(From what I remember, you had an unusual insulin.)

Oh, yes, the more expensive one I was looking at was actually the PZI Vet (which he used to be on) and that site was marketing his kind for dogs. He's on pork insulin which is about $30 a bottle. mmm bacony!

Sure, Ginger. I may even be able to scare you up an actual bumper sticker if you want.

Late for the city impressions discussion yesterday:

New York--His Girl Friday, Mame, Johnny Dangerously, Starsky & Hutch(series)
Paris--Amélie, Paris je t'aime
London--Georgie Girl, Metroland, Trainspotting
Los Angeles--Sunset Boulevard, The Maltese Falcon, L.A. Confidential, Cast a Deadly Spell
Tokyo--Godzilla, Rising Sun
Rome--Roman Holiday
Berlin-Cabaret

Sure, Ginger. I may even be able to scare you up an actual bumper sticker if you want.

Hmmm.... I'm sensing some anti-America behavior here. I wish the American media would take a great look at the views of the people in this thread and find out are they pro-America or anti-America.

Both candidates' organizations have decided that Georgia isn't American enough to court.

Maybe they've been to DragonCon.

Great Chicago-set films:

Ferris Beuller
the Hughes films
Blink
The Fugitive (probably my favorite Chicago film because it spends time in the various neighborhoods as well as the touristy spots)
Blues Brothers (the first time the city fully cooperated with a film crew)
Running Scared (best car chase ever on the El tracks, as well as the great finale in the atrium of the State of Illinois building designed by Helmut Jahn)

And I have great hopes that the upcoming film version of The Time Traveler's Wife will also showcase the city.

Blues Brothers

There is a big billboard I see on my way to work advertising for a country radio station that says "We play both kinds." It turns out that my wife was totally mystified by it until I explained. She needs to see more of these culturally important movies.

Mame

Oh, Mame!! Was there ever anyone better in that role than Rosalind Russell?

Wait, what was the original question? Wasn't Rising Sun set in Los Angeles? Or am I thinking of another movie? Probably so. Maybe I should IMDB so as not to make an idiot out of myself if it turns out to be that movie about the last emperor or something. Wait, that was China, wasn't it? And it was called The Last Emperor.

Haha, no! My brain scores again! O brain, why couldn't you store USEFUL information in there? Mind you, I did walk into the last ten words of a conversation in my first class and not only correctly identified, but actually corrected them on the plot of, a movie. I guess impressing my students is a little useful.

Wow. Babbly and rambly, definition of. Is the cure more coffee, or less?

I think the thing about the Hughes films is for me, they really illustrated what I thought of as a "normal American" backdrop in a lot of ways.

Totally. As a grownup, I'm still kind of surprised when I see the actual suburbs that look like that.

I am home, have the day off, and have had one meeting and checked my email. I think that's all I'm going to do, though.