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Another fantabulous Boston spring day out there, and I finally hoisted my beer-belly laden carcass onto my bike to commute like I used to: in pain. I have two matching bruises where my body contacts the saddle, that I would never notice except they make it impossible to sit on the bike properly. Bike shorts, a gel seat, and maybe a nice soft set of Depends for the next ride.

Nonetheless, bicycling remains the best way to move around the city. On a nice day like today I like to keep aware for urban nature in a way that's simply impossible in the cocoon/cage of a car. I took some shots of flowering trees and whatnot, but the best is just feeling the air all around me. Now that the air doesn't feel like a snowcone pressed against my neck.

Jim was neutered last night and seems none the worse for wear. He looks kind of sleepy but not injured or traumatized. I'm against a lot of dog-related legislation, but I wholeheartedly support mandatory spay/neuter for all pets. Well, it would have been be difficult to do for my Madagascar hissing cockroaches.

I'm looking forward to a planned Soylent Screen column. I'm going to compare and contrast Cronenberg's The Fly--NO I'VE NEVER SEEN IT--with a documentary called 'Housefly--An Everyday Monster.' Depending on when they both arrive (not from Netflix for reasons I'll explain in a minute) I'll write it this time or in the next fortnight.

Currently our Netflixes at home are 'Elling' a foreign movie about a friendship between two mentally challenged adults, and 'After the Thin Man' the second and supposedly best of the Thin Man series where Myrna Loy and William Powell play a witty and alcohol-obsessed married couple that solve mysteries between drinks. Both movies will require some mood-getting-into as well as the time, so I'm expecting we'll have these until June.

We just finished (well, I did, Alexis fell asleep during the last 5 minutes) a documentary called, and about HELVETICA. Yes, the typeface. It's actually a great documentary; if I taught a documentary filmmaking course, I'd definitely use it as an example. And yet I feel like I have to rate it three stars, not four, because if I rate it four Netflix will dig up a documentary about Times New Roman or something.
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