Who Ordered So Many Damn Spoons? Who Do I Have To Talk To Around Here So I Can Get A Knife?

Irony:Sitting in front of the TV, watching 90 minutes of The Biggest Loser season finale, while mindlessly eating mediocre chocolate snowmen that some kid gave to me at work today as a Christmas gift. I would have been eating some caramel popcorn that had clumps of chocolate in it (another gift from a different kid), but Emily didn't bring those to me because the popcorn "had too many wrappers around it," and would therefore be too much of a pain in the ass for us to open. I like the way Emily thinks.

Snuffalaffagus Gone Country

Cuy Clark's last album from 2006, Workbench Songs, has a song called Analog Girl.

Click here for the lyrics (you may have to scroll past a few ads at the top of the page).

Does such person really exist anymore? If she does, she probably doesn't live in Minneapolis.

Dude, Where's My Platoon?

I wonder if between Sunday night and Tuesday night, I set Netflix history. Specifically, I think I may have had two movies, side by side in my queue, that are unrivaled in terms of how different they are from one another.

On Sunday night, Emily and I watched this movie.

Then on Tuesday night, I watched the next movie in our queue, which was this gem.

So the question is, can anyone match this pair of movies in terms of their polar opposites? The only stipulations are that no more than 72 hours separated the viewing of the two movies, and that you didn't watch any other movie(s) between the two movies.

If you can top my movie pair, I'll send you my own copy ofthe hard-to-find DVD, Gandhi: The Animal House Years.

Keep Tahoe Blue

I finally got around uploading my digital photos to the computer. Emily already posted about our trip to Lake Tahoe in October. We went there to see our friends' wedding. It was a lot of fun. I gambled. We drank some beers. We went for some hikes.

A good time was had by all. Here are some pictures from our trip.

The first two pictures are from the shores of Lake Tahoe. The resort we stayed in had access to the beach. It was startling just how much of the shore is private property. Some friends of ours actually went for a swin the lake. And by "swim" I mean they jumped in for 20 seconds, got out, huddled by the fire, and told how cold it was.




The next two pictures are from a hike we did at Snowflake Lodge.



The last four pictures are from our hike along the Tahoe Rim Trail.

There Goes The Neighborhood

In early November, or more accurately from early November to mid-November, a friend of mine from high school stayed with us on and off for about ten days. It's a long story, but he was stationed here as part of his job. And it's an even longer story to explain why part of his job entailed having a Penske moving truck parked in front of our house while he was here. I was just happy to have another crazed Spurs fan to hang out with.

But one morning Emily took Pancho for his morning walk and found that my friend's moving van had been tagged with graffiti.



It is kind of funny that his van got tagged. But it is not so funny that such an elaborate paint job occured in front of our house. Kids/gangstas these days...