Finally got around to seeing the latest Indiana Jones movie this weekend. Pretty good in a Indy meets X-Files kind of way. My lady really liked it. ( Minor Spoilers )

Went and saw I Am Legend on Saturday. Probably wouldn't normally have seen it, but we had a family movie day and I was not going to see Alvin (although my lady enjoyed it). Legend was a decent retelling of an old SF theme and Will did a fair job, particularly since he had no one to act against throughout most of the movie. Did not end in an ( Read more... )

Basically, since this new job started, I've been looking off and on for the box with my work books in it. Since the move to the new house, we've gathered quite a collection of boxes in the basement. OTOH, I also knew the books were in a paper box, so it should have been fairly easy to locate. But I had looked into all the paper boxes that I ( Read more... )

The original Lord of the Rings starring Humphery Bogart. Comliments to gillen.

We were at the Columbia mall. Ended up eating at P.F. Changs and catching Pirates of the Carribean 2. I got the 'Spiced Chengdu Lamb' for the second time. Forgot to mention it after the first time. This is really, really good. Lamb cooked with cumin and mint, with tomatoes and onions. Oh, and Pirates was enjoyable, though the ending left you ( Read more... )

I've been slowly going through the Super B...um, is that still trademarked? Anyway, the commercials from the big game last Sunday when I came across the trailer for Poseidon. Um, I know that creativity in Hollywood is pretty low, but remaking The Poseidon Adventure seems to be going a bit extreme. Remaking King Kong I could kind of see, ( Read more... )

Friday, we went to a wine&cheese/piano recital Rotary benefit. This is the second year that we have been gifted with tickets to it by the pianist. Main reason for mentioning it is that I think that antuvschle or possibly gillen might have enjoyed recital. It was broken up into sets of two or three songs. The sets had categories like, 'Light Classical', 'Latin ( Read more... )

This list of things to say while watching The Passion of Christ is reasonably amusing. Did I mention they are in Aramaic?

This weekend we rented Kenneth Branagh's take on Love's Labour's Lost. Shakespeare purists should avoid this like the plague. Set in the 1930s, it adds silliness and slapstick to Shakespeare's well-honed humor. Also the characters break away from the play to sing and dance to swing music, show tunes, and torch songs. Oh, and the acts are opened ( Read more... )

Ok, so a major storm passes through. You lose the power to your neighborhood, but no other damage. The worst is over. Just have to wait it out, maybe go visit some friends who do have power. A couple from my church did that. Returned to find their house on fire. When the power came back on, the surge did something to the fridge. They lost ( Read more... )