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all for appearances
Saturday, July 24 1999
Mars is essentially in the same orbit... somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We
have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen.
If oxygen, that means we can breathe."
-- former Vice President and current GOP presidential contender Dan Quayle (who would also bring Creation back to High School Biology Programs)
Let's see, despite the fact that it was Thursday and despite everything I've written about my jaded feelings of workplace exploitation, I was a dutiful ant and went to work. I only stayed for about six hours and didn't accomplish that much, but the important thing was my appearance there. In my workplace, you see, despite all that is said, appearances are everything. Productivity is nice too, as long as it's accompanied by the correct appearances.
At the same time, I'm making a point of not (like the senior web developer) being a hero this time around. I want people to make the observation that I'm working hard but I'm not working as hard as I could be working. I can't have my bosses seeing me as sucker who's eager to be shamelessly exploited.
In the evening, Kim and I went over to Steph and EJ's place to hang out with them and a couple of their Plymouth, Massachusetts male friends. We were smoking lots of pot when Steph put on a movie, Dead Alive, by New Zealand film maker Peter Jackson, about whom Steph said, "Peter Jackson has never made a bad film." I'd seen and thoroughly enjoyed Bad Taste, which at the time I'd called "my favourite movie of all time." Dead Alive had most of the same good things I remember from Bad Taste, but at a decidedly higher budget. The relentless death, re-death, dismemberment and overall grossness is there, along with the many things that elevates a Peter Jackson flick above your run of the mill splatspoitation thriller. For example, unlike in most horror films, Dead Alive features hysterically funny non-filler dialogue loaded with character development, social commentary and psychological insight. It was a great movie, as zombie movies go, but I still think the plot of Bad Taste was more intriguing and original.
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