Homicide: Life on the Streets is like a prequel to The Wire - so fantastic. It's not as well-written and the characters aren't quite as interesting yet, but it's still really good TV. Mostly obscure character actors, some of which pop up later on in other series I like, plus it's set in the Baltimore PD Homicide Division, like parts of The Wire ( Read more... )

Well, once I say Compline in a half hour or so, Easter will be over! I ended up napping from 5 till about 8:30 this evening because I was so exhausted from everything. And I'll be *saying* the Office for the next couple days to let my voice recover from all the singing. Dunno how the monks do it, singing every Office and Mass every day ( Read more... )

Ok, Tim Gunn sitting next to Larry the Cable Guy just about made my head explode. Thanks, Conan.

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My other frustration for the night is that my WinXP CD doesn't work. I found out that apparently the physical, legal CDs often malfunction (!), but if you rip it to disk, it usually works ( Read more... )

I think I've finally had it with OS X ( Read more... )

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Sue and I saw Sweeney Todd tonight. I give it a qualified two thumbs up. Excuse me while I geek out a little ( Read more... )

I just realized that the anniversary of my baptism, July 25th, is also my name-day, the feast of St Christopher.

Weird.

We took Tomato and Mahler to Petsmart this afternoon:


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There are little snippets of the new Sweeney soundtrack on Amazon now. I just listened to a few. It's a little weird stylistically, but it doesn't suck. I remain a little worried that they'll go all Rex Harrison on the hard parts - Johnny Depp has never sung his own stuff and Burton was adamant that he had to for this film ( Read more... )