Last night Jason and I watched <em>Napoleon Dynamite.</em> The whole way through the movie, I was mildly uncomfortable because of the sheer recognition of every prop, costume, and hairstyle (remember those fishbone braids?), and because the actors were acting not unlike myself at that time (although the actual date is a little squidgy, if music is any indicator). The style of language was dead on. It's not as exaggerated as a valley girl accent, but it was definitely different than how I think I speak today.
The big epiphany was that this movie was entertaining and incredibly realistic, without using sex or profanity. There was a little violence- Kip volunteered at a Rex-quan-do class and was biffed in the head a few times. Kip and Napoleon slap back and forth in the beginning of the movie, but just like my sister and I did. It was all within the realm of the reasonable, and it wasn't used for sensational value.
So that's that.
Today I discovered (via a Guardian article, via the Stitch 'N Bitch offline yahoo group) a website that has a sweater generator. It's a sad discovery, for I had set for myself the goal of creating a sweater generator website. I'm cheered, however, because the site creates <a href=http://www.thedietdiary.com/cgi-bin/chart_dog.pl>sweaters for PETS</a>. Yes, your favorite animal can now have a sweater created just for it's own tubby self.
[...] Huh. I’m a little confused by my cloud. I have a blog post that reviewed Napoleon Dynamite, and I described the sweet early-90’s fishbone braid one of the characters rocked. Why that particular term has been snatched by the robots, I don’t know. [...]