. Deal with it. You may familiarize yourself with changes from March’s posting before continuing on, if you like.

Biggest changes: we have drywall! And stucco! And lots of canned lighting installed in the ceiling!

And here is the front of our house, all nicely stuccoed, although not as of yet plastered. (Last week they put up two sample plaster patches for us to choose, and one was clearly the right one. Of course, I do not have a picture of this.) I myself don’t care for the roof tile arrangement, but I’ve been told that I’ll come to enjoy that as one of the key features of the remodel.

A closeup of the front steps—concrete and stucco oh my! Those red bars sticking out are going to connect with the wrought iron railing that’s going to be installed. The bit of wiring sticking out at the lower left will be for lighting that will be installed.

The front door. Isn’t that molding cool? Also, the rafter tails above it? Well, we certainly think so, and we’re paying quite handsomely for them, so I certainly hope we like the look.

More of the front of the house, with a detail of the porch railing. Again, wrought iron will be installed in the middle of the U.

The kitchen. If this were a more recent picture, you’d see a gigantic crate on the right hand side, underneath the stove ventilation hood (and doesn’t that look like it’s going to be cute!), and that gigantic crate contains my new stove. Which weighs 700 pounds, so I don’t think you should try to steal it.

The living room, not yet drywalled like the rest of the house. That large white rectangle marked “TV” (actually marked “Clay’s TV,” after Clay, who’s been working on the project almost a year) is a mockup of the TV we’re going to have hanging there…in all three dimensions. The architect didn’t believe we could have a TV that is that thin; we told him that living in the future is really cool and he’ll like it a lot. The fireplace chimney frame has also been installed, but I don’t have a pic of that.

What posting would be complete without a look at the stairs? Well, actually, the stairs haven’t changed too much from last time (except there’s drywall!). Those wooden railings are going to be replaced by wrought iron…but other stuff has to happen first, like the floors need to be installed.

And that’s it for this month in our house remodel!

Hi Hollywood. I know you don’t care about me on so many levels—I’m over 25, I’m a woman, I’m married, I have children, I don’t like vampires whether sparkly or not—but Jesus, you aren’t even trying any more, are you?

It’s JULY. That is MIDSUMMER, for those of you who never leave the office and have no idea. SUMMER is peak movie season.

There is nothing for us to go see. I mean, I’m digging deep here, people. I am putting everything on the possibles list, and it’s still slim-to-no pickings. And Darin and I are almost willing to see anything.

Yes, I said almost. The Twilight movies are RIGHT OUT, okay?

(By the way, for anybody out there who still reads this blog and may have a small girl child of your acquaintance who may be interested in reading Twilight in the future…I beg you to read this book NOW, so you may know of what you speak when you trash this book as hard as it needs to be trashed. But that’s an entry for another day.)

What have Darin and I already seen this summer? Let’s see:

• Knight and Day: we saw this last week. It’s pretty silly, but it revels in its silliness—the montage where we only see little bits and pieces of how Tom Cruise gets Cameron Diaz out of a series of harrowing situations is hilarious. And while Tom always comes off as batshit-insane to me, he is absolutely the best thing in this movie: he’s funny as hell, and wow, is he comfortable being a movie star. Both Darin and I were really impressed by how amazingly charming Cruise was in this.
• The A-Team: Yes, we saw this. Best thing by far: Sharlto Copley as Murdock, the crazy helicopter pilot—man, that guy is good. Worst thing: there’s a whole plot point about Man of Violence BA Baracus becoming a Man of Peace…and we know that all is right with the world when he becomes a Man of Violence again. Hoo-yah! Also: hard as hell to tell what is going on in some scenes because of the action editing. Does anyone choreograph any more? Am I showing my age?
• Toy Story 3: Saw this with the kids. Thought it was great.
• Get Him To The Greek: Okay, I admit: I thought this was hilarious. It was completely stupid and yet: freaking hysterical. “Stroke the furry wall!”

Mind you, I had to look at a list of movies currently playing to remind me what I may have seen in the past few weeks (with the exception of Toy Story 3, which I remember seeing just fine).

Yes, we’ve skipped The Last Airbender, MacGruber, Prince of Persia, Shrek Forever After (the kids saw that one with their Grandpa), and Sex and the City 2.

We’re planning on seeing Despicable Me with the kids this weekend, so that’s out.

What are our current choices for a movie to go see on date night? Cyrus, I Am Love, and Predators.

Any of these may, in fact, turn out to be a great movie-going experience. But none of them appears to be a must-see movie-going experience. I have high hopes for the upcoming Inception, but one movie out of…how many?…that might turn out to be not completely mind-numbing and shallow.

Jesus, I don’t know where the love of movies is going to come from in the next generation. It’s dire out there, Hollywood, and frankly, I’m blaming you for it.

Oh yeah, and 3D? Kiss my ass.

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• @JeremyShapiro Heh. No, it's from the editors at Gizmodo justifying why they did the iPhone thing. Srsly: http://bit.ly/dge9Kk in reply to JeremyShapiro #

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• Uh, what do you MEAN the kids actually have a half-day today? I kinda had plans. #flexiblecalendar #nothinginstone #
• The smell of brownies is so much better than actually eating them.

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