A friend forwarded this Kodak slideshow from someone in New Orleans named Alvaro. It’s an impressive photo account of his experiences before and after the storm.
Sep 112005
Sep 112005
With Halloween approaching, there’s a few notable DVD releases that I’m not going to be able to pass up.
- Kolchak – Night Stalker
– Finally, they’re releasing the entire series on DVD on October 4th. This one is always touted as having a lot of influence on X-Files, which is obvious. I used to love staying up late on Friday nights (or was it Saturday?) and watch these on CBS in the early ’80s. It’ll be nice to be able to see them whenever I want. My favorites are the episode with the Rakshasa, the one with the swamp monster and one of the final ones with the dinosaur-like creature where Kolchak is riding around in an underground maze of corridors in a golf cart.
- High Tension
– I haven’t seen this yet, but the reviews have all been amazing and they’re releasing it uncut, thankfully. It arrives a week after Night Stalker, October 11th.
Statesman Insight?
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Sep 112005
Our local paper has a generally well-deserved reputation for being crap. Except for Sundays, I could do with reading the thing online, but The Wife likes getting it to the house. One of the few things that I generally enjoy about the paper is American Digest from the Sunday Insight section. According to the paper, it’s compiled by the Statesman staff, so I’ll give credit where credit is due. Today’s is particularly good, though the sheer number of eligible quotes this past week made their jobs pretty easy..
First outing since The Ban
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Sep 112005
The Wife and I headed over to the Longbranch Inn last night to check out The Bloody Tears after attending a co-worker’s wedding. The band put on a lively show with Randall ending up on the bar at one point. I manged to snap a passable photo with my cell phone.
It was my first outing since the smoking ban went into effect on Sept. 1. I must say that I thoroughly enjoyed not having to breathe the secondhand smoke and not having to resign myself to taking my suit back to the dry cleaners after only one wearing. There were plenty of people inside and outside on the side patio. We saw Kumbala enforce the ban on one bargoer who apparently didn’t get the memo. For some reason, the guy got so flustered that he threw the still lit cigarette into the trash, forcing the bar staff to go fishing for it. Fortunately, it didn’t hit anything flammable.