9.24.2006
MythBusters
How many hours of MythBusters can I watch in a single day?
As many as they re-run on Sundays.
How many hours of MythBusters can I watch in a single day?
As many as they re-run on Sundays.
9.14.2006
Finally! A Term for Me. . .
The Casual Fan's Guide to Watching Sports
I may not bleed Yankee pinstripes, J!E!T!S! green or even R!U! scarlet, but I enjoy watching sports. Usually in person, with 40,000 other screaming lunatics because it's easier for me to tune out the announcers (in Rutgers Stadium, they're nearly nonexistent) and watch the crowd.
Plus, it gives me an excuse to exercise my (out-of-shape) singer's lungs cheering for my favorite players from the nosebleed section of a professional baseball stadium.
Yes, I am talking about my unheard-on-the-field cheers for my hero, #55, Bernie Williams, at that game my brother and I attended in April of 2005. Where we learned that, when given our options, we drink the same type of beer and he's not as easily embarrassed as Catherine. Which is a very good thing, because I am loud and loud at a game.
Ahhhh. . .I love the stench of the cheap seats!
The Casual Fan's Guide to Watching Sports
I may not bleed Yankee pinstripes, J!E!T!S! green or even R!U! scarlet, but I enjoy watching sports. Usually in person, with 40,000 other screaming lunatics because it's easier for me to tune out the announcers (in Rutgers Stadium, they're nearly nonexistent) and watch the crowd.
Plus, it gives me an excuse to exercise my (out-of-shape) singer's lungs cheering for my favorite players from the nosebleed section of a professional baseball stadium.
Yes, I am talking about my unheard-on-the-field cheers for my hero, #55, Bernie Williams, at that game my brother and I attended in April of 2005. Where we learned that, when given our options, we drink the same type of beer and he's not as easily embarrassed as Catherine. Which is a very good thing, because I am loud and loud at a game.
Ahhhh. . .I love the stench of the cheap seats!
9.07.2006
'F I Were King of the Forest. . .
This article in Slate is really interesting for many reasons. The first being that it is neither a paen nor a pan of the President's policy decisions (or indecisions, as the case may be) in the current "war on terror" in which we've indefinitely embroiled ourselves.
The second is that it gives due credit where it's due, despite the intentions to the contrary.
I perceive it as a "fair and balanced" article on a hot-button topic.
That being said, while we may be having a stupendous stroke of GREAT luck when it comes to not having another large-scale attack on US soil, we're not out of the woods yet, nor will we be at any time soon.
And I have a couple of inflammatory comments I'd like to add, but fear the goddamn CIA, NCS and FBI being able to get their collective acts together (not that they haven't tried, bless their little hearts) and also fear the wrath that may be inflicted upon me by certain members of my family for making them. Again.
But I will say that the 2004 season of 24 was especially frightening on more levels than I can describe. And it was ESPECIALLY dramatic and tense because the terrorist group in the season threatened Middle America, rather than a huge city.
I think that would be the ULTIMATE in terror and may have the fullest potential to strike fear DEEP in the hearts of all Americans.
Because, after all, as my dad says, the rest of the country HATES New York. Striking it again doesn't phase 'em in Kansas; it's like another PLANET. But, hit some podunk town in Iowa or somewhere like that. . .well. . .then you have Fear. Big Fear.
This article in Slate is really interesting for many reasons. The first being that it is neither a paen nor a pan of the President's policy decisions (or indecisions, as the case may be) in the current "war on terror" in which we've indefinitely embroiled ourselves.
The second is that it gives due credit where it's due, despite the intentions to the contrary.
I perceive it as a "fair and balanced" article on a hot-button topic.
That being said, while we may be having a stupendous stroke of GREAT luck when it comes to not having another large-scale attack on US soil, we're not out of the woods yet, nor will we be at any time soon.
And I have a couple of inflammatory comments I'd like to add, but fear the goddamn CIA, NCS and FBI being able to get their collective acts together (not that they haven't tried, bless their little hearts) and also fear the wrath that may be inflicted upon me by certain members of my family for making them. Again.
But I will say that the 2004 season of 24 was especially frightening on more levels than I can describe. And it was ESPECIALLY dramatic and tense because the terrorist group in the season threatened Middle America, rather than a huge city.
I think that would be the ULTIMATE in terror and may have the fullest potential to strike fear DEEP in the hearts of all Americans.
Because, after all, as my dad says, the rest of the country HATES New York. Striking it again doesn't phase 'em in Kansas; it's like another PLANET. But, hit some podunk town in Iowa or somewhere like that. . .well. . .then you have Fear. Big Fear.
9.01.2006
Why Rudy Guiliani Won't Get the Nomination in 2008
Know why? Everything I like about him is exactly what he's doing wrong.
Can he be cutthroat and brutal? Of COURSE he can. He grew up in Brooklyn, but alleges that his Yankee-fan grandmother used to dress him in a Yankee jersey when he was a kid. In case you're not from NY, the Yankees play in the BRONX. In Brooklyn when Mr. Guiliani waws growing up, Brooklyn had the Dodgers. A kid would be ostracized at best and killed at worst if they wore a Yankees anything during that time period.
If he survived that, he can survive anything. Even a presidential campaign.
p.s. - I've been on hiatus lately to do wedding stuff and also to stay away from the computer. I work on the computer all fucking day, so one of the LAST things I really want to do on my own time is sit in front of one when I get home.
Know why? Everything I like about him is exactly what he's doing wrong.
Can he be cutthroat and brutal? Of COURSE he can. He grew up in Brooklyn, but alleges that his Yankee-fan grandmother used to dress him in a Yankee jersey when he was a kid. In case you're not from NY, the Yankees play in the BRONX. In Brooklyn when Mr. Guiliani waws growing up, Brooklyn had the Dodgers. A kid would be ostracized at best and killed at worst if they wore a Yankees anything during that time period.
If he survived that, he can survive anything. Even a presidential campaign.
p.s. - I've been on hiatus lately to do wedding stuff and also to stay away from the computer. I work on the computer all fucking day, so one of the LAST things I really want to do on my own time is sit in front of one when I get home.
