quotes within quotes within quotes

Exclusive excerpts from 'Zeroville' - Entertainment News - Variety.com:

On Vikar's shaved head is tattooed the right and left lobes of his brain. One lobe is occupied by an extreme close-up of Elizabeth Taylor and the other by Montgomery Clift, their faces barely apart, lips barely apart, in each other's arms on a terrace, the two most beautiful people in the history of the movies, she the female version of him, and he the male version of her.

This is the summer of 1969, two days after Vikar's 24th birthday. He's been in Los Angeles an hour, after a six-day bus trip from Philadelphia, and eats a French dip sandwich at Philippe's. A hippie nods at Vikar's head. "Dig it, man. My favorite movie."

"I believe it's a very good movie," Vikar agrees.

"Love that scene at the end. There at the Planetarium."

Vikar stands and in one motion brings the food tray up --

-- and then crashing down on the blasphemer across the table. He catches the napkin, floating like a parachute, in time to wipe his mouth. " 'A Place in the Sun,' George Stevens," Vikar says to the fallen man, pointing at his own head, "NOT 'Rebel Without a Cause,'" and strides out.

recover'd!</strongbad>

I'm up - not like toast, but up nonetheless. Two nights in a row of getting up every 40~60 minutes; it's a drag. And somehow despite sleeping I still managed to sleep wrong; the right side of my neck has a golfball-sized knot in it to which I've applied a dermal patch. Still, my cough has largely abated, my nose is mostly clear, and in general I'm at about 70% capacity compared to Mon/Tues, when I was more like 30%.

Seriously, I couldn't read text on a screen, or even larger print in the hardbound Spook Country which I'm muddling through at a glacier pace. ( i watched DVDs instead )

xorn it all to hell

benchilada, you magnificent bastard.