Fort Vancouver, the local re-creation of a Hudson's Bay Trading Company fort and later a military post, holds a fireworks show every 4th, billed as "the biggest fireworks show west of the Mississippi." That claim may even be true; we're not here to debate semantics and logistics today. What we are here to note is the impact the fireworks show has ( Read more... )

Last Wednesday, the spouse awakened me and said: "We're painting the house today." As it was 5:30 am and I was in a pre-caffeinated state, I didn't reply. He and the dog (who had been sleeping on top of my legs, thus depriving them of any feeling whatsoever) went downstairs. Laying in bed, listening to the espresso machine go through its morning ( Read more... )

Not being all that much of a Bruce Willis fan (though he's been in a couple of movies I quite like, such as Fifth Element), I didn't see this when it first came out. Pretty much all I'd heard was "some guy survives a crash and discovers he might be literally unbreakable." A friend suggested that it was about a little more than that and I'd really ( Read more... )

Gah, I've been tagged by frostdoll

10 Celebrities I find attractive? Well, as always, I can't play exactly by the rules.

( you're stunned, I know )

House of M #2
Captain America #7
Astro City: the Dark Age #1

( clickee thingie )

Since the trailer portion of the movie-going experience is just about longer than the movie:

Fantastic Four - I'm such a comics geek. The FF was the first comic I ever read and I have a soft spot for them in my head heart. I don't read the comic now because it doesn't interest me, but I remember them so fondly that I really don't care how awful ( Read more... )

Batman Begins - Ninja Highlander Blade Runner Jedi Batman. Ack. What was good? Christian Bale is fairly hot, even though he sounds exactly like Clint Eastwood, which is just so wrong in so many ways for Batman. Cillian Murphy as the Scarecrow was very good, creepy yet understated. Stately Wayne Manor looked good. That was Gary Oldman as Jim Gordon ( Read more... )

This weekend the spouse and I are off in yet another futile attempt to find a city in which we would a) like to live and b) be able to afford. Thus far those two desires have not coincided. Two weeks ago we looked at a small town that had twice as many gunstores as bookstores and I balked. Big time. This weekend we are off to a Northern California ( Read more... )

I though I would start picking a "best of the week" - and then along came this week, in which that is not possible. So much for rational objectivity. Let's be irrationally unobjective, as usual then. The theme for this week's books, so far, is: FUN. Everything I read was a ton of fun.

Flak Riot #1 (O'Hare/Napton; Image)
Gravity #1 (of 5) (McKeever ( Read more... )

The dog now has more names. The kids at the off-leash dog park call her Rocket because of how fast she can run. I though it was cute -- the spouse thinks it's hilarious. We now have "Rocket Science" jokes when she does something less-than-stunningly-intelligent. (Which, since she is the dog equivalent of a teenager...) Somehow the idea of rockets ( Read more... )