RandomCha

While I was out of the office yesterday, the axe fell. 15% of my department is gone. I’m still standing. But my job position is changing. Not quite sure how yet. Whew. It’s been the most surreal 2 days in recent memory. Just last night I was hobnobbing with brilliant writers and celebrities, and now here I am back in the trenches.

Grand Illusion [1937]

1. "I loathe fifes."
2.He comes out wearing the dress. Every man in the room is instantly captivated.
3. "Don’t shoot! They’re in Switzerland."

Gigantic [2008]

1. "Sorry I’m late, I got lost." "Yeah, the entire city is laid out on a grid system, I can see how that could happen."
2. She walks away still wrapped in the blanket, thinks better of it and then carelessly tosses the blanket onto the bed.
3. Ed Asner on ‘shrooms. Surely some kind of a cinematic first.

Boy oh boy, I bet my parents are really glad they aren’t still living in Iowa. I bet they’re glad that I’M not living in Iowa. Sad but true.

The Palm Beach Story [1942]

1. "Nothing is permanent in this world, except for Roosevelt, dear."
2. Rudy Vallee’s nickname: Snoodles.
3. Twins. Two sets of twins. Why hasn’t that been used as a plot device more? Only other occurrence that comes to mind is Big Business.

Walking to work this morning a memory from high school randomly popped into my head. Some friends and I went to a nighttime screening of Candyman. I’m not sure I knew who Philip Glass was at the time, but I remember liking the music more than the movie. Afterwards, because it was the cool thing to do, we all went to a nearby Village Inn for a midnight snack. It was about the only thing open late in suburbia, aside from Denny’s and Blockbuster Video. Anyhow, I made the mistake of ordering a large side of hashbrowns and coffee. And nothing else. And further more, I smothered the hashbrowns in ketchup, after heavily salting them, and I drank the coffee black.  A few minutes later I dashed to the bathroom, and shortly after that I left and went home. Sick. I wasn’t one of the cool kids that night.

September [1987]

1. Elaine Stritch: "Really now I’m too young for liver spots. Maybe I can merge them into a tan, what do you think?"
2. They almost kiss. But they don’t. She almost goes back into the house. But she doesn’t.
3. "I hate walking around in the pitch black. I think I just stuck my hand in the guacamole."

Wow, that pot roast was wonderful. And it’ll be wonderful for leftovers tonight. Only one thing left to do: watch Nine to Five with the commentary track.