If you want to watch some great TV fire up HBO's True Detective. The scripts are dark but compelling, and the chemistry between Woody Harrelson and Mathew McConaughey is something to behold. I paused the finale a few times just to gulp and say "Oh sh--", and the final few minutes - well, IMO, if it was a feature film that scene alone would earn McConaughey another Oscar nod. Well done.

OTOH, if you want some awful TV, watch the OWN network's "Lindsay", a "docu-series" that follows Lindsay Lohan around New York two months after she exits rehab. I'm sure she meant it boost her career, but Oprah's people opt for blunt honesty (in the name of ratings, I'm sure), capturing every selfish,immature, spoiled moment of her life, which is just about every one of them. It's sad to watch, because even minus her addictions I think the woman has mental illness to overcome, and OWN gleefully exploits that to paint her as a lost cause. Awkward, painful, boring TV.

 RIP comedian John Pinette, age 50

RIP Mickey Rooney

RIP Mickey Rooney, age 93. 

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

 Ready to watch Captain America 2 with LuLu - at South Shore Cinema

update:

What did I think of Captain America: The Winter Soldier (with the caveat that I am predisposed against comic book movies from the get-go): I liked it. A lot. It's a solid movie that, with a few tweaks, would stand alone outside the Marvel universe, and bully for that. I don't understand the reflexive angst from the Right about the plot - is the audience SUPPOSED to value totalitarian control over freedom? Last time I checked, that wasn't a conservative value. Anyhow, the most important part was that Olivia loved it, Instagramming a selfie of us in our seats, cuddling up to me, and asking if I'd take her to see the third flick in the future. A nice way to spend the afternoon with one of my Centerpieces.

Um . . .

 Lulu: "We always talk about uteruses at Denny's. Can this one time PLEASE be different?? "

March Madness

 Get 'er done #Badgers!

Fritz's

 Best Fish Fry in town. 

The Milwaukee Wave has cut ties with Keith Tozer, their coach of 21 seasons and the winningest coach in North American indoor soccer history.

Junie just lost her top front tooth!

Junie is reading "A Fly Went By" (a childhood favorite of mine) to me as I work on the computer.

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The Younger Kids Learn about 9/11

A week or so ago - the night before we played with the Play-doh - Lisa discussed the events of 9/11 with Junie and Smiley. While both were interested, the subject clearly bothered Smiley and I haven't heard him ask many questions since then. Junie, however, has continued to inquire about it, so today I took her to the library and borrowed two children's books on 9/11. While it is well past her normal bedtime, I can hear Lisa reading one of the books to her now. LK keeps interrupting to ask questions . . .

Flight 370

 CNN is reporting that Flight 370 has been found and that "all lives are lost".

CORRECTION: the report now states that it's last known location has been determined from satellite data and that it was too far out in the ocean to have landed anywhere safely. Hmmmm....not quite the same thing as 'found', so why all the certainty?

Quote

 "This isn't about privacy; when you post content online, you give up the right to privacy. This is about propriety; it's about having manners, knowing your place, and respecting boundaries. Just because someone posts wedding pictures doesn't mean you criticize the bride's dress" - Ruben Navarrette, Jr.

 Our van is at my mechanic's house getting repaired. I had a nice walk home and now hope to sit on my butt until its time to walk and pick it up.

Angelcakes and LuLu

 

 A train rumbling past during my walk home

 Turn down the what? ?

LuLu and Angelcakes

 

 Turn down the what? ?

Our van is at my mechanic's house getting repaired. I had a nice walk home and now hope to sit on my butt until its time to walk and pick it up.

Here's a train that came rumbling past during my walk home.

Yuck

 

Russia invades Ukraine

 While the media fawns over the admittedly sad - and literal - loss of a passenger jet, buried beneath that ever present headline is a moderately sized article that will tell you about Russian forces storming two Ukrainian naval bases, seizing that nation's sole submarine, and claiming the two bases as Russian territory. What does Washington say? "The White House reacted by urging Russia to open talks with the Ukrainian government." Ah, shades of 1938, no?

 "I can't wait to relive this all later on Facebook"- -Mike Ste---e.

 One of the stops on my birthday.