New Feature: Alms For the Poor

Hey, you've got money, right? That's the stuff they give you when you have a job, right? Good! Now you can buy my stuff. Overpay for it too, why dontcha!

Last night Lauren G. came over and we watched Martin and Orloff which features the cast of Upright Citizen's Brigade. It was pretty funny. Like Wet Hot American Summer was for the Stella/The State folks. Then we put on Arachnaphobia, which was slightly less interesting, but I've seen it enough times to recall obscure quotes from memory. Humdingers like John Goodman's, "Tear out old wood, put in good wood." Totally non-integral to the plot, and yet for some reason it's there in my memory bank.

Every time I put a movie or TV show on mute and speak the dialogue from memory, I wonder if maybe that completely useless information has replaced another, more important factoid that I learned as a child. Like how to multiply fractions, the path of blood through the human body via the circulatory system, or what Galanty's phone number is...