Katie the Wonder Dog came for a visit last weekend – actually, we had her for 3 nights starting on Thursday. She took quite a liking to the soft velour cushions on the leather sofa. Yes, we’re quite the indulgent dogsitters when it comes to Katie’s comfort. She just looked so cute curled up into as small a ball as possible, so that she could fit on top of one cushion. We took a lot of pictures, with and without tripods and external flash and photographic whatnottery. The last night, people in the neighborhood were shooting off fireworks, so she…
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Weather Forces NASA to Delay Landing – Yahoo! News I’m trying not to worry, but I’ll be very relieved when Discovery lands tomorrow. The delay today is weather-related, but the insulation material that worked its way loose is still a big concern. This thumbnail shows astronaut Steve Robinson making a self-portrait with the reflective shield on his helmet during his historic trip to the underside of the Space Shuttle to check the heat shield and remove stray pieces of “gap filler” material. Like everyone, I hope they all make it down safe.
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It’s a state of mind and a state of being. I’m always a little (or more than a little) behind. Would that I had one too, but alas. There’s a lot going on – new great-niece in the family, more family doings coming up in August and September, meetings and more meetings, and it’s all starting to crowd up on the calendar. Yikes! Can I take a vacation from all this?
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Twin brothers Cameron and Damien Barrett want to make a dream come true. They want to be on 9th (or 10th) season of The Amazing Race. Only hitch in this plan no one has called them back. Yet. Being identical twins they hope they stand out from the crowd enough to get the prized spot. But, to help things progress they sent in a video, and just started up a blog about their quest. Hey, I’ll throw in with TV Squad and add my modest Google juice in a good cause. It’s one of my dreams, but these guys have…
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Amazing Race: Season 3, Episode 1 Of COURSE I’ve been catching up on the first 2 seasons of TAR, which have just been re-run on GSN. I’m so happy to finally feel the love for Kevin and Drew (TAR1 fan favorites) and Danny and Oswald (TAR2 fan favorites). Last night was the finale of the second season, which saw Chris/Alex, Tara/Wil, and Blake/Paige battle it out to the finish line in San Francisco. Incidentally, now I finally feel the hate for Taraweasel. But tonight, we’re finally cooking with gas, because it’s the premiere of the third season. My season. The…
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Chicago Tribune | Yahoo Wants to Look for Music Okay, I have a Yahoo address, and I’ve been adding more and more content to “my” Yahoo page. And I like Internet radio, but can’t always play it successfully at work. So I checked out the new music service at Launch. First of all – ease of use. It’s very easy to start listening, with no firewall problems at work, so that’ll increase the chances that I’ll use it both at work and at home. Second, although I haven’t used the search feature much, I can see that I’ll probably use…
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Highlander: The Source, envisioned as the first of three new films in the popular supernatural franchise, will shoot in Lithuania starting in October, according to an announcement by Davis-Panzer Productions, Sequence Films and Grosvenor Park. Brett Leonard (Lawnmower Man) will direct, with Adrian Paul playing the immortal Scottish swordsman Duncan MacLeod. Okay, I’m a Highlander fan. I own three (3) little tchotchkes shaped like the famous dragon-head katana: a necklace, a pen, and a rather cool if I do say so letter opener. I’ve blogged before about my HL fan-past. And the word among fans has been going around about…
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Chicago Tribune | ‘Welcome to the Neighborhood’: Roll out the unwelcome wagon Another judge, speaking of the black family, discovers “what nice, pleasant and even well-versed people they are.” Not nice enough, however, to actually win the house. After rejecting the Koreans (too foreign), the witches (too scary), the stripper (too controversial), the tattoo aficionados (too weird-looking) and the Hispanics (too loud), the judging families are left with two finalists: the black family and the gay family. To help make the decision, the judges decide to visit the existing homes of the two finalists. The house where the black family…
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Teenager Takes Petition To Downing Street A British teen is taking 2,000 signed petition cards to Downing Street in London in an effort to keep attention focused on world poverty. It came out of an event sponsored by the Church of England, which has reasons of its own to keep the MakePovertyHistory movement going. What with all the terrorism news, it seems like MPH has gotten pushed off the international radar, but it’s still there, still pushing toward the goal.
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Minnesota Public Radio’s Fitzgerald Theater: A Prairie Home Companion Movie I thought David was kidding the other morning when he told me about this. It was on one of the NPR weekend news shows – I must have been completely unconscious, or perhaps I was downstairs indulging in Honey Nut Cheerios and fooling around with the iPod. IN any case, the thought of a movie about PHC, set backstage at the (fictitious) last broadcast, directed by (this is not fictitious) Robert Altman is just sixty-seven kinds of surreal. Woody Harrelson is in it. Why? Meryl Streep is in it. Why?…