Walk without rhythm it won't attract the worm

Random thoughts:

• The Russian week begins on Monday instead of Sunday.  Despite being the cultural colonialist I am, I have to think they got this one right.  Sunday night always feels like the end of the week, trying to enjoy the last few golden hours before the tedium begins again.

• Having a fairly rare name, it's always a bit strange when I met another Dustin.  Is it the same for people with more common names?  For instance, is it weird for a guy named John to meet another guy named John?  Or, if you're reading this in Australia, is it weird for a guy named Bruce to meet another guy named Bruce?  I have no way of knowing if this feeling is shared by everybody or only those with uncommon names.  Perhaps my friend and sometime reader with a relatively more common name could share his views.

• Certain parties have made observations to Captain Zissou as to his prodigious use of linkage on the site.  Faithful readers of the Life Despotic know how we respond to such implied criticisms.

• I had a class with another Dusty last quarter, though his real name is Justin.  It was a small class, and he sent out an email to the eight or so of us asking about something class-related.  I "replied all" first and jokingly signed my name "The Other Dusty."  Everyone that replied to the email after that proceeded to refer to me as "Other Dusty," including my professor.  Bastards.

• I've found that sometimes I fail to make connections between things I encountered as a child and things I've encountered since.  EXAMPLE: I didn't realize that Dustin(!) Hoffman played the eponymous Hook in that classic film until about two years ago.  CHILLING EXAMPLE: About that same time I realized that George Carlin was the conductor on Thomas the Tank Engine.

• The food fight scene from Hook is one of the best movie scenes of all time.  To this day, the imagined food makes my mouth water, despite the fact that everything seems to be made of some kind of neon paste.  HIGHLIGHT: Old Fart Peter (he hasn't become the Pan yet) diagnoses Rufio as having "a severe 'kaka' mouth."  Rufio responds by calling him a maggot burger.

• How I choose to believe the "Weapon of Choice" planning session went down:

          "Okay, so we want to make the greatest music video of all time for a 

          reclusive artist who doesn't actually sing on his own tracks and never 

          appears in his own videos.  What are our resources?"

          "Well, we've got four hours, an empty hotel, and Chris Walken."

          "Bingo."

Badass.

From the virtual desk of Ivan Zissou

dictated but not read

cth