personal blurt

I did not have one single personal blurt yesterday. I know I said that I was not interested in forcing the matter, and it is not that I have been brain-dead, since I have been contentedly busy with my book-blogging and regular blogging. Still, I don't feel good about letting the day pass without a single mark.

LJ

What a time for LJ to go screwy on me! I want to look up some old postings on "1984", but it takes forever to open a page today.

And the Russian elections are over. So, it presumably isn't another DDoS attack.

Well, I got a hamburger to make.

"Inception"

I am glad that I recorded "Inception" on the DVR. I saw it before, but I remembered it as being fun but mediocre, so that I could do without it. Maybe it is my book-blogging and my deeper play into the idea of losing myself in art and literature, as I am now more fascinated by the idea of nested realities, with the exegetical thought that goes into picking the levels of reality apart.

I also surfed the web for some confirmation about the ending, and found a great discussion.

http://screenrant.com/inception-spoilers-discussion-kofi-68330/

1984 (2,6) O'Brien

As if getting a love life were not exciting enough, Winston now finds another big dream coming true. O’Brien makes contact with him, even at the same spot that Julia first approached him with her own note. It seems fair to wonder whether it was Orwell's intention to suggest that the Party may be playing with Winston, as they may have been going through the tapes to see where and how the lovers got together. In any case, Winston happily thinks he is making contact with the underground. Remember, Winston has been fixated on this strong male figure for a long time (1, 2). It is not difficult for O'Brien to seduce Winston.
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It had happened at last. The expected message had come. All his life, it seemed to him, he had been waiting for this to happen.

He was walking down the long corridor at the Ministry and he was almost at the spot where Julia had slipped the note into his hand when he became aware that someone larger than himself was walking just behind him. The person, whoever it was, gave a small cough, evidently as a prelude to speaking. Winston stopped abruptly and turned. It was O'Brien.

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"Chuck"

There was a moment today when I was afraid that I was going to have to hold off on ordering the second season of "Chuck". After this grocery day, we are in a store for a three-weeker before the next grocery day, which means that I need money for a library trip, money that I didn't think I had on hand. However, I do have it, so I can blow my allowance on the show.

Gotta love that Prime membership, too. I should get it on Thursday, in two days. It is amazing how nice a little money can make life.

Welcome to the NFL

Is it barbaric? Yes. Is it terrifying? Yes. Is it sick? Yes. So what? I’ve said it before and I will say it again: That is why we watch football. Because it is barbaric and terrifying and sick. Because we love good hits and kamikaze safety blitzes and a quarterback sitting on the field after a sack with visions of Tweety Bird dancing in his brain.

-- Buzz Bissinger, author of "Friday Night Lights"

The NFL has been hit by some controversy, as it has gotten out that the Saints have been using "bounties" to give players incentives to take out other players by inflicting injury. I have come across one report of "a $10,000 incentive to knock Brett Favre out of the 2009 NFC title game." I stopped following sports and football before I left my teen years behind me, but this is an interesting story, and I have to admit this is not a bad piece of film, even if it is a little gruesome: