Mizblog

I attended a wedding this afternoon. Dave Kitani and Ji Son got married, and it was the biggest Jesus fest I’ve ever seen. I think Dave and Ji are really nice people, and the wedding theme was a very cleverly thought out political allegory, but the cheerful little zombie cult stuff was too much.

The other thing that bugged me was that the selected scripture (Ephesians 31-35 or something like that) was written by Paul, who I consider to be something of a lunatic. He emphasized that the woman’s role in the marriage is to respect the husband, but no mention was made of a husband’s duty to respect his wife. It was the old patriarchal cultural biases being reiterated. I hope those two don’t actually try to emulate that antiquated formula.

After the wedding, KP, John, and I went over to Joel’s house in Santa Monica. From there we walked all the way to Venice beach, and out to the end of the pier at Washington Blvd., where we saw a dozen or so fireworks shows at various distances up and down the coast. The closest show was Marina Del Rey, and it was weak for most of its duration. Single bursts were fired at a fairly steady pace, sometimes with two of the same in a row, and sometimes with long silences between bursts. But the finale was really exciting.

The walk home was exciting too, because drunken crazy people were lighting fireworks off on the beach. Some of them were going horizontally into the surrounding neighborhood. It was slightly harrowing but still overall a fun experience.

After a stop at Holy Guacamole for some burritos, we went back to Joel’s place and watched Die Hard 2. This was difficult because the disk kept skipping. Finally, John fixed the disk and we watched the conclusion. We decided that the reporter on the plane wasn’t such a bad guy, but Holly (the wife) was a seriously violent bitch who deserved jail time. Also, the whole story falls apart if you think about it for 5 seconds, so don’t do that or you’ll ruin the enjoyable action. :)

KP and John are going to Hawaii on Monday. Ji has already moved out of the lab. It’s going to be much more sparsely populated in there for a while. I miss them already.