Since almost all my married friends are Netflix™ subscribers, this article might help me understand them a little better. I would have certainly given Mrs. Nestor full reign, had she er… existed.
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What is a queue?
“It’s a metaphor for my life. There are a lot of things I want to do, but it doesn’t quite happen,” says Netflix member Tony Talalay of Lutherville. The queue is all knowing and revealing. “If I ever ran for office, I would clean out my queue,” says his wife, Mary Talalay.
“It represents the sum of my experiences,” says another Netflix member, Millersville businessman Mike Cohn.
Read Full article about Netflix™ from the The Baltimore Sun and contemplate the quality of your marriage.
May 9, 2007 at 7:30 pm
Bollocks ! Kim’s Video rules ! Famous for its wildly flavorful selection and disdainful, cineaste (there, i finally slipped that word in there) clerks, this gem of a store is anti-Netflix and pro serendipity. In the maze of racks, you’ll find entire subgenres you didn’t even know existed: foreign films from tiny, frozen countries; ridiculous KoreanTV shows; fetish-inspired anime; and tapes of films never even converted to DVD (including self taped videos of my early sales calls for Rock Bottom Insurance).
My uncle Anatole especially likes their “War on Terror” section, which has such topical selections as First Blood, Commando and Delta Force (all three parts, as well as its doppelganger, which features material of a more umm..adult nature).
May 10, 2007 at 7:55 am
aah my good man joylon, you’re the only hipster left in the northeast who doesn’t subscribe to netflix. yes, i’ve been to kim’s and they certainly have a bewildering collection of videos. i’m guessing that you and the mrs. have your own memberships? (hint: wouldn’t want those ‘doppelganger’ videos that uncle anatole askes you to check out for him showing up on the statement). aah, who’s at the door now?
May 10, 2007 at 7:36 pm
Seems that the treaure chest is not at the bottom of the ocean but at Kim’s. Did the red make a mistake by leaving gems and stones for the captain..seems he should have left a subscription for Kim’s
Also Red had to look up “doppelganger” in the wiki. Us Sea Faring men have a lot to learn…ahoy maties!!!
May 13, 2007 at 7:50 pm
By Golly, Nestor ! Leave me poor uncle Anatole alone. Speaking of relations, I did manage to track a distant cousin down, when I noticed him quoted in today’es edition of the Telegraph, which is simply unputdownable. Apparently, he is lobbying for special status for Anglo-Indian achool. Quoth he :
“These provisions should not be applied to us. The Christian missionaries have offered quality and all-round education for more than two-and-a-half centuries all over Bengal,” explained Herod Mullick, general secretary of the Bangiya Christiya Pariseba, an organisation of representatives of churches and people of Christian community.
May 16, 2007 at 2:14 pm
…..quality education from people like -”I will wallop you”… joga, khuro, bola, chitu….not to forget Ostha and Lucas… In those days chemistry was limited to “what happens when type…questions…” math was characterized by “doses” and khuro was “mumbles” (dick tracy) reincarnate – I think the reason Red could not really master bengali was because Khuro could not be heard…this same “quality and all around education has produced “langto”, “naru”, “dome”, “tapan”, “roychoudhury” and yours truly…very “spesal” indeed…