Radio on television

I am listening to a interview on Fresh Air with the director of Taxi and he remembers telling the writers of Taxi that they had created a great radio show. Makes sense if you think about it.

Radio on television

I am listening to a interview on Fresh Air with the director of Taxi and he remembers telling the writers of Taxi that they had created a great radio show. Makes sense if you think about it.

What the?

I see congress is losing it collective mind over the Dubai ports thing. Wouldn't it have been nice if these bozos would have paid this much attention to the obvious lies about going to war and the illegal wire tapping of citizens? Congress: Making itself less relevant everyday. Being in congress must really be a gravy train if these guys are so willing to do absolutely nothing about anything. Is there a ball-cutting machine at the entrance these guys use, or what? They must have their balls cut off and then are handed a check for one million dollars and then told to sit over there and shut up unless something pointless comes along that will allow to look like you are doing something. Think Sue Myrick and her anti-beaner stuff.

This just in

From a NY Times article: "Despite the daily carnage in Iraq, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Iran might be an even bigger danger. "We may face no greater challenge from a single country than from Iran," she said, describing that country's leadership as "the central banker for terrorism," an oppressor of its own people, a fomenter of unrest in the Middle East, and a would-be member of the nuclear-weapons club.""

Dear Sec State Rice,
Everything you just said was already said by anti-Iraq-war people a couple of years ago. But, thanks anyway for reminding us.

It's Time

After this Sports Illustrated article there is now no longer any debate how Barry Bonds became the unnatural hulking beast of a couple of years ago. He consumed steriods like a fat kid consumes zingers. Baseball needs to go ahead and give the home run record back to Roger Maris and start a real drug testing program.

My favorite Metro

Sunday while stopping at my favorite convenience store for a Mountain Dew squishy I saw the best example of a metrosexual I have yet seen in Charlotte. I've seen a couple of doozies at the Southpark Mall but this guy beats them all. As I pulled into the parking lot the first thing I notice is his license plate says "NYANA." I immediately check out the ride, it's a sporty convertable Mercedes. Definately a Nyana car, the prick. I can't help but take a good look at someone who is such an asshole that he has a taunting vanity plate on a car worth at least 30 times my own. He's got perfect jet black hair that stops uniformly a few inches down his neck. There are perfectly patterned waves in the hair also. His skin is just dark enough to reflect that he may or may not tan year round. If he does it's not a big priority in his life. He's wearing those sunglasses with the screws in them that have a translucent frame. I park my car, climbed out and, I swear I couldn't help it, I just started laughing. He was playing house music while pumping gas.

No way

I watched the Academy Awards last night and I was shocked that Crash won for best picture. It was an OK movie that tried to grasp concepts beyond its means and for that I guess it was given much more credit than it deserved. Hell, Capote addressed issues of class more effectively than Crash did and that wasn't even the main theme of the movie. This was the least deserving best picture since the atrocious Titanic won. At least Phillip Seymor Hoffman won. That was very cool. How many were waiting for him to bark like a dog? I think he pussed out and I hope his friends tell him so.

Nerds of movie nights past

This picture was taken back in August of '03 when the world was much simpler and much more single. It has been sitting on my Roadrunner webpage for over two years now so I thought a blast from the past might shake some people up. Have you ever seen a bigger collection of nerds? I have to exclude myself since I took the picture but, believe me, I fit right in.

Friggin' teachers

Sometimes the assignments that students bring into the library really cause me to doubt the existence of their teacher's brain. A couple of days ago these two high schoolers came in working on a similar project. Their class is studying Dante and each of them has to write a five page paper on a character that appears in the Inferno. One of them had to research Virgil. No problem, there is material on him everywhere. The other student was assigned to research and write about a minor noble from Florence, Dante's 'hood. She was able to find a reference to him in a couple of essays on Dante in our literature online resources. I found a book we had on the history of Florence, he's not mentioned at all. My quesion is is this class a research class or a literature class? If it's a research class then all this digging is good, if not then it's pointless busy work. I only mention this because it happens all the time. These teachers hand out assignments is such a way that a couple of the students in a particular class end up getting assigned to research a topic that hasn't been covered as much of as the rest of possibilities. What happens then is that the kid, one of his parents and I end up busting our tails for an hour just for the tiniest sliver of information. The student then must learn, much too early in life, how to pad a paper.

Wow

So I got to watch the video of the briefing on Katrina and you have to wonder just how horrible of a leader is George Bush? You can see and hear all the dire warnings of the experts and then you can see a few days later our fearless leader saying to the nation that no one could have predicted such a catastrophe. How is it possible to lie with such a straight face? His one true talent, lying his ass off.

Clock watching

Usually I tried to avoid clock watching. I figure since my job is so cool that clock watching is an insult to everyone who doesn't love their job. That's not entirely true, I don't particularly like my job when the stinky car guy comes in and I have to spend a half hour downloading pictures of new cars for him. Other than that, perfect job. Today, though, I am clock watching because I can't wait to go home tonight and watch the online video of the teleconference Bush held as Katrina was roaring toward the gulf coast. Essentially I guess he promises to do everything and then you know what happened, nothing at all. How long is it going to take before this guy is impeached and then beaten publicly right before going to jail? What is it going to take? How badly does he have to screw up? It's almost like he would have to kill someone on live TV in a satanic ritual to get impeached. It's mind boggling.

P.D. James

I finally finished the novel "Lighthouse" by P.D. James today at lunch. I don't know if I can recommend it too highly but I did enjoy it and the solution to the murder was not pulled out of her butt. The clues were there for the reader to pick up on. I didn't, but that's OK. It will probably be a long while before I read another mystery novel. They aren't really my cup of tea but it's good to branch out every now and then. Now when people ask me if I can recommend a mystery I can say, with great assurance, that I've read P.D. James and liked her writing. I might delve back into her work via an earlier novel sometime. I've read a couple of reviews on "Lighthouse" that have been a little negative. Maybe I'll enjoy her writing more if I enter the life of Adam Dalgleish earlier in his career.