January 16, 2004

“Bush's new initiative to promote marriage on Mars” is a good phrase.

Marriage, Mars. I guess we’ve reached Week M.

And what’s with black and white M&M’s? I’m willing to eat them but not willing to spend time understanding their latest color-based gimmick. I still miss the ochre-colored ones.

I’m a candy traditionalist.

“House of Sand and Fog” introduces a character by having him take a bite out of a Snickers bar and then subtract its cost in his account book. That movie may be the melodrama equivalent of “The Odd Couple”: One keeps account of a candy bar, the other never opens the mail. Both are trying to live in the same place. Hijinks/tragedy ensues.

5 comments:

rcommal said...

This is so long ago that there's no surprise that the link's broken to that which would explain the "candy traditionalist" reference.

What candy were you referring to?

rcommal said...

Also, I love the connection of "House of Sand and Fog" to "The Odd Couple.

Then, there's this:

One keeps account of a candy bar, the other never opens the mail. Both are trying to live in the same place. Hijinks/tragedy ensues.

Yep. Despite that, as we all know**, the worst possible thing in the world is to be ...

neither one nor the other.

Just ask the candy-bar accountant and the correspondence refusenik. They'll tell you; both will.

Icepick said...
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Icepick said...

Courtesy of The Wayback Machine, the broken link probably Displayed stuff like this.

Icepick said...

So no pictures, but we now have some idea of what the Professor Althouse of January 16th 2004 was interested in eating. I consider this a moderately important archeological find.