{"id":905,"date":"2008-06-18T10:14:58","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T10:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=905"},"modified":"2025-04-05T10:05:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T15:05:05","slug":"best_of_may_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/06\/best_of_may_2.html","title":{"rendered":"Best of May"},"content":{"rendered":"

The best movie <\/a>I saw in May was Iron Man <\/a><\/strong>and it was fucking awesome and definitely the best movie I’ve seen this year (not that I’ve seen many) and it’s so good that even the second time around when you go to a crap ass neighborhood theater and the projector breaks and you have to watch the middle 20 minutes in two-minute increments, it’s STILL brilliant. Are you coming to Chicago? I’d be happy to go to it again!<\/p>\n

The best books <\/a>I read in May were the one-two punch of Dragon Bones <\/strong><\/a>and Dragon Blood <\/strong><\/a>by Patricia Briggs<\/strong>. Magical and mysterious and yet so human and irresistibly attractive. If only I could have jumped into these books and become an auxiliary character (Another “cousin” for Ward? A romantic interest for Oreg?)… She ranks right up there with Elizabeth A. Lynn <\/strong>as my favorite current fantasy writers.<\/p>\n

The best gig <\/a>I went to in May was probably a tie between the Long Blondes <\/strong><\/a>(for actual “best”) and Crowded House <\/strong><\/a>(for playing some of my all-time most beloved songs).<\/p>\n

My favorite tunes <\/strong>in May….Honestly, I was soooo busy watching BSG over and over (see below), I really didn’t do much listening in May. Which would be why I’m now working on listening to all the many many albums I bought but did not listen to in April, May and (thus far in) June all at once. Doh!<\/p>\n

Random personal highlights:<\/em> MDS&W<\/strong>, not the greatest, but I did get to see my peeps. I watched like* <\/em>every episode of Battlestar Galactica<\/strong>. Twice. (Or more, depending on how much I loved the episode and how much screen time my Future Husband had ha ha ha ha ha.) I went to visit my nephews. Met my newest cousin! And I got many back\/shoulder massages at physical therapy (but see lowlights as well).<\/p>\n

Lowlights? <\/em> Physical therapy: a) the need for it, b) the stretching and lifting and pulling, ow, ow, ow, c) the ice. Hate the ice!! Had to skip a concert (Avett Brothers). Continuing buttloads of stress at the secondary browsing location.
\n*like used purely for valley girl emphasis, and not to approximate any less than ALL.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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