My Bike Friday Tikit finally arrived today. Woo AND Hoo! My very own folding multi-mode commuter.
http://www.bikefriday.com/tikit
Now to put it together.... then I'll post some pics.
I'm a happy girl!
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Worst line of the week
Not only the worst line of the week, but possibly the worst line of the month, the year, the decade....
From Blade: Trinity:
Abigail Whistler (Jessica Biel), is describing her weapon, (a bow-shaped contraption with an energy beam instead of the bow string), and she fires it up, holding it in her hand, and brags:
(wait for it....)
"It's half as hot as the sun."
So that energy beam is a whopping 13.5 MILLION degrees Farenheit. And nobody in the room so much as breaks out in a sweat.
I caught the movie three days ago on cable. I'm still laughing.
From Blade: Trinity:
Abigail Whistler (Jessica Biel), is describing her weapon, (a bow-shaped contraption with an energy beam instead of the bow string), and she fires it up, holding it in her hand, and brags:
(wait for it....)
"It's half as hot as the sun."
So that energy beam is a whopping 13.5 MILLION degrees Farenheit. And nobody in the room so much as breaks out in a sweat.
I caught the movie three days ago on cable. I'm still laughing.
Monday, September 17, 2007
Worst. Emmys. Ever.
Ever, ever, ever. Ever.
Holy mother of god, did that suck. Heckuva job, Fox!! After that nightmare, Fox should be banned from broadcasting any awards shows. They've lost their hosting privileges. And whoever produced that, that thing needs to be spanked.
First of all, in the round! What *bleeping* genius came up with the idea of staging an awards show in the round? Bloody hell. Plus the set was hideous. It looked like it cost five cents. It was the Crackerjack box version of a set. (Hey, did anybody else think that James Spader got played off faster than normal after making the crack about how his seats were the worst seats he'd ever had? It sure seemed to me like the music came up mighty fast after that.)
And then there was Seacrest, our blessedly disappearing host. The indescribable agony of his opening monologue, which consisted of pointing out that there were TV stars in the audience. Yes, it was just that amazing. Nominated actors actually show up at the Emmys! Who knew? I, for one, was agog. Not.
I was at an Emmy watching party. As Seacrest endlessly yammered on, (Look! The cast of Gray's Anatomy is sitting over here!), I turned to one of my friends, and said, "Oh, my god, they've got nothing. Absolutely nothing." Sadly, it was true for the entire night.
Even an alleged comedy montage of one liners from late night hosts didn't work. It was horribly cut: most of the lines chosen weren't funny and the few that were funny were cut away from too fast, so the next cut stepped on the laugh. Then, it devolved into a serious montage of eulogies for Tom Snyder. A eulogy, now there's a laugh riot.
The Tom Snyder stuff in the comedy montage was completely inexplicable. Yes, he was a great late night host. However, they paid tribute to his memory in the in memoriam segment. Why they felt the need to kill the few laughs they had generated by bringing in the sadness of his loss in a comedy segment, that's just a mystery to me. It is, however, completely symptomatic of just how incompetent the show was on every level.
The best, or rather, nearly only entertainment in the show was the appearance by the cast of the musical Jersey Boys, which has a company on tour in L.A. at the moment. They sang a few of Frankie Valli and the Four Season's greatest hits. Now, you'll notice that Jersey Boys is a stage show, and that Valli and the Four Season's were a sixties pop act, who never had a tv show. So what was Jersey Boys doing on the Emmys, instead of the Tonys?
It's like this: unbelievably, it was a tribute to the Sopranos. Yes, even though the Four Seasons' music has absolutely nothing to do with the Sopranos. The Sopranos was set in New Jersey. The musical is called Jersey Boys. Voila! We've killed another four minutes of screen time! That's the level this show operated on.
The stupid! It burns! And then, to top it all off, they brought the entire cast of the Sopranos onstage for a bow, just because. This is the kind of tribute most shows have to wait twenty or thirty years for. Ridiculous.
I've already spent more time on this dreck than it deserves, and I haven't even gotten to Seacrest's nadir: coming out dressed as if he was Henry VIII in The Tudors. And that was it. He came out dressed in a "funny" costume. Ha ha. My brains were dribbling out of my ears at this point.
I really can't blame Seacrest, though. This isn't his type of gig, and the writers and producers just left him hanging out there. Oh, and another word about Fox's evident cheapness. The show had three, count 'em, three credited writers, with another three, count 'em, three writers credited, (or blamed), with "special host material". There's a reason why these shows are usually written by large teams of writers.
Poor Seacrest got the job because no one, and I mean no one else would do it. Now we know why. And I'm thinking that previous hosts like Conan O'Brien, who had disastrous Emmy nights of their own, are all thanking their stars for Ryan Seacrest today.
Although, I must admit, the opening with the two animated characters from The Family Guy skewering other shows in a musical number was brutally funny -- until I realized that no Fox shows were getting shanked. Typical.
Oh jeez, I haven't even gotten to Fox censoring Sally Field's speech. And the censoring was done with all the flair and panache of the rest of the show: at least three times during the evening, when speeches got a little dicey, the show would cut to a hideous angle, looking down at what looked like a huge disco ball, and the sound cut completely out. The first few times it looked like they were having the worst of technical difficulties. By the time they used it to silence Best Actress in a Drama winner Fields, it was very obvious what they were doing.
Hey Fox! You suck!
Holy mother of god, did that suck. Heckuva job, Fox!! After that nightmare, Fox should be banned from broadcasting any awards shows. They've lost their hosting privileges. And whoever produced that, that thing needs to be spanked.
First of all, in the round! What *bleeping* genius came up with the idea of staging an awards show in the round? Bloody hell. Plus the set was hideous. It looked like it cost five cents. It was the Crackerjack box version of a set. (Hey, did anybody else think that James Spader got played off faster than normal after making the crack about how his seats were the worst seats he'd ever had? It sure seemed to me like the music came up mighty fast after that.)
And then there was Seacrest, our blessedly disappearing host. The indescribable agony of his opening monologue, which consisted of pointing out that there were TV stars in the audience. Yes, it was just that amazing. Nominated actors actually show up at the Emmys! Who knew? I, for one, was agog. Not.
I was at an Emmy watching party. As Seacrest endlessly yammered on, (Look! The cast of Gray's Anatomy is sitting over here!), I turned to one of my friends, and said, "Oh, my god, they've got nothing. Absolutely nothing." Sadly, it was true for the entire night.
Even an alleged comedy montage of one liners from late night hosts didn't work. It was horribly cut: most of the lines chosen weren't funny and the few that were funny were cut away from too fast, so the next cut stepped on the laugh. Then, it devolved into a serious montage of eulogies for Tom Snyder. A eulogy, now there's a laugh riot.
The Tom Snyder stuff in the comedy montage was completely inexplicable. Yes, he was a great late night host. However, they paid tribute to his memory in the in memoriam segment. Why they felt the need to kill the few laughs they had generated by bringing in the sadness of his loss in a comedy segment, that's just a mystery to me. It is, however, completely symptomatic of just how incompetent the show was on every level.
The best, or rather, nearly only entertainment in the show was the appearance by the cast of the musical Jersey Boys, which has a company on tour in L.A. at the moment. They sang a few of Frankie Valli and the Four Season's greatest hits. Now, you'll notice that Jersey Boys is a stage show, and that Valli and the Four Season's were a sixties pop act, who never had a tv show. So what was Jersey Boys doing on the Emmys, instead of the Tonys?
It's like this: unbelievably, it was a tribute to the Sopranos. Yes, even though the Four Seasons' music has absolutely nothing to do with the Sopranos. The Sopranos was set in New Jersey. The musical is called Jersey Boys. Voila! We've killed another four minutes of screen time! That's the level this show operated on.
The stupid! It burns! And then, to top it all off, they brought the entire cast of the Sopranos onstage for a bow, just because. This is the kind of tribute most shows have to wait twenty or thirty years for. Ridiculous.
I've already spent more time on this dreck than it deserves, and I haven't even gotten to Seacrest's nadir: coming out dressed as if he was Henry VIII in The Tudors. And that was it. He came out dressed in a "funny" costume. Ha ha. My brains were dribbling out of my ears at this point.
I really can't blame Seacrest, though. This isn't his type of gig, and the writers and producers just left him hanging out there. Oh, and another word about Fox's evident cheapness. The show had three, count 'em, three credited writers, with another three, count 'em, three writers credited, (or blamed), with "special host material". There's a reason why these shows are usually written by large teams of writers.
Poor Seacrest got the job because no one, and I mean no one else would do it. Now we know why. And I'm thinking that previous hosts like Conan O'Brien, who had disastrous Emmy nights of their own, are all thanking their stars for Ryan Seacrest today.
Although, I must admit, the opening with the two animated characters from The Family Guy skewering other shows in a musical number was brutally funny -- until I realized that no Fox shows were getting shanked. Typical.
Oh jeez, I haven't even gotten to Fox censoring Sally Field's speech. And the censoring was done with all the flair and panache of the rest of the show: at least three times during the evening, when speeches got a little dicey, the show would cut to a hideous angle, looking down at what looked like a huge disco ball, and the sound cut completely out. The first few times it looked like they were having the worst of technical difficulties. By the time they used it to silence Best Actress in a Drama winner Fields, it was very obvious what they were doing.
Hey Fox! You suck!
It's Alive! It's ALIVE!!
Well, I did a crappy job with this blog the first time out. Turns out, I'm not cut out to be a political blogger. I'm just too angry.
So, I'm going to try to rejigger this blog, and see if I can't get it going again. I'm aiming to talk about things I love: movies, books, lesbian life, bikes, hummingbirds and their gardens, and of course, my cats. Perhaps that will keep me posting.
So here goes nothing!
So, I'm going to try to rejigger this blog, and see if I can't get it going again. I'm aiming to talk about things I love: movies, books, lesbian life, bikes, hummingbirds and their gardens, and of course, my cats. Perhaps that will keep me posting.
So here goes nothing!
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Hersh on Bush's Iran plans.
Seymour Hersh's new article in the New Yorker is a must read. Absolutely terrifying.
His legacy. Ohhh boy.
But wait, there's more...lot's more. The really scary bits concern the Bush Administration's willingness to go with a nuclear first strike.
Just read it. You have to read it.
A government consultant with close ties to the civilian leadership in the Pentagon said that Bush was “absolutely convinced that Iran is going to get the bomb” if it is not stopped. He said that the President believes that he must do “what no Democrat or Republican, if elected in the future, would have the courage to do,” and “that saving Iran is going to be his legacy.””
His legacy. Ohhh boy.
But wait, there's more...lot's more. The really scary bits concern the Bush Administration's willingness to go with a nuclear first strike.
Just read it. You have to read it.
Holy Nuclear Bunker Buster, Batman!
The Union of Concerned Scientists has a very informational animation up about the effects of detonating just one nuclear bunker buster. Holy crap!! This is a must see -- particularly in light of Hersh's New Yorker article.
Well, better hope somebody's sane enough in the Bush administration to keep the Chimperor from pushing the button. And if no one is sane enough, we'd all better hope really, really hard that there are no biological weapons stored down in those bunkers.
Hat tip to Susie at Suburban Guerrilla.
Well, better hope somebody's sane enough in the Bush administration to keep the Chimperor from pushing the button. And if no one is sane enough, we'd all better hope really, really hard that there are no biological weapons stored down in those bunkers.
Hat tip to Susie at Suburban Guerrilla.
Friday, April 07, 2006
Wednesday, April 05, 2006
Fortune Cookies and me
I'm notorious among my friends for my ability to take any fortune cookie and find a negative connotation to the fortune. Do I have a negative outlook? Sure. Am I a little paranoid? Perhaps. But this latest cookie...
Come on! It's not just me. That's a warning! Am I right?
"You are wise to keep your eyes wide open at all times."
Come on! It's not just me. That's a warning! Am I right?
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
CBS's Lara Logan rocks!
Howie Kurtz tries to pull "the press doesn't show the good news in Iraq" meme on CBS Iraq correspondent Lara Logan, and she passionately proves that that canard is completely false. At last somebody stands up and just kicks the Bush apologists' ass. Live, from Baghdad, no less.
Rachel Sklar has the story here. Go read it!
Crooks and Liars has the video here. It's well worth watching.
If you don't have the bandwith for the video, CNN's transcript is here.
Rachel Sklar has the story here. Go read it!
Crooks and Liars has the video here. It's well worth watching.
If you don't have the bandwith for the video, CNN's transcript is here.
Friday, March 24, 2006
Thursday, March 23, 2006
And they say hummingbirds don't share....
Here's a picture of seven of 'my' hummingbirds sharing a six port feeder, while sheltering from the rain.
A Chaos Demon Revealed
"Have you ever seen a chaos demon? They're all slime and antlers. They're disgusting." Spike, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
HA! I'm here to tell you, that description is wrong, wrong, wrong. Here's a picture of the one I have living in my apartment.
Cute, isn't he? Sleeping so innocently? HA! I say again, HA! A few months ago, I adopted a 'special needs' kitten. To make up for his physical infirmity, he compensates by being the most persistent creature on the face of the earth. He never, ever, ever gives up. He never stops. Never.
When he's sleeping is virtually the only time I can get a picture of the demon. If he's awake, I usually just end up with a picture of a gray blur lurching at the lens.
So, the lesson of the day is: chaos demons, despite their antlered and slimy reputation, are actually long haired, gray, with golden eyes with green around the iris. Oh, and they fall down, a lot.
Btw, the chaos demon's name is Cloud.
Revisionist history to the max
There I am, quietly listening to my podcast of yesterday's Al Franken show, guest hosted by Sam Seder, when some right-wing fascist pig gets on the phone and starts thanking god that people of Sam's "ilk" weren't in charge during World War II, when the biggest liberal in the world was slaughtering people in concentration camps.
That's right folks: according to our own homegrown fascists, Hitler was a liberal. And black is white, up is down, and we are well and truly down the rabbit-hole.
And boy howdy, thank goodness Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a conservative Republican, so he could save us from that liberal, Hitler. *stunned silence*
Shameless, insane, or both? You decide.
That's right folks: according to our own homegrown fascists, Hitler was a liberal. And black is white, up is down, and we are well and truly down the rabbit-hole.
And boy howdy, thank goodness Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a conservative Republican, so he could save us from that liberal, Hitler. *stunned silence*
Shameless, insane, or both? You decide.
Monday, March 20, 2006
First post
Well, the blog is up and running. I'm still wrestling with various details, but here it is.
(beat)
What the frell have I gotten myself into?
(beat)
What the frell have I gotten myself into?
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