Stuff about me.
NBC has cancelled “The Book of Daniel”, the TV show about a drug addicted Episcopal priest whose family includes a drug dealing daughter and promiscuous son. The show also characterizes Jesus as a sidekick to Daniel.
Do you think there are producers working for NBC that are scratching their heads and wondering why a show that addresses “spiritual issues” isn’t being watched?
It amazes me how these networks completely misunderstand their audience.
Steve Jobs became even richer yesterday when Disney announced it is buying Pixar (Jobs is founder and CEO) for $7.4 billion. Yes, with a “B”.
I suppose it had to. The only Disney’s own animated studios haven’t put out a hit movie since “The Lion King”. The days of “Little Mermaid” and “Beauty and the Beast” are long gone. Anyone remember the debacle that was “Brother Bear”?
In the mean time Pixar has had hit after hit. They ignore the PC pandering and put out hits like “Toy Story”, “Monsters Inc.” and “The Incredibles”.
The only way this will be successful is if Disney stays away from Pixar’s creative decisions. If day Disney pushes a Pixar movie with an environmental message is the day we see Pixar’s first flop.
Why is “protesting” now a synonym for jerk? Yesterday, anti-globalization protestors took the Olympic torch from an athlete running the torch in Italy.
In the past, protesting meant drawing people’s attention to your cause. Now it seems to mean demonstrating how much of an ass you are. Why do these people think that will change anyone’s mind. The only thing it proves is that anti-globalization is the position of selfish people. Who wants to join that movement?
I was flipping stations on the way home from work tonight and landed on Art Bell. If you don’t know, Bell hosts a late night show that focuses on the paranormal. I’m not a fan of the show but this one caught my attention.
Art was describing the events that led to the death of his wife, Romona, earlier this month on January 5th. They were travelling in their RV and Romona began having problems with her athsma. In Laughlin Neveda, they stopped at an RV park. Art stayed up with his wife through the night while they waited for the medication she took to work. Finally, Romona told him she was feeling better and they went to bed early in the morning.
They went to bed and he put his arm around her and said “I love you.” She said “I love you too.” I’m sure you’ve guessed those were the last words they said to each other.
Art woke up at about 1:30 PM alone in the bed. He went out into the living room part of the RV and found his wife’s body on the couch. The best guess is that shortly after Art fell asleep, Romona got up and went into the living room to use a nebulizer treatment. The coroner said she either fell asleep or passed out before dying. She was 47.
Art said the coroner sent him a letter with some advice for people on how to treat their loved ones. The coroner said that he sees many people who wish for one more minute with their loved one to say the “I love you” that they didn’t say the last time they parted. This is why I never leave the house or let Honeybun leave without giving her a kiss saying those words. I’m serious – every time.
I found out tonight that Sixpence None the Richer is apparently sixpence not together anymore. The good news is that lead singer Leigh Nash is going solo and will have an album out this year. Woohoo!
She even has a blog where you can hear a demo of a song that will be on the album.
Just updated the iPod with Death Cab for Cutie, Mazzy Star, and Steve Taylor.
Death Cab for Cutie is one of those 10-year overnight sensations. That is, they’ve been putting out indie releases for years and have just had their first release on a major label.
The Mazzy Star album is “So Tonight That I Might See” released in 1993 – easily their best. If you like a psychadelic style, you need to check them out. I had the cassette tape when it first came out but never got around to buying the CD. Well, thanks to an iTunes gift card for Christmas, it was time.
The gift card also got me the Steve Taylor “Meltdown” album from 1983. Steve Taylor was a “Christian” act. He had a long solo career spanning into the late 90’s. He is certainly a Christian but he never was an evangelizer. His music was generally social commentary from a Christian perspective with a lot of humor thrown in. His biting wit frequently targeted so-called Christian beliefs he disagreed with. For instance his “I Blew Up the Clinic Real Good” from the album I Predict 1990 mocked abortion clinic bombers. (If you know where I can get a copy of that one on CD, let me know.)
Meltdown was his first full length album. Taylor was “alternative” before alternative was cool. Probably why I’m such a fan of the genre.
DownsizeDC.org wants to pass legislation requiring legislators to know actually read the bills they vote on. They call it the “Read the Bills Act“.
It is a great idea doomed to failure. No one in congress is going to pass a law creating more work for themselves.
Then again, this group is against the Patriot Act so maybe the idea isn’t that good after all.
Thursday night was my first class of the new semester. The class is technical editing. Many people in the program warned me to not take any other classes while I’m in this one. Supposedly it is challenging and time consuming.
There are only seven students in the class. I am the only man. Yep, six other women. I’m not sure why the technical communications program has so many more women than men. Yes, there is a writing component but this program is also heavy in technological courses like html and xml coding, mulitmedia authoring – things that women generally aren’t known to flock to.
Then there is the problem that men are outnumbered by women in college these days. It sure is evident in my program. Where did all the men go?
I actually spell checked my last post using Blogger’s spell check before I sent it. Yes, amazing I know.
My question is how does a spell checker on a blogging site not know the words “blog” and “blogging”? That would be like MS Word not knowing how to spell “word processor.”
I think I brought the flu back from New Mexico with me. What to do when you’re sick?
A. Watch daytime TV.
B. Blog.
C. Drink IBC.
Since A is worse than being sick, I’m going with B & C. I’m pretty sure medical experts agree that IBC rootbeer shortens the duration of the flu by at least 3 to 4 minutes.
As for blogging, I see the New York Times published a fake photo today (hat tip Powerline Blog). The caption claims to show the remains of a missile that destroyed from a home in Pakistan. This is supposedly the result of an airstrike from a Predator Drone the happened on January 13th that is getting protests from Pakistani citizens. Yahoo News changed their caption to claim it is “unexploded ordinance”. The catch here is that the attack was from a predator drone which doesn’t carry ordinance. American Thinker has a through debunking of claim.
Is this another case of “fake but accurate” reporting that CBS news invented with the forged Air National Guard memo?