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stepped-on name brand
Sunday, April 13 2008
Again today I dedicated myself mostly to the watching of teevee, with the largest chunk of my in-front-of-the-tube time dedicated to watching The Big Lebowski, which I had never seen before (though everyone had said I would love it). But I did not love it. I enjoyed parts of it, but its mostly-slapstick goofiness seemed dated and a wee-bit stale to me, which makes some sense given that the movie is already ten years old. I suspect I've been spoiled by more recent movies that keep the humor coming at a more relentless and more finely-nuanced pitch, movies like the 40 Year Old Virgin, for example. I think the Coen brothers have lost their shared crown to Judd Apatow.
Gretchen returned from New Hampshire this evening, having gone shopping somewhere along the way at a ghetto supermarket called Odd Job. She'd bought a can of grape leaves supposedly from Turkey that had disappointed her, and now she wondered if the other purchases she'd made had also been mistakes. Odd Job specializes mostly in obscure-brand food items and stepped-on name brand items.
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