The DH and I are doing our 14th annual Xmas Movie Day. This year it looks like it will be Pan's Labryinth, Dreamgirls and Happy Feet and dinner at Jerry's Deli as we usually do.

Moves I Have Seen in Theaters On Christmas Day:

Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (with parents - it was fun)
Brazil (very bleak for Christmas. So by myself)
Children of Paradise (excellent counter programming)
Babe the Good Pig (with EM. We wore our pajamas to the rep theater on Haight Street. Much fun and a good movie for Christmas).

After she left HER boss's assistant came to tell all of us secretaries she would like us to do as much work as possible, but that we could leave at three (although it didn't sound like she was at all enthuisiastic about us leaving).

That fucking bites. Your boss leaves at noon, you should go now. Do not stay until 3, Sophia. It's a moral imperative that you don't let them fuck you over like that. Leave at 2. That's good enough. Fuck 'em.

Does the Dean's e-mail override everyone else? As in, is he the boss of your boss's boss? Because *he* said leave at noon. And I concur.

Are there a lot of blank pages? Decapitated heads lose consciousness after about 10-15 seconds.

I don't know what his justification is. But each piece is about two pages long.

Did anybody see Helen Mirren in Elizabeth I on HBO? Man, the beheading of Mary Queen of Scots was gruesome. Two whacks in closeup! Plus they went to pick up her head by the hair and her wig came off and her head went bouncing around all comic and undignified. The scenes of Catholics getting tortured were even worse.

Cranking "Blue Jean" on my iPod has just improved my cranky by leaps and bounds.

Does the Dean's e-mail override everyone else? As in, is he the boss of your boss's boss? Because *he* said leave at noon. And I concur.

Yes, theoretically the dean trumps boss's boss (associate dean). But not so much in practice.

Cranking "Blue Jean" on my iPod has just improved my cranky by leaps and bounds.

Best self-indulgent-long-form-music-video EVAR.

::snaps fingers::

Best self-indulgent-long-form-music-video EVAR.

::snaps fingers::

Heh. It's on the Best of Bowie video collection (2 discs!). I recommend it.

Best self-indulgent-long-form-music-video EVAR.

Is that available somewhere? I think I've only seen it once, when it came out.

eta: ... and the Hec x-posty answer!

Is that available somewhere? I think I've only seen it once, when it came out.

::points at post hanging over Tommy's head::

It's probably on YouTube also.

Hmmm... I should buy that Bowie video set. I've only seen the video for "Ashes to Ashes" once too.

Does it have any of his really old stuff? Like "The Laughing Gnome" or that mime thing?