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Here's a great recipe to flip out your parents...

First go see a show at Boston Common (doens't matter, what show, though in this case it was Shakespeare in the Park - Much Ado About Nothing)

When the show gets out, decide not to mess with the crowd of people surging towards the T and instead hang out for awhile.

While you wait, call your folks just to chat.

Tell them where you are... the Common at 10 at night.

Have your cell phone cut out all of a sudden.


That works quite nicely on it's own of course... but there's ways to get better. Instead of hanging out at the Common decide to walk a few stations up while still talking to the parents.

If you happen to be doing this when a huge convention is in town drawing all sorts of scrutiny to the matters of terrorism and security... bonus. Especially if that convention involves fireworks that you can hear but not see.

Right when your father asks, "are you sure that's fireworks," it's always comforting to have a police car go by, sirens wailing.

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What can I say? It's fun to mess with my parents' heads. They weren't as entertained as I was, of course, but they have those paranoid tendencies, I just feel I should exercise them every once in awhile. Yes, I am a sadistic daughter, but it's not like I knew the phone cutting out, fireworks and police car were gonna happen.

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So I get on Amazon this afternoon and instead of the usual "page you made" recommendations list I get this:

Kathryn's Plog Beta (What is a Plog?)

I follow the "What is a Plog" link and voila:

What is a Plog?

The Plog™ Service provides a personalized blog for each Amazon.com customer. A blog is a straightforward and now widely adopted method of posting a reverse chronological diary on the Internet. Here's a list of some of the best and most popular blogs:

[List deleted cause it isn't the point and it takes up space]

Your Amazon.com Plog is a diary of events that will enhance your shopping experience, helping you discover products that have just been released, track changes to your orders, and many other things. Just like a blog, your Plog is sorted in reverse chronological order. When we think we have something interesting or important to tell you, we'll post it to your Plog.

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Oh. Good. God.

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Saw King Arthur tonight. It wasn't as bad as I feared, despite Guinevere's battle tube-top. I mean yeah, there were those moments that my suspension of disbelief were strained beyond its limit, but then it was a Jerry Bruckheimer film so no suprise there. Liked the back and forth between the knights though. Witty banter (or just out right sarcasm) wins me over quite a ways. Plus the cinematography in some places was just gorgeous.

Course on the way there I took the T. Caught a glimpse of the MBTA police, which made reading this all the funnier. Too true!

Saw the preview for National Treasure for the first time. Yet another Bruckhemier. It's based on the premise that on the back of the Declaration of Independence there's a treasure map. See, guys... that's why Bush and Ashcroft and all their cronies can trample all over things like the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The founding fathers didn't actually mean anything with them...they were just covers for treasure maps. Of course I mock, but seeing as it has Sean Bean, I will probably see it at some point.