Action Moves

Everybody in America and on Earth likes cool Action Moves in the movies and on the tv. Action Moves are when a dude might jump from a pile of boxes onto a truck carrying poison in order to kick that poison peddler in the face, or maybe a girl does a spin-o-rama kick while shooting guns akimbo at a bunch of cybernetic werewolves who want to steal our children. Typically you only see Action Moves in fake things like films and shows, but once I was in a parking lot and this car was pulling out of a space, and I guess the driver forgot her Big Gulp was on the roof. It started to fall off the car but she reached out the window and caught it mid tumble, right side up. That's probably as close to a cool Action Move I'll get in real life, but whatevs, you live and learn, am I right Ladies?

RATING: 92%

Pomegranates

I usually buy a pomegranate in the fall, then I dry it out over the winter on a little altar and ritually burn it in the spring along with stuff I don't want anymore--old journals, used up tarot decks, sad letters, sacrificed tobacco that's all dried out, etc. I bought one the other day thinking I would do the same as usual, but after reading Chris' post I decided to eat it instead.

Eating a pomegranate is sort of like smoking a cigar--there's no half-assing it, and you'll almost certainly get sick of it before you're done. The seeds look cool, like little rubies (or maybe big rubies, since I'd be happy if I had a real ruby that size), but the hard parts get stuck in your teeth and can ball up in your mouth into a big, bitter, um, ball. It tastes pretty good, but the rind tastes like shit and dries your mouth out, and it gets all over your hands, then onto the seeds and onto your tongue. While eating the second half, I just took all the seeds off the rind at once and put them into a bowl. That worked better, although I still got pomegranate juice all over my hoodie. I'll cut some arm holes in a garbage bag next time.

RATING: 78%

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The Nasher Sculpture Center

The Nasher Sculpture Center is right across the street from the Dallas Museum of Art in downtown Dallas. Admission was $10 per person, but it's free on the first Saturday of the month. It was worth the trip just for James Turrell's Tending (Blue), the only site-specific piece at the Nasher and one of the most refreshing things I've seen in a long time. There was also a nice Rodin in the outdoor garden, and an interesting piece by Antony Gormley called Quantum Cloud XX. I didn't really care for much of the other stuff: there were a few tumorous Henry Moores, some Picassos (overrated, if you ask me) and some truly nasty De Koonings. I like modern art and even some modern sculpture, but I'm not a big fan of ugly sculpture.

RATING: 100%--Multiple Rodins and a Turrell installation for $10 is about as much fun as you can have with your clothes on.

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Grad School

Grad school is a place where pretentious, socially awkward people say "research" when they mean "reading" and pretend that "academic" is a compliment. It's an OK place to spend a couple of years if you have $20,000 and you like watching young nerds fawn over old nerds like they're movie stars.

RATING: Poindexter%

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yoga

Okay so maybe becoming one of "those yoga people" (alt. "yoga cheerleader") has made me slightly annoying to people who hate themselves for not dragging their fat tired asses to the gym more often, but you know what? I have rock hard flat abs, I'm super flexible (good for the sex), and I can do like 30 pushups in a row (as opposed to the six or so I was workin before). And you see that little number on the left there? Yeah I can do that and then kick back into a push up. So yoga is awesome and fat haters can kiss my nicely toned butt.

Rating: 95%