I added an album of photos (friends and family only) from The Boy’s soccer game today. He scored two goals. Once again, his team was much more aggressive than their opponents and even though they don’t keep score, they clearly won. He’s really enjoying it and so are we.
I hadn’t checked Baby Chaos in a while and missed this.
No, not college basketball, my T.V. viewing schedule. There’s all kinds of things I should be doing other than watching T.V., but how can I not where there’s so much good stuff on?
It all starts March 3rd with Kingdom Hospital. The first time I saw the preview, I thought it looked an awful lot like Lars Von Trier’s Riget. A trip to the official site confirms that it’s basically a remake. I wonder if King saw it before or after his own stay in the hospital? I saw it in ’94 or ’95 at Dobie. They ran it as two three hour films on consecutive nights. The original was intriguing. King’s stories are hit or miss in feature films and he hasn’t had much luck with T.V. other than Salem’s Lot. Even though I generally liked the books, I was less than impressed with It and The Stand. The Langoliers was absolutely horrible. Still, I’ll give it a chance.
The next night is Tripping the Rift (gratuitous Flash warning) on Scifi channel. This idea has been bouncing around the Internet for several years and it’s finally got a home. If the show is anywhere near as funny as the short (which I still have somewhere on my hard drive), it’ll be a must-see.
Lastly, the new season of The Sopranos starts on March 7th. I still haven’t decided if I’m going to shell out the dough to reinstate HBO or wait for the DVDs and hope I don’t hear/read any spoilers. Three debuts in one week. Yikes.
All this in addition to my current staples of The Osbournes, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Real World/Road Rules Inferno, Airline, Simpsons, Malcolm in the Middle, King of the Hill, and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
Yes, I’m brave enough to admit that I watch these shows. What’s your guilty pleasure?
Blogging can be a great source of amusement, just ask Senator Rick Santorum. I read about this a few weeks back, but ended up not posting about it. I reconsidered in light of post.
While on the topic of sanctimonious republicans, the rumor mill is going at full tilt about our governor. I wonder when we’ll see it acknowledged by the press. They appear to be waiting for something more substantial, which is totally understandable. Not to give in to stereotypes, but if it’s true, it explains why he’s so meticulous about his hair.
Bob’s been posting about his new body and the workout/eating regimen that’s getting him there. He’s a little more hardcore than I can manage with two kids, but I’m trying to avoid any more “gathering around the middle” myself. Is anyone else amazed by the sudden explosion of this whole low-carb thing in mainstream media? The Atkins diet and others have been around for a long time, but what’s with everyone suddenly jumping on the bandwagon? I saw a report about it several months ago on Salon and now suddenly every fast food restaurant and food maker is scrambling to come out with low-carb versions of their food. I think it’s a little overreactive. As with everything in life, it’s moderation that is important. I don’t think you should completely cut any one thing out of your diet, just as you shouldn’t overdo it on any one thing.
Now if only I can convince LaLa that eating only Cheerios and soy milk is a bad idea, I’ll be getting somewhere. 16-month-olds are good at listening to reason, right?
This is an impressive demonstration of the power of CSS. One of my long list of projects "when I have free time" is to abandon all of the table-based layout that I’m familiar with and go whole hog with CSS. Of course, I didn’t try looking at the various designs in different browsers yet. That should be amusing.
Burnt Orange Report pointed me to an article in Time about Shrub’s time in Alabama (the much disputed missing National Guard service time) and they had a great idea. So, without further ado, Texas Souffle.
We don’t get much snow here in Austin, but we got a dusting last night. I took the pictures about 15 minutes ago. What little there is will be gone by 11 as it’s getting into the 50’s today and will be in the 70’s by the end of the week. The Boy has been lamenting his proximity to the equator all winter, so he’s out there now collecting a single, wet snowball to throw. I also updated the picture of the week with shots from this morning.
EDIT: I decided to move the snow pictures to links as they were a little big and causing too much scrolling (well, and because I’m lazy).
There are a few from opening presents that morning, our breakfast trip to Krispy Kreme and then some from the Bob Bullock Museum where we had lunch and saw T-Rex 3D – Back to the Cretaceous.
For some reason, I was singing “When I’m sixty-four” in the shower this morning and realized that it probably won’t be long before one of the surviving Beatles reaches that age.
Turns out that Ringo will be first this summer and Paul will follow in 2006. John would’ve been in October and George, the youngest, would’ve been in 2007, the year that my father will turn the same age.
C’mon people. It’s just a partially exposed breast. Do we really need to devote an entire Nightline episode to this? European people have been seeing at least that much skin on T.V. for years. You didn’t have any problem with the farting horse from Budweiser or this classic sentence courtesy of the Cialis commercial:
Although a rare occurrence, men who experience an erection for more than 4 hours (priapism) should seek immediate medical attention.
For those clamoring about their kids being corrupted, mine were in bed or getting ready for bed. What were yours doing up?
As for the apologies, give me a break. It was obviously intentional. Janet has an album coming out (first single was released this week because it was “leaked” on the Internet) after a several year hiatus. Would she wear some elaborate sun ring on her nipple if she didn’t expect that it was going to be exposed? What I want to know is whether she was wearing something on the other nipple. Whatever fine the FCC comes up with will be worth the publicity. Congratulations for falling for it.
As far as I’m concerned, Ms. Jackson can expose her breast on network T.V. anytime she wants. I think it promotes a much better image of women than the other Budweiser commercial featuring the referee who gets plenty of practice dealing with screaming tirades from his henpecking wife.
I’ve been seeing a lot of speculation about the apparent massive reversal in support from Howard Dean to John Kerry. This one (via Aprendiz de todo) is interesting, as is this one (via Weblogsky). While the first may seem a little overly paranoid and prone to conspiracy theory, I think there’s something there.
The first speaks to the consolidation of corporate media, which is something the Bush administration has encouraged over the last four years and I think it’s becoming increasingly troublesome. The second points out that, while the Dean campaign made very good use of the Internet, they forgot that a large portion of the population doesn’t really use it much. I’m guilty of this as well. Those of us that use the Internet on a daily basis for news and social interaction forget that there’s an awful lot of other people out there that don’t. It’s the convergence of the two issues that’s really scary. It’s exactly the people who don’t use the Internet and rely on information spooned out by the corporate media outlets who might be responsible for the shift in democratic front-runners. As with anything, in order to get the whole story, one always has to get information from multiple sources. The time and effort needed to do so generally means that most people won’t do it. This gives greater weight to the coverage of major media outlets which are more and more intertwined with huge corporations whose interests may conflict with those of you or I.
While on the topic of conspiracy theories, this new book only fuels my inner conspiracy theorist. I need to get a copy, hopefully at our brand new library whose grand opening we attended on Saturday (also covered by Chip).
I personally haven’t decided who I’d vote for yet and since the Texas primaries are so late in the season, I won’t really have a say anyway (just like last time when I wanted to vote for Bill Bradley and didn’t get the chance). I can’t say that I was all that keen on Kerry, though. It’s sounds really shallow and vapid, but the current front-running democratic candidates are similar enough in policy and ideology that I almost have to go on personality to differentiate and I don’t get any connection at all with Kerry. I’ve been trying to narrow down between Clark, Edwards and Dean for the past few weeks and still have yet to come up with a winner (as futile as it may be). In the end, like everyone else, I just want to see GW sent back to Crawford where he belongs.
