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reposted from tumblr (I've finally been dragged kicking and screaming into 2010)
 

Unemployment Journal, Day 1
12-15-12

“Let the myopia begin.”

It’s 12:54 AM, which means the first day of the rest of my life is officially over. Blessed with the new prestige of a diploma, the energy of youth, [undisclosed amount] in graduation gifts, and the total freedom to go anywhere and do anything, I elected to spend most of the day cleaning my parent’s house and looking for a stream of Homeland that works.

Later I fought with my new iPod app and made a Christmas tree out of packaging material. Meant to see the Hobbit but then was too busy. It was a good day.

Wake Up Time: 12 noon exactly
Total Amount Written: 0 pages
Job Prospects: unknown

Day Status: B minus—adequate with room for improvement.

Another Movie

#5452 from Drew Smith on Vimeo.


There's a long story behind this I should probably tell. Should.

because it was too long to tweet

What are we to make of the fact that Moneyball (set in 2002) prominently features a character performing a song released in 2008? Is this secretly a time travel story? Did that girl write the song, and then somebody else recorded it several years later (or does she grow up to be Australian singer/songwriter Lenka*? Is this film actually set in an alternate timeline, where the song was released a half-decade earlier? Is Sorkin a huge Back to the Future Fan? Is there a trope for this**?

*Why yes, I did have to look that up.
**There are two.

Illusion'd

Can anybody else see this or did just waste a half hour making this stupid .gif?

[edit: it seems to work if you click/double-click on it]
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This is possibly the stupidest thing I've ever posted, and I once did a blog about sad trombone.