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February 11, 2002
cats and dogs
Oh yeah...kiri's first Web page. My first one had blinking stars in the background, and had something to do with "Welcome to Jimbo's Space". It is mercifully gone from any browser caches or servers of note. But here's a peek at my first spoof of USA Today...albeit a broken page. Oh yeah, and some old geek pages that I made too. Aww-yeah, back in da day, 1998 y'all!
We went to see Brotherhood of the Wolf this weekend, and it was everything I had hoped it would be. In a nutshell, it was over-the-top French Wuxia, set in a pre-revolutionary French province plagued by the predations of a mysterious beast. A hunky naturalist and his Iroquois blood brother are sent to investigate. It was a fairly complex plot involving a struggle between Rome and the King of France, which made it interesting. What I loved is the plot points that made it so very Wuxia: outrageous martial arts, unlikely weaponry (a bone longsword made of vertebrae that extend into chain links), Chicks That Kick Ass (papal intelligence asassin/prostitute with bladed fan), scary villans (and the beast!) and even a good guy that dies and comes back to life to avenge his brother! A very jimbo film.
I got much of my life in order this weekend. For the next two weeks I'll be staying at Rai's at DC's Queer Ground Zero, ever wary of the parking pitfalls. Then I'll move in with a former coworker near the 930 Club. I got lots of storage there, with secure parking and a sunny room. Rick and I get along pretty well.
As I fell asleep last night I was thinking about travel...the thoughts must have been spurred by Rai's packing earlier that evening. I remember driving through a remote part of Arizona in 1995 with my little red Ford Festiva. A half hour had passed since the last rest stop, so naturally I had to go to the bathroom again. I had chosen to stay off the Interstate system so I could experience the states I was driving through, rather than just passing them by. The road I pulled off of had a few trees for me to hide behind and do my thing. But lo, behind the thickets was a hexagonal structure of some sort, three of its walls arched entries. I went inside to investigate, and found it was a small temple of some sort, with an open roof. Small shrines to various feminine demigods and deities were scattered around. My guess was that it was some sort of ecofeminist spiritual outpost. The only one I could recognize was that of Bast, the Egyptian Cat goddess. I didn't want to leave what I had immediately to offer with Bast, so I went back to my car and grabbed some stones that I had found while driving through Death Valley, and left it at her feet. Hopefully I have some leftover Bast karma to grant me time to chill out and bask in the sun, even though I was born in the year of the Dog.
Posted by jimbo at February 11, 2002 10:21 AM
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Posted by: justine at November 20, 2002 2:32 PM