Word of the day: mentimutation : the act of changing one's mind
Today, central Ohio is covered in ice, with more to come early this evening. Julia is off school today, snug and smug at home, and will most likely be home tomorrow. The question is, will I get an early dismissal from work? Hard to say, knowing those middle managing clowns.
Not much to do today. I got caught up on the new episode of NBC's Monday night show Harry's Law, a product of David Kelley and bearing all the hallmarks of some of his past courtroom dramas: snide humor, long courtroom speeches, flippancy/mouthiness, a strong, no-nonsense female character equal parts brusqueness and sarcasm, and a likable cast (led by the impeccable Kathy Bates).
Another show that Julia and I watch is ABC's Castle, which keeps getting better and better, culminating in this week's episode, which might have been the best in three seasons. The two leads, Stana Katic and Nathan Fillion have genuinely exciting, palpable chemistry. The show doesn't take itself too seriously, the characters are funny, and the cases have tons of twists (one before every commercial break).
I posted the painting above, Ed Ruscha's Los Angeles County Museum on Fire (1965-1968), because it is referenced in Steve Martin's An Object of Beauty, which I just finished. The book was breezy enough, full of insight and sly knowingness, reminiscent of the work of Edith Wharton in the way that Martin focuses so much of his attention on the surface of an enclosed world, an exclusive enclave, but he doesn't do a whole lot with the characters and the story is, in large patches, bland.
Ruscha is a contemporary American artist, based in Los Angeles, whose works (a conglomerate of painting, drawing, and photography) often essay the banality of American life as seen through an assault of mass media images.
Off to work!
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