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Current music:	"My Interpretation"; Mika.
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And on the day the words 'flimsy excuse' were redefined, we stood in awe and watched.
I am so tired. I think I can rule out the possibility of taking a midday nap for the forseeable future, though.

You guys, there is a Nanday conure in my bathroom. What do I do?


If you picked "Scratch her head until the end of time," you are correct! Everyone, this is Matcha: Matcha, everyone. She's not staying, but she needed to get sprung from the shelter and ltdead was kind enough to drive her here. She's an awfully nice little bird, considering. Needs some work on manners, but I'd bet money (if I had any) that it's a lack of socialization, not a lack of inclination to socialize. selasphorus deduced that her leg band identifies her as a Petsmart baby, which would explain a hell of a lot.

RANDOM CONVERSATION OF RANDOM:

"Kyn, I'm in the mood for a movie, and I need you to pick one out."
"Okay," I replied, with enthusiasm: I'm good at picking out movies. "What kind?"
"Something surprising," eclipsegryph said. "Not suprising in itself, like 'wow, I thought this movie would suck, but it's actually really good*', but which contains a surprise with the plot or characters. Not random, though, nothing really surreal."
"You want a movie with a plot twist?"
"Maaaaybe," he allowed, "but it has to be good. Not 'the butler did it' or 'and then it turns out they were twins' or 'he was dead all along'" -- I quietly wrote down No M. Night Shyamalan -- "but something you don't see coming. Except that it was there the whole time. You know what I mean?"
"Okay, so I've got: surprising but not in a surreal way, twisty but not in an ass-pull way, totally unexpected but also brilliantly set up, and good." I wrote all this down dutifully. "Give me a bit. I'll find something."

A little while later: "Eclipse, was it you or selasphorus who said they had never seen Donnie Darko?"
"It was selasphorus."
"Dammit!"

And later: "Have you seen Brazil?"
"I think so. Was that the one with John Goodman?"
I added Has not seen Brazil to my notes and shifted it to the "Possible" column, even although it was probably a violation of the no surrealism clause. Then a thought struck me, like a fumbled Wii remote inevitably strikes the television screen: "What about The Usual Suspects?" I asked, handing him my VHS copy to scrutinize.
"I think I've heard of this," he said. "It turns out Kevin Spacey is Kaiser Sose, doesn't it?"
"But have you seen it?" I repeated.
"Well, no... but it won't surprise me if I already know how it ends, right?"
I suppressed a laugh that would probably have come out, if not Evil, certainly well beyond Chaotic Neutral. "Believe me, you'll still never see it coming," and I popped the tape into the player.

It's a terrible burden, being right all the time.




* You gotta be specific. Between the two of us, we've seen a lot of movies like this.