Gravlax: Raw, thinly sliced, cured salmon seasoned with dill and served usually as an appetizer.
Saturday, January 29, 2005
My Day So Far
12:19 -- Woke up
12:19-12:42 -- Ate breakfast, read email
12:43-1:01 -- Took shower
1:01-2:03 -- Browsed Internet, updated blog
2:04-3:00 -- Watched Top 10 Most Extreme Cats Countdown on Animal Planet
3:01 -- Prepared to leave for lunch
3:35 -- Left for lunch
4:45 -- Returned from lunch
4:52-4:58 -- Updated blog
12:19-12:42 -- Ate breakfast, read email
12:43-1:01 -- Took shower
1:01-2:03 -- Browsed Internet, updated blog
2:04-3:00 -- Watched Top 10 Most Extreme Cats Countdown on Animal Planet
3:01 -- Prepared to leave for lunch
3:35 -- Left for lunch
4:45 -- Returned from lunch
4:52-4:58 -- Updated blog
Banana
JESSE: (eating a banana) You guys ever play Donkey Kong?
US: Yes.
JESSE: (holding up his banana) Banana.
US: Yes.
JESSE: (holding up his banana) Banana.
Saddam Hussein learns the true meaning of Christmas
BAGHDAD--Captured Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein has learned the true meaning of Christmas, Coalition authorities reported Wednesday. "As Christmas approached, Hussein sulked and complained all the time about being away from his palaces and wouldn't stop talking about this Erector set he wanted," reported Pfc. Jason Whitmore, one of the soldiers guarding Saddam. The former dictator's attitude changed when he met with a little Iraqi boy named Ali. "He really melted the old guy's heart. He told him all he wanted for Christmas was to be able to live with his family in a free Iraq." Though Saddam expressed no remorse at having executed Ali's parents, he was reportedly touched by the boy's sentiments. "From that day on, he was only concerned with letting those around him know how much he loved them and didn't talk about Erector anymore," Whitmore said. This attitude reportedly made Saddam's unwrapping of the Erector set on Christmas day all the sweeter.
Friday, January 28, 2005
The expiration date on the open bottle of milk found under our bed (most likely left there by Chris Coleman)
DEC 18
RELATED UPDATE: How do you wash a duffel bag?
INDESCRIBABLE FURY UPDATE: Now I know how Paul Anka felt. Don't be surprised if I ask Chris if he knows how fucking crucial this is when I tell him he's banished from our room for fifteen months.
RELATED UPDATE: How do you wash a duffel bag?
INDESCRIBABLE FURY UPDATE: Now I know how Paul Anka felt. Don't be surprised if I ask Chris if he knows how fucking crucial this is when I tell him he's banished from our room for fifteen months.
Thursday, January 27, 2005
Arthur: So Gay
Education Secretary Condemns PBS Show
WASHINGTON (AP) - The nation's new education secretary denounced PBS on Tuesday for spending public money on a cartoon with lesbian characters, saying Many parents would not want children exposed to such lifestyles.
The not-yet-aired episode of ``Postcards From Buster'' shows the title character, an animated bunny named Buster, on a trip to Vermont - a state known for recognizing same-sex civil unions. The episode features two lesbian couples, although the focus is on farm life and maple sugaring.
Is that innuendo?
...the episode, called ``Sugartime!,'' ...
Oh yeah. Definitely.
In the show, Buster carries a digital video camera and explores regions, activities and people of different backgrounds and religions.
[INSERT SEX TAPE JOKE HERE]
Tilt
I'm not really watching tonight, but there's nothing like seeing Wayne Newton kick some grandpa's ass.
OK, I CAN'T RESIST UPDATE: I vas his gym teacher in high school. He couldn't climb ze rope.
TERRIBLE IDEA UPDATE: He's just mentioning the secret hand signals to the guy two minutes before the tournament starts in the busy casino within earshot of Humpty Dumpty?
ALMOST A PAUL ANKA QUOTE UPDATE: You're all on fucking notice!
A BRIEF SYNOPSIS OF WHAT A SEEMINGLY CONFUSED HUMPTY DUMPTY JUST SAID TO THE SQUINTY GUY UPDATE: I'm just trying to let you know who you're getting involved with. I'll fucking kill you.
I BET THIS TIME THE COCKY GUY WILL WIN UPDATE: Sure, cocky guys are like 0-23 in the first three episodes, but I have a good feeling about this one.
OH, THE WIT UPDATE: COCKY GUY WHO JUST MIGHT WIN THIS TIME: How'd you get the money for this, lad?
SQUINTY EDDIE: I robbed a Salvation Army kettle last Christmas.
COCKY GUY WHO JUST MIGHT WIN THIS TIME: That's how I got my career started.
I THINK THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE LIKE A SIGNIFICANT MORAL MOMENT UPDATE: WILL HE RERAISE?
OH, YOU'VE DISAPPOINTED ME UPDATE: Yes. You fucking spineless worm.
THAT GUY LOOKS LIKE SOMEONE UPDATE: Will someone please tell me who the casino owner looks like? Be creative; I do call a character Humpty Dumpty afterall. Whoever he is, he looks worse and worse every week.
HOW ARTFUL UPDATE: "And then we'll pan out on Grandpa laying face up on the slot machines he crushed after falling off the balcony."
OK, I CAN'T RESIST UPDATE: I vas his gym teacher in high school. He couldn't climb ze rope.
TERRIBLE IDEA UPDATE: He's just mentioning the secret hand signals to the guy two minutes before the tournament starts in the busy casino within earshot of Humpty Dumpty?
ALMOST A PAUL ANKA QUOTE UPDATE: You're all on fucking notice!
A BRIEF SYNOPSIS OF WHAT A SEEMINGLY CONFUSED HUMPTY DUMPTY JUST SAID TO THE SQUINTY GUY UPDATE: I'm just trying to let you know who you're getting involved with. I'll fucking kill you.
I BET THIS TIME THE COCKY GUY WILL WIN UPDATE: Sure, cocky guys are like 0-23 in the first three episodes, but I have a good feeling about this one.
OH, THE WIT UPDATE: COCKY GUY WHO JUST MIGHT WIN THIS TIME: How'd you get the money for this, lad?
SQUINTY EDDIE: I robbed a Salvation Army kettle last Christmas.
COCKY GUY WHO JUST MIGHT WIN THIS TIME: That's how I got my career started.
I THINK THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE LIKE A SIGNIFICANT MORAL MOMENT UPDATE: WILL HE RERAISE?
OH, YOU'VE DISAPPOINTED ME UPDATE: Yes. You fucking spineless worm.
THAT GUY LOOKS LIKE SOMEONE UPDATE: Will someone please tell me who the casino owner looks like? Be creative; I do call a character Humpty Dumpty afterall. Whoever he is, he looks worse and worse every week.
HOW ARTFUL UPDATE: "And then we'll pan out on Grandpa laying face up on the slot machines he crushed after falling off the balcony."
The American Office: terrible
You still need to see The Office, just make sure it's the British version. As a prominent blogger averaging almost a dozen visitors a day, I was recently fortunate enough to see a sneak preview of the pilot of the American version (which should air sometime in March I believe). Don't waste your time with it.
1) Steve Carell is just plain bad as David Brent (or the American equivalent; they changed all the names and I don't remember them). He's reduced Brent, an egotistical, attention-seeking, approval-craving, oblivious "entertainer" into stupid, stupid, and stupid.
2) Gareth is a big nerd.
3) No Keith.
4) Tim needs to be British. There are no American people with any sense of subtelty.
5) Tim is only supposed to play pranks on Gareth, not Brent.
6) The British version, at only two six-episode seasons with an extra-long Christmas special to provide closure, will be impossible to duplicate in terms of the perfection of the story. If the show becomes successful (not likely), then the overarching story will drag like your average crap sitcom plot with on-again-off-again relationships and whatnot. Hell, in one season they'll have made it farther than the entire run of the British sitcom.
7) I chuckled a couple times but didn't really laugh once.
That's all I can think of now, but I'm sure there's more. The pilot is basically a remake of the first episode of the British series and afterwards it will move in its own direction, so I'm holding out some slim hope that the show can develop distinctive characters and really blossom in its own right. But whatever you do, don't judge the British version by its American counterpart if you haven't seen the British version yet. SEE THE BRITISH VERSION.
Thank God American TV isn't totally dead.
1) Steve Carell is just plain bad as David Brent (or the American equivalent; they changed all the names and I don't remember them). He's reduced Brent, an egotistical, attention-seeking, approval-craving, oblivious "entertainer" into stupid, stupid, and stupid.
2) Gareth is a big nerd.
3) No Keith.
4) Tim needs to be British. There are no American people with any sense of subtelty.
5) Tim is only supposed to play pranks on Gareth, not Brent.
6) The British version, at only two six-episode seasons with an extra-long Christmas special to provide closure, will be impossible to duplicate in terms of the perfection of the story. If the show becomes successful (not likely), then the overarching story will drag like your average crap sitcom plot with on-again-off-again relationships and whatnot. Hell, in one season they'll have made it farther than the entire run of the British sitcom.
7) I chuckled a couple times but didn't really laugh once.
That's all I can think of now, but I'm sure there's more. The pilot is basically a remake of the first episode of the British series and afterwards it will move in its own direction, so I'm holding out some slim hope that the show can develop distinctive characters and really blossom in its own right. But whatever you do, don't judge the British version by its American counterpart if you haven't seen the British version yet. SEE THE BRITISH VERSION.
Thank God American TV isn't totally dead.
Monday, January 24, 2005
Byron White to come out of retirement, rejoin Supreme Court next session (revised)
The original
DENVER--Former Supreme Court Justice Byron White will come out of retirement and return to the Supreme Court next session, he announced in a press conference Sunday. The announcement came after weeks of speculation that White was becoming bored with retirement and was looking to rejoin the court.
“I just needed a break in '93," White said of his retirement. "I was completely exhausted. I was drained and I started questioning whether presiding over the highest court in the nation was worth the physical stress, not to mention the emotional toll. I was away from my family all session. I just needed some time off." White insisted he had always wanted to be a part of the judicial branch of government, even after his retirement.
"I never wanted to leave the game forever," he said. "I tried commentary but it wasn't the same. I need to be out there on the bench making rulings, writing dissenting opinions, and being out there every night doing what I love to do." White, originally nominated to the bench by Dwight Eisenhower, said he was not worried about the age issue. "I know my body and I know I'm capable of getting out there every day and doing my job."
It is not known whether White will be able to shoulder the same load on the bench as he was before his retirement. “Of course a legend like [White] will always have the President’s respect,” said White House spokesman Scott McClellan the day after the announcement. “The question will be can he get out there and put out the kind of performance that he was known for in his prime. White will need to earn his ruling time just like anyone else on the court.”
Supreme Court watcher Jon Blane felt confident that White could do the job. "I know he's old, but White is still capable of going out there and giving 100% every night. Some of the younger players will have to go out there and earn their judicial time." Blane specifically said that Clinton appointees Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg would be the first to feel the heat from White's return. "Ginsburg has gone out there and made a name for herself. She may be a liberal under a conservative President, but she still sells tickets. Breyer has to watch out or he'll be on the bench soon."
Blane later clarified that he didn't mean the bench of the Supreme Court, but was simply making a sports metaphor.
Fans of the court had mixed reactions about the ruling. Murray Winslow expressed trepidation at the announcement. “Obviously, White could get it done back in the day, but the game has changed since then. I don’t know how he’ll be able to handle with the quicker pace of ruling today. He’s going to have to train if he wants to get back to his peak form.” Winslow, who had been attending Supreme Court cases since his father used to take him as a little boy, said he worried White would “tarnish [his] legacy.”
Washington resident Stephen Westie was much more optimistic. “I know White can get out there and make the Supreme Court proud.” Westie said he had been a White fan for years and said “I’m so excited I’ll be able to take my son to see White in person. That’s something we’ll always have.”
DENVER--Former Supreme Court Justice Byron White will come out of retirement and return to the Supreme Court next session, he announced in a press conference Sunday. The announcement came after weeks of speculation that White was becoming bored with retirement and was looking to rejoin the court.
“I just needed a break in '93," White said of his retirement. "I was completely exhausted. I was drained and I started questioning whether presiding over the highest court in the nation was worth the physical stress, not to mention the emotional toll. I was away from my family all session. I just needed some time off." White insisted he had always wanted to be a part of the judicial branch of government, even after his retirement.
"I never wanted to leave the game forever," he said. "I tried commentary but it wasn't the same. I need to be out there on the bench making rulings, writing dissenting opinions, and being out there every night doing what I love to do." White, originally nominated to the bench by Dwight Eisenhower, said he was not worried about the age issue. "I know my body and I know I'm capable of getting out there every day and doing my job."
It is not known whether White will be able to shoulder the same load on the bench as he was before his retirement. “Of course a legend like [White] will always have the President’s respect,” said White House spokesman Scott McClellan the day after the announcement. “The question will be can he get out there and put out the kind of performance that he was known for in his prime. White will need to earn his ruling time just like anyone else on the court.”
Supreme Court watcher Jon Blane felt confident that White could do the job. "I know he's old, but White is still capable of going out there and giving 100% every night. Some of the younger players will have to go out there and earn their judicial time." Blane specifically said that Clinton appointees Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg would be the first to feel the heat from White's return. "Ginsburg has gone out there and made a name for herself. She may be a liberal under a conservative President, but she still sells tickets. Breyer has to watch out or he'll be on the bench soon."
Blane later clarified that he didn't mean the bench of the Supreme Court, but was simply making a sports metaphor.
Fans of the court had mixed reactions about the ruling. Murray Winslow expressed trepidation at the announcement. “Obviously, White could get it done back in the day, but the game has changed since then. I don’t know how he’ll be able to handle with the quicker pace of ruling today. He’s going to have to train if he wants to get back to his peak form.” Winslow, who had been attending Supreme Court cases since his father used to take him as a little boy, said he worried White would “tarnish [his] legacy.”
Washington resident Stephen Westie was much more optimistic. “I know White can get out there and make the Supreme Court proud.” Westie said he had been a White fan for years and said “I’m so excited I’ll be able to take my son to see White in person. That’s something we’ll always have.”
Sunday, January 23, 2005
Must see: "The Office"
I've only seen through a couple episodes of the second season (the show only had two six-episode seasons along with a Christmas special), but I can pretty comfortably say this is one of the funniest and all-around best show in TV history. Download it, get the DVDs, and watch it. Maybe I'll give a more in-depth review later if I'm in the mood.
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