Soo Innocent

He's soo innocent looking especially when TJ is begging. If you look closer you will see an arm behind him. He ran down the street awhile back and came back with this "prize."

Somewhere in Richmond Maine there is a young child with an armless stuffed animal. TJ does love his arm.

An Uber Wedding and the Top Shows on TV

(Above Aidan enjoys some Lobster before breathing fire)





Rob and Jenn were married last night. The wedding was held on Sebago lake while the reception was at a reception hall Rob's uncle purchased recently on a pond near Grey. We had a lot of swimming, vollyball, horseshoes, pool, ping pong, football etc. I think I did a number on my finger playing football as its huge, black and blue and very painful. I'll have to keep this brief since I use the excellent two finger typing method so I'm kind of down to one finger.

The first picture of Aidan and Fromzy actually came out pretty good which is a rarity on my poor overly abused camera. You can see the pond in the background. Aidan's dinner looks very good. We had a ton of steak and lobster left later in the night. Rob made a bunch of lobster rolls and steak sandwitches. Those made for some great late night snacks. Finding an unopened Power Puff Girl puzzle was also quite the late night treat.

Anyways Rob and Jenn, it was fun. I believe Jenn has a nice new digital camera so hopefully the two of you will be putting up some nice pictures. Brian and Fromzy, hats off to you for playing the longest game of pool ever.

Blogger is having some picture issues. I threw some up here. (having FTP issues may be up in a couple of days)





The Best Shows on Television

Lost --->Easily the best show on TV and perhaps the greatest first season of any show.
The Red Green Show --->Even after all these years this show is just as funny.
Baseball Tonight --->I love the team of hosts, especially Gammons.
SpongeBob --->Years from now this show will be considered art.
Battlestar Gallactica ---> A great show but not totally consistent.
Family Guy --->Pushing the envelope for decency but at this point better than the Simpsons.
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I don't mind reality TV but its not as good as a nice gripping drama or a half crazed sponge.
I do not watch all that much primetime TV so this list is limited to what I have seen. If I am going to watch TV it will typically be a movie or a Ball game. ESPN thinks it is ok to make you pay to look at their site which is why I have no links there. Its funny that ESPN makes more money than the Disney theme parks and ABC. Fantasy sports has turned into a billion dollar industry. Speaking of which, Football, basketball and hockey begin soon!
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This site is a riot. Sam is perhaps the world's ugliest dog? Man, he sure is ugly.

Garfield on the Economy

Oh Garfield, even after all these years you manage to get yourself into such crazy situations. Poor Odie never gets any smarter and as the years progress we see less and less of Pookie. Why is that Garfield? Did you have a bit of a falling out with Pookie?

The Grand Canyon This looks really cool. I will definately go here once this is built.

Cats in Sinks: Internet, what new surprises will you bring?

I really should have guessed the ending for Oldboy. The whole movie builds up to it and is actually quite obvious. Oldboy has been a critic favorite for some time now. It was just released on DVD. This is yet another good Korean film, good but not great. I did not like it as much as most critics did. I still think it is a very good film and highly original. I had originally heard about the film as many critics were giving it their movie of the year honors over the Lord Of the Rings. It is a very deep film, a thinking person's film, yet also a bit of an action movie.
Ebert sums it up well as always: "It is also, really, the beginning of the movie, the point at which it stops being a mystery and becomes a tragedy in the classical sense. I will not reveal the several secrets that lie ahead for Oh, except to say that they come not as shabby plot devices, but as one turn after another of the screws of mental and physical anguish and poetic justice."

There is a good article about the US economy on yahoo: People love their debt. They love their big SUV's and their giant homes.

You owe $145,000. And the bill is rising every day. That's how much it would cost every American man, woman and child to pay the tab for the long-term promises the U.S. government has made to creditors, retirees, veterans and the poor.
And it's not even taking into account credit card bills, mortgages — all the debt we've racked up personally. Savings? The average American puts away barely $1 of every $100 earned.
Our profligate ways at home are mirrored in Washington and in the global marketplace, where as a society America spends $1.9 billion more a day on imported clothes and cars and gadgets than the entire rest of the world spends on its goods and services.
A new Associated Press/Ipsos poll finds that barely a third of Americans would cut spending to reduce the federal deficit and even fewer would raise taxes.
If those figures seem out of whack to you, if they seem to cut against the way you learned to handle money, if they seem like a recipe for a national economic nightmare — well, then, at least you're not alone.

The Rock

Hollywood will make a movie about anything these days. Doom looks silly but those FPS scenes look interesting and the movie looks fun, bad but fun.

Memoirs of the Geisha or "Suyuri" has quite a few great actors and actresses. I liked the book but it did kind of fall short of my expectations. The trailer is less than impressive. This one is going to be all about the acting.

I just saw two great date movies. Hitch and The 40 Year Old Virgin. 40 YOV was funnier. It has the same director as the television show Freeks and Geeks and Undeclared and some of the same actors. Steve Carrell will soon be filming the follow up to Bruce Almighty, taking the lead role.
Hitch was pretty cool and Will Smith was quite good. Eva Mendes was also impressive.


I accidently found this animal blog. I was probably searching for local Maine sites and ofcourse quite a few deal with animals. Its a funny idea that obviously many people have taken an interest in. Let's see, we have Diva Kitty and the Fluffies: Orlando Bun: Diva Kitty's and who knows who else. If you look at the profiles which I am probably the only person who has the time to do this, you can see who has the interest, Timothy Hay.
Bastya the Hamster has the following interests: Sleeping, eating, grooming, digging, sniffing, escaping, shredding, yogurt treats, papaya treats, bananas, noodles, spinach, timothy hay, sunflower seeds, toilet paper, my magical ball, chewing wires, running in my wheel, driving the Tall Things crazy, keeping a lookout over my domain.

Bastya also has a very good site.

Hottest Actors for the Summer of 2005

I figured this or next weekend may be the last good swimming weekends of the Summer. Today was supposed to be a day of Disk Golf and swimming until the rain came in. Thats ok as it gives me time to catch up on cleaning.
Watched Out of Time last night which was pretty good. It bombed in theaters, probably due to its release date. I loved the location shooting in and around Miami.

The Entertainment Weekly that came today features who they believe were the breakout stars of the Summer. Paul Giamatti is there yet again for his work in Cinderella Man. He will be staring in the new M Night Shyamalan film due in 2006. Ian McDiarmid is there for his work in Star Wars, Miranda July for Me and Everyone you Know, Amy Adams for Junebug. Dakota Fanning for War of the Worlds and how she upstaged Tom Cruise. Vince Vaughn for Wedding Crashers and Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Cillian Murphy is there for Batman Begins and Red Eye. Matt dillon is there for Crash and Herbie (Sigh I missed Herbie!) To round out the list is Angelina Jolie for breaking up a marriage but still looking soo good.

I'd say this is a pretty good list with the exception of the Star Wars entry. That movie just needs to go away and never come back. I feel for this generation of children who have had to endure such disappointment at such a young and fragile age.
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Oldboy and Layercake come out on DVD this week. These are two movies that should not be missed.

This guy may have a very marketable name if he turns pro.

This is a real headline I guess.


(from Dave Berry's Site, I cannot believe he did it again)
Be advised that the individual formerly known as "P. Diddy," and former to that known as "Puffy," "Puff Daddy," "Sean Combs" and "Some Guy Who Has Somehow Become Very Rich and Famous Even Though Nobody Seems To Know What He Actually Does," has announced that he wishes henceforth to be called, quote, "Diddy." All personnel are instructed to refer to Diddy accordingly, and to monitor this space constantly in case Diddy changes his mind. That is all.

Jarhead

"Welcome to the Suck." Thats an interesting tagline for Jarhead. This could be the great movie of the year...The trailer is visually stunning. Getting the two big academy award names from last year doesnt hurt.

Alexander: This movie bombed in the theaters and was really not all that good. What interests me is the history or more specifically, the historical sources used. Movies like this do not really have all that many sources to draw from as there are not all that many historical documents from those times. Anthony Hopkins plays Ptolemy, a childhood friend and eventual first Alexander biographer. What I found interesting is the movie uses another historical writer for a great deal of its source to the point of quoting the book line for line. The line "He is planning to cross from Europe to Asia but he cannot cross from one couch to another without stumbling" was quoted word for word in the movie. This is quoted from Plutarch who does not shy away from using actual dialogue in his books even though he wrote his Alexander history four centuries after it occurred. The movie still depicts Alexander as a lover of the arts and a great man. Most historians do consider him a military genius and the greatest at incorporating conquered cities into his own armies while leaving them with a good deal of independence. It fails to mention that his first act as king was to destroy Thebes, one of his own cities, and pillage, rape and kill the entire city while selling the 20,000 survivors into slavery.

I'm curious if anyone has ever seen the old clip where the guy hits a foul ball, breaks a woman's nose, then as she is being brought off on a stretcher he hits another foul ball and hits her again as she is being carried off....Classic.

I gotta Have more Cow bell!

Man dies after 50 hours of computer games

Stuff on My Cat

Catboxing

Kittenwar







I have done over 24 hours in a row so I guess 50 is possible:

SEOUL (Reuters) - A South Korean man who played computer games for 50 hours almost non-stop died of heart failure minutes after finishing his mammoth session in an Internet cafe, authorities said Tuesday.
The 28-year-old man, identified only by his family name Lee, had been playing on-line battle simulation games at the cybercafe in the southeastern city of Taegu, police said.
Lee had planted himself in front of a computer monitor to play on-line games on Aug. 3. He only left the spot over the next three days to go to the toilet and take brief naps on a makeshift bed, they said.
"We presume the cause of death was heart failure stemming from exhaustion," a Taegu provincial police official said by telephone
Lee had recently quit his job to spend more time playing games, the daily JoongAng Ilbo reported after interviewing former work colleagues and staff at the Internet cafe.
After he failed to return home, Lee's mother asked his former colleagues to find him. When they reached the cafe, Lee said he would finish the game and then go home, the paper reported.
He died a few minutes later, it said

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