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Daily Journal Entry #11681 12/23/07 Sun

• Popeye's for lunch (seriously took forever), trip to the mall (smelled lotions with Jacqui), and dinner at Fuzzy's (pork was good, but unimpressed with the rest).

• I did a quick dance to The Humpty Dance before Jacqui left to work to cheer her up – it did.

  Daily Journal Entry #11682 12/24/07 Mon

• I followed Matt and Jacqui to Matt's sister-in-law's house in San Antonio, TX. I listened to more Amber Spyglass on the way.
• My parents showed up during the white elephant exchange, and I got the broken monkey lamp I had "brought" as my own gift!

• We slept at Matt's parents' house.

  Daily Journal Entry #11683 12/25/07 Tue

• Jacqui gave me Blue Velvet and Gummo. Yes!

• Ate massive amounts of food. Napped while everyone rode a go-cart. Forgot my parents were leaving so early. I read a lot throughout the day.

  Daily Journal Entry #11684 12/26/07 Wed

• Jacqui took me to Chris Madrid's (with Matt and Danny), this famous burger joint. It was super packed. I got the burger with the tostada and beans. It was good but I couldn't finish it all.
• From there we went to La Cantera, this ritzy shopping center in San Antonio. Jacqui looked around Sephora, this expensive cosmetics store. I looked around Juicy Couture, which had some cool stuff, and this guy, responding to my tag, told me he wasn't able to finish "two girls" but his stock clerk had watched it a few times. He said, "I thought you were keeping track or something," and I said that I was in a sense.
• Next we went to Barnes and Noble to browse and get coffee, and when the guy at the counter saw my tag he said, "You're killing me man." Danny told me the guy had to clear his mind for a bit before being able to help him.
• Watched some Best Year Ever during a pit stop. Jacqui hadn't seen the Chris Crocker thing!
• Finally went to see No Country for Old Men with Jacqui and Matt. I didn't like the movie as much as I thought I would, though the dialogue was good and there were some wonderful shots of Texas. Also, Genevieve and Kiril said that Chigurh reminded them of me, but it was difficult for me to see the resemblance.
• Back at home Jacqui told me that she got sucked into Tila Tequila too, and we both agreed that there were moments when she actually appeared to be genuine.

• I ran across this movie Wordplay, which is about the New York Times crossword puzzle and this annual competition associated with it, and it turned out to be really good. It was amazing to see how important and moving this relatively mundane and banal game was for them. I read the film as an example of an emergent pleasure that was somewhat hidden but strong enough to be part of someone's identity and generate related practices, which I suppose is simply what a hobby is.

  Daily Journal Entry #11685 12/27/07 Thu

• This was a lazy day. I stayed in my pajamas all day, read, and finally got around to doing my weekly video. Later Matt's nephews came over and played Guitar Hero and Halo on the XBox. They all made me laugh, especially Ian.

  Daily Journal Entry #11686 12/28/07 Fri

• Followed Matt and Jacqui back to Bryan, TX, and we went to Casa Ole with Stephanie. I asked Stephanie if she had seen No Country for Old Men to tell her about my supposed resemblance to Chigurh, and she had already told her brother that the character reminded her of me! I asked Stephanie about Atlas Shrugged because she is an architect, and she said her dad gave it to her when she graduated from high school, but she never read it. I explained that it was evil.
• Logans (which reminds me of Chronos that was in Ni-chome because of the pictures of movie stars) with the addition of Jeanette and Holly. Holly is a believer – she thinks "two girls" was real.
• O'Bannons, this Irish bar, with the same crew. Some guy thought he knew me, saying something about the time I burned a bible. I wonder who he was thinking of. Dirty Dan perhaps?
• Quick stroll through Mad Hatters.

• I hate this town.

  Daily Journal Entry #11687 12/29/07 Sat

• Thankfully finally finished Boellstorff's Gay Archipelago. I really appreciated his insistence on an anthropology of similitude, and thought it was interesting how the archipelagic concept and experience of Indonesians meshed with Unitarian Universalism and the way its large umbrella houses many different perspectives, as well as its obvious resonance with queer politics. I suppose the problem with similitude can be the way in which this becomes a disciplinary power in its own right, as Foucault was sensitive to, but perhaps there is a way to produce similitude that is anarcho-syndalistic in nature rather than juridical.
• Met up with Jacqui et al. at Fox and Hound. They were watching the game.

• Left to meet Bobby at Cheddar's, then went over to his place, listened to some new music (LCD Soundsystem and Prefuse 73), met Donny (freelance videographer), and played Call of Duty (poorly).