If you want good Val Kilmer, check out Thunderheart, which gets unfortunately overlooked.

I'm finally emerging from my post-yoga coma. It's good for me, but it really knocks me out for a while....

I was all motivated (to not do much, but still!) and then my brother called just before I hopped in the shower, and we talked for over an hour while he waited in the Atlanta airport. I think the couch ate my motivation. BUT. He was on his way back from his first ever cancer(?that was what his poster was on) conference in Boston and the boy was giddy! Describing all the characters he met (for some reason a lot of Danes and Dutch and a doctor named Heineken,) the beer, the food, the awesome lectures, how a lot of what he learned is going to revamp a talk he has later this week, the crazy researcher fights (like math fights! but over cells and cancers and whatnot,) and the crazy turkish doctor who latched on to my brother for some reason and kept offering him a postdoc (brother is without degree yet.) My brother attracts...characters. Actually, I think he sort of unintentionally seeks them out because he's a risktaker by nature and that extends to people.

It was cool. It's always nice to see someone totally enthusiastic. He always comments on how stupid he feels when he hangs out with researchers, and the thing is...he isn't. They are talking to him. He's asking intelligent questions. He wouldn't be there if he didn't deserve to be. Luckily, those comments are getting fewer, and the talk of how much he managed to cram into his head getting more.

Now I really ought to go to target.

where in Boston was the conference?

If you want good Val Kilmer, check out Thunderheart, which gets unfortunately overlooked.

So, so good! Plus, Graham Greene.

He was a little vague on those details, since they really didn't get out much due to the schedule, as is often the case at these things. He thinks it was near a Calloway(?) Square. (read: he had no idea. He probably barely knew he was in Boston.)

I liked it. And I always like GG, although his best role has got to be Leonard the shaman on NE.

And I always like GG, although his best role has got to be Leonard the shaman on NE.

Yes. Absolutely. But then, I'd be willing to say that with almost any of NE's cast.

heh, now I'm trying to figure out what Calloway Square could be... a maligning of a square I'd know or one of those tiny memorial squares that are all over town.

I only ask because where I work deals with scientific conferences (I'm actually in Cambridge, where Harvard and MIT are).

Yeah, it mystified my parents too, and dad was at Harvard for a couple years. Basically, I think it was a cancer conference, perhaps sponsored by a pharma.

I've liked Val Kilmer since I saw him on some talk show and he was a complete goofball. The only part I remember now is that he claimed that Jack Black was ripping him off. Oh, and that it made me think that I'd like to watch Kilmer and Boreanaz have a conversation, if that gives you any idea.

(And now that I've read that article: Kilmer & Boreanaz could have a long talk about socks!)