War of the Worlds

Came home and the wife and daughter were watching Eloise at Christmastime. I'd just made it to the lbrary in time to pick up War of the Worlds (2005) the one directed by Spielberg. The wife and daughter were tired from their swim lock-in and sleepover and went to bed early. I watched it and it's quite good and fast passed.

Browsing channels, there's quite a bit on, commercial breaks not withstanding. Bravo has Apocalypse Now (1979) but too many commercials and full screen (ugh). I think this is the redux version. I thought I watched that some months back, but I don't remeber Clean's burial or Willard talking with some women French woman. AMC has Taxi Driver (1976) but again commercials and full screen. TCM is running Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) in letterbox.

Football: Ohio State vs Michigan

After hearing on NPR that a Bo Schembechler, who coached Michigan from 1969 to 1989, died yesterday, I predict that this will rally Michigan to a win. We'll see later today.

Went in and worked. Found that the score was Ohio State 42, Michigan 39. Close. I wish I'd seen some of it.

T.G.I. Friday's with David

(Woo hoo! This is my 100th post!)

Worked late and called David who was doing the same. Went over to Vineyard and chatted for a few while we decided where to go. We went to T.G.I. Friday's and the bacon chesseburger was so-so. I think I got the heart of a mediterranian onion. It was acrid and terrible. Normally, I love onion, but not this time. I think I'm just spoiled by Chesseburger in Paradise. They are just excellent. And the Cuban sandwich was great too.

Conversation was all over, including his cool new phone with videos from YouTube. I need to be using Firefox. We talked about being able to save videos off of YouTube and hopefully other sites using it. There's a couple of Miracle Legion videos I've seen streaming elsewhere that I'd like to keep.

Aluminum foil makes an excellent "lamp-shade". David will understand this.

I'm off to get some sleep as I will need to go back in to finish up several things that all showed up in the past couple of days at work. But, I'm wearing sweats!

(written early 11/18/2006; back-dated to late 11/17/2006)
(I need to adjust the time or this will show before my other post for 11/17)

Found - Shawn Colvin

I've been wanting to play Sunny Came Home for nearly a week and last night I found the CD. I kept looking when I was in a hurry for a yellow CD, but it's only yellow on the inside. I brought it to work and added it to my music here. I immediately played Sunny Came Home and enjoyed it, and I was thinking that I didn't need to keep any of the other tracks from it since I've tried to listen to the entire CD for years and have never been able to get into it.

Growing tired of my current "stuff3" playlist over the past new weeks, I've been looking for some new music and had the player jumping randomly after each song later in the day. It picked If I Were Brave which is so simple and yet so powerful.

I'm so glad I found this song today.

Retro Post - 12/24/2004

I was looking over some older files and found photos from the ice storm we had over the night of December 23 and 24th, 2004.

Click here to see the post and photos.

Morning Radio

Heard most of Tracy Chapman's song Fast Car this morning on the drive into work. I like that song and I love the way she sings. Hope Vitellas, from the free show in June at the Carabar, reminded me of Chapman with her power and presence. It goes back to something I read about the mid or late 1990's concert at Woodstock - the commercial one. There was something about how she and her lone guitar went out after other bigger name bands, U2 comes to mind, and that she still captivated the audience. I checked on Wikipedia and there were several Woodstock Festivals. Looking over Tracy Chapman, I don't see her listed there. The event that I read about may have been either the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute or the Amnesty International Human Rights Now! Tour. Both of these took place in 1988. Or she could have been on tour with U2.

One station is playing Christmas music already and I caught most of John Lennon's Happy Xmas (War Is Over).

Vanity Plate - R WE THER

Saw this on the way to work: "R WE THER" short for "Are we there?" I wonder if anyone has "THERE YET" or similar?

(writtten 11/15/2006; back-dated to 11/14/2006)

Ed Bradley (1941 - 2006)

Just found out that Ed Bradley [wikipedia] died yesterday. Damn.

Happy Halloween from Number 21

Below are a couple of pics of Monarch Henchman #21 which were my inspiration. It looks like I need to re-dye the shorts, top, gloves and "boots" in a shade of orange. Rit's Golden Yellow #42 is not the color I needed.