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Click images for desktop size: "Untitled" by Michael Kaluta Today I discovered that I received a subscription to the New York TImes. This surprised me because I'd gotten no papers, just a bill.
I called and found out that a telemarketer supposedly called me and I had ordered it . . .
They cancelled it with such ease it makes me skeptical. Shame. The idea of subscribing to the Times sounded pretty good to me, but not with those sort of tactics.
My biggest discovery today was that the pain I'm feeling has subsided. I have to quantify my pain so much for the doctors it is easy to say that it has ebbed to about 25% of the norm.
There's no rational reason for this so I can concoct my own wild theories.
I ascribe it to:
a) A good puppy
b) wearing fairly decent socks and underwear
I don't see how anyone can argue about a puppy being good for whatever ails you. As they bring therapy dogs to scenes of disasters as well as to hospitals it just seems so obvious now.But decent socks and underwear . . . its hard to believe I'm promoting this concept . . . reminds me of a Canadian columnist from the early 70's who published a much reviled piece on how disgusting he found it to see people using the toilet during the day when there wasn't a bidet close by . . .
But its true. Not wearing 10 pair of socks for $5, and 5 pair of underwear for $5 makes me feel better. It just feels nicer, more peaceful more relaxed and hence less pain.
I think that no one except the people who've had to experience both ends of the spectrum could comprehend this.
I still wouldn't prescribe this as an analgesic. I am the guy who walked around for 2 weeks with a fractured skull and finally went to the doctor because the head ache wouldn't go away . . .
I watched Godzilla the other day. The actual original 1954 one all in Japanese that DIDN'T have Raymond Burr playing Reporter Steve Martin. Briefly the US distributor bought a 100 minute film cut it down to 65 minutes and then added 14 minutes of Raymond Burr and other Americans explaining things. I liked that version. I like Godzilla.
This one surprised me. It was not camp. And for a movie that features a fifteen story lizard played by a guy in a rubber suit it was a shock how serious the film was. You could almost call it an allegory. Less than 10 years previously Japan was the only country to be nuked.
They discovered child mutations, radiation sickness; the new death. Under those extremes its not hard to accept a legendary fire breathing dragon rising from the sea and creating death and destruction. It was their tragedy and manifesting that rag, fear and impotence into the shape of a 150 foot thing makes some sense.
Its odd but the ambition seemed to be more towards Kurosawa and Mizoguchi than Hollywood.
I also have the sequel. A different distributor picked it up and had no rights to use the American name Godzilla so its called, “Gigantis, The Fire Lizard”. The Japanese title translates out as “Godzilla Raids Again.”
It has a giant armadillo in it so you know I'm jazzed.