Vitamin I

I used to take a fair amount of ibuprofen every day after the surgery on my wrist which put in two plates and three pins. The hardware is still in there, but after a couple of years, my system gradually grew around them, and the wrist didn't inflame on a regular basis, so I was able to cut it out.

Nowadays, I only have to take it (to keep the inflammation from causing more damage) when the barometric pressure drops below 30 and continues to fall.

Oh, sometimes I overdo myself, and have to take ibuprofen then. And yes, last month's saugussk8 counted.

But today, my wrist was throbbing, so I took an ibu. And then I checked the weather.

Yup. 29.95 and falling.

The Unrepentant Film Snob's Meme to End All Film Memes

(via slipjig)

The movie fans behind the website They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? have assembled what they claim to be the most definitive "greatest films ever" list by gathering no fewer than 1,604 critics' lists and 656 other miscellaneous polls from hundreds of print sources from the last several decades, and used a complicated formula to tabulate the results shown below: The 1,000 Greatest Films of All Time.

Your task:
Bold the titles you have seen.
Italicize the ones you have only partly seen.
Underline the ones you currently own. (I add an asterisk for those I owned on VHS, but we purged our tapes)

To participate in the short form of this meme, do this for the first 100 titles only. The more daring and film-obsessed among you, however, will want to do the full 1,000 title list. Enjoy!

1) Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
2) Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
3) The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
4) 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
5) 8 1⁄2 (Federico Fellini, 1963)
6) The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
7) The Searchers (John Ford, 1956)
8) The Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
9) Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)
10) Sunrise (F.W. Murnau, 1927) (but I really have to see this)
( the other 990 )

I'm surprised by the number of these that I've "partially seen". Some, I caught part-way thru on TV; others, I walked past a showing in the Student Union in college.