Email this post- Carpet :: cleaner
- Bottoms :: up
- Music :: man
- Nails :: painted
- Watch it! :: TV
- Your life :: in technicolor
- Candies :: hard
- Chafing :: jeans
- Svelte :: figure
- Ding :: dong
Archive for December, 2008
- Destined :: to fail
- FAIL :: safe
- Camping :: Jason Voorhees
- Only you :: can prevent forest fires
- Incessant :: ringing
- Tomorrow :: never dies
- Impressive :: length
- Riches :: to rags
- Dislike :: driving
- Speaker :: of the House
- Travel :: agent
- Expensive :: gift
- Backspace :: keyboard
- Traffic noise :: horn
- Now see here :: vision
- Vegetables :: V-8
- Chat :: online
- Your calling :: number
- Weekly :: magazine
- Oh! :: My!
Books!
1. Do you enjoy reading?
Yes.
2. What is the first book you remember reading?
Dangerous Planet.
3. Who is your favourite author?
F. Paul Wilson.
4. What is your favourite book?
War of The Worlds
5. What is the last book you read and the first you’ll read next?
Still working on “The Shinin’”. The next book will be a Repairman Jack novel.
1. What decade did you attend/are you attending high school or college?
High school was the late 70′s early 80′s, college was the early 80′s and again in the 90′s.
2. What clothing fashion from that time are you glad/do you wish went out of style?
Disco clothes from the 70′s.
3. Do you still listen to the music from your high school/college years on a regular basis?
Yes.
4. What hairstyle/hair color did/do you wear during high school/college?
High school was very short and curly, college was long and ponytail. Just my normal brown color.
5. What was/is “the cool thing to do” while in high school/college?
Go to bars.
1. What did you do on Monday?
Work.
1. What did you do on Tuesday?
Last Tuesday I was holiday vacation so I watched movies.
1. What did you do on Wednesday?
Watched movies and prepared for Christmas.
1. What did you do on Thursday?
Spent the day at my sister-in-laws with family.
1. What are you going to do today?
Working on year end stuff.
Yes! The Atlanta Falcons are in the playoffs! After the win today over the Vikings and losses by both Dallas and Tampa Bay, the Falcons have clinched at least a wildcard spot in the NFC playoffs and a possibility of a NFC South division championship tie if Carolina (11-3) loses tonight and next week and Atlanta (10-5) wins next week. A little gleam of hope as Carolina has to play the Giants (11-3 overall, 6-1 home) this week at New York and the Saints (8-7 overall, 6-1 home)next week at New Orleans (on a winning streak) with Carolina a 3-3 on the road.
I feel sorry for the Detroit Lions and the ignoble honor of being the first team to be 0-15. And next week doesn’t look any better with facing Green Bay at Green Bay (5-9 overall, 3-4 home). They may end up in history as the first team to go 0-16.
Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, the First Lady of Star Trek, passed away earlier today after a battle with leukemia which was diagnosed earlier this year. She is best known as Nurse Chapel who pined for Mr. Spock in the original Star Trek series and as Lwaxana Troi in Star Trek: The Next Generation. She also was in the original pilot of the original series, The Cage, and voiced the computer in the later incarnations of Star Trek, including the new Star Trek movie.
She is survived by her son Eugene “Rod” Roddenberry Jr. who, with her friends, accompanied her in her last hours.
It is a sad day for family, friends, and fans.
18
Dec
Firefox patch
On the heels of the Internet Explorer patch, Firefox has issued a patch or rather an update this morning on unrelated security issues and some bug fixes. I suspect Opera, Safari, and Chrome will be next.
Notice: This contains some spoilers so don’t read this post if you intend to see the special at a later date.
I was watching the Muppet Christmas special , A Muppet Christmas: Letters to Santa, last night with my son (who only caught the last half of the special) with great hope that this would be a return to the old wacky days of the Muppets when they could draw laughs with slapstick comedy, bad jokes, and sight puns while still tugging at the heartstrings.
One of these days I going to learn not to get my hopes up.
Something was lacking in the special. It had all of the right stuff, Brian Henson involved and doing a voice, songs by frequent collaborator Paul Williams writing the music (and playing an elf), big name stars (Uma Thurman as a very sexy Joy, Jane Krakowski as the mom, Muppet guest alum Whoopi Goldberg as a cab driver, Nathan Lane as airport security officer Meany, Tony Sirico and Steve Schirripa as, what else, mobsters, and Richard Griffiths (Uncle Vernon from the Harry Potter movies). The acting was okay, on par with what is usual for a Muppet special (or for the series for that matter). The actors seem to be having fun with the roles. The special effects were no worse than you would expect from a television or Muppet special. There just seemed to be no life in the special. I know we can’t replace Jim Henson and we shouldn’t try, but they have proven that the Muppets can go on beyond Jim, take note that the marvelous The Muppet Christmas Carol was a wonderful movie and is considered a modern Christmas classic was made after Jim died.
I just don’t know. Maybe it is the Disney taint that is lobotomizing the talent. The story seems overly plagued by filler with too many situations just tacked on the keep the running time up to an hour. The whole security guard thing was cute, but it shouldn’t have delayed the Muppets from catching the plane (to the North Pole no less) and forcing a gratuitous scene on the wing of the plane.
I guess maybe I was too busy drooling over how hot Uma Thurman was in that white outfit.