Audrey Raines, from "24".
Jack's love interest in season four; at CTU on behalf of DOD in season five to discover Jack is not "dead"; but she's got her head on her shoulders this season, and is not the love-puppy of 18 months ago (in "24" time..)
In the past few days, my blog has come up on searches from people looking for:
---Audrey Raines glasses
---Audrey Raines naked
Here's Audrey Raines, neither naked nor with the eyewear. But, it's all the info. you need on a character that has definitely done some maturing.
Friday, March 17, 2006
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
How about these four?
Duke....
Kansas...
Illinois....
Ohio State....
Why not? There are at least 12-15 teams who could win it all.
NC State is NOT one of them.
Kansas...
Illinois....
Ohio State....
Why not? There are at least 12-15 teams who could win it all.
NC State is NOT one of them.
Monday, March 13, 2006
"24" Live Blogging: 7pm to 8pm, or, how I tortured like Jack Bauer couldn't, by Tony Almeda.
Time for another riveting hour of "24". Let's enjoy, shall we?
Do not leave until.....yeah, like Jack Bauer's gonna listen.
Bauer gets the first call tonight!
Chloe, you can do it.
This guy, whoever he is, better not press Jack.
She's feeling guilty. She shouldn't. Like any of us have been perfect towards anyone else.
OOHH!!! Good job, guard. Shot to the gut on Doughboy. Slap to the face, to boot!
Hmmmm....here comes the best part of the night.
Step one: Make sure doctor is incapacitated.
Step two: Grab gun from orderly in Henderson's room.
Step three: Get caught by Jack. Right at the point of death.
....Jack reminds Tony of his loss in season one, with a good visual of Jack and Kim looking at each other.
"Hurry up", said Tony at 7:09pm. I don't think he'll be getting rid of the gun anytime soon. Well, until the doctor jumps him.
Tony NOW SEES a better thing than simple death. It's written all over his face.
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"Who is going to STOP THEM?"--said wimpy Logan, who, ah, is still looking for someone else to save the day so he can look good.
And now here's the Veep, ready to turn L.A. into Poland circa 1981 pre-Solidarity.
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Our next contestant, ah, target, must be big. They want to open the rest of the cannisters. Must be targeting Kirstie Alley's wardrobe.
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Well, it wouldn't be an hour of "24" without some personal problems, confrontations, and the hourly reminder by Jack that "we don't have time!"
Oooh, dear. Buchanan gives great news now. The seals are failing. Rats.
Oh, hold on. Jack's wheels are turning. He must dig ventilation systems or study them as a hobby.
And there he goes!!
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BREAKING NEWS: On a sad note, word just seen online of the death of Press Your Luck host Peter Tomarken in a plane crash today. Click here for the story.
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Well, back to Jack, and....well.....there are bars. Not the ones where you find pretty ladies.
Shrink? Meet Chloe. She's doing better now.....
Trust me, it's there, Jack said. Some stupid level 9 nitwit didn't report the bars!!
Give me a break!!!
Now Jack calls Doughboy. Doughboy considers, and the Guard shows he was never CTU material to begin with. WOW----Doughboy shows some courage. Is he the one to "sacrifice themselves"? It's 734pm. Back in a moment.
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Kim comes over to talk to Chloe. Chloe....."wanna know where to find Chase?".
Chloe:...."I guess not that great." Her summation of the day thus far. We love you, Chloe!!
Now to the guard. I hate these parts. This is when I'm glad espionage never tickled my fancy.
Great news from Chloe.....and wow. I've got to hand it to Doughboy. He did it.
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Meanwhile....Tony is about to take over. And Jack IS PISSED OFF BIG TIME!!!!
Well, way to go Kim. Blame world calamity on your Dad. I love you, but catastrophe follows you. But she won't budge and Jack may lose her twice. And, Mr Shrink holds his prized patient/girlfriend/patient/privilege infringer.
QUESTION DURING THE COMMERCIAL BREAK: Is it me or is it GREAT AND REFRESHING not dealing with Logan for most of the hour?? Praises be unto the producers for giving us an hour away from him. I'll feel more composed next week. Really I will.
Oh, great, ANOTHER chance to win seven figures; this time underground with fighting. Hasn't the second part of that been the hallmark of 713 past TV shows? What's next? Win a million by guessing in which hospital room a patient bites the big one???
GIVE ME DEAL OR NO DEAL ANY DAY!! ESPECIALLY HOWIE'S 26 FRIENDS!!!!
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Shoot, spoke too soon. It's Logan. Oh, he's breaking down. Where's the Effexor?!!?? I might have some extra!!!
Martha=right again. Don't do a thing the Veep wants.
Now, returning to your crying, Mr. President.
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And now the next level is, uncovered. Really. Uncovered. Wow! Oh, sorry.
Phone call with terrorists....hop into bed....tease....go back to "finish something".
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Oh, boy. Time now for another "takeover" of CTU. Now it's Homeland Security who thinks they're king. Queen. Whatever. Who do they throw out? Chloe? Too valuable (they'll soon learn), Jack? Yeah, right. Audrey? She's DOD. Well, we will see.
Back at medical, Henderson's clinging, really clinging. And Tony? A little get rid of the orderly and take over the syringe department. Henderson-----time for wake up juice!!!!
Ah, dear crap. He bought it. Henderson got him. DID NOT see that coming. Where'd he go??
Tony? Next?? NO!!! There won't be anyone left to cameo in season six!!!
Goodbye Tony. And, yes, Jack is human.
Two power punches in the stomach at :59 past the hour the past two hours.
Edgar. Doughboy. Guard.
But nothing like Tony. CRAP, CRAP, CRAP!!!
Henderson is SO toast. Let's just hope Jack doesn't, for the first time, let his emotions get the best of him.
Now, the trailer for next week......
--Martial law
--Cruella D'Ville
--And Jack back on the street....
...but no sign of Henderson. Laying low? If he's smart, he's on the first flight to Neptune.
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Have a good evening, if you can. That was a disturbing hour. And "24" usually doesn't do that to me.
I guess I need to go think of my wife naked or something. That could help.....:)
Do not leave until.....yeah, like Jack Bauer's gonna listen.
Bauer gets the first call tonight!
Chloe, you can do it.
This guy, whoever he is, better not press Jack.
She's feeling guilty. She shouldn't. Like any of us have been perfect towards anyone else.
OOHH!!! Good job, guard. Shot to the gut on Doughboy. Slap to the face, to boot!
Hmmmm....here comes the best part of the night.
Step one: Make sure doctor is incapacitated.
Step two: Grab gun from orderly in Henderson's room.
Step three: Get caught by Jack. Right at the point of death.
....Jack reminds Tony of his loss in season one, with a good visual of Jack and Kim looking at each other.
"Hurry up", said Tony at 7:09pm. I don't think he'll be getting rid of the gun anytime soon. Well, until the doctor jumps him.
Tony NOW SEES a better thing than simple death. It's written all over his face.
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"Who is going to STOP THEM?"--said wimpy Logan, who, ah, is still looking for someone else to save the day so he can look good.
And now here's the Veep, ready to turn L.A. into Poland circa 1981 pre-Solidarity.
--------------------------------------------------------
Our next contestant, ah, target, must be big. They want to open the rest of the cannisters. Must be targeting Kirstie Alley's wardrobe.
--------------------------------------------------------
Well, it wouldn't be an hour of "24" without some personal problems, confrontations, and the hourly reminder by Jack that "we don't have time!"
Oooh, dear. Buchanan gives great news now. The seals are failing. Rats.
Oh, hold on. Jack's wheels are turning. He must dig ventilation systems or study them as a hobby.
And there he goes!!
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BREAKING NEWS: On a sad note, word just seen online of the death of Press Your Luck host Peter Tomarken in a plane crash today. Click here for the story.
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Well, back to Jack, and....well.....there are bars. Not the ones where you find pretty ladies.
Shrink? Meet Chloe. She's doing better now.....
Trust me, it's there, Jack said. Some stupid level 9 nitwit didn't report the bars!!
Give me a break!!!
Now Jack calls Doughboy. Doughboy considers, and the Guard shows he was never CTU material to begin with. WOW----Doughboy shows some courage. Is he the one to "sacrifice themselves"? It's 734pm. Back in a moment.
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Kim comes over to talk to Chloe. Chloe....."wanna know where to find Chase?".
Chloe:...."I guess not that great." Her summation of the day thus far. We love you, Chloe!!
Now to the guard. I hate these parts. This is when I'm glad espionage never tickled my fancy.
Great news from Chloe.....and wow. I've got to hand it to Doughboy. He did it.
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Meanwhile....Tony is about to take over. And Jack IS PISSED OFF BIG TIME!!!!
Well, way to go Kim. Blame world calamity on your Dad. I love you, but catastrophe follows you. But she won't budge and Jack may lose her twice. And, Mr Shrink holds his prized patient/girlfriend/patient/privilege infringer.
QUESTION DURING THE COMMERCIAL BREAK: Is it me or is it GREAT AND REFRESHING not dealing with Logan for most of the hour?? Praises be unto the producers for giving us an hour away from him. I'll feel more composed next week. Really I will.
Oh, great, ANOTHER chance to win seven figures; this time underground with fighting. Hasn't the second part of that been the hallmark of 713 past TV shows? What's next? Win a million by guessing in which hospital room a patient bites the big one???
GIVE ME DEAL OR NO DEAL ANY DAY!! ESPECIALLY HOWIE'S 26 FRIENDS!!!!
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Shoot, spoke too soon. It's Logan. Oh, he's breaking down. Where's the Effexor?!!?? I might have some extra!!!
Martha=right again. Don't do a thing the Veep wants.
Now, returning to your crying, Mr. President.
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And now the next level is, uncovered. Really. Uncovered. Wow! Oh, sorry.
Phone call with terrorists....hop into bed....tease....go back to "finish something".
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Oh, boy. Time now for another "takeover" of CTU. Now it's Homeland Security who thinks they're king. Queen. Whatever. Who do they throw out? Chloe? Too valuable (they'll soon learn), Jack? Yeah, right. Audrey? She's DOD. Well, we will see.
Back at medical, Henderson's clinging, really clinging. And Tony? A little get rid of the orderly and take over the syringe department. Henderson-----time for wake up juice!!!!
Ah, dear crap. He bought it. Henderson got him. DID NOT see that coming. Where'd he go??
Tony? Next?? NO!!! There won't be anyone left to cameo in season six!!!
Goodbye Tony. And, yes, Jack is human.
Two power punches in the stomach at :59 past the hour the past two hours.
Edgar. Doughboy. Guard.
But nothing like Tony. CRAP, CRAP, CRAP!!!
Henderson is SO toast. Let's just hope Jack doesn't, for the first time, let his emotions get the best of him.
Now, the trailer for next week......
--Martial law
--Cruella D'Ville
--And Jack back on the street....
...but no sign of Henderson. Laying low? If he's smart, he's on the first flight to Neptune.
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Have a good evening, if you can. That was a disturbing hour. And "24" usually doesn't do that to me.
I guess I need to go think of my wife naked or something. That could help.....:)
Sunday, March 12, 2006
Initial March Madness Thoughts.....
Worked a full day today; by choice mind you.
The 6pm hour would have been considered my "lunch hour". Time for Selection Sunday!
First stream of thoughts are.....
1) Tennessee has no business being a #2 seed. That was the only announcement in the bracket that elicited a loud response from me. UNC, Gonzaga, even Florida would've been better.
2) You would think this would create a wide open scenario for UConn to head to the Final Four, but hold on. UNC is #3, and they may have to get past the toughest #6 seed by far this year, Michigan State. When they're on, they can hang with anyone.
3) Already the Winthrop cheers are coming out, as the upset specialists are jumping on this bandwagon since they drew Tennessee. I see no specific "upset special" in this region, at least so far.
4) Illinois/Washington would be a 2nd round war. Hope it happens.
5) Arizona/Wisconsin is an intriguing round one matchup, with Villanova looming as the prize for the winner. I smell trouble for 'Nova here, as either team would look at beating the 'Cats as the mark on the season they've searched for all year.
6) If BC plays like they did in the ACC Tourney, they could go to the Final Four. Having said that, they also just as easily be knocked out in Round Two by Nevada. You know, Nevada. The best team in the tourney nicknamed "Wolfpack".
7) I'm considering two upsets in this region (Minneapolis): UW Milwaukee over OU and, for as much as I'm already hearing about Georgetown, don't forget Northern Iowa. I was courtside when they knocked off a #3 seed in Missouri in 1990.
8) Why can I see Xavier beating Gonzaga and Oral Roberts giving Memphis fits?
9) Kansas/Pitt in round two could be the best matchup of the weekend. Big 12 Tourney Champ versus Big East Tourney runner-up. Memphis should be worried.
10) West Virginia and Syracuse need watch out. Southern Illinois and Texas A&M will give them trouble in round one (I really think the Orange will struggle in round one; they can't keep coming up with miracles, can they?)
Brackets (toughest to easiest):
1) Washington DC
2) Oakland
3) Minneapolis
4) Atlanta
And, I have NO IDEA about a Final Four yet. I've got 'til early Thursday AM. Lots to think about. I see at least 14 teams that could run the table.
This will be an awesome tournament!!!
:)
The 6pm hour would have been considered my "lunch hour". Time for Selection Sunday!
First stream of thoughts are.....
1) Tennessee has no business being a #2 seed. That was the only announcement in the bracket that elicited a loud response from me. UNC, Gonzaga, even Florida would've been better.
2) You would think this would create a wide open scenario for UConn to head to the Final Four, but hold on. UNC is #3, and they may have to get past the toughest #6 seed by far this year, Michigan State. When they're on, they can hang with anyone.
3) Already the Winthrop cheers are coming out, as the upset specialists are jumping on this bandwagon since they drew Tennessee. I see no specific "upset special" in this region, at least so far.
4) Illinois/Washington would be a 2nd round war. Hope it happens.
5) Arizona/Wisconsin is an intriguing round one matchup, with Villanova looming as the prize for the winner. I smell trouble for 'Nova here, as either team would look at beating the 'Cats as the mark on the season they've searched for all year.
6) If BC plays like they did in the ACC Tourney, they could go to the Final Four. Having said that, they also just as easily be knocked out in Round Two by Nevada. You know, Nevada. The best team in the tourney nicknamed "Wolfpack".
7) I'm considering two upsets in this region (Minneapolis): UW Milwaukee over OU and, for as much as I'm already hearing about Georgetown, don't forget Northern Iowa. I was courtside when they knocked off a #3 seed in Missouri in 1990.
8) Why can I see Xavier beating Gonzaga and Oral Roberts giving Memphis fits?
9) Kansas/Pitt in round two could be the best matchup of the weekend. Big 12 Tourney Champ versus Big East Tourney runner-up. Memphis should be worried.
10) West Virginia and Syracuse need watch out. Southern Illinois and Texas A&M will give them trouble in round one (I really think the Orange will struggle in round one; they can't keep coming up with miracles, can they?)
Brackets (toughest to easiest):
1) Washington DC
2) Oakland
3) Minneapolis
4) Atlanta
And, I have NO IDEA about a Final Four yet. I've got 'til early Thursday AM. Lots to think about. I see at least 14 teams that could run the table.
This will be an awesome tournament!!!
:)
Friday, March 10, 2006
Barriers.....
Barrier.....
A structure, such as a fence, built to bar passage.
Something immaterial that obstructs or impedes.
A boundary or limit.
Something that separates or holds apart.
I hate barriers.
So why do I make them, eh?? And why do some find me?
---My OCD is a barrier to some, who simply can't get past its effects to understand me, though, thankfully, it's been few.
---My Christian beliefs are barriers, which I don't like, but, the barriers are not going anywhere, because the absolute truth of Christ, well, it's absolute.
---Plain scared. That was the barrier keeping me from expressing my feelings for my first love some 25 years ago.
---Inability to talk and confess real feelings. Funny how that happening in one 45 minute conversation changes your entire life.
---Some are good indirectly! I talked to thousands of people a day on the radio for nine years and loved every moment. But I didn't see them, nor they me. The lack of a video signal was a barrier, of sorts. The best part of me got out, though, because I do have a face for radio!
---When you're the pastor, you aren't supposed to have "friends" at church. So, I didn't completely allow that barrier complete control. :)
---Today?
A) My world revolves around an 8-mile orbit. Home to work, work to home. So, if they don't work with me or live with me, I probably don't see them.
B) So, for example, a circle of friends at a church is forthcoming, but scary to find, even with God's leading. It's been a long time since I took off to this adventure.
C) Thank God for no barriers at home. The six of us (cats included) are well, except the barrier of lack of time together.
D) America's favorite office today? The cubicle. It can also be a barrier. That's why, day by day, I must do my part to follow the edict posted on my cubicle wall from one of my favorites, the Apostle Paul, from Philippians 2:3.....
Don't be selfish; don't live to make a good impression on others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourself.
The more I think of them (one specifically) and not me, God will make the corner feel a lot bigger (feeling bigger matters, not its physical size), and will help me look at what's in front of me at work as just a movable wall.
....and will help me look at what's in front of me for what's left of my life, and see it as the adventure I once reveled in living in....
....as opposed to my downward spiral of apathy that is now in its fourth year.
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What barriers do you have? Did you make them? Did others build them around you? Either way, make a deal with me. I'll try to work on letting my barriers go the way of Berlin Wall, if you'll do the same.
A structure, such as a fence, built to bar passage.
Something immaterial that obstructs or impedes.
A boundary or limit.
Something that separates or holds apart.
I hate barriers.
So why do I make them, eh?? And why do some find me?
---My OCD is a barrier to some, who simply can't get past its effects to understand me, though, thankfully, it's been few.
---My Christian beliefs are barriers, which I don't like, but, the barriers are not going anywhere, because the absolute truth of Christ, well, it's absolute.
---Plain scared. That was the barrier keeping me from expressing my feelings for my first love some 25 years ago.
---Inability to talk and confess real feelings. Funny how that happening in one 45 minute conversation changes your entire life.
---Some are good indirectly! I talked to thousands of people a day on the radio for nine years and loved every moment. But I didn't see them, nor they me. The lack of a video signal was a barrier, of sorts. The best part of me got out, though, because I do have a face for radio!
---When you're the pastor, you aren't supposed to have "friends" at church. So, I didn't completely allow that barrier complete control. :)
---Today?
A) My world revolves around an 8-mile orbit. Home to work, work to home. So, if they don't work with me or live with me, I probably don't see them.
B) So, for example, a circle of friends at a church is forthcoming, but scary to find, even with God's leading. It's been a long time since I took off to this adventure.
C) Thank God for no barriers at home. The six of us (cats included) are well, except the barrier of lack of time together.
D) America's favorite office today? The cubicle. It can also be a barrier. That's why, day by day, I must do my part to follow the edict posted on my cubicle wall from one of my favorites, the Apostle Paul, from Philippians 2:3.....
Don't be selfish; don't live to make a good impression on others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourself.
The more I think of them (one specifically) and not me, God will make the corner feel a lot bigger (feeling bigger matters, not its physical size), and will help me look at what's in front of me at work as just a movable wall.
....and will help me look at what's in front of me for what's left of my life, and see it as the adventure I once reveled in living in....
....as opposed to my downward spiral of apathy that is now in its fourth year.
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What barriers do you have? Did you make them? Did others build them around you? Either way, make a deal with me. I'll try to work on letting my barriers go the way of Berlin Wall, if you'll do the same.
Mirage.....
Mirage....
An optical phenomenon that creates the illusion of water, often with inverted reflections of distant objects, and results from distortion of light by alternate layers of hot and cool air. Also called fata morgana .
Something illusory or insubstantial.
I'm not connected to the first definition. The second, though.....
What in your life is illusory or insubstantial?
What is produced by illusions, therefore, insubstantial on the whole?
For me...
--where will I be Monday thru Friday in ten years?
--did my most enjoyable working years come way too early in life?
--does anyone know me (outside of God, of course) besides me?
--are distance, sight line, or barriers tools that can reveal reality?
--do we do a very good job making, in our minds, talents, fears, phobias, friendships, heck, any priorities, much more than they are in reality? If so, does this mean we're good "living the life of illusion?", as Joe Walsh once sang?
All I can say at this juncture in the Rob Witham story is this---I cannot praise God enough for His promises and absolutes.
Because if all I had to rest upon was my illusionary thoughts, hopes, dreams, and desires-----I'd might consider a bed of nails as a better alternative (no pun intended to my Lord, by the way.....)
An optical phenomenon that creates the illusion of water, often with inverted reflections of distant objects, and results from distortion of light by alternate layers of hot and cool air. Also called fata morgana .
Something illusory or insubstantial.
I'm not connected to the first definition. The second, though.....
What in your life is illusory or insubstantial?
What is produced by illusions, therefore, insubstantial on the whole?
For me...
--where will I be Monday thru Friday in ten years?
--did my most enjoyable working years come way too early in life?
--does anyone know me (outside of God, of course) besides me?
--are distance, sight line, or barriers tools that can reveal reality?
--do we do a very good job making, in our minds, talents, fears, phobias, friendships, heck, any priorities, much more than they are in reality? If so, does this mean we're good "living the life of illusion?", as Joe Walsh once sang?
All I can say at this juncture in the Rob Witham story is this---I cannot praise God enough for His promises and absolutes.
Because if all I had to rest upon was my illusionary thoughts, hopes, dreams, and desires-----I'd might consider a bed of nails as a better alternative (no pun intended to my Lord, by the way.....)
Silhouettes.....
Silhouette.....
A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.
An outline that appears dark against a light background. ---I could now be considered a silhouette of who I was, say 10 years ago. The outline is similar (bigger in the belly, though..), but the insides are, well, much different, much unknown/unexplained, thus, appearing dark....
---That doesn't mean I have a dark heart, by the way. I'm saved by the blood of Jesus Christ! But I won't be perfect nor will I understand all the stuff that comprises me and my life until I see Him face to face.
---Good news! The first two words of definition #1 are "a drawing". They can be erased, altered, even trashed and redone. In other words, change is always possible.
A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.
An outline that appears dark against a light background. ---I could now be considered a silhouette of who I was, say 10 years ago. The outline is similar (bigger in the belly, though..), but the insides are, well, much different, much unknown/unexplained, thus, appearing dark....
---That doesn't mean I have a dark heart, by the way. I'm saved by the blood of Jesus Christ! But I won't be perfect nor will I understand all the stuff that comprises me and my life until I see Him face to face.
---Good news! The first two words of definition #1 are "a drawing". They can be erased, altered, even trashed and redone. In other words, change is always possible.
Now had I held a press conference......
Free speech is a wonderful thing.
But some people's speech is, ah, held in more esteem and importance than others.
For example, click here.
Now, they sing incredibly well, they are hugely popular, got a few more bucks in the bank than I do, and, every day at work, I walk past the Tim McGraw calendar thanks to my co-worker.
They also have every right, especially since both of them hail from the Gulf Coast region, to have opinions, feelings, and even frustrations.
My question, though, is this: If I held the exact same view as they did, since I don't sell millions of CD's and I don't have a calendar available, would I have gotten a front page headline at comcast.com??
I didn't think so.
Now if I went outside and tried to sing one of his songs, it would make headlines. I'd be arrested for disturbing the peace.
But some people's speech is, ah, held in more esteem and importance than others.
For example, click here.
Now, they sing incredibly well, they are hugely popular, got a few more bucks in the bank than I do, and, every day at work, I walk past the Tim McGraw calendar thanks to my co-worker.
They also have every right, especially since both of them hail from the Gulf Coast region, to have opinions, feelings, and even frustrations.
My question, though, is this: If I held the exact same view as they did, since I don't sell millions of CD's and I don't have a calendar available, would I have gotten a front page headline at comcast.com??
I didn't think so.
Now if I went outside and tried to sing one of his songs, it would make headlines. I'd be arrested for disturbing the peace.
Tuesday, March 07, 2006
Thank you Kirby.....
The first week my wife and I dated was the week of the 1987 World Series.
Whenever we were together during a game, the Minnesota Twins won. When we weren't, the St. Louis Cardinals won. Neither of us were Twins' fans, but we "fell into" rooting for them.
There was this one guy playing for them. I didn't take much notice of him then, but would a few years later as my sports-card collecting alter ego resurrected itself.
I liked this guy. He didn't play on my team, but he's the prototype of how a great baseball player is NOT supposed to look like.
He's stubby.
He's chubby.
He's short.
The LAST place he could play is centerfield.
But he could, and he did.
He hit the biggest blast in, my estimation, the best World Series ever, in Game 6, 1991, against Atlanta. I was rooting for the Braves......but you couldn't fault him.
He's not supposed to leap a wall to make catches like that!!
In him, I saw me. I wasn't born to play ball. But he was. First in his heart, then mentally, then physically.
He'd tell you he was always the first to get to the ballpark and the last to leave, he loved it so much.
I guess that's why my collection of his baseball cards is around 200.
For your passion and love for your craft, and for bringing out the Hall-of-Famer in us all....
Thank you, Kirby Puckett.
Monday, March 06, 2006
Live Blogging!! "24" as it happens......
Two hours of "24"? Gotta blog.
Here we go!!!
FIRST: I'm not happy to have not blogged the last several days, so there are several things to catch up on post-24. Hopefully I'll make myself sit down tomorrow night and do that. How can I not blog about "National Shoney's Day"??
Having all that said and done.....
It's 5pm CTU time.....
....and that's why we don't negotiate with terrorists.
Lies, lies, damnable lies, they're everywhere!!! Logan does it, Buchanan does it.
Well, thank God Pierce survived. We couldn't have lost him!!
UT, OH-----will they believe Martha now??? Or is she "off her rocker" again?? And we thought her struggle to expose Walt was difficult....
KEYCARD!!!!!! We've waited for that word for several hours. And here's the call to implanted friend of Doughboy's sister. Expect both he and sis to be gunned down within the hour. Crap, they'll miss the 6pm news.
When Logan screws up, he throws the blame on CTU to help assuage his guilt.
Hey, it's Jack! The dead is going to visit Mr. Henderson!!!
EVEN TERRORISTS HAVE TO WAIT ON HOLD!!!! (That's from Bonnie....)
Tony equals suspicious. Is my prediction of him "turning heel" going to come true when he snaps, finding out she's dead? (I'd snap, I loved her, too!! hee hee...)
Well, that would be enough to make me snap. Not become a terrorist, but release anger against those around him. Haven't we all done that a few times?
UPDATE: Guy offered $15K on "Deal or No Deal". Deal is declined. More later.
5:17pm......the Korean War-era chopper is landing at the ranch/estate/home for troubled Presidents.
Martha......
Now, Prez on Prez. Oh, boy. She was upset. Yep, Russian Prez notices Martha post and PRE bomb. Doesn't buy the "depression" excuse, even though it's true.
Doughboy gets a phone. Does it make ringing noises? Is it rotary? Is it by Mattel?
CTU is not a laundry room. Right?? Right?? I wonder who CTU's cleaning crew is after hours?
Good thing Edgar did well in Tinkertoys and Lite-Brite! He found the right building!
Oh, no, not the dreaded "bad guy in orderly" bit again?? This is the 455th time it's been used in entertainment history! I'm a bit disappointed at that move.
UPDATE: The offer for Monty is at $30K. Oh, the board looks bad. He better take it and go home....but he listens to a family member who looks spastic. No deal. Oh, he blew it. Next offer is $16K. Oh, well.
5:29pm: Jack is back. It's SO GREAT that Jack isn't in 80 percent of the scenes. Why doesn't Jack just pretend to be LandShark from Saturday Night Live???
Jack sees wife of Christopher through window. Will return.
WAIT----see the lingering look on the Hospital Security Chief's face. Is he in cahoots, too?? Part of the diversion??? Since the gas won't be released there??
Jack's powers of persuasion are conveniently available at Green Top Sporting Goods, just north of Virginia Center Commons on Route 1.
You HAVE to love Agent Pierce. What a guy!! He's trying to figure out what's up as Martha.....puts the move on him!! Now Pierce looks bad. I know depressed, you don't want a fling with anyone who's depressed.
Curtis and Company are on site, as the invisible man lies on the gurney rolled by the bad guy. Bad guys always go through Radiology to get the job done!
UPDATE: Monty! What??? He's survived to two cases?? Deal was $38K and he refused to try and win $50K. He's holding to his original case. And, that is......
........$25K. Well, beats the heck out of your case holding a single Abe.
5:41pm: Audrey, to Bill, to Mike, to Prez. They found the right guy. Where is he? Well, we know. They don't, yet.
Jack now faces the forces of Wife of Christopher. We checked on your daughter, blah blah blah. Poor Wife of Christopher; she doesn't understand.
I hope I'm never snowed by my spouse like that.....and...ah....*gets nervous*...
HEY---THEY FOUND GURNEY GUY!!! Now, if they only knew to get through Radiology. Victor's going past Radiology!!!
Aerosmith's new hit: "Gurney's Got a Gun".....
We're under ten minutes to play now in the 2nd Cannister...Curtis closing in, and got him. But the countdown is already on. Much to their dismay, the CTU Agents Who Look Like Aliens discover the cannister, armed.
Ut oh.
UPDATE: Our next contestant starts well, is offered $21K. She refuses. Now...
...$75K is gone, $300K is gone....$400, that's better. Two to go. She should've picked her birthday!!! It was the million!!! We'll check on her later, as she attempts to change her birth certificate to reflect different date of birth....
Oh boy, X Men trailer. Yawn. Good time to pee.
It's now 5:52pm and the good guys are covered in trash bags, trying to save the day.
Meanwhile, Jack uses another Green Top purchase to almost knock out Christopher.
And now, Wife of Christopher discovers the truth!!!! Oh, no, another "I was a patriot".
YES!!! YES!!! Best decision Jack's made in awhile! Only problem, she's married to Heartless.
Well....we found the counter. Would YOU run with a cannister of bad gas? No, not the kind you get after tacos.......
....and Curtis shoots the trey with seconds to go to win the war on Cannister 2!!
SEE---I TOLD YOU THEY'D BE DEAD BEFORE THE 6PM NEWS......
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Speaking of 6pm.......the following takes place.......
Voila!! Bad guy's head in, Doughboy's out.
Gotta eat. More to come.
BREAKING NEWS:
---Kim is in, and now she knows.
---FINALLY, THE VEEP IS IN!!! And, he's looking more secure in himself than Logan. Maybe Veep is too secure, as in doing what he shouldn't have. Prez isn't happy.
---NOTICE that Veep takes a dig at CTU. He will play that political card later after the CTU invasion.
Since I ate....
----Kim and Jack's reunion; not so good. Oh, see psych, date psych. Does that mean she is really co-dependent??
----Will Christopher finally crack?
----They don't even realize the kooks are in their backyard (or, better put, in their venilation system).
It's 6:32pm........
I didn't know Martha smoked! Here comes Mike....."he needs me?", Martha says. Mike tells her about the prayer, uses it as spin (courtesy of BW). Now Martha cuts to the chase. Mike spills it. But, spins some more. Be his yin to the Veep's yang, so to speak.
Now, let's go inside CTU, shall we? Notice the lovely dining area!
EDGAR!!!! Last year it was the disk (probably still on his desk somewhere), this year dissing Carrie's warning call.
At 6:36pm, Mike's spinning finally pays off. Martha approaches ratfink, I mean President Hubby.
Now Martha spins!
Oops....say goodbye to this short term character. Ewww....in a nasty way, too. Was her character's name Carrie? Why did I waste time trying to learn it??
Hey Verizon----do I REALLY want to know about her humps? Didn't think so.
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EVERYONE GO PEE-----IT'S THE STUPID MOVIE TRAILER!!!!
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Oh, I'm awake...really! Just shaved all the spikes off my face, too.
It's 6:43pm. The clock now starts the 4th quarter of Cannister three, just under 15 to go.
"Try to cut him some slack".----Chloe's choice word of the night. :)
Now----Doughboy knows his sister's fate. Is Doughboy showing emotions, or.....ah, the boyfriend question. Was number one concern his sister, or being found out w/out that important keycard??
OH, NO----now a big moment approaches. Does he realize the keycard is the, well, key?? And, will he admit to it being missing??? HE JUST DID.
"I'm reporting it now!!??!!"----Good job Doughboy!!!
Bill and Chloe, good job. Welcome to lockdown!!!
And, while lockdown begins, let's all enjoy stabilizing the terrorist pig so we can torture him more. Wonder if there's a co-pay each time he returns to interrogation?
It's 6:52pm, and I HATE THAT BLASTED NOISE!!!
Jack's in to look at it; gets the order......
Now, faux Doughboy has a hostage.
Edgar's going after Carrie-----will we lose Edgar???? That would explain his "persona non grata" character/personality this season.
Here comes Jack-----finds the body------looks for fake Dough Daddy. Realizes gun is gone. Now, were the Jack orders a decoy or the truth?
Truth.
He's gone (don't duel with Jack)....but now, it's EVACUATION TIME. Edgar is with Carrie, which means........he's at point zero!!!
OH, GOD----it's deployed!!!!!!
They got the three only rooms they could.
I thought so. Good-bye Edgar. Chloe tears. That's big.
FINAL NOTE------have they ever finished an episode with the clock "silent"???????
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Miss Piggy in for Jessica Simpson. THANK GOD!!!!!!!!!! Piggy is so much prettier, with a personality....a brain.....but need I go on.....
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So, Charlotte gets the NASCAR Hall Of Fame. Shocker. Got a fax at work early this afternoon about a closed circuit press conference satellite feed for NASCAR radio affiliates. It said the press conference would be in Charlotte.
So, as I hand over the fax, I hear the co-worker wonder......what if.....on the feed.....
....and the winner of the NASCAR Hall of Fame is.....DAYTONA!!!.....
Ah, that wouldn't have gone over well in the Queen City. But, it sure would have been funny. :)
Good night.
Here we go!!!
FIRST: I'm not happy to have not blogged the last several days, so there are several things to catch up on post-24. Hopefully I'll make myself sit down tomorrow night and do that. How can I not blog about "National Shoney's Day"??
Having all that said and done.....
It's 5pm CTU time.....
....and that's why we don't negotiate with terrorists.
Lies, lies, damnable lies, they're everywhere!!! Logan does it, Buchanan does it.
Well, thank God Pierce survived. We couldn't have lost him!!
UT, OH-----will they believe Martha now??? Or is she "off her rocker" again?? And we thought her struggle to expose Walt was difficult....
KEYCARD!!!!!! We've waited for that word for several hours. And here's the call to implanted friend of Doughboy's sister. Expect both he and sis to be gunned down within the hour. Crap, they'll miss the 6pm news.
When Logan screws up, he throws the blame on CTU to help assuage his guilt.
Hey, it's Jack! The dead is going to visit Mr. Henderson!!!
EVEN TERRORISTS HAVE TO WAIT ON HOLD!!!! (That's from Bonnie....)
Tony equals suspicious. Is my prediction of him "turning heel" going to come true when he snaps, finding out she's dead? (I'd snap, I loved her, too!! hee hee...)
Well, that would be enough to make me snap. Not become a terrorist, but release anger against those around him. Haven't we all done that a few times?
UPDATE: Guy offered $15K on "Deal or No Deal". Deal is declined. More later.
5:17pm......the Korean War-era chopper is landing at the ranch/estate/home for troubled Presidents.
Martha......
Now, Prez on Prez. Oh, boy. She was upset. Yep, Russian Prez notices Martha post and PRE bomb. Doesn't buy the "depression" excuse, even though it's true.
Doughboy gets a phone. Does it make ringing noises? Is it rotary? Is it by Mattel?
CTU is not a laundry room. Right?? Right?? I wonder who CTU's cleaning crew is after hours?
Good thing Edgar did well in Tinkertoys and Lite-Brite! He found the right building!
Oh, no, not the dreaded "bad guy in orderly" bit again?? This is the 455th time it's been used in entertainment history! I'm a bit disappointed at that move.
UPDATE: The offer for Monty is at $30K. Oh, the board looks bad. He better take it and go home....but he listens to a family member who looks spastic. No deal. Oh, he blew it. Next offer is $16K. Oh, well.
5:29pm: Jack is back. It's SO GREAT that Jack isn't in 80 percent of the scenes. Why doesn't Jack just pretend to be LandShark from Saturday Night Live???
Jack sees wife of Christopher through window. Will return.
WAIT----see the lingering look on the Hospital Security Chief's face. Is he in cahoots, too?? Part of the diversion??? Since the gas won't be released there??
Jack's powers of persuasion are conveniently available at Green Top Sporting Goods, just north of Virginia Center Commons on Route 1.
You HAVE to love Agent Pierce. What a guy!! He's trying to figure out what's up as Martha.....puts the move on him!! Now Pierce looks bad. I know depressed, you don't want a fling with anyone who's depressed.
Curtis and Company are on site, as the invisible man lies on the gurney rolled by the bad guy. Bad guys always go through Radiology to get the job done!
UPDATE: Monty! What??? He's survived to two cases?? Deal was $38K and he refused to try and win $50K. He's holding to his original case. And, that is......
........$25K. Well, beats the heck out of your case holding a single Abe.
5:41pm: Audrey, to Bill, to Mike, to Prez. They found the right guy. Where is he? Well, we know. They don't, yet.
Jack now faces the forces of Wife of Christopher. We checked on your daughter, blah blah blah. Poor Wife of Christopher; she doesn't understand.
I hope I'm never snowed by my spouse like that.....and...ah....*gets nervous*...
HEY---THEY FOUND GURNEY GUY!!! Now, if they only knew to get through Radiology. Victor's going past Radiology!!!
Aerosmith's new hit: "Gurney's Got a Gun".....
We're under ten minutes to play now in the 2nd Cannister...Curtis closing in, and got him. But the countdown is already on. Much to their dismay, the CTU Agents Who Look Like Aliens discover the cannister, armed.
Ut oh.
UPDATE: Our next contestant starts well, is offered $21K. She refuses. Now...
...$75K is gone, $300K is gone....$400, that's better. Two to go. She should've picked her birthday!!! It was the million!!! We'll check on her later, as she attempts to change her birth certificate to reflect different date of birth....
Oh boy, X Men trailer. Yawn. Good time to pee.
It's now 5:52pm and the good guys are covered in trash bags, trying to save the day.
Meanwhile, Jack uses another Green Top purchase to almost knock out Christopher.
And now, Wife of Christopher discovers the truth!!!! Oh, no, another "I was a patriot".
YES!!! YES!!! Best decision Jack's made in awhile! Only problem, she's married to Heartless.
Well....we found the counter. Would YOU run with a cannister of bad gas? No, not the kind you get after tacos.......
....and Curtis shoots the trey with seconds to go to win the war on Cannister 2!!
SEE---I TOLD YOU THEY'D BE DEAD BEFORE THE 6PM NEWS......
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Speaking of 6pm.......the following takes place.......
Voila!! Bad guy's head in, Doughboy's out.
Gotta eat. More to come.
BREAKING NEWS:
---Kim is in, and now she knows.
---FINALLY, THE VEEP IS IN!!! And, he's looking more secure in himself than Logan. Maybe Veep is too secure, as in doing what he shouldn't have. Prez isn't happy.
---NOTICE that Veep takes a dig at CTU. He will play that political card later after the CTU invasion.
Since I ate....
----Kim and Jack's reunion; not so good. Oh, see psych, date psych. Does that mean she is really co-dependent??
----Will Christopher finally crack?
----They don't even realize the kooks are in their backyard (or, better put, in their venilation system).
It's 6:32pm........
I didn't know Martha smoked! Here comes Mike....."he needs me?", Martha says. Mike tells her about the prayer, uses it as spin (courtesy of BW). Now Martha cuts to the chase. Mike spills it. But, spins some more. Be his yin to the Veep's yang, so to speak.
Now, let's go inside CTU, shall we? Notice the lovely dining area!
EDGAR!!!! Last year it was the disk (probably still on his desk somewhere), this year dissing Carrie's warning call.
At 6:36pm, Mike's spinning finally pays off. Martha approaches ratfink, I mean President Hubby.
Now Martha spins!
Oops....say goodbye to this short term character. Ewww....in a nasty way, too. Was her character's name Carrie? Why did I waste time trying to learn it??
Hey Verizon----do I REALLY want to know about her humps? Didn't think so.
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EVERYONE GO PEE-----IT'S THE STUPID MOVIE TRAILER!!!!
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Oh, I'm awake...really! Just shaved all the spikes off my face, too.
It's 6:43pm. The clock now starts the 4th quarter of Cannister three, just under 15 to go.
"Try to cut him some slack".----Chloe's choice word of the night. :)
Now----Doughboy knows his sister's fate. Is Doughboy showing emotions, or.....ah, the boyfriend question. Was number one concern his sister, or being found out w/out that important keycard??
OH, NO----now a big moment approaches. Does he realize the keycard is the, well, key?? And, will he admit to it being missing??? HE JUST DID.
"I'm reporting it now!!??!!"----Good job Doughboy!!!
Bill and Chloe, good job. Welcome to lockdown!!!
And, while lockdown begins, let's all enjoy stabilizing the terrorist pig so we can torture him more. Wonder if there's a co-pay each time he returns to interrogation?
It's 6:52pm, and I HATE THAT BLASTED NOISE!!!
Jack's in to look at it; gets the order......
Now, faux Doughboy has a hostage.
Edgar's going after Carrie-----will we lose Edgar???? That would explain his "persona non grata" character/personality this season.
Here comes Jack-----finds the body------looks for fake Dough Daddy. Realizes gun is gone. Now, were the Jack orders a decoy or the truth?
Truth.
He's gone (don't duel with Jack)....but now, it's EVACUATION TIME. Edgar is with Carrie, which means........he's at point zero!!!
OH, GOD----it's deployed!!!!!!
They got the three only rooms they could.
I thought so. Good-bye Edgar. Chloe tears. That's big.
FINAL NOTE------have they ever finished an episode with the clock "silent"???????
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Miss Piggy in for Jessica Simpson. THANK GOD!!!!!!!!!! Piggy is so much prettier, with a personality....a brain.....but need I go on.....
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So, Charlotte gets the NASCAR Hall Of Fame. Shocker. Got a fax at work early this afternoon about a closed circuit press conference satellite feed for NASCAR radio affiliates. It said the press conference would be in Charlotte.
So, as I hand over the fax, I hear the co-worker wonder......what if.....on the feed.....
....and the winner of the NASCAR Hall of Fame is.....DAYTONA!!!.....
Ah, that wouldn't have gone over well in the Queen City. But, it sure would have been funny. :)
Good night.
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Doughboy jailed! Jack fooled! Curtis did not smile! Audrey has guts and looks prettier than last season!
Okay, I need to stop with the headline lest I have nothing to blog about here.
"24", 4pm to 5pm.
Another excellent job by the writers/producers of shaking up the formula. Jack is out of the picture much of the hour, then, is shown as human! He meets up (shows down) his CTU mentor, Christopher, who Jack helped, well, end up kicking him out of CTU, due to some no-no's Christopher denies he ever did.
He's gone into private sector work, and just so happens to work for the company that made the gas we're all waiting to be "set off" by the bad guys. "But we sold it to DOD, it's not my problem!", Christopher says.
Oops. After some dialogue and a token laying down of the gun, Jack gets duped. Hook, line, and sinker. When he ends up in a locked room realizing part of the computer he was using earlier was actually a bomb, he admitted fault.
"How could I be so stupid?"
I say that 15 times a day, but, then again, I'm not Jack Bauer.
But, in another great choice by the show, they go ahead and take care of the "bomb" storyline rather than extend it into the next hour, because I found it much more motivating to know Jack's going for his (beep) next hour as opposed to "will he survive the bomb". We know he will, so thanks for not using that as the hook for the 47th time.
Other thoughts:
--Doughboy jailed!!! I'm beginning to wonder if Audrey didn't decide earlier to just keep sneaking around him, so he'd become so raving mad he would fall into the Article 112 trap. Maybe I'm too much the conspiracy theorist tonight....
--Curtis rocks! Takes consideration of Article 112; argues need for evidence, then later, when presented with bucketfuls of evidence, calmly kicks Doughboy to the curb. My favorite moment? When the guard brought in by Doughboy says, "What do you want us to do, Mr. Manning?" GREAT moment.
--Russian President is NOT happy. No, go beyond the heat seeking missile. He knew something was awry long before the fireworks began; he read Martha like a brochure at AAA. So, placing that knowledge into the cauldron of an assassination attempt, you know he's going to somehow, someway, either overtly or covertly, go after the "real answer" of who spilled the beans on the motorcade route. The Prez HAD to have something to do with it; otherwise why would Martha act like she "KNEW" something was about to happen??
--Now, off to next week----the promo for the two hours of fun. (Two!! Woo hoo!!)
1) Doughboy isn't done. A co-worker made a great point tonight that the "Presidential Connection" will come into play at some point, since he threw the term "sent by the White House" around so much. I've been so looking forward to the "CTU invasion" by his sister's friends, who are, by the way, co-conspirators, so the "card key" can be discovered and Doughboy REALLY implicated in the whole mess.
2) Buchanan's wheels will be turning as to the President's reaction to the "news" of the assassination plot. If CTU just turned it up, how/why does Prez react like that?
3) Mike is going to have to save Logan, period. He will somehow come up with something that will at least stave off the truth leaking out for several hours. If he could lock up his equal in season two trying to get the Veep in as Temp-Prez, he can certainly devise something.
4) Finally, my big prediction on the "shocking surprise" promised for next week.
TONY'S GOING BAD.....
Always notice the marriage of dialogue and picture in any television commercial, promo, etc. There's always subliminal signs. Nothing is "thrown together" (unless it's poorly done)....so, thus....
The "shocking surprise" discussion....in the middle of it....who do they show for one second? Tony Almeda, rising from his bedside, pulling off his eyepatch.
Remember, when Jack found the assassin in Tony's room, he had killed the doctor already so he could "be the plant", then he went for Jack, resulting in the fight and his demise.
Tony's fighting for life in a hospital bed, completely defenseless. Why doesn't he just shoot him quickly and have his "secrets" die with him? Remember, Jack had to talk to him! Why hasn't he "had" to the last several hours? Several things just don't add up here, which is why I'm looking for Tony to snap.
Long-term plan to change? I don't know. MAD because Michelle died? Could be.
This reminds me of watching your favorite "good guy" wrestler become the "bad guy".
We'll see if sticking my neck out here was smart or not. :)
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FEBRUARY'S WINNING NUMBERS: 1, 8, 15, 17 and 25. One more and I could've played Mega Millions tonight!
But I'm not up for it.
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Oh, and did I forget to say Audrey Raines looks sexy in the "secretary glasses/DOD woman-in-charge/kinda open blouse/kick your butt" role, as opposed to last year's namby-pamby, "oh, Jack how could you torture my husband after I've bad mouthed him to you in bed for the past year??"
This year's Audrey.....much better.
"24", 4pm to 5pm.
Another excellent job by the writers/producers of shaking up the formula. Jack is out of the picture much of the hour, then, is shown as human! He meets up (shows down) his CTU mentor, Christopher, who Jack helped, well, end up kicking him out of CTU, due to some no-no's Christopher denies he ever did.
He's gone into private sector work, and just so happens to work for the company that made the gas we're all waiting to be "set off" by the bad guys. "But we sold it to DOD, it's not my problem!", Christopher says.
Oops. After some dialogue and a token laying down of the gun, Jack gets duped. Hook, line, and sinker. When he ends up in a locked room realizing part of the computer he was using earlier was actually a bomb, he admitted fault.
"How could I be so stupid?"
I say that 15 times a day, but, then again, I'm not Jack Bauer.
But, in another great choice by the show, they go ahead and take care of the "bomb" storyline rather than extend it into the next hour, because I found it much more motivating to know Jack's going for his (beep) next hour as opposed to "will he survive the bomb". We know he will, so thanks for not using that as the hook for the 47th time.
Other thoughts:
--Doughboy jailed!!! I'm beginning to wonder if Audrey didn't decide earlier to just keep sneaking around him, so he'd become so raving mad he would fall into the Article 112 trap. Maybe I'm too much the conspiracy theorist tonight....
--Curtis rocks! Takes consideration of Article 112; argues need for evidence, then later, when presented with bucketfuls of evidence, calmly kicks Doughboy to the curb. My favorite moment? When the guard brought in by Doughboy says, "What do you want us to do, Mr. Manning?" GREAT moment.
--Russian President is NOT happy. No, go beyond the heat seeking missile. He knew something was awry long before the fireworks began; he read Martha like a brochure at AAA. So, placing that knowledge into the cauldron of an assassination attempt, you know he's going to somehow, someway, either overtly or covertly, go after the "real answer" of who spilled the beans on the motorcade route. The Prez HAD to have something to do with it; otherwise why would Martha act like she "KNEW" something was about to happen??
--Now, off to next week----the promo for the two hours of fun. (Two!! Woo hoo!!)
1) Doughboy isn't done. A co-worker made a great point tonight that the "Presidential Connection" will come into play at some point, since he threw the term "sent by the White House" around so much. I've been so looking forward to the "CTU invasion" by his sister's friends, who are, by the way, co-conspirators, so the "card key" can be discovered and Doughboy REALLY implicated in the whole mess.
2) Buchanan's wheels will be turning as to the President's reaction to the "news" of the assassination plot. If CTU just turned it up, how/why does Prez react like that?
3) Mike is going to have to save Logan, period. He will somehow come up with something that will at least stave off the truth leaking out for several hours. If he could lock up his equal in season two trying to get the Veep in as Temp-Prez, he can certainly devise something.
4) Finally, my big prediction on the "shocking surprise" promised for next week.
TONY'S GOING BAD.....
Always notice the marriage of dialogue and picture in any television commercial, promo, etc. There's always subliminal signs. Nothing is "thrown together" (unless it's poorly done)....so, thus....
The "shocking surprise" discussion....in the middle of it....who do they show for one second? Tony Almeda, rising from his bedside, pulling off his eyepatch.
Remember, when Jack found the assassin in Tony's room, he had killed the doctor already so he could "be the plant", then he went for Jack, resulting in the fight and his demise.
Tony's fighting for life in a hospital bed, completely defenseless. Why doesn't he just shoot him quickly and have his "secrets" die with him? Remember, Jack had to talk to him! Why hasn't he "had" to the last several hours? Several things just don't add up here, which is why I'm looking for Tony to snap.
Long-term plan to change? I don't know. MAD because Michelle died? Could be.
This reminds me of watching your favorite "good guy" wrestler become the "bad guy".
We'll see if sticking my neck out here was smart or not. :)
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FEBRUARY'S WINNING NUMBERS: 1, 8, 15, 17 and 25. One more and I could've played Mega Millions tonight!
But I'm not up for it.
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Oh, and did I forget to say Audrey Raines looks sexy in the "secretary glasses/DOD woman-in-charge/kinda open blouse/kick your butt" role, as opposed to last year's namby-pamby, "oh, Jack how could you torture my husband after I've bad mouthed him to you in bed for the past year??"
This year's Audrey.....much better.
Friday, February 24, 2006
Friends.....
....have as many as you can.
....make sure they know you appreciate them.
....be really grateful for the close ones.
....treat them with a servant's heart and tell 'em you love them.
....and there are only a few really close, really great ones that will come along.
....with them; hang on tight and don't let go.
And, in closing, pray your heart out that God's Spirit is present with them, so you'll be present with them......in His Kingdom, forever, and ever.
This post is for my favorite foursome in Ashland. :)
....make sure they know you appreciate them.
....be really grateful for the close ones.
....treat them with a servant's heart and tell 'em you love them.
....and there are only a few really close, really great ones that will come along.
....with them; hang on tight and don't let go.
And, in closing, pray your heart out that God's Spirit is present with them, so you'll be present with them......in His Kingdom, forever, and ever.
This post is for my favorite foursome in Ashland. :)
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
I hope the Panama Canal didn't hurt Central Americans like this......
I had my first root canal today.
Novicaine and lots of gas. That was good.
I have a small mouth and the work was in the bottom left hand corner. That was bad.
Came home and slept the day away. That was good.
My jaw hurts and I can't eat on one side of my mouth for a week. That's bad.
So, it's not the tooth that hurts (yet), it's the stinkin' jaw.
What else is gonna hurt? Trying to go back to work after spending a Wednesday (albeit for a price) in bed.
But, that's much better than more jaw pain. :)
Novicaine and lots of gas. That was good.
I have a small mouth and the work was in the bottom left hand corner. That was bad.
Came home and slept the day away. That was good.
My jaw hurts and I can't eat on one side of my mouth for a week. That's bad.
So, it's not the tooth that hurts (yet), it's the stinkin' jaw.
What else is gonna hurt? Trying to go back to work after spending a Wednesday (albeit for a price) in bed.
But, that's much better than more jaw pain. :)
Sunday, February 19, 2006
Olympics, Daytona, work, and sleep......
...there.
My Sunday in five words. Oh, I bought gas, too. And showered.
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Since we last met.....
...U.S. Hockey is suffering. Ladies get stopped by Sweden, while the men can't find the goal against same nation today.
...U.S. Curling Men make it to the medal round!!!!
...I'm very disappointed that the ladies didn't, because I was REALLY enjoying checking out the matches during the first few hours of a day at the office. Curling babes! From cold country!!! I'll take a curler in an ice rink over a plastic surgery patient lying on the beach anyday!
We FINALLY have a CCM station again!!! The 90.5 frequency in Fredericksburg is now back on track with CCM thanks to a new simulcast with WPER, Culpeper.
First thoughts on CCM circa 2006:
---alot of the music sounds the same....
---kinda gruffy sounding male lead....
---lotsa acoustic and don't forget the drums....
....and I never played most of the artists I hear on the air. Boy, has life really passed me by??? I, to my defense, know that I'd know more had he had a CCM station all this time. I look forward to listening more.
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I'm looking forward to Wednesday like I'm looking forward to a root canal.....
...that's because I'm having my first root canal......
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Anyone know when the Muslim season of "Cartoon Killing" ends?
Now, let's see how one justifies killing 16, including three children and a Catholic priest, through this cartoon crap.....
I understand the biggest row made by area Christians today was when Shoney's prematurely ran out of tomatoes on their salad bar.....
HAPPY PRESIDENT'S DAY!!! Celebrate your favorite! Here's mine!
My Sunday in five words. Oh, I bought gas, too. And showered.
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Since we last met.....
...U.S. Hockey is suffering. Ladies get stopped by Sweden, while the men can't find the goal against same nation today.
...U.S. Curling Men make it to the medal round!!!!
...I'm very disappointed that the ladies didn't, because I was REALLY enjoying checking out the matches during the first few hours of a day at the office. Curling babes! From cold country!!! I'll take a curler in an ice rink over a plastic surgery patient lying on the beach anyday!
We FINALLY have a CCM station again!!! The 90.5 frequency in Fredericksburg is now back on track with CCM thanks to a new simulcast with WPER, Culpeper.
First thoughts on CCM circa 2006:
---alot of the music sounds the same....
---kinda gruffy sounding male lead....
---lotsa acoustic and don't forget the drums....
....and I never played most of the artists I hear on the air. Boy, has life really passed me by??? I, to my defense, know that I'd know more had he had a CCM station all this time. I look forward to listening more.
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I'm looking forward to Wednesday like I'm looking forward to a root canal.....
...that's because I'm having my first root canal......
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Anyone know when the Muslim season of "Cartoon Killing" ends?
Now, let's see how one justifies killing 16, including three children and a Catholic priest, through this cartoon crap.....
I understand the biggest row made by area Christians today was when Shoney's prematurely ran out of tomatoes on their salad bar.....
HAPPY PRESIDENT'S DAY!!! Celebrate your favorite! Here's mine!
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Ch-ch-changes, and quick tidbits....
1) The age of the Cougar is coming to a close. February 9, 2006 will go down as an important day in Witham Nation history.
2) The "conversion van" era is now underway. Long story (no pun intended), more to come as time allows.
3) Bill O'Reilly positions his show as an "opinion/interview" show. I don't see him being an "anchor" on something labeled a "newscast".
4) Go to msnbc.com and look at the TV main page......see how they describe Countdown with Keith Olbermann as "news without the snooze".
5) Therein lies the rub. Keith, call Countdown what it really is, an opinion/commentary show; one that's currently being hidden under the thin veil that is the term "newscast". You know, the same veil the big 3 networks have used for many years.
I don't care if you lean left, right, or unusually center, to the back, whatever...
....if you want to work your opinion/agenda into it, fine. But DON'T CALL IT A NEWSCAST!!
Those are the things with which I lose respect for people, entities, etc....simply because it's easy to see through that aforementioned veil.
CARTOONS:
Okay, now we're REALLY seeing the nutcase wing of the Islamic community. I mean, how long will they burn things and attempt to kill people and exact revenge before they can "get over" cartoons?
One march? Yes, but should be peaceful....Two? If it seemed the message didn't get across, I could understand.
But we're hitting double digits in the amount of days these extremists are going out and, let's face it, wreak the havoc they love to wreak in the name of "anger over something sacreligious".
Isn't it about time we began to ask serious journalistic questions, such as, "What's your end game?" or "Do you plan on doing this until the year 2065?"......
More to come. I have to hide the funny pages from my kids before going to bed. Peanuts and Beetle Bailey can be extremely offensive, causing me to rally for two years......
2) The "conversion van" era is now underway. Long story (no pun intended), more to come as time allows.
3) Bill O'Reilly positions his show as an "opinion/interview" show. I don't see him being an "anchor" on something labeled a "newscast".
4) Go to msnbc.com and look at the TV main page......see how they describe Countdown with Keith Olbermann as "news without the snooze".
5) Therein lies the rub. Keith, call Countdown what it really is, an opinion/commentary show; one that's currently being hidden under the thin veil that is the term "newscast". You know, the same veil the big 3 networks have used for many years.
I don't care if you lean left, right, or unusually center, to the back, whatever...
....if you want to work your opinion/agenda into it, fine. But DON'T CALL IT A NEWSCAST!!
Those are the things with which I lose respect for people, entities, etc....simply because it's easy to see through that aforementioned veil.
CARTOONS:
Okay, now we're REALLY seeing the nutcase wing of the Islamic community. I mean, how long will they burn things and attempt to kill people and exact revenge before they can "get over" cartoons?
One march? Yes, but should be peaceful....Two? If it seemed the message didn't get across, I could understand.
But we're hitting double digits in the amount of days these extremists are going out and, let's face it, wreak the havoc they love to wreak in the name of "anger over something sacreligious".
Isn't it about time we began to ask serious journalistic questions, such as, "What's your end game?" or "Do you plan on doing this until the year 2065?"......
More to come. I have to hide the funny pages from my kids before going to bed. Peanuts and Beetle Bailey can be extremely offensive, causing me to rally for two years......
Friday, February 10, 2006
What a week.......
Ever had "one of those..."....of course you have. We all have. Many of them. This was one of them.
Workload at work "exploded". Now, don't get me wrong, that's a GOOD thing. I just didn't expect it. With Valentines Day coming, I should have known this was going to happen, but for some reason I didn't have any warning bells about it in my mind from past years.
I was going to work before the Super Bowl Sunday to "get ahead", and I didn't. Too tired. I paid for it Monday and Tuesday.
So, I pitched a tent Wednesday and Thursday nights, making sure I got home by 11pm to watch Match Game on GSN. Hey, you can't beat a little blankin' circa 1974 with Gene, Brett, Richard, and the gang!
Gene Rayburn, great host; perfect timing. He passed in November 1999, but click here for a sad story from Al Roker, who by chance ran into him in 1996.
Richard Dawson, one of the anchors (but not THE anchor in my opinion, having relived the game 32 years later...) of the panel, the prime choice to win $5K, and the one who benefited the most career-wise by being on the show (can anyone say Family Feud?)
Brett Somers: I've come to appreciate her role on the show more and more recently. She picks at the audience and the judge; her answers are, sometimes, out of left field, and she plays herself as insecure. But what I like the most is she can throw a zinger to someone, and then, when they returned fire, she'd laugh her head off.
Charles Nelson Reilly: Official poker of fun to Brett, who was good sport to all the hidden gay references on the show, which, in the 1970's, reflected the less-than-welcoming attitude of the day, BUT, having said that, it was more welcoming of the issue of being gay, in an "under-the-radar" way.
Many other great guests come and go, (my personal favorite in the bottom right chair was Patti Deutsch), but we cannot end this impromptu Match Game tribute without the man who started every show.
Johnny Olson: Best known for his work on The Price is Right, he played a small, but important role as announcer for Match Game...
"Get ready to match the stars!!"
He always got the chicanery started. God bless ya, Johnny!!
Okay, well, let's go back to this week....
We survived a busy Friday today (it's always the busiest and most stressful day of the week), but I will be making appearances in the cubicle this weekend.....
....unless.....
IT SNOWS!!! WHAT!??!!!
We've had a warm winter, now, out of nowhere comes a chance of snow for the weekend. Heh, I'll believe it when I'm sweeping it off the van.
So, I finish the week in a mood best described as, "estaticly miserable". Make sense??
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JANUARY'S WINNING NUMBERS: (how could I forget??)
1, 3, 10, 11, 17, 18, 28
It was a Happy New Year!
:)
Workload at work "exploded". Now, don't get me wrong, that's a GOOD thing. I just didn't expect it. With Valentines Day coming, I should have known this was going to happen, but for some reason I didn't have any warning bells about it in my mind from past years.
I was going to work before the Super Bowl Sunday to "get ahead", and I didn't. Too tired. I paid for it Monday and Tuesday.
So, I pitched a tent Wednesday and Thursday nights, making sure I got home by 11pm to watch Match Game on GSN. Hey, you can't beat a little blankin' circa 1974 with Gene, Brett, Richard, and the gang!
Gene Rayburn, great host; perfect timing. He passed in November 1999, but click here for a sad story from Al Roker, who by chance ran into him in 1996.
Richard Dawson, one of the anchors (but not THE anchor in my opinion, having relived the game 32 years later...) of the panel, the prime choice to win $5K, and the one who benefited the most career-wise by being on the show (can anyone say Family Feud?)
Brett Somers: I've come to appreciate her role on the show more and more recently. She picks at the audience and the judge; her answers are, sometimes, out of left field, and she plays herself as insecure. But what I like the most is she can throw a zinger to someone, and then, when they returned fire, she'd laugh her head off.
Charles Nelson Reilly: Official poker of fun to Brett, who was good sport to all the hidden gay references on the show, which, in the 1970's, reflected the less-than-welcoming attitude of the day, BUT, having said that, it was more welcoming of the issue of being gay, in an "under-the-radar" way.
Many other great guests come and go, (my personal favorite in the bottom right chair was Patti Deutsch), but we cannot end this impromptu Match Game tribute without the man who started every show.
Johnny Olson: Best known for his work on The Price is Right, he played a small, but important role as announcer for Match Game...
"Get ready to match the stars!!"
He always got the chicanery started. God bless ya, Johnny!!
Okay, well, let's go back to this week....
We survived a busy Friday today (it's always the busiest and most stressful day of the week), but I will be making appearances in the cubicle this weekend.....
....unless.....
IT SNOWS!!! WHAT!??!!!
We've had a warm winter, now, out of nowhere comes a chance of snow for the weekend. Heh, I'll believe it when I'm sweeping it off the van.
So, I finish the week in a mood best described as, "estaticly miserable". Make sense??
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JANUARY'S WINNING NUMBERS: (how could I forget??)
1, 3, 10, 11, 17, 18, 28
It was a Happy New Year!
:)
Tuesday, February 07, 2006
Free speech.......
Piss Christ.
Maybe you remember the row in the mid-90's when the NEA funded an artist's work which depicted a crucifix immersed in urine....thus its title above.
Christians and conservatives called for not only its removal, but for the plug to be pulled on the NEA, period. That hasn't happened.
This post is not about the NEA, or urine.
It's about Muhammad.
Cartoons....think about it.....cartoons, have created a worldwide furor, claiming nine lives, causing millions of dollars in damage, great schism in multiple nations, Ambassador recalls, and, as another example of the lunacy.....Norway now wants compensation from Syria after their embassy in Damascus was set ablaze.
Let's compare, shall we?
Christians: Call for ending of government funding of above discussed depictions.
Muslims: Call for end to the violence over this cartoon fury (thank goodness!)
Extremist Christians: Would protest the author, and, a few looneys would consider killing him/her, a la knocking off abortion doctors.
Extremist Muslims: See above.
Now, this is a pretty fair look at the "average people" of the two religions.
BUT......
....have you ever heard of embassies being attacked....NATO troops being engaged, and people killed because of "Piss Christ"?
No, you didn't.
Did nine people die in its protest?
Did thousands and thousands erupt in the street?
Think not.
As I asked in a previous post.....there are cases of Muslims who, in Muslim nations, where there is no freedom of religion, will go down to the Christian church and either kidnap or injure or attack or kill people because of their status as "infidels".
Last time I checked, the only stampede I've heard of from a bunch of Christians after a Sunday morning pep rally was to the all-you-can-eat buffet to, of course, get there before the other denomination gets there and takes the best fried chicken off the bar!
The next time some lefty wacko (or, say, Keith Olbermann), decide to cry out the horrific behavior of American Christians, remind to reply with two words:
The Cartoons.
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Here's an interesting aside.....the comedy geniuses in Iran decide to hold a "Holocaust Cartoon" contest to test the tolerance of the West.
Should Jews be outraged? Sure! The Muslims were! I wouldn't be putting money on thousands of Jews storming buildings and killing people over it, though.
So, to our friends in Tehran; careful when playing a game of "tit for tat"; it actually may backfire and expose your extremism.
Maybe you remember the row in the mid-90's when the NEA funded an artist's work which depicted a crucifix immersed in urine....thus its title above.
Christians and conservatives called for not only its removal, but for the plug to be pulled on the NEA, period. That hasn't happened.
This post is not about the NEA, or urine.
It's about Muhammad.
Cartoons....think about it.....cartoons, have created a worldwide furor, claiming nine lives, causing millions of dollars in damage, great schism in multiple nations, Ambassador recalls, and, as another example of the lunacy.....Norway now wants compensation from Syria after their embassy in Damascus was set ablaze.
Let's compare, shall we?
Christians: Call for ending of government funding of above discussed depictions.
Muslims: Call for end to the violence over this cartoon fury (thank goodness!)
Extremist Christians: Would protest the author, and, a few looneys would consider killing him/her, a la knocking off abortion doctors.
Extremist Muslims: See above.
Now, this is a pretty fair look at the "average people" of the two religions.
BUT......
....have you ever heard of embassies being attacked....NATO troops being engaged, and people killed because of "Piss Christ"?
No, you didn't.
Did nine people die in its protest?
Did thousands and thousands erupt in the street?
Think not.
As I asked in a previous post.....there are cases of Muslims who, in Muslim nations, where there is no freedom of religion, will go down to the Christian church and either kidnap or injure or attack or kill people because of their status as "infidels".
Last time I checked, the only stampede I've heard of from a bunch of Christians after a Sunday morning pep rally was to the all-you-can-eat buffet to, of course, get there before the other denomination gets there and takes the best fried chicken off the bar!
The next time some lefty wacko (or, say, Keith Olbermann), decide to cry out the horrific behavior of American Christians, remind to reply with two words:
The Cartoons.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Here's an interesting aside.....the comedy geniuses in Iran decide to hold a "Holocaust Cartoon" contest to test the tolerance of the West.
Should Jews be outraged? Sure! The Muslims were! I wouldn't be putting money on thousands of Jews storming buildings and killing people over it, though.
So, to our friends in Tehran; careful when playing a game of "tit for tat"; it actually may backfire and expose your extremism.
Man.....I've disagreed with mechanics, but.....
....I wouldn't shoot one point blank after doing me a big favor to further the war on the war on terror.....
Welcome to 1p to 2p on "24", here's some brief notes:
---I was concerned in retrospect with Mike's look on his face last night. I can't believe he'd turn heel (little wrestling reference there), so we'll follow that one.
---When (if) he goes back into hiding, Jack should just open a little air business with helicopters, and, since he has a radio voice, he could contract himself out to do live traffic reports on the local rock station.
---Nice to see our guest star this week is an alumnus of "The Pretender". His role turned out to be much less than I thought, but it did carry us into the next hour.
---Did it occur to anyone else that the 15 year-old girl was very handy with a gun? And where'd she get it, anyway??
---President Logan. He needed two or three more right smacks from the Missus. Something isn't right there, either....keep your eye on President Logan.
---Why? Let's see, last week he wants Jack to disappear....this week, he begs Jack to stay and help save his legacy as President...I...I mean stop the gas. (My wife has asked me to stop the gas for years, but that's another story...)
---Oh, speaking of the wife; she thinks Walt was killed and planted to make it looked like he hung himself. Hmmmm....
---But the best analysis comes from a former parishoner, always a friend from church who is in his first season of "24".....
.....what if the needed "chip" were implanted in the 15 year-old girl?
Welcome to 1p to 2p on "24", here's some brief notes:
---I was concerned in retrospect with Mike's look on his face last night. I can't believe he'd turn heel (little wrestling reference there), so we'll follow that one.
---When (if) he goes back into hiding, Jack should just open a little air business with helicopters, and, since he has a radio voice, he could contract himself out to do live traffic reports on the local rock station.
---Nice to see our guest star this week is an alumnus of "The Pretender". His role turned out to be much less than I thought, but it did carry us into the next hour.
---Did it occur to anyone else that the 15 year-old girl was very handy with a gun? And where'd she get it, anyway??
---President Logan. He needed two or three more right smacks from the Missus. Something isn't right there, either....keep your eye on President Logan.
---Why? Let's see, last week he wants Jack to disappear....this week, he begs Jack to stay and help save his legacy as President...I...I mean stop the gas. (My wife has asked me to stop the gas for years, but that's another story...)
---Oh, speaking of the wife; she thinks Walt was killed and planted to make it looked like he hung himself. Hmmmm....
---But the best analysis comes from a former parishoner, always a friend from church who is in his first season of "24".....
.....what if the needed "chip" were implanted in the 15 year-old girl?
Saturday, February 04, 2006
Barksdale is back where it belongs!
114 seats.
That's all there is in the original Barksdale Theatre, at Hanover Tavern. And, after a 10 year absence, the magic has returned in a beautifully renovated facility that hasn't changed the ambience one bit.
Remember, Patrick Henry, John Marshall, and many others slept there.....
I went to two plays in the theatre before it was closed and renovated over the past ten years. I'm SO glad it's back.
There we are, to celebrate our 18th wedding anniversary, on the front row on the left side, close enough where I can touch stage props. There'll never be a better place to watch theatre (sorry, Broadway---and I've been there.)
And, they selected a marvelous production to begin the new era. Neil Simon's 1963 comedy, Barefoot in the Park. Bonnie's seen the movie; I know nothing about it. So, she's spending the show comparing it to the movie, while I'm watching the story of Paul and Cory unfold for the first time.
And, in a word, the show is.....HILARIOUS.
Click here to see the review from the Richmond Times-Dispatch. It's dead on, except I didn't see Cory as over the top in the first scene.
Tremendous, tremendous. You live in Richmond, go see it. It ends March 5th. It will be an evening while spent.
Later this spring, "No Sex Please, We're British"; that oughta be a hoot. I hope to be there again.
WELCOME BACK BARKSDALE!!!
That's all there is in the original Barksdale Theatre, at Hanover Tavern. And, after a 10 year absence, the magic has returned in a beautifully renovated facility that hasn't changed the ambience one bit.
Remember, Patrick Henry, John Marshall, and many others slept there.....
I went to two plays in the theatre before it was closed and renovated over the past ten years. I'm SO glad it's back.
There we are, to celebrate our 18th wedding anniversary, on the front row on the left side, close enough where I can touch stage props. There'll never be a better place to watch theatre (sorry, Broadway---and I've been there.)
And, they selected a marvelous production to begin the new era. Neil Simon's 1963 comedy, Barefoot in the Park. Bonnie's seen the movie; I know nothing about it. So, she's spending the show comparing it to the movie, while I'm watching the story of Paul and Cory unfold for the first time.
And, in a word, the show is.....HILARIOUS.
Click here to see the review from the Richmond Times-Dispatch. It's dead on, except I didn't see Cory as over the top in the first scene.
Tremendous, tremendous. You live in Richmond, go see it. It ends March 5th. It will be an evening while spent.
Later this spring, "No Sex Please, We're British"; that oughta be a hoot. I hope to be there again.
WELCOME BACK BARKSDALE!!!
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