I just had a nightmare involving New Zealand Parliamentary politics, adoption, arson, corruption in office, and pork futures. While this may not be the strangest combination of elements I've ever had in a nightmare, it does have a certain "What the hell?" quality to it that deserves to be noted.

Looking ahead to summer, I need to make some movie-going plans which could affect this journal so I thought I'd give any of my theoretical readers a chance to give their opinions. There are a number of big-budget/high profile films coming up such as Speed Racer, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Wall-e, and Iron Man, as well as ( Read more... )

While I'm not hostile to the artform I've had a mixed amount of luck attending to-be-Broadway musicals until now. To be precise I saw Diana Rigg in Colette when I was in college (opened in Seattle, closed in Denver--and Dame Rigg was not the problem), and Hairspray (successfully opened on Broadway). This evening I saw a third that's due for ( Read more... )

One of the problems with writing in this LiveJournal is the realization that I seem unable to come up with topics that amuse or interest folks enough to post. Clearly I'm not Jon Singer or Ginmar and I've come to live with it. The annoying thing, however, is that over the last couple of weeks I've been getting repeated spam attempts against the ( Read more... )

Can't get the picture to show up here, but here's a link to it:

http://belltown.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/eaglets2_5309_1.jpg

I've got three different Dustbusters here that need new batteries, and each shop I visit says "Just throw them away and get a new model." Call me tight, but this is way beyond conspicuous consumption. Anyone know of a rebuild shop in the area?

There was a recent article on Children's Books in The New York Times that compared a number of classic children's books to new releases and which Urinated On Where's My Cow by Pratchett From A Great Height (sorry, I can't give a link--didn't read the article until a day later), basically because the story included--well, a couple of characters that ( Read more... )

Because of a series of odd circumstances I've found myself spending a lot of time listening to music on the radio lately, which this time of year means you're listening to lots and lots of seasonal holiday music. The songs that are played range from the strongly religious to the avaricious (in the latter category I lean towards the younger-than- ( Read more... )

I am currently working for a company doing telephone tech support for high-end electronic devices ( Read more... )

I've got my mom's old Kenmore here: it works, but she went to something made from plastic instead of cast-iron that folds into and out of a table--I'd like to find it a good home.