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Just as I finish unpacking one bag, I’m packing up another to head off to NYC this weekend to visit the Ayerses. I’ll be watching “There Will Be Blood” and some new episodes of “This American Life” on the free train ride up. Thank you Amtrak points. MarioKart Challenge Zap 8, Telectroscope and beer are [...]

What a bummer Harvey Korman died – he was my favorite supporting character in old skool Mel Brooks movies (High Anxiety, Blazing Saddles, History of the World) “Count The Money! Count The Money!” “It’s de Monet”

Washington Post writer Linton Weeks uses the first letter of each paragraph in his article about John Updike from last weekend to send a message to everyone, after taking an early retirement package along with more than 100 Washington Post reporters, editors, photographers, artists and other journalists offered by the company as a way to [...]

Henry Winkler has achieved what the rest of us can only dream of — a statue in Milwaukee. I feel like this kind of belittles all other historic statues — so you freed the slaves, Abe – big whoop. You founded the nursing programs of the Red Cross, Jane — but can you [...]

Bob Morris, author of “Assisted Loving” will be on Fresh Air today! Woohoo!

Aww crap! The Andy Griffith whistler passed away! …and holy crap — Sydney Pollack died!

After a circuitous, semi-planned route through central VA we made it back home last night from TN, safe and sound.
Highlights from the weekend:
Blazing Fury (x2), Tennessee Tornado (x1) and Demolition Derby (x2) at Dollywood
Smokies 6, Mudcats 5 — Class AA baseball at it’s finest
Carrie’s Mom’s Strawberry-angel-food-cake
Deadliest Catch marathon
Discovering that there were no [...]

Tonight, the little lady and I hit the highways and byways to visit C’s Mom down in Knoxville, TN for an extra long Mem Day weekend — we have Monday AND Tuesday off. Rock!
So far, we’re planning on visiting the OTHER magic kingdom: “Dollywood” and catching a Smokies game (farm team for the Cubs). Pics [...]

That is so freaking weird — I was JUST wondering this week what happened to that girl from “Contact” who played little Jodie Foster (Jena Malone) — - I knew she was in Donnie Darko but hadn’t seen her in much since. Well here you go.
What blew my mind even more, whilst looking her up [...]

Because the live ‘American Idol’ finale went overtime last night, our crap-ass-Comcast DVR stopped recording at 10:00pm on the dot — the last 4 words we heard before the recording was cut-off was “and the winner is..” .
I tried switching to TiVo several months ago but the brilliant Comcast technicans could not get the [...]