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I got new x-rays on Tuesday, and the doc said I was done with the boot. No running or jumping for another six weeks? No problem there.

I wore an Aircast™ plastic cast for almost six weeks, and I guess it was OK. It squeezed my toes, so I couldn’t wear it as tight as I thought I was supposed to, but the doc said that it didn’t need to be very tight (pretty much just wearing it does the thing). Another note the techs didn’t share with me (but that I learned on wikipedia): your feet swell when you sleep, so don’t pump up the air part of the Aircast™ too tight before going to bed.

The crutches (pictured in the previous post) were awful, so I bought myself a pair of these forearm-style crutches. Totally worth it.

I broke the fifth meta-tarsal of my right foot while trying to fly a kite (!) on Friday night. This is the temporary splint; I going back in sometime next week for the real one. (And I was supposed to fly to Aiken, SC, today.)

Eric Alterman’s blog used one of my contributions for today’s Slacker Friday post. (Scroll to the end.)

(There’s been a part-of-speech thing concerning a certain word going on there for the last few days.)

Jason Schwartzman was asked by Terri Gross if Bill Murray ever gave him any advice about acting.

He claimed it was odd advice, but that it was good advice, and that he took it. It, roughly, follows:

Jason asked Bill if he could tell when he was in character. Bill asked Jason how much he weighed. Jason said he weighed 140 pounds. Bill asked if Jason could feel it (the weight) in his feet.

That is all.

I know that I’ve probably said this to every single person who might ever read this post, but, just in case there’s a budding film-maker that might stumble across this:

Seriously, every time you think you have a spot for a music cue in whatever movie you’re making, remove it.

If your imagined movie relies on music cues, it will not only fail, it probably sucks.

This is a picture of the building Matt Damon lives in with his wife and his daughter.

That must be odd to come home to.

From The Smoking Gun via Fark.

According to this review, I can continue to go back to what is now the Bourne trilogy for that calm space I need. I haven’t seen the film yet, but the reviewer (and the people Todd works for) are people that I trust.

This is my parent’s cat Molly getting some exercise.

Available here is a quickie remix of the Beastie Boys “That’s it” that I helped DJ Projet (AKA Patrick Walters) do using Apple’s SoundTrack Pro. Henjoy.

My observation:

He could play Gary Busey in the (I’m sure to be up-coming) Gary Busey story.

Fer serious.

I added an SPF record to aaronx.org just this morning. Mail not from me should no longer mess up your inboxes.

Sorry about that, but GoDaddy leaves SPF off by default.

According to IsParisInJailRightNow.com, western civilization is once again safe.

Here I go again.