Insider – [TV Guide Online] The networks will all be creating exciting, innovative new spin-offs of today’s shows. Approximately 67 percent of all television will be CSI-based, including CSI: Des Moines, CSI: New York but a Different Part than Gary Sinise Is In and NCSI: SVU WKRP, which covers every possible gruesome crime with a groovin’ ’70s beat. (Jerry Bruckheimer will also have conquered Broadway with the CSI musical “FOLLICLE!” starring Nathan Lane as a frenetic but lovable blood spatter and Matthew Broderick as lint.) Lost has that one-of-a-kind alchemy that really can’t be copied. Therefore, look for the original…
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It’s so dark outside, and it’s 11 o’clock in the morning! And naturally, I’m stuck at work while David has one more day off. To add to the kvetchfest, my lunch is later than usual today and the cafeteria will probably be closed anyway, so I’ll have to go off-site. Meanwhile, it’s very foggy and socked in and rainy, and it’s washed almost completely away the memory of bright sunshine. Yuck. Bleargh.
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Mmmmmm. That was some good chicken! I started here, and made the Lemon Chicken with Garlic version. We didn’t mess around with making sauce from the pan drippings; an ill-considered decision to bung portobello mushrooms into the pan too early resulted in fragrant, flavorful charcoal in the bottom of the roasting pan. However, the chicken turned out to be delicious and juicy, with crispy skin and tons of herby flavor goodness. In addition to which, we made yummy latkes!! MMMMMMMMMMM!! We pretty much followed the recipe for Shirley Edelman’s Latkes to the letter: Shirley Edelman’s Latkes 5 large potatoes, peeled…
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British bloggers are risking a lot by getting this information out. In my own modest way, I have to help. I ran across this at Boing Boing: Ignoring UK Ban, bloggers publish leaked torture memos The following is from a speech former UK Ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray gave in York last February, after he’d been sacked for speaking out and before the Foreign Office’s attempt to censor his forthcoming book about his experience. The telegrams are quoted in full and there are graphic descriptions of torture, carried out in the name of “democracy” and “freedom” and “the war on…
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Michigan man bowls third 300 game of life, then dies PORTAGE, Mich. (AP) – He rolled the third perfect game of his life and then collapsed and died at the bowling alley. Sixty-nine-year-old Ed Lorenz bowled a 300 in his first game last night at Airway Lanes in Portage. In the middle of his second game, he clutched his chest and fell over. Efforts to revive him failed. Mom’s a good bowler – just don’t give her any ideas.
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To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing, end them. – Hamlet’s third soliloquy Chicago Tribune | Maureen Ryan | The Watchie Awards I’ve been meaning to look up links and information on the Canadian comedy series “Slings and Arrows” for a while now. It’s been on the Sundance Channel. It’s a theatrical comedy, with wit and barbs as sharp as rapiers (“Buttons OFF!”). The main character is Geoffrey, an actor…
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There are some movies that you see once in the theaters and forget. There are other movies that you see once in the theaters, forget, and watch once more when it comes to cable. And then you forget it again. There’s a third class of movies that you saw multiple times in theaters, bought the DVDs, and yet you STILL watch them when they show up on cable – this latter class includes the Lord of the Rings movies, the Harry Potter movies, and so on. One other type of movie seen in first run is the kind where you…
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I heard this one just now, and gave it the thundering silence it so richly deserved. Remember, people, if I’m talking to you on the phone at work, the clock is ticking! Don’t crack a joke unless it’s actually funny! Me (in just-the-facts mode): “What’s your phone number?” Caller (in sheepish I’m-such-a-hick mode): “It’s my pager.” Me (in crisper, fact-checking mode): “Pager number?” Caller (in damn-I’m-funny mode): “1-800-I-WISH-I-HAD-A-CELLPHONE” Me (in crickets chirping mode): … Caller (in damn-I’m-not-so-funny mode): “Sorry…” Me (in even more crisp JUST THE FACTS mode): “PHONE number?” Keep in mind, I can type at dictation speed, so…
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No one actually said this on Christmas Eve at Holy Moly. But there was a moment when it must have crossed someone’s mind. When I arrived at the church for a quick run-through of some of the music for that night’s service (which included an extra half-hour singing carols) there was a large altar party being walked through its route. There were about 4 times as many people as usual, what with extra torchbearers and other ecclesiastical supernumeraries, and they had a more complicated processional path to follow, in order to end up by the little creche that was set…
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This story in the Chicago Tribune got me wondering what the real deal was: Chicago Tribune | Winnetka couple arrested after standoff A nearly four-hour police standoff in downtown Winnetka came to an end this morning after a couple who allegedly threatened an officer and barricaded themselves in an apartment surrendered. “They carried him out in his underwear,” said Tim Klein, 13, a neighborhood youth who watched as police brought the couple out of their apartment. “Then a woman came out in her nightgown, and she got into the police car.” The incident began about 5 a.m. when a police…