Squeaker squeakin'

Colts squeak by by another game ... barely pulling out a win.

So -- SB 41 will be C vs C. I'm sure if the Colts do great in four years, Colt 45 will pressure to be the beer of the NFL. In any case, the Midwest and Chicagoland should be quite happy. Indy, generally 50-50 with Bears & Colts ought to be happier. Had Lions made it in ... MR would have had a team for whom to root.
The Colts have just about proven the reason why Indy is building a new stadium.

MR invited me to see SB 41 in HDTV ... sweet!

"Now, if you get as close to the TV as I do, you could see bush" +, regarding the cheerleaders.

+ Andrew Dice Clay regarding Barbara Eden in "I Dream of Jeanie".

buncha bombs in the air

I overheard the singer do the national anthem for the Colts game. Yikes! Look, Naked Gun made fun of the relative stupidity of people not knowing the words. Some people try to "make the song her/his own". Stop it! It is a difficult song enough without the yodeling involved or worse, [scratch, scratch, scratch ... yeah, boi ... tap tap tap]. It's a song. You wouldn't like someone doing Amazing Grace with pan flute, sung by Justin Timberlake or Milli Vanilli.

Just drop the flash, drop the crap, drop the Buckwheat version and just do the song. It isn't important that you make it a rock song or a radio hit pop song or a trendy alternative or rap song. Just sing it. If that's too tough -- leave!

redfaced and sore

Saints got spanked ... hard and often today by 'da bears'. I normally don't care a whole lot, but this year Bears make it to super bowl. I can only hope that Colts make it there, then THAT will be a game I will certainly want to watch.

If you didn't see the Bears game, well ... the turnovers (or bend overs the knees) on the Saints' part greatly contributed to the Bears winning. A very rare safety also helped and when it was 30+ to 14, well, that was bad, but the Saints' weren't yet finished with the spanking. They didn't have homefield advantage but will finish tied-third with the loser of Colts-Patriots game tonight.

cavernous not generous?

I got this new scan and I guess they found what looks like a mouth rather than a vault of goodness. A spot of activity for altruistic behavior, huh?

Well, I know what part of my brain is underdeveloped. All this time I thought it was my memory or my logic or my empathy or my memory, but ... lost the thought.

drives me snowy

I clicked on the electric starter ... chu-chink... chu-chink...chu-chink...rrrrrrrrrr ... ffoom! It started. Last year the snowblower saw only three days of action and little of it. Today I did my drive, and four neighbor's drives. While I have a sore back, a bit, I have a better health for the exercise. I suppose I feel a little good about cleaning off drives -- something good for another person.

Thankfully the snow was not 18 inches (around 9 inches high, as accumulation of snow is measured not in height of snow). This slight dusting was a taste of perhaps more. This isn't going to get any child off school or delayed tomorrow for sure. My neice will be so disappointed.

May Hell receive Australian millitant Muslim jerk

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16702195/

 

Children as martyrs. Hey, I've got an idea! Shut the #$#&$%@^##%$#!%@ up! Have a nice tall, steaming cup of it.

This guy should be put on a slow boat to Antarctica. What sort of sadist enourages people, children especially, to sacrifice themselves for a cause that cannot understand?

not shaken, but stirred, maybe blended

I'm not suggesting anything, but I did put together a compilation, which might roughly be a reality sometime, maybe, perahps, perhaps, perhaps ...



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"Just Numbers" he said

Scott turned 40. Rachel had a party for him with family and friends.

My only complaint ... no group shot!

There were late and early guests and everyone seemed to have a good time welcoming Scott to 40, as if he had a choice. 40 years in and more to go, perhaps another 40. None of the older guys, "old-tymers" seemed to divulge any cunning tactics on how to be a cleverer 40, though I wasn't party to all of the conversations. Scott & Rachel will soon have a CD of pictures, so if you want them -- ask them. I have only my small sample of pictures.

Forty, geeky, happy, and there are more chapters yet to go.
Happy Birthday Scott!

The adults spoke ad nausium, while the kids (Charlie, Jake) played Wii and (Elise, Maddie, Lucas) played Gamecube, separately. Later, the bi-pedal animated toy, myself, went through the house with Lucas, Maddie, Charlie, playing chase NO CATCH. It was an interesting game where I was pummelled and the target of weapons, though I was not allowed to catch anyone.

Two other reviews

The Japanese animated feature Blood: the Last Vampire, was under an hour. Where it was strong, hinting at bits of story rather than have a "this is the long, boring part of the movie detailing blah, blah, blah". It moved fast and was fairly complete. It left you doubts, as though there was another part coming. The sound was good, mixed with jostling camera moving to simulate quaking. Only a few parts of the movie had choppy animation, otherwise it was more fluid than typical graphic novel to film transition. I would probably watch it again, but not right away. It thankfully didn't spend much effort with parts of no consequence or red herrings.

Trinity Blood (so-called official website) is a Japanese animated serial (not cereal). I saw episode 4, having not seen the others. I think this was like an early college submission of a Voltron cartoon series. It was as hacked and pointlessly dialogue-heavy as Voltron with spits of violence. The graphic nature of the violence and the evil of the characters is greater. Still, the story of space vampires, the Vatican having their own assault team (so that's where Van Helsing got it) is patentedly bad.

A vampiric nun (nun who was turned) sought at the end of this episode to go to the Vatican and help the reltions between the humans and vampires to keep them from hating each other. Now, this being part of the dialogue, you'd turn it off right there, but sadly it was at the end.

Let's figure this out ... vampires feed on humans (regardless of the specific mythos of the story, be it blood, flesh, whatever) and the humans are supposed to like that? Yeah, "the negotiations never took place" + would be the end results of that.

Summary: Trinity Blood, not so good. Blood: the Last Vampire was okay, if you like anime and vampire stories. It is interesting to note that the main character, a vampire herself, used the term "demons" rather than vampires. The other oversight was a traumatic situation where the main character is fine saying "**it", another guy in equal peril says, "shoot".

+ Star Wars: Phanton Menace