Only made it five minutes in and quit ... suspect it's more war porn, like the Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty and dozens of other detestable movies in the genre ... could be wrong, but probably not ... with Marky Mark, the 5'6" pot smoking underwear model as modern warrior. That's not him below, just some other beefcake in barracks.
New Yorker Contributors
Contributors to Fierce Pajamas, An Anthology of Humor Writing from the New Yorker, by year of birth:
- Clarence Day (b. 1874)
- Don Marquis (b. 1878)
- Upton Sinclair (b. 1878)
- Alexander Woollcott (b. 1887)
- Robert Benchley (b. 1889)
- George S. Kaufman (b. 1889)
- Groucho Marx (b. 1890)
- Ruth Suckow (b. 1892)
- Frank Sullivan (b. 1892)
- Dorothy Parker (b. 1893)
- James Thurber (b. 1894)
- Robert Graves (b. 1895)
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (b. 1896)
- Vladimir Nabokov (b. 1899)
- Ludwig Bemelmans (b. 1898)
- E.B. White (b. 1899)
- Wolcott Gibbs (b. 1902)
- Ogden Nash (b. 1902)
- S.J. Perelman (b. 1904)
- Phyllis McGinley (b. 1905)
- W.H. Auden (b. 1907)
- H.F. Ellis (b. 1907)
- William Shawn (b. 1907)
- Leo Rosten, aka "Leonard Q. Ross" (b. 1908)
- Peter De Vries (b. 1910)
- Elizabeth Bishop (b. 1911)
- John Lardner (b. 1912)
- Philip Hamburger (b. 1914)
- Roger Angell (b. 1920)
- Howard Moss (b. 1922)
- L. Rust Hills (b. 1924)
- Donald Hall (b. 1928)
- Michael Arlen (b. 1930)
- Bruce Jay Friedman (b. 1930)
- Donald Barthelme (b. 1931)
- Mike Nichols (b. 1931)
- Thomas Meehan (b. 1932)
- John Updike (b. 1932)
- Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
- Woody Allen (b. 1935)
- Bruce McCall (b. 1935)
- Calvin Trillin (b. 1935)
- Roy Blount Jr. (b. 1941)
- Marshall Brickman (b. 1941)
- Veronica Geng (b. 1941)
- Daniel Menaker (b. 1941)
- Garrison Keillor (b. 1942)
- George W.S. Trow (b. 1943)
- Steve Martin (b. 1945)
- Charles McGrath (b. 1947)
- Chet Williamson (b. 1948)
- Martin Amis (b. 1949)
- Jack Handey (b. 1949)
- Mark Singer (b. 1950)
- Ian Frazier (b. 1951)
- Christopher Buckley (b. 1952)
- Bill Franzen (b. 1952)
- Polly Frost (b. 1952)
- Frank Gannon (b. 1952)
- Louis Menand (b. 1952)
- Cathleen Schine (b. 1953)
- Susan Orlean (b. 1955)
- David Owen (b. 1955)
- Nancy Franklin (b. 1956)
- Adam Gopnik (b. 1956)
- Lisa Walker (b. 1956)
- Paul Rudnick (b. 1957)
- Andy Borowitz (b. 1958)
- Larry Doyle (b. 1958)
- David Brooks (b. 1961)
- Scott Gutterman (b. 1961)
- Anthony Lane (b. 1962)
- Frank Cammuso (b. 1965)
- Noah Baumbach (b. 1969)
- Michael Gerber (b. 1969)
Movies Watched -- The Grandmaster
Made it five minutes in ... have no interest in kung fu movies, even ones made by Wong Kar Wai, maybe especially ones made by Wong Kar Wai... rain drops in slo-mo. The only good kung fu movie I ever saw was Kung Fu Hustle.
30 Day Challenge -- Day Six
(All 30 day challenge posts in reverse chronological order)
Inscrutable notes:
Slept in.
09:43 4K row
86.8 23.5
09:51 mush (fresh squeezed soy milk, blueberries, sunflower seeds, walnuts, almonds, cashews, apple, pear, banana)
10:05 1/4 daban bingpi mooncake (flavor I didn't like so only 1/4)
10:30 bottle chrsyth tea
11:19 bottle chrsyth tea
Played with baby in morning
12:17 beef noodles (made by Mommy, couldn't refuse), 175g steamed broccoli, black sesame chicken, bottle chrsyth tea
12:43 large handful dried cranberries
13:58 4K row (making up Friday's missed row)
13:59 seven Lulu dates
14:13 large slice watermelon
14:42 few pieces cantaloupe
14:55 BM
17:12 large handful of dried cranberries
17:20 bottle chrsyth tea
17:40 100g beef tenderloin, pickle, olives, 19 tater tots (bilingual T calls them "teeter totters"), bottle chrsyth tea
18:39 scooter in motion (to massage)
18:42 arrive massage ( 3 mins seems quick?)
18:44 three bottles chrsyth tea
Tried to watch "The Counselor" during foot massage but it was so terrible I gave up after 48 minutes ... should've quit sooner of course.
19:40 foot massage over
21:17 body massage finished (Masseur Wang explained at length that the US knew where Osama was all along, waited for best possible PR moment to execute him ... I enjoy the weekly lessons he gives)
$100 massage
21:18 scooter in motion
21:26 arrived home (8 minutes, this makes more sense, no idea how I made it there in three)
21:57 large handful wasabi almonds before bed.
Well, it wasn't a super bad weekend day like they usually are, stress-wise I mean. This is a dreaded three day weekend though so it's going to be tough to hold together before the weekday routine kicks back in on Tuesday and I can stay on track.
Movies Watched -- The Counselor
Actually I didn't watch this. I made it 48 minutes in before throwing in the towel. Man, was this terrible. Embarrassingly bad. Sheesh. How many Worst Movies of 2013 lists did this one make?
Dragonvale -- Daydream Dragon
Complained about it last time, which made it quickly appear: Hypnotic + Mirage.
Bonds on Friday
Here's my view of the bonds on Friday ... TBT is the UltraShort 20-year Treasury bond fund ... liquid enough to day trade.
30 Day Challenge -- Day Five
(All 30 day challenge posts in reverse chronological order)
Inscrutable notes:
Overslept, no row
07:15 87.2 24.5
07:22 mush (fresh squeezed soy milk, blueberries, sunflower seeds, walnuts, almonds, cashews, apple, pear, banana)
07:29 BM
07:37 scooter in motion
Rare blue sky day. (Another one, but trust me, they're rare.)
07:49 arrive FCD (fresh charge, caught Chang'an light)
08:00 arrive P3
08:04 arrive desk
Teekanne tea
57 cash in pocket
Listened to Robin Williams comedy channel (Pandora), play list here
Wife tries to sabotage me by wanting to have a nice lunch together, tentatively agreed.
10:49 E3 to scooter ... wife called to say Thomas accidentally hit in nose with bat at school, had to pick up insurance cards first in case we need to visit hospital
11:13 arrive FCD
Thomas is fine, false alarm, teachers / schools these days panic over little things and call parents (terrifying them) for any little thing. Normally this kind of stressful event would make me binge on something, but not now, not in week one. Only good thing about this is wife's lunch date cancelled and her sabotage attempt foiled.
11:40 P3
11:42 E3
11:44 at desk
11:52 E3 to gym
13:05 finished weights: back, chest, back, shoulders, chest, triceps, biceps, multiple benches 140
14:19 cardio finished (usual routine: 10 tmill, 15 bike, jump rope, stretch, 30 stepper) ... looking at Joan Rivers on tv, did she have her nose done by the same guy who did Michael Jackson? Terrible work, but it probably gets harder with age.
14:20 apple
steam and sauna (timed sand clock with Nokia 105, it is accurate at 15 minutes)
15:09 gym scale 82.5, consistently inconsistent, typical Friday result after disciplined first week
15:15 E3 to office
15:18 105 g beef tenderloin (melts like butter!), 175 g steamed veggies, one boiled egg, bottle chrysth tea
Apparently Monday is a holiday, I had no idea.
17:05 E3 going home
Junk I like but am avoiding: gummi bears, Dr Pepper, buttered popcorn, Cheetos, Doritos, Tostitos (I sense a trend), mac & cheese bright orange, ravioli out of the can bright orange, spaghetti and meatballs. The toxic orange color is very important. I believe my long-time addiction to Wise Onion Rings directly related to neon green bag they packaged them in years ago.
$242.90 Jenny Lou's cred
17:55 arrive home (doorstep)
Must pump up scooter tires because they feel mighty low and the battery is running out extra fast.
18:16 black olives, pickle, 300g salad with French and Thousand Island dressing, one boiled egg, 50g beef tenderloin, 175g steamed veggies, a few pork ribs, bowl of fruit salad, cup raspberry yoghurt, large handful flavored almonds (wasabi and habanero), bottle chrysth tea
19:11 one daban bingpi mooncake
Good day, a scare with T at school but he was fine and I didn't go into a sugar spiral as a result. No dreaded work but I was told Bossini may want to talk with me next week. Exercise felt good as the built-up poisons are excreted. But now, now comes the weekend, always an incredible trial where massive backsliding happens, though usually not as bad on first weekend ... it's those second and third weekends where everything falls apart.
25th Anniversary Miata
Mazda Unveils New Version of Miata as Two-Seater Turns 25
Looks pretty nice, good mid-life crisis car on the cheap?
30 Day Challenge -- Day Four
(All 30 day challenge posts in reverse chronological order)
Inscrutable notes:
Awake at 5 AM due to mosquito in bedroom
06:56 2K row (ran out of time)
87.6 25.0
07:03 mush (fresh squeezed soy milk, blueberries, sunflower seeds, walnuts, almonds, cashews, apple, pear, banana)
07:48 arrived FCD
Another rare blue sky day
07:59 arrive P3
$8.50 small McD coffee, drank half, will need boost given lack of sleep
08:08 BM (two pounder "2PP")
Teekanne tea
58 cash in pocket
Dreaded work Dalian Wanda Comm Prop IPO
11:05 E3 to gym
As I detox my B.O. is a combination of chicken soup, milk, and hairy balls.
11:11 apple
mild headache, either because I had to concentrate during morning discussions or a result of the detox
13:01 cardio finished, 25 min tmill, 15 min bike, jump rope and stretch, stepper extended to 45 min (300 cals) as I watched Horschel try to catch Kirk at DB tourney replay, what a choke with that second shot into the hazard.
13:02 apple
steam only, no sauna
gym scale 84.1
Towel boy upset since he discovered apple core I crammed in vase (one of my old pranks) much earlier than I anticipated. My name is mud down there until they forget about it (Chinese never forget about it).
13:38 E3 back to office
13:41 90g beef tenderloin, 175 g steamed veggies, one boiled egg, bottle chrysth tea
Dreaded work finally finished, discussion about Dalian Wanda Comm Prop IPO over, lots of chicklets of doublemint chewed to keep stress at bay. Now I can get back to my real job which is dicking around online.
17:37 handful habanero almonds, 300 g massive salad with thousand island dressing, pickle, 90g beef tenderloin, 175g steamed veggies, cup of raspberry yoghurt, handful of tater tots with catsup, watermelon and cantaloupe
19:38 walk around block with wife and daughter
20:01 back from walk
20:32 3/4 of one daban bingpi mooncake
Tried to watch the Prisoners (too long and didn't grab me, looked bad) and Let The Fire Burn (documentary, looked depressing, stopped it) ... listened to Robin Williams comedy radio instead (Pandora), enjoyed John Pinette and some guy named Tosh?
Large handful of wasabi almonds before bed.
Solid fourth day of discipline ... no smokes or booze, this is key. Or Cheetos. Weekends always difficult because of lack of structure and stress of family time, so pay close attention to notes on those days, fast approaching.