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Sunday, July 26, 2009

Update

5:08:47 of Assassination Vacation. Holy shit, Charles Guiteau was completely fucking insane.

It's better to hear it read in Brad Bird's crazed monotone. Brad Bird, Wikipedia tells me, is a director of computer-animated movies such as Ratatouille, a film that is weirdly quite close to my heart.

Update

Update:

4:42:53 into Assassination Vacation. The death of President James Garfield, the Republican from Ohio whose first term was cut down to a meager 199 days by a bullet from a man named Charles Guiteau, arguably creator of the first Garfield Minus Garfield. Incidentally, Garfield's voice has an odd and unmistakable hint of New Jersey Jew to it.

Going on a bike ride tonight with a disreputable gentleman (though he refers to himself as a libidinous profligate). Til then, I'm eating Rainier cherries and doing laundry. And finally stretching that goddamn canvas.