1. Watched A Love Song for Bobby Long<\/i> last week. Decent film. More character-driven than your standard American fare, which was nice, and the visual details conveyed place and mood very well. John Travolta wasn’t entirely convincing as a down-and-out Auburn professor, although a lot of that might have had to do with the fact that it’s easier to see him as John Travolta<\/i> than anything else. The supporting characters and subplots were the main draw of the movie for me.<\/p>\n
2. Looked at five more houses this weekend. Blew through them all in about an hour and a half (they were in the same general area in Winston). We joked with the realtor that it was definitely a “guys” house-shopping trip (i.e. get a decent feel for the place and move on). Heh. Saw one that we really, really liked. Pictures tomorrow hopefully.<\/p>\n
3. The Spurs are up 2-0 on the Pistons after mopping the floor with them tonight. This is awesome.<\/p>\n
4. Here is one of my favorite quotes from Carson McCullers’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter<\/i>, a novel which served as inspiration for the movie above. It effectively communicates the jist of the book:<\/p>\n The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n 5. This is my 1,000th post!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1. Watched A Love Song for Bobby Long last week. Decent film. More character-driven than your standard American fare, which was nice, and the visual details conveyed place and mood very well. John Travolta wasn’t entirely convincing as a down-and-out Auburn professor, although a lot of that might have had to do with the fact […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}