Date report

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Went out on a date tonight. Saw Hero at the Park­way, which was OK, and then to cof­fee on Pied­mont in Oaktown.

We had some pleas­ant con­ver­sa­tion, and none of it was exact­ly forced, but it was all real­ly basic “oh, so what’s your job like?” stuff. I recall think­ing that she’s real nice and all, but that we did­n’t seem to have any­thing in common.

Oh well. Gath­er­ing infor­ma­tion and all, right? I got to go to a movie with a nice girl with whom I have lit­tle in com­mon, and that’s a good thing.

Dur­ing the trail­er for Sky Cap­tain, she leaned over to me and said, “I met Jude Law…” and I began to pre­pare myself to feign inter­est. “.…this year at ComiCon.”

“There is a prin­ci­ple which is a bar against all infor­ma­tion, which is proof against all argu­ments and which can­not fail to keep a man in ever­last­ing igno­rance — that prin­ci­ple is con­tempt pri­or to investigation.”
–Her­bert Spencer

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6 Replies to “Date report”

  1. Where’d you go for cof­fee –
    Where’d you go for cof­fee — Gay­lords, Peets’ or {gasp} Starbucks?

    Gay­lords makes me feel old. When I got here on a week­day and some­one’s went to all the trou­ble of look­ing just like Bri­an Set­zer just to go out and get a cup­pa, being old, over­weight and wear­ing a jeans and t‑shirt just seems so much easier!

    1. Gay­lords is the only place
      Gay­lords is the only place open past 9pm on a Wednesday.

      And it was packed, so we sat out­side for about two min­utes before one of the employ­ees asked us to get up so they could stack the chairs and move the tables inside. So we end­ed up just walk­ing up and down Pied­mont a little.

  3. I know I should be
    I know I should be com­ment­ing on the inner fan­girl sur­prise of your date, which I do think is a great anec­dote about the date.

    But I’m also curi­ous to know what you thought of “Hero?” Per­son­al­ly I enjoyed it very much, but it seems to dying a slow death at the box office here in America.

    1. I liked it, and it was fun
      I liked it, and it was fun to watch, but I don’t think the sto­ry lived up to Crouch­ing Tiger’s. Visu­al­ly it was far beyond, but it was so heavy-hand­ed and the char­ac­ters real­ly weren’t devel­oped enough to care about them. I liked the Rashomon-style sto­ry from all the dif­fer­ent per­spec­tives, espe­cial­ly telling the sto­ry through the­o­riza­tion, but it just did­n’t come off as a strong sto­ry; I did­n’t care about the char­ac­ters at the end.

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