{"id":230,"date":"2006-01-01T14:03:45","date_gmt":"2006-01-01T18:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2006\/01\/01\/prospero-ano-y-felizidad\/"},"modified":"2006-01-01T14:03:45","modified_gmt":"2006-01-01T18:03:45","slug":"prospero-ano-y-felizidad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2006\/01\/01\/prospero-ano-y-felizidad\/","title":{"rendered":"…Prospero Ano y Felizidad"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s the new year…and after the year I just had, I rang it in the best way I knew how.<\/P>
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Asleep<\/P>
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Yep, during the day yesterday I hung out with Mike and some of his friends – walking around the North End and sitting in Cafe Vittorio for a few hours snarfing canolli and cappucino. That night, I got together with Heath (my friend, not the actor) to see Brokeback Mountain.<\/P>
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I really liked it. And that’s unusual for me since whenever a film is a critical favorite or popular with the masses I hate it (such as E.T., Star Wars, Pulp Fiction, and even Ang Lee’s previous film, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon). But I really liked the movie. However, I’m apparently the most cold-hearted person on earth as nearly everybody I know who has seen it has said they choked up or cried. I didn’t even come close.<\/P>
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Still, I keep hearing rave reviews for Heath Ledger’s performance and none for Jake Gyllenhall. I thought they both did an equally good job. I know Heath’s (the actor, not my friend) character was “deeper”..but both performances were good. Poor Jake. First he dies, then he gets snubbed.<\/P>
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OOPS – did I just give something away?<\/P>
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Oh, one last Brokeback Mountain comment…did anybody else think Heath Ledger looked just like G.W. Bush with his eyes all squinty the whole time? Even the scraggly hair in Ennis’ later years was like G.W.<\/P>
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So after the movie, Heath (my friend, not the actor) and I walked through the masses in downtown Boston as hordes of families and drunken youths wandered about in the snow. We were going to grab something to eat, but the crowds were too much. He went back to his place and I went back to mine. <\/P>
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I read a few emails, browsed a few sites, and went to bed…at 11:45PM. Yep, I didn’t even wait for the ball to drop. Didn’t even stay up to watch Boston’s fireworks (and my white noise machine drowned out the sound). Didn’t even stay up to get kissed at the stroke of midnight. Though, seeing as I was in bed by myself, that wasn’t likely to happen anyway.<\/P>
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Now, as is fitting for my final day of the year, one other thing happened. My sister-in-law was sent back to the hospital in Boston. More complications with her digestive system and feeding tubes. Ugh. That’s how I’m going to be spending the afternoon on the first day of the NEW year…in a hospital. So much for things changing for the better in the upcoming year!<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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