Saturday night we went to see Batman Begins. It was pretty good, but I thought it dragged in some spots. David liked it better than I did. Afterwards, we went to Brass for dinner and a nice pubbrew. A great evening. By far, the best part was the TRAILERS. Specifically, the Big Damn Movie Trailer! I made an involuntary W00T! noise and clapped, before David even figured out what it was. Watched with rapt attention (because I never seem to be able to nab tickets to the Sneak Previews, another of which is June 23rd and totally sold out). At…
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going jesus totally cracked me up today. Sara’s been watching Davey and Goliath reruns on TiVo, which started a nice ramble down memory lane. She notes that the Loot’rans have their own cartoon show, and we don’t, darn it. Guess “EpiscoBoy and His Sidekick Angly The Anglican Armadillo” is stuck in development hell. For that, I would totally get up early on Sundays and eat Froot Loops before toddling off to be all churchy. As I had all kinds of stuff yesterday, I could have used a bowl of Froot Loops early in the morning, since I had to make…
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Yesterday was the Day of the African Child, and international aid officials that met to mark the day noted that it would cost approximately 1 billion dollars per year to adequately care for the millions of children in Africa orphaned by AIDS or war or famine. The money is needed to pay for school fees or health care. A small investment in Africa’s children now means more stable societies in the future, because the people are educated and productive. This seems like another good reason to make poverty history. BBC NEWS | Africa | Appeal to help Africa’s orphans
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When we were on our recent trip to Washington state (or as I used to call it, “the Pacific Northwet,”) I noticed all the “tsunami escape route” signs, which are similar to the ones we’ve seen on trips to Hawaii. I wondered then what a devastating wave might do to some of the coastal communities we were in, and it seemed like they were pretty well up on the tidal wave preparedness angle. After yesterdays’ 7.0 undersea quake, which was supposed to automatically trigger a general evacuation once it was confirmed, it turns out that for many Pacific coast communities,…
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Hey! Everybody Googling “brian and greg smith amazing race,” “brian and greg wrecked car,” and especially “ugly hats” please visit Brian’s site: brian . thomas . smith It’s a great looking site with incredible head shots of Brian (obviously working the reality angle for his career), but oh, dear, the HTML is all tables. Gah! No CSS! And it has spacer .gifs! Urrrkkkh! Bri – I know someone in LA who might be able to help redesign that site, dude. Also the contact information doesn’t work, but that’s probably for the best. P.S. There’s a perfectly good site name for…
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Amendola, a veteran character actor, added that his character, a mentor to Teal’c (Christopher Judge), will appear several times during year nine. “Last season, primarily, our enemy had been destroyed,” he said. “The war essentially ended. And now it’s a question of how do you make the peace? And how do you make the peace when you’ve be warring with each other, as factions, for thousands of years and only came together to defeat a common enemy? Now that the enemy is gone, how do you maintain the peace? How do you create a governance? It’s very timely. I’ve already…
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BBC NEWS | Americas | ‘Freedom fries’ lawmaker’s U-turn Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) has reversed his support for the Iraq war and now wants the troops brought home. He was formerly an adamant supporter of the war who led the whole Congressional “Freedom Fries” campaign to rename fried potatoes to get back at those wimpy peaceloving French bastards. His change of heart took place when he attended the funeral of a US sergeant and listened as the widow read her husband’s last letter home. He’s attended a lot of funerals, actually, and written over 1,300 letters of condolence, and he…
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… whether Michael Jackson is guilty or not. Naturally, everyone in the office is all a-quiver and jumping online to try to find live video. I can hear live feed-type audio coming from all over. Naturally, this will slow the office network to a crawl. If only the Onion had a live feed. That would be a lot more bearable. And of course now I’m curious enough to try to get a live feed going, but must try to resist. But if he’s guilty and he starts to cry in court, I’m betting his nose falls off. UPDATE: Huh? Okay,…
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This sounds like something that would be fun to do some Saturday: Community Sing at the Masthouse If it’s anything like McMenamin’s was in Seattle a couple of weeks ago, it would be awesome. No drinking – fine, it’s a private home. No smoking – AWESOME.
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The G8 ministers are attending next month’s summit are invited to bag the lavish banquet they’ll be served one night at Gleneagles, Scotland and have a single bowl of rice on Devonshire Green with some nice people from MakePovertyHistory.org. More information: G8: You’re Invited! Please RSVP