August 2, 2010

"It was evident from the general tone of the whole party, that they had come to regard insolvency as the normal state of mankind, and the payment of debts as a disease that occasionally broke out"--Little Dorrit

Professor Peabody: "Have you tried a knife?"

Jim Bowie: "No, I wouldn't take the coward's way out."

    Dreamed of assembling a model of Daffy Duck breaking into the coffin of a vampire just coming to life.

    Went to the Games Meetup.  I played The Amazeing Labyrinth, Acquire (finished last), Tsuro and Ticket to Ride (the American version).

    Dinner was steak.

    Saw Kurosawa's last movie Madadayo at the Cinematheque.  It's about a retired professor at the start of Japan's postwar era, still worshipped by his ex-students.  Interesting character.