Otis! My MAN!!

Peter Riegert, known for his roles as Boon in Animal House, Mac in Local Hero (oh go see it if you haven't) Aldo in Oscar ("It's Little Anthony! ...and his Imperial!") and also in Crossing Delancey (which I haven't seen but hear it's swell) will be at the Kendall Square Cinema Movie Theater Thingo Friday and Saturday night, showing the film he directed and stars in. It also stars Isabella Rossellini, Eli Wallach, Eric Bogosian, Beverly D'Angelo and Rita Moreno. Riegert is taking this film from town to town, showing up at all screenings, answering questions, and that's wicked awesome.

I'm not sure what time the film will be screened on Friday and Saturday, but I'm going.

Who's with me?

Not quite sure what to make of this one.

I just found that one of my new housemates is already writing complaints about her new companions. Oh, sure, in grand passive-aggressive style she doesn't name names, but I think it's readily obvious who she's talking about here.

I'm really not sure what to do here. What do you think?

the orson welles award of the day

Okay, okay, I come back home from work and I see what's happened to the post I made earlier about pheromone, my housemate, and her comments about a certain new housemate and his lack of personal space ideas.

I think this is what is known in the industry as "a backfire."

I knew pheromone was joking all along, and I think it's one of the funniest things I've read all week, and we've had a few yuks about it over IM this afternoon. So I said I'd play along too and post about it as well, only I went one further and said "I'll phrase it so as to give it the fine sheen of LJ drama" and damned if that wasn't what happened. Her version is funnier, since many of the people on her flist don't know Mr. Abbie El Gato Gordo Grande and thus have no frame of reference about the housemate who sleeps in your bed when you're not at home, sits on your lap when he wants to and watches you take showers. My version seems to add that context by default, and, well.

Oops.

So I think I better step in with some damage control right quick before things get a bit too out of hand.

So yes, pheromone was joking, and I was joking too, and yes, Mr. Abbie needs grooming but no, it's not a passive-aggressive snark fest. pheromone is actually one of the most frank and forthright housemates I've had, who speaks up at the earliest opportunity when she has something to say, and so we're all on the level there. I do believe that Mr. Abbie needs to learn some more social graces, though. And he needs a shave. Maybe someone could drive us to a pet groomy place on Monday.

But I do thank everybody for their words of support, as unnecessary as they might have turned out to be. Next time I'll try to be less dry with the house jokes.

ok, j, I said it, it's posted, would you take bring abbie back from abu dhabi now?