To some extent, the breakdown of the traditional September-to-May TV schedule is a good thing. The new order better lends itself to short-run series at any time of the year. In the last weeks, I’ve gotten into a couple of USA’s summer shows, In Plain Sight and Burn Notice. I don’t know what the schedule is for the latter, but In Plain Sight had its season finale tonight. Unfortunately, that means it won’t be around again until next season. Grrr!
I’m sure Lou Dobbs would be horrified. About two weeks ago, a small, dark invader brazenly crossed the border with our neighbor to the south. Upon arriving, he rapidly set about stealing to fill his belly. Some questioned how long this could last; others lay awake at night—unable to sleep with this vermin prowling about. After weeks of terrorizing the middle class population, he was finally brought down. It is not clear whether it was his greed or low intelligence that was his downfall, but down he went. Doubt remains as to whether he was solely responsible for all of … Continue Reading
This post is not about make-up. I found a blog theme I like; it’s a clean, simple, two-column design that gets the list of pages out of the sidebar. The “Legal Jargon” and “Constitution” pages are now accessible from tabs along the banner. You now have to click through to a separate page to read posts, but I’ll change that if enough people tell me they don’t like having to do that.
The transition was not as simple as I expected it would be, especially as I have changed my theme before. Continue Reading
I had never really thought about what broccoli is. I mean, I know it is a vegetable, but that’s a pretty vague term. It’s actually inexcusable as I knew the term “broccoli floret”. I thought that just meant it was the broccoli equivalent of a flower. No, each of those little green things is a flower bud. This year, my mother planted some broccoli in the vegetable garden and let it go long enough for the flowers to bloom. Being me, I decided to eat one of the little flowers. It was great! Broccoli flowers taste, as you would guess, a lot like broccoli. Continue Reading
I am making some changes to the blog. I have already changed the font from a serif to a san-serif one, but I am not seeking comment on it as I intend to completely change the look of this blog in the coming days.
Content is supposed to be king, but it has been more a grand duke, lately. Therefore, I want to begin posting series of posts on giving topics to provide some cohesion to at least some of the posts and to motivate me to post on a regular basis. Continue Reading
It’s LOLBush from the Guardian online!
As Jessi posted about, she, Brad, Bert, Toni, and I went to Starved Rock State Park for some hiking. For a period in the late 90s, my cousin and I hiked there two or three times a year, so I was definitely having some nostalgic feelings (and annoying others with them) throughout the day. In those days, a canteen of water was enough to get me through the whole hike. I suspect that the biggest problem was that I had not had much to eat and that I had started the day somewhat dehydrated. Continue Reading
I have discussed the electoral trials and tribulations of Gordon Brown and the Labour Party since May. In addition to financial problems and historic lows in opinion polling, Labour has lost local elections around the country, the race for Mayor of London, and a relatively safe seat in a by-election. The party also failed to reach 5% (thus losing its deposit) in another by-election. Today was another painful chapter for Labour. They lost a by-election (special election) for a very safe Labour seat, Glasgow East. Continue Reading
Sorry, got distracted there. I’m watching (and have just paused) Pride & Prejudice, starring Her Wondrous Beauty, the vivacious and spectacular Keira Knightley, whose eyes and smile make…ahem, um, right. As the initial heart racing on seeing my princess began to subside, I was confronted with Rosamund Pike, who is one of the three prettiest actress to have appeared on Foyle’s War: the first episode, actually. She was rather good in that, but her character was a brat, so the role may not be the best test. We’ll see how she does with Jane Bennet. (Unpause.) Continue Reading
DuPage County State’s Attorney Joe Birkett is not one of my favorite people. In fact, I will be tempted to vote in the Republican primary in 2010 just to vote against his bid for governor (I won’t, but I’ll be tempted). This douchy statement about donations from defense attorneys with cases in DuPage caught my attention:
“There is great respect for my office and the work we do and that includes the defense bar,” Birkett said. “They’ve never asked for anything and never receiving anything for their contributions. If you think about it, the defense bar wants aggressive prosecutions. That is when people are in most need of defense counsel.” Continue Reading