I took the quiz about post-zombie-attack survival at WorldWarZ.  I got a 31% chance of making it, but I think that's overly optimistic.  For instance, it asked if our house was two-story, thus permitting holding out in a siege upstairs with the stairs destroyed...our house *is* two-story, but built into a hillside with a stone staircase...zombies ( Read more... )

This is turning out to be a pretty good holiday season; I don't feel as stressed as I always seem to.  Maybe the meds are finally working.:-)  In celebration of the Xmas portion of the holiday (we tend to pick up on the serious and/or mystical elements of Christianity and let them in, like watching JC Superstar at Easter) I was prompted by Neal ( Read more... )

As anyone who knows me, Isomeme, and the keed (not sure what she's called this week) knows about us, we love living in L.A. and all the quirky things about it.  One of those things is how thin the line between real and not-so-real can be.  This can suck, if for instance you like a particular restaurant or other public place, because everything is ( Read more... )

So after the teaser in my last entry, I figured I'd better fill everyone in on the movie The Other Conquest.  Isomeme saw this in the theater in 2000, but I was in darkest North Carolina, where if a movie doesn't have Ernest in it, they don't show it.  Oh well, it finally came out on DVD ( Read more... )

So the deliveryman left two boxes today.  One was from Amazon; Isomeme bought me the DVD of Jungle Book (a sexy evil tiger *and* a sexy good panther and an evil sexy snake?  Even as a child I knew I had it good).  The other was from Motorola; a good-sized box, big enough to hold a phone but so very, very *light*.  Preparing myself to be jealous at ( Read more... )

So, as you all know, we live up in the Hollywood Hills, Isomeme and me (now that the not-so-little-one is away at her palatial college), and we see more wildlife than the average city-dweller (especially since Wafer, the feline in residence, makes lizard deliveries on a quite frequent basis, and since at least one raccoon figured out the pet door ( Read more... )

Museum Replicas' new catalog just came out and they are carrying all the stuff for the movie "Kingdom of Heaven". Since the flick is about Templars, the gear includes cruciform swords, tabards with crosses, etc. Oh, and a little Eastern stuff as well. And as many of you know, Museum Replicas don't sell no wallhangers; their swords are top-notch ( Read more... )

This story is *not* for the faint of heart or weak of stomach!!!

Toadsplosion

I *thought* the WB frog was looking a little chubby.

Recently we have a new campaign in town to increase driver awareness and reduce accidents. It consists of slogans on freeway-type signs, on bumperstickers, bus benches, etc. And the slogan is?

Watch the Road.

Well I *was*...

As MadelineUsher would put it, so I have this thyroid problem, right? And I had a test scheduled for today...they shoot you up with radioactive iodine and trace where it goes in your thyroid gland. But when I got there, they told me they couldn't perform the test. Why ( Read more... )