{"id":573880299,"date":"2010-08-22T19:18:51","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T00:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573880299"},"modified":"2010-08-22T19:50:35","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T00:50:35","slug":"when-i-think-school-i-think-juno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2010\/08\/22\/when-i-think-school-i-think-juno\/","title":{"rendered":"When I think school, I think Juno"},"content":{"rendered":"

I woke up, I turned on the television, and there was Julius Caesar, the 1970 version, starring Charlton Heston, Jason Robards, Sir John Gielgud\u00a0 and others. I wrote about it on Twitter<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Watching Julius Caesar, starring prototypical Roman, Charlton Heston. Great American cast reading English dialect about Italians. #globalism<\/a><\/p>\n

Heston played Marc Antony three times. Unlike Caesar he accepted it thrice. People made Planet of the Apes jokes the second and third time.<\/p>\n

Twitter News Alert: They just stabbed Caesar. In a related story, the music is odd percussion, reminding audiences of Planet of the Apes.<\/p>\n

Marc Antony gives a stirring, populist speech for Caesar and the people riot. He then drinks from a wooden bowl that breaks like glass.<\/p>\n

Robards and Johnson just tear up the big Brutus\/Cassius scene. It is exhausting to even watch it. “Fret till your proud heart break!”<\/p>\n

Cassius’ death scene was so bad that when Brutus arrived he looked around, as if were expecting to be Punk’d.<\/p>\n

Exeunt Robards nee Brutus. Heston comes on to say “We finally really did it. You Maniacs! You blew it up!” Credits!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This film isn’t well received at IMDB, I suspect because of the understated power and hammy acting of Charlton Heston. There are times when he feels like he’s performing on a stage for a great audience, waaaay in the back of the house, but forgetting the camera is right there. It is, though, a terrific movie for a day when it is too hot to move.<\/p>\n

In the late evening we went for a bike ride. The bike I was riding is, well, messed up. It won’t go above fifth gear. Half the time it won’t go below it. But I can pedal in fifth! So I can coast or ride that one speed, or try to force the chain. Doing that means an awfully big downstroke which creates the other problem: the seat won’t stay up. Every hill or so I have to stop and reset the height, pressing the little clamp down as hard and as far as I can, hoping it will hold.<\/p>\n

And it does, for a while. And then, seemingly at random, the clamp gives way, the seat slides down into the tube on the frame and whatever symmetry I had is replaced by something more or less perpendicular to the road, with my splaying feet and knees feeling like they are inches from the ground.<\/p>\n

So I only did about five miles like that. The Yankee came in too, it was getting a little dim. Guess we’d started too late.<\/p>\n

That’s OK, because after we got cleaned up we made dinner and enjoyed a delicious spaghetti parmesan. We watched the Back to School marathon on USA, which featured Juno, the story of a precocious 16-year-old who gets pregnant and judges everyone in lines a little too dated for someone her age.<\/p>\n

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Got a one-liner, an adoptive family and everything turns out great! Your parents will support you and your friends will come around. Welcome back to school, kids!<\/p>\n

Tomorrow, I’m dumping a bunch of pictures and things on you from the last week. Thinking of making that a regular feature, too. Anything to pad another day around here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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