Category: random

I had no idea Gary Cooper was so hot in his early career. I always think of him in the High Noon era, which is rugged and capable but not really anything to write home about.

But look at him 20 years earlier! Hellloooo, Coop!

You’re burning my eyes, Gary.

I hope this has improved your Monday.

The first: Saturday night Mr. Isbell and I saw Inglourious Basterds at Brewvies, and a lot of the time I couldn’t help but think, “Illinois Nazis. I hate Illinois Nazis.”

The second: While I never had to be a juror last week, that trip to Florida I was worried about is happening tonight and tomorrow. So I’m hitting the road and Toby is currently sitting next to my overnight bag, looking worried.

I found this in my online reading yesterday: A site with the premise, “If we started a movie on the day you were born, and stretched it over your lifespan, this is where you’d be in that movie.”

You enter your birthday, how long you expect to live, and pick a movie (Ghostbusters, 2001, Star Wars, etc.), then the results tell you where you are in that movie, if that movie were your life.

Apparently, I’m in that long fantastic scene in 2001 where Dave is jogging in the round part of the spaceship. I don’t know how that helps me with my Wednesday at all, but such is the internet.

The internet has produced yet another neat thing to look at–thank you, internet! This is an interactive map of all the known library cats in the world. The main page gives you the summary, and then you can click on the state of the country for more particulars. For example, a library in Huntsville up north had a cat named Dewey ten years ago.

Now the internet needs to come up with a map of all the bookstore cats in the world.

(Actually, I have more portfolio stuff to do, and I’m going to get awesome cover letters written for The Summit Group, Crowell, and Love Communications. I don’t suppose anyone reading this has an in at any of those places? No? GOSH.)