Honest, Eminent, Keen Rants
Don’t know if it’s showing up on your browser as the favicon for this site, but it’s showing up on mine. The lovely DaveM sent me a tiny little pixellated Annekenstein Monster. I made a couple of small changes to it, basically to make the braids bigger and make the colors contrast a bit more, but I like it much better than the blocky red face thing I had.
Thanks Dave!
This is a link to a Technorati Tags Bookmarklet that allows one to add tags to their blog posts.
This is a post to see what it does.
Dirty monitor screen? Get this bit of flash.
As for the title… Good Gods of Google Search, what have I just done?
Prince Harry wears a Nazi outfit to a costume party and is up shit creek for it.
Somewhere, presumably in a post-death holding tank, Bob Crane and Werner Klemperer are high-fiving each other, thankful for the attrocities they got away with.
I wonder, will there ever be a time when wearing a Nazi outfit to a costume party is not seen as an evil act, or morally reprehensible? The world is so serious.
5 to 2.
If it was the score of a hockey game you watched, you’d probably feel you had witnessed a typical game. If is was baseball, you’d probably think the pitchers did a pretty good job.
But a score of 5-2 in basketball? That’s crazy.
The winning basket in this Vermont high-school b’ball game came off a three-pointer in the second quarter.
I played some rec basketball at university (and damaged a knee doing it), but basketball never really grabbed me in any way. I was a pretty big Celtics fan for the last half of Larry Bird’s career, and I’ll watch the annual NCAA March Madness games, but that’s about it. I find the first 80 points each NBA team scores to be pretty boring, and the game only gets interesting in the final five minutes or so, assuming both teams still have a chance to win.
I cannot imagine watching this 5-2 test of fan endurance. I wonder if, at some point, the audience (if there were any who remained) began to hope and expect the two teams to not score.
The low-point of my basketball career came in grade 7 during gym class. We were learning to play the game and would play quick games. I was never really into it too much, and one time I was lolly-gagging around half-court, as the action was taking place under our net, when a team-mate passed me the ball. I was all alone with the ball, so I began to dribble down towards the opponent’s net. I dribblied, in fact, to right uner their net, stopped and looked up at the net directly above me. I had maneuvered myself into the one place on the court where I couldn’t really get a good shot at the net. So I looked around at the rest of the players, running down the court towards me. I knew I couldn’t dribble again because I’d be called for a double-dribble. I knew I couldn’t get a good shot, standing absolutely directly under the net. So, I did the next best thing. I passed to a team-mate who was in a better position to shoot.
As soon as I passed the ball, the teacher blew the whistle. I heard, in the high-sharp tweet of the whistle, the contempt and disbelief that the teacher was about thrust upon me. He stopped the game and bawled me out for being so stupid as to not take the shot, all by myself with no opposition players near me. I knew that explaining my position, or rather my poor position, would be futile, so I just sucked it up, let the teacher yell at me and call me a moron and have the rest of the class laugh at my folly.
A 5-2 basketball game. I could’ve been one of the Three Stars of that game.
See, it’s Foreign Press, so the title needs to be Foreign Languages. I’d hug my cleverness, but I can’t get my arms around it, it’s so huge!
So, here are my predictions for the Golden Globes. And remember, this is the only place on this blog where you can get such a quality of prognostication.
Red Carpet:
Pam Dawber is in a stunning red dress, and…
…onto the awarding:
Best Motion Picture –
Drama
The Aviator
Closer
Finding Neverland
Hotel Rwanda
Kinsey
Million Dollar Baby
Winner: Million Dollar
Baby
Best Actrass in Motion
Picture – Drama
Scarlett Johansson – A
Love Song For Bobby Long
Nicole Kidman – Birth
Imelda Staunton – Vera
Drake
Hilary Swank – Million
Dollar Baby
Uma Thurman – Kill Bill
Vol.2
Winner: Imelda Staunton
Best Actor in Motion
Picture – Drama
Javier Bardem – The Sea
Inside
Don Cheadle – Hotel Rwanda
Johnny Depp – Finding
Neverland
Leonardo DiCaprio – The
Aviator
Liam Neeson – Kinsey
Winner: Don Cheadle
Best Motion Picture –
Musical or Comedy
Eternal Sunshine of the
Spotless Mind
The Incredibles
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The
Phantom of the Opera
Ray
Sideways
Winner: The
Incredibles
Best Actress in Musical or
Comedy
Annette Bening – Being
Julia
Ashley Judd – De-Lovely
Emmy Rossum – Andrew Lloyd
Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera
Kate Winslet – Eternal
Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Renee Zellweger – Bridget
Jones: The Shittier of the Two
Winner: Annette Bening
Best Actor in Musical or
Comedy
Jim Carrey – Eternal
Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Jamie Foxx – Ray
Paul Giamatti – Sideways
Kevin Kline – De-Lovely
Kevin Spacey – Beyond the
Sea
Winner: Paul Giamatti
Best Foreign Language Film
The Chorus (Les Choristes)
House of Flying Daggers
The Motorcycle Diaries
The Sea Inside
A Very Long Engagement
Winner: A Very Long
Engagement
Best Supporting Actress in
Motion Picture
Cate Blanchett – The
Aviator
Laura Linney – Kinsey
Virginia Madsen – Sideways
Natalie Portman – Closer
Meryl Streep – The
Manchurian Candidate
Winner: Natalie
Portman
Best Supporting Actor in
Motion Picture
David Carradine – Kill
Bill Vol.2
Thomas Hayden Church –
Sideways
Jamie Foxx – Collateral
Morgan Freeman – Million
Dollar Baby
Clive Owen – Closer
Winner: Jamie Foxx
Best Director – Motion
Picture
Clint Eastwood – Million
Dollar Baby
Marc Forster – Finding
Neverland
Mike Nichols – Closer
Alexander Payne – Sideways
Martin Scorsese – The
Aviator
Winner: Clint Eastwood
Best Screenplay – Motion
Picture
Charlie Kaufman – Eternal
Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
John Logan – The Aviator
David Magee – Finding
Neverland
Patrick Marber – Closer
Alexander Payne & Jim
Taylor – Sideways
Winner: Charlie
Kaufman
Best Original Score –
Motion Picture
Clint Eastwood – Million
Dollar Baby
Jan A.P. Kaczmarek –
Finding Neverland
Rolfe Kent – Sideways
Howard Shore – The Aviator
Hans Zimmer – Spanglish
Winner: Howard Shore
Best Original Song –
Motion Picture
“Accidentally In Love” – Shrek 2
“Believe” – The Polar Express
“Learn To Be Lonely” – Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
“Million Voices” – Hotel Rwanda
“Old Habits Die Hard” – Alfie
Winner: Million Voices
Best Television Series –
Drama
24
Deadwood
Lost
Nip/Tuck
The Sopranos
Winner: (toughest call)… The Sopranos
Best Actress – TV Series –
Drama
Edie Falco – The Sopranos
Jennifer Garner – Alias
Mariska Hargitay – Law
& Order: Special Victims Unit
Christine Lahti – Jack
& Bobby
Joely Richardson –
Nip/Tuck
Winner: Edie Falco
Best Actor – TV Series –
Drama
Michael Chiklis – The
Shield
Denis Leary – Rescue Me
Julian McMahon – Nip/Tuck
Ian McShane – Deadwood
James Spader – Boston
Legal
Winner: Ian McShane
Best TV Series – Musical
or Comedy
Arrested Development
Desperate Housewives
Entourage
Sex and the City
Will & Grace
Winner: Arrested
Development
Best Actress – TV series –
Musical or Comedy
Marcia Cross – Desperate
Housewives
Teri Hatcher – Desperate Housewives
Felicity Huffman –
Desperate Housewives
Debra Messing – Will &
Grace
Sarah Jessica Parker – Sex
and the City
Winner: Felicity
Huffman
Best Actor – TV series –
Musical or Comedy
Jason Bateman – Arrested
Development
Zach Braff – Scrubs
Larry David – Curb Your
Enthusiasm
Matt Leblanc – Joey
Tony Shalhoub – Monk
Charlie Sheen – Two and a
Half Men
Winner: Jason Bateman
Best Mini-series or Motion
Picture for TV
American Family – Journey
of Dreams
Iron Jawed Angels
The Life and Death of
Peter Sellers
The Lion In Winter
Something The Lord Made
Winner: The Lion In
Winter
Best Actress – TV
Mini-series or Motion Picture
Glenn Close – The Liion In
Winter
Blythe Danner – Back When
We Were Grown-ups
Julianna Margulies – The
Grid
Miranda Richardson – The
Lost Prince
Hilary Swank – Iron Jawed
Angels
Winner: Glenn Close
Best Actor – TV
Mini-series or Motion Picture
Mos Def – Something The
Lord Made
Jamie Foxx – Redemption
William H. Macy – The Wool
Cap
Geoffrey Rush – The Life
and Death of Peter Sellers
Patrick Stewart – The Lion
In Winter
Winner: Geoffrey Rush
Best Supporting Actress –
TV Series, Mini-series or Motion Picture
Drea De Matteo – The
Sopranos
Anjelica Huston – Iron
Jawed Angels
Nicollette Sheridan –
Desperate Housewives
Charlize Theron – The Life
and Death of Peter Sellers
Emily Watson – The Life
and Death of Peter Sellers
Winner: Drea De Matteo
Best Supporting Actor – TV
Series, Mini-series or Motion Picture
Sean Hayes – Will &
Grace
Michael Imperioli – The
Sopranos
Jeremy Piven – Entourage
Oliver Platt – Huff
William Shatner – Boston
Legal
Winner: Michael Imperioli
This link tells of the City of Charlottetown’s City Council voting in the demand that the NHL owners and players resolve their differences and get on with the business of playing hockey.
It was an almost unanimous vote on the motion brought in by Councillor Mitch Tweel. Kim Devine was the lone dissenter, expressing her enjoyment at being able to watch the CBC News at its regular Saturday night timeslot.
Two things:
1) As a citizen of Charlottetown, I’m embarrassed by this motion, even if it was meant in a light-hearted way.
2) Will this single stance cost Kim Devine votes next election? Being anti-hockey in this town is akin to being a liberal in the USA, or being a theatre critic on PEI.
My favicon.ico is rather lame: cheap, ugly, amateurish and simple. (before anyone makes the joke "favicons should represent the personality of its ‘owner’, and that describes you perfectly", I’ll make it first). You will not be surprised that it was created in a minute or two using Microsoft’s simple Paint program.
How does one (who has very limited skill in such things) go about creating a better one? Are they difficult to design? If a software download is needed, I’ll probably not bother.
Is there someone out there who reads this blog who would be willing to create one for me? For free?
That it’s a flash system is good for those who ride on motorbikes across bumps, iGuess.
That it’s only $99(US) is good, iGuess.
Half a gig of space is more than enough if you’re gonna be regularly updating the playlist, iGuess.
But don’t get sucked into the marketing that it’s so fun to not know what song is coming up next.
If you already own an iPod, here’s a quick and easy way to turn it into an iPod Shuffle.
Lately I’ve been really missing the greasy delicious food at George’s Take-Out. I didn’t really enjoy visiting there, as I’d leave feeling covered in a greasy film, but boy oh boy did I like the food. The burgers were fantastic, chicken fingers mmm-mmm good, and remember when they’d have a few different types of fries you could order?
George was a peach. And Ed… well, I better stop this post before I get all verklempt.
I haven’t found a substitute place yet. And because it was killing me every time I went there to eat, I’m not sure if I want to find a substitute.
The Annekenstein Monster 