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First Trailer

First Summer Movie I am ready to wait in line for.

“It’s a great, safe environment here at Pixar. People think we come around and think of these genius ideas or everything we spin is gold and if you spent most of the four years [making a movie] with us, you’d see at least three years of just awful choices and awful executions of things and we’re no better than anybody else. But what we’re really good at is fixing our mistakes…”

- Andrew Stanton on KCRW’s The Treatment

“The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death! What’s that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you’re too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty years until you’re young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs, alcohol, you party, you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last nine months floating …and you finish off as an orgasm.”

I don’t remember the last time I was this interesting in an NBA Finals.

So much much better for me when its two teams built on franchise players than two well-balanced teams.

Celtics in Seven.

I wish I believed it.

Had lunch with some old friends today who are back in Madison for Thanksgiving. Specifically I had the “Thanksgiving Special” slice at the always fabulous Ian’s Pizza.

Layer of crust.
Layer of turkey gravy.
Layer of mashed potatoes.
Layer of roasted turkey and dressing.

Delicious.

Tonite, Danna and I attempt to tackle our first pumpkin pie, pumpkin cheesecake, and brown-sugar bourbon cream.

Wish us luck. We will document it for posterity.

We have had a fair amount of inquiry into why Gehry is not G-A-R-Y so I thought we would clarify that our daring little fireball is named after Frank Gehry, one of my favorite architects and designers.

The Minnesota and Illinois sections of our audience are probably a little more familiar with the name since he designed Minneapolis’ Weismann Art Museum and Chicago’s BP Bridge in Millenium Park

For further investigation, I would recommend the quick wiki rundown or a rental of the wonderful Sketches of Frank Gehry.

The goal of the contest is childishly simple: entrants are challenged to submit bad opening sentences to imaginary novels.

Always a favorite of mine.

Looks like a Madisonian stepped up and won this year…

Driving home from lunch today the sun caught my hair in the rear-view mirror just right and I realized I am probably pushing multiple percentage points on the grey follicles now.