{"id":2595,"date":"2004-06-17T03:09:59","date_gmt":"2004-06-17T17:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/06\/17\/pest-control\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T13:55:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T21:55:12","slug":"pest-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/06\/17\/pest-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Pest control"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:10793,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/asin\\\/B0000WN140\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/asin\\\/B0000WN140\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Rick came over to hang out for a bit last night, and brought along <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/asin\/B0000WN140\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Once Upon a Time in Mexico\">Once Upon a Time in Mexico<\/a>, the latest in Robert Rodriguez&#8217; Mariachi series. Very violent and very entertaining, but after a single watching, I&#8217;m not entirely sure I&#8217;ve really got the faintest clue quite what happened, as much of the movie consists of every character double- and triple-crossing every other character. Rick assures me that it all works out consistently &#8212; for now, I&#8217;ll just have to take his word for it. Even without total comprehension, though, it was at least good brainless fun to watch Antonio Banderas and Johnny Depp wreak havoc for a couple hours.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got a mouse in my apartment. I&#8217;m not really terribly concerned about this, as it&#8217;s kind of cute, and not a bother at all, I just occasionally catch it skittering around the corners of my room out of the corner of my eye. As Rick and I were talking last night, though, Rick started to pull a cigarette out of his pack and accidentally dropped one on the floor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Have a smoke &#8212; or two,&#8221; I said.<\/p>\n<p>Rick laughed as he bent down to pick up the one he dropped. &#8220;That one was for the mouse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh, I see,&#8221; I said. &#8220;Tricky. No need to buy traps or anything inhumane like that. We&#8217;ll just give the little shit cancer and wait. We&#8217;re patient.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This mouse has met his match.<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Switchblade 327&#8221; by Brian Setzer Orchestra, The from the album <em>Dirty Boogie, The<\/em> (1998, 3:30).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johnny Depp and Antonio Banderas wreak havoc in Mexico, and Rick and I hatch a devious plan for dealing with a mouse issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043,2037],"tags":[23,13,2546],"class_list":["post-2595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-tv-and-films","tag-film","tag-life","tag-once-upon-a-time-in-mexico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}