Coming early next year... to the UK, anyway. Who knows if it'll ever show up here.&nb...
Tuesday, November 30, 2004
Here are a couple of pics - the rest will go up on my self-restraint site when I get around to it. pics of the dinner are on the self-restraint site. The rest will follow.
E and I at the table.
A passing shot of Cleveland's clone of Columbus's Easton Town Centre, Legacy Village (of the Damned).&nb...
The following is a clip from the original Ocean's 11, starring the Rat Pack themselves - when they could be bothered to show up, sober, between shows, that is. I present this exchange between the characters played by Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Frank Sinatra, and (I think) Peter Lawford partly as social commentary, but mostly because it amuses me.
PLEASE DOWNLOAD, RATHER THAN STREAM - My free...
Friday, November 26, 2004
Among the items I dug up from my parents' house that I'm currently enjoying:The following episodes of Doctor Who that I taped from PBS over a decade ago: Destiny of the Daleks, Resurrection of the Daleks, and Rememberance of the Daleks. I missed a Dalek episode in there somewhere. There were actually about 2-3 other episodes per tape, but I'll get to those in due course. Watching Daleks totter...
I (think I) mentioned that E and I had our turkey earlier in the week with my parents in Clevesburg. E, not wanting to just sit and do nothing for the holiday, set up two tentative sets of plans with two sets of people, probably hoping one of them would pan out. Me -- I would've been happy to leave the Diamond Mine at 5:00, go home, eat some leftover turkey and chill for the rest of the evening....
Wednesday, November 24, 2004
Twelve years in the US, and the Osbornes had it good and were relatively safe. Two months back in the UK, and they got jacked...
Reward for lost rocks as Osbournes face reality
The Times
November 25, 2004OZZY Osbourne declared Los Angeles safer than rural Buckinghamshire in southern England yesterday as he announced a pound stg. 100,000 ($237,700) reward for his wife's stolen jewellery.Some interesting...
Tuesday, November 23, 2004
Well, E and I survived a long weekend with my family. Since my parents are leaving for the PI tomorrow, we had a pre-Thanksgiving dinner yesterday. Lots of food, including E's grandmother's recipe for Cranberry Relish! For perhaps the first time since I moved out, I feel sad to leave after a visit.
E really seemed to like the areas of Cleveland that I showed her. It genuinely made her sad to...
Sunday, November 21, 2004
Talk about a phrase I haven't heard in ages.
So far this weekend, I've been taking E to see some of my old Cleveland haunts - streets I used to run, coffee shops I used to go to, stores, schools, etc. It's funny how much has changed.
Right now, we're sitting in a coffee shop near the campus of the University where I started graduate school. There's a big building on the parking lot that's blocking...
Friday, November 19, 2004
*Sigh* Yet another road trip to C-Town this weekend, this time to attend some wedding of a cousin of mine. I mean "cousin" in Filipino terms, i.e. a family member, two or more degrees removed, of a friend of a family member.
I'm sure I'll scrounge up internet access from somewhere up there. If not, I'll return to the world next Wednesd...
Thursday, November 18, 2004
I'm not saying I'll ever stop my little hobby of deconstructing the so-called "traditional martial arts" I know to see what useful nuggets I can glean. But, looking at guys like Kimbo Slice in action, someone who reportedly learned to fight in jail and on "th3 str33t" (I saw it posted like that on the martial arts forum I linked to below - I'm a lemming, sue me.) it sort of makes you wonder why one...
At the State of the Union? The War on Terror?
No, I got really nauseous last night playing the game Half Life. I was given a disk forever and a day ago, and mostly ignored it because trying to play it on my old and busted laptop never worked right at the best of times. So, in typical fashion, I forgot I even owned it until I heard that Half Life 2 was just released.
I suppose it could have been...
Tuesday, November 16, 2004
Sunday, November 14, 2004
I spent 4 years and some change in the community mental health field providing one level of support or another, from a lowly grunt in direct care to a supervisor in direct care to community support case management. Not by choice or design, but all of my work happened to be exclusively with teenagers, and the majority of my caseloads were females. This didn't have anything to do with demographics...
Friday, November 12, 2004
I've got nothing constructive to write about, and I'm feeling a nice dose of ennui. So, in an effort to stir myself in some direction - any direction - I'll just B!tch, Moan and Whine about stuff.
ELECTION WOES
Hey, I didn't vote for him. I'd have sooner voted for Cobra Commander. Dubya won (arguably) fair and square, and there's really no one to blame but us. I was reading an op-ed by a poli-sci...
Thursday, November 11, 2004
Wednesday, November 10, 2004
Ashcroft, Evans Resign, White House SaysTue Nov 9, 6:05 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft and Commerce Secretary Donald Evans resigned on Tuesday in a post-election shake-up of President Bush's Cabinet.
Ashcroft, a lightning rod of criticism by Democrats and civil liberties groups over the anti-terror policies implemented after Sept. 11, 2001, said in a handwritten...
Author Warren Ellis once wrote in his Old Bastard's Manifesto,...if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.Which he then followed up with:I am part of the problem. F**k you.From DATU_B:
Confessions of a Cultural ElitistBy UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE/TED RALL
Win or Lose, Kerry Voters Are Smarter Than Bush Voters
NEW YORK--Democratic hand wringing is surrealy out of hand. No...
Even with good ol' Windows XP, you're still as vulnerable to stuff as you are mindless when you cruise file sharing services. All I wanted was a copy of an old .38 Special song and got no less than three adware trojans for my trouble. It only took me two hours to clean it all out (on my old comp with Windows 98, it took me about five), and I didn't even have to reinstall anything.
I considered...
Tuesday, November 09, 2004
I just found out I'm a mere two degrees of separation away from two of the coolest cats on the planet. From an IM conversation with E:E: Dude
E: you're not gonna believe this
d: what what??
E: I'm chatting with one of my students from China - she's been in HK studying film
d: uh huh...?
E: guess who she's taking...
I didn't have too much blogging inspiration over the past few days. And, it wasn't for lack of time or material. Just had other things to focus on. What'd you miss?
ITEM ONE
If I read one more thing with the word "SUNY" in it (i.e. State University of New York), I'm going to scream.
ITEM TWO
I don't know when it happened, but two of the tiny screws that held the clip to my Sog tac folder have...
Some NPR-idge
Jon Stewart's interview on Fresh Air - I wonder if Jon felt short-changed since Terry wasn't in that day.
Musicians in Their Own Words: Cassandra WilsonWeekend Edition - Saturday, March 6, 2004 · Jazz singer Cassandra Wilson likes to experiment with her band, testing the limits of the music and finding new places for her voice in the mix. The group is somewhat unusual for a vocalist....
Thursday, November 04, 2004
I've been doing other things besides cruise the web and toil in the diamond mines.
UNO
I've been taking E on another journey through the second-best sci-fi TV show that ever was, Red Dwarf. She's seen most of seasons I and II (the original versions, not the re-edited Lucas-style ones) and all of season VII. I just grabbed what I could from the 'rents' house. We've got all of season VIII to keep...
Here are some interesting tidbits I found surfing the web.
ISA
The Onion's Interview with Christopher Walken
DALAWA
Someone who got in trouble for blogging their mind [Obtained via Zoe Trope and RBJ.]
TATLO
Some NPR pieces I listened to over the past few days:Picturing the Homeless, on Their Terms
All Things Considered, October 24, 2004 · Gary Clark doesn't call himself a photographer. But over...
Tuesday, November 02, 2004
No, not as in "Dominus! Rectus!"
I'm not a tremendous believer in astrology. I debunked that when I was about 8 years old when I did a simple experiment. I noted the horoscope for one sign, say Leo, said something like "You'll meet an interesting Libra, today." I simply looked over at Libra, and it didn't say jack about meeting any Leos. I was feeling pretty self-satisfied for 8 when I realized...
Monday, November 01, 2004
I had to spend most of Saturday night at the Diamond Mines, but even if I didn't, I was completely indifferent to the idea of spending time at A-Town's annual Halloween orgy of debauchery and violence that would make Caligula blush party. Today is the first I've been uptown since then, and I can't see any readily apparent evidence of negative effects. Then again, I haven't read any of the local...
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