Monthly Archives: November 2008

Australia – Review

November 30, 2008
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I saw Australia with my Dad yesterday. I’ve been looking forward to this movie since I saw the first preview for it early this year, and I have to say I was not disappointed in the least. It was everything I wanted it to be: epic, romantic, action-packed, I was totally swept away. I just loved it. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a movie set in Australia before (believe it or not Kangaroo Jack was never high on my to-see list), especially not set in this time period, so I loved to see what that world was like. Maybe I should go see it first hand? That would be fun. And yes, it was occasionally mushy, over-the-top, and riddled with cliches, but with a movie like this it just totally works. The beginning was a bit off, and hard to follow, but by the 45 minute mark (it’s a long movie that clocks in at 2 hours 45 minutes) I was completely engaged. I highly recommend this!

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Don We Now Our Gay Apparel

November 29, 2008
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This is how I spent my Friday:


And they’re LED lights that use 90% less electricity than standard incandescent string lights. Go, Planet!

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Another Reason to be Thankful!

November 28, 2008
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My Mom called me at work the other day and said that a package came for me in the mail that day. I was extremely excited upon hearing the news, but since my memory is similar to that of Drew Barrymore in 50 First Dates, I forgot about it in approximately 17 seconds. I got home later that day and found the package in my mail pile and was excited all over again. The benefits of having a terrible short term memory! Anyway, it was a package from Michelle M!


Isn’t that awesome of her? So awesome! And clearly I watched it immediately and absolutely adored it. I love the Rankin-Bass style of animation. It has this amazing way of being both intricately detailed and beautiful, yet childlike, which makes watching their movies (they did The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings cartoons also) so much fun, and The Last Unicorn was no exception. It was a great (and surprisingly sophisticated) story with great animation and imagination. Thank you very much Michelle M!

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Giving Thanks

November 27, 2008
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So today is Thanksgiving in America and I thought it was appropriate to use today’s post to give thanks for a few things:

My Family: Who has always been really supportive of my endeavors and life in general. And a special shout out to my beautiful nieces, nephews and godchildren, who are all vastly more intelligent than I could ever be. Seriously, I think there’s something in the water.

My Friends: Who always make looking back on memories fun, and making new memories even funner.

Christmas Shopping: I’m ridiculously thankful that I’m finished with all my Christmas shopping earlier than usual this year. No crowded parking lots for once!

The TV Group: For making TV watching a sophisticated art form. See you all December 3rd!

My Job: I kinda hate it sometimes, but these days you can’t take anything for granted. And my boss called me at home on my sick day to tell me to stay home the next day also, so that’s pretty cool too.

Andy: Who I haven’t seen in a few years, and our schedules never seem to match up when he’s in New York, but I’m just thankful I get to exist in the same world as him and his positive energy.

My Blog Readers: I’m grateful you guys stick around and smile and nod at my lame jokes. And I love that you’re all so enthusiastic about commenting and in my three and a half years of blogging, I’ve never had to get out the fire hose and put out a flame war, because you guys are the smartest, politest, and downright awesomest blog readers in the blogosphere.

Hope you all have a great Thanksgiving!

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Notes of Randomness

November 26, 2008
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1. I went on my first Match.com date the other day. I thought it went really well. We talked about movies, video games, and made jokes about starving children in other countries, which happen to be my very favorite kind of jokes. But it ended rather abruptly with a gloved (his, not mine) handshake, which I thought was odd, but I sent my post-date “had a good time, hope to do it again sometime” text message anyway, because I did in fact have a really good time. But I didn’t get a text back until the next day that said “I had fun too, I think we’ll make good friends. perhaps we could see a movie together or something sometime soon” which wasn’t exactly the message I was hoping for, because “good friends” and “movie” just seemed to jump off the screen, and not in a good way. But we’ll see I suppose. The hunt continues!

2. Since I gave up on Fringe, and both 90210 and Privileged weren’t on last night, I decided to wipe off the dust that has been collecting on my Netflix and finally watched the first half of Angels in America. Yes I know, you’re all (Hi ScottieC!) very excited for me to finally watch this, but seriously, who has time for a 6 hour miniseries? So I held it off until finally caving in. I figured once I started I wouldn’t stop, and I’d have it finished in no time. Hopefully I’ll get a chance to watch the second half at some point this weekend. I’ll give you my thoughts and full review when I finish the whole thing.

3. Can someone please tell me why the rear defroster of my car (and possibly all cars) doesn’t stay in the on position when I turn the car off? For example, I have an automatic starter for my car, so in the winter months I can turn it on from inside my house so it can begin defrosting while I’m getting ready. So I set the defrosters on the night before, but the rear defroster never stays on. Why is that? I even tested it. I sat with the car running and both defrosters on. I turned the car off, waited a moment, turned it back on and the front defroster came on, but not that back one. It’s like it resets itself when the car turns off. Does that happen with all cars? Granted the rear defroster works pretty quickly (unfogged in approximately a minute), I didn’t run around my house like a monkey with his balls cut off all morning trying to get to my train on time just to sit in my car for another minute while my rear windshield defrosts. Minutes are precious in the wee morning when someone has a train to catch!

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Torchwood – Season 1 – Review

November 25, 2008
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Hey, so remember when John was awesome enough to send me the first season of Torchwood? Well he did. And I finished watching it over the weekend. And it was marvelous! Let me rundown some of my thoughts:

It’s Versatile: This show has it all. It’s geeky, as in: a secret organization keeping watch over a rift in time and space. It’s funny, as in: laugh-out-loud, bust-a-gut funny. It’s sexy, as in: everyone has sex with everyone else and everyone’s a bit bisexual. And it’s sweet, as in: you can pretty much guarantee that I’ll cry at least once an episode.

The Gay Stuff: This goes along with the whole “everyone’s a bit bisexual” business. I appreciate how nonchalant all the gay stuff is handled. Oliver Stone was really proud of himself for allowing his Alexander movie to handle Alexander the Great’s relationship with Hephaestion so prominently. But there was a hypocrisy in the way he handled it. He had the two men ramble on for fifteen minutes at a time about how much they loved each other and gave each other big solid manly hugs. All of this was done in order to avoid showing any kissing or any kind of normal romance. So instead of having them make out for 10 seconds, you have them ramble on for half an hour. And while straight guys might not want to see guys kiss for 10 seconds, I’m gonna guess they aren’t crazy about the long dialogues of mushy gooey love either. Heck, I’m not crazy about long dialogues of mushy gooey love crap either. Torchwood just goes there and treats is like it’s nobody’s business, which I love. Like this scene:

I’ve actually never seen two men slow dance before. I guess part of me never thought it was possible. Plus I always just assumed the first dance at my wedding would be to Celebration by Kool and the Gang so I wouldn’t have to worry about a man-on-man slow dancing conundrum. But then again, seeing two men slow dance and it being all sorts of wonderful doesn’t really change that because how awesome would it be to have Celebration as your wedding song? Celebrate good times, come on!

The Music: The music is fantastic. I loved it so much that I even downloaded the soundtrack off of iTunes. The slower themes (like in the above clip) are just beautiful, and reminiscent of the great musical montages from Lost. And the faster themes (like the opener) are really fun too.

The Characters: Good chemistry between actors and characters in an ensemble cast doesn’t come around too often, but I’d say that Torchwood has it on the same great level as Star Trek: The Next Generation, or Alias. Captain Jack is a wonderful leading man, while Gwen and Rhys are a great pairing that ground the show in a believable and touching reality. Owen, Tosh, and Ianto, who would be throwaway characters in less capable hands, manage to work their charms and make us care about them as much as the more central characters, especially in their character-centric episodes.

Standout Episodes: I loved the way each episode was like a mini-movie. I could really say wonderful things about all of them, but I will limit myself to a few. Countrycide was awesome because it was scary as hell. Day One was awesome because it had an orgasm monster. Out of Time and Captain Jack Harkness were great because they made me cry a whole heck of a lot. And End of Days was great, because it wasn’t afraid to go there.

I could keep going because the show is just that good, but I’ll save the further discussion for the comments section. But now the question is: Who wants to send me Season 2?

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Classic Photo Album – The Hood

November 24, 2008
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I was going through old pictures the other day when I came across this set of photos from college that I had completely forgotten about. I went to college in the cold city of Binghamton, New York and for Christmas one year, my Mom bought me a hood. Not a jacket with the hood. Just a hood. I loved the winter coat I had at the time, but it didn’t have a hood. So my Mom bought me one. It’s actually quite thoughtful and practical because then you can cover your throat and ears with a single removable garment. But me and my friends did what any normal teenagers would have done when faced with a practical gift given by one of their Moms: Made fun of it mercilessly.

Reading Asimov in the Hood Robin Sleeping with Felice in the Hood Sarah Reading the Paper in the Hood

Felice's BFF Fatty in the Hood Showering in the Hood Felice in the Hood

Sarah Making Tea in the Hood Robin Robbing Houses in the Hood Stealing Street Signs in the Hood

Teenagers are bastards, aren’t they? (Isn’t it weird that I can say “aren’t they?” but I couldn’t say “are not they?” That just wouldn’t make sense. But I can say “are they not?” Why is that? I bet it’s already a documented phenomenon called like, the “Conjunction Syndrome” or something, but I don’t know much about these things.) Anyway, I don’t think I ever wore the hood out in public. Seriously, it’s a ridiculous article of clothing. Those were great times living with Robin and Sarah though.

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Puntabulous People on Parade!

November 21, 2008
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Well it’s that time! Time for me to show off your amazing creations! And let me tell you they are all so incredibly awesome, and I’m honored that so many of you took the time to make these for me to share with everyone! Over the next few days I’ll be adding these drawings to my blogroll and cooking up ways to insert you guys into my later posts. I’ve already come up with a way to give Avitable’s drawing a role in an upcoming episode of Super Viagra and Vagina Girl, which I think will be really fun (Avitable, e-mail me and I’ll fill you in).

So without further adieu, here I am leading the parade!

Here is my friend Lance from New York City wearing his Aquaman costume, naturally:

Here is my brother Adam from Atlanta who is neither black nor gay:

Here is Alex from Los Angeles who is fighting the good fight:

Here is Avitable from Avitable who still doesn’t have as big of a cock as me:

Here is Bernd from Florida who’s cartoon muscles put my real life muscles to shame:

Here is Bossy from I Am Bossy who’s hair looks simply amazing:

Here is Brad from Meowmix who will kick your ass at tennis:

Here is Brian from Cheap Blue Guitar who sadly became a recent victim of our crappy economy:

Here is Chris from Perspectologist who has awesome facial hair and is chilling with the Winged Equine Lord:

Here is Dave S. from Life on the C-bus who gave his drawing fancypants shadows but still doesn’t know a thing about girls:

Here is David from Someone in a Tree practicing his yoga and working the magic of his mind’s eye:

Here is Kevin (commenter digkv) from Southern California and a gloriously random squid:

Here is David from DWQ Online who’s great smile only hides the fact that his hair could inflict some serious damage if you get on his bad side:

Here is crotchtacular Enrico, adorable Richard Parker, and an extremely well detailed Britney Spears from Hotel Tuesday:

Here is FDot from I Deny You the Nidus who looks adorably nervous about being featured on such a famous crappy blog:

Here is Grim Reality Girl from The Grim Reality along with the cutest cartoon dog ever:

Here is Grogipher from GregorMurray.com showing off his Scottish pride:

Here is Xi_Heather from 360 -The Math Blog who’s hair I find extremely fascinating:

Here is TwoPi also from 360 -The Math Blog who has a mustache that could rival Tom Selleck’s:

Here is Howard from The Web Pen Blog who has the brightest smile this side of the blogosphere, which I might have also if I had his little green friend:

Here is Jamie from Tennessee who’s outfit I kinda wish I had:

Here is JC from Seattle standing next to best MSPaint Space Needle I’ve ever seen:

Here is Jeffrey from Baltimore who I have a funny feeling works at Target and know for a fact has mastered the art of making concentric circles better than I ever have:

Here is Jere from Blind Prophesy showing off his pride:

Here is Joe (commenter Joemosexual) from Atlanta living the dream:

Here is John from Rhode Island who loves his bunnies, and amazingly has pants pockets:

Here is Kristen and Cash from California who’s peekaboo baby cracks me up everytime I look at him:

Here is Laura who just moved to New Mexico and has evil bunny troubles of her own:

Here is Leah from Where The Bears Are who has the best darn screensaver in the world:

Here is VUBOQ from VUBOQ along with his PsychoKitty Isabella and the dream martini:

Here is my cousin Michelle and her amazingly well-drawn dog Rocket from New York:

Here is Mike from What Some Would Call Lies who has the best gosh darn feeling in the world:

Here is Milo from Milo & The Year Zero who is much handsomer than this picture would suggest:

Here is Polt from Polt’s Palace who owns the Library of Congress of gay porn:

Here is Robert from Columbus, Ohio who’s crotch is quite remarkable:

Here is Ryan from Steam Room Quantum Mechanics who is doing research in Mexico and is the only one with chest hair:

Here is Skinner from Canada who has excellent taste in starship captains:

Here is Sven from Sven’s Guide to Oz who just moved to sunny Australia and is basking in the sun:

Here is Tam from from Ottawa, Ontario who hates the snow already and it’s technically not even winter yet:

Here is Tami from I Can’t Believe Anyone Would Want to Read This who is about to make Keanu a very lucky man:

Here is Tori from Tori Blaine who is better late than never:

Here is Justin from Tin Foil Soldier who doesn’t need no stinking bubble city to live underwater:

Here is Michelle M. from Denver, Colorado who’s awesome contribution makes loads of blog references and you need to find them all:

There we have it! I want to thank you all for submitting these incredible drawings! I hope you all enjoyed them as much as I did!

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Happy 6th Birthday Emily!

November 20, 2008
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Rising star, genius of the South, and niece of unfunny blogger Emily turns 6 years old today! And even though she’s a little lady these days (she’s in kindergarten! and losing baby teeth!) she’s still a goober.

Happy Birthday Emily! And do your Uncle Craig a favor and not make him feel so old! I mean SIX?! Seriously?!

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The Supernatural Gang in Argyle

November 20, 2008
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A bunch of people have been recommending the television show Supernatural to me lately. It looks like a good show, but I just never got around to watching it. Now Matt from Michigan has gone so far as to photoshop me an argyle’d (totally a word) version of the main characters in an attempt to entice me to start watching the show, and I have to say, it definitely helps:


Isn’t that awesome? You can click on it for a bigger version. So I guess I’m gonna have to start watching this show. It looks like a show with a heavy mythology, which I like, but it means I have to start at the beginning. I have a few shows that I need to catch up with before I get a chance to start on Supernatural (like Torchwood, Friday Night Lights, and Mad Men) but I’ll get to it eventually! Thanks for the picture Matt!

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