Published writer, compulsive reader, Old School Whovian, Match Game enthusiast, NKOTB fan, data hoarder, and - surprisingly, given that list - married with four kids. Welcome to my take on life, fatherhood, entertainment, and whatever strikes my fancy. Enjoy!
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Hypocrisy?
Yesterday I watched Dark Knight Rises and prohibited the kids from joining me due to the graphic content. Tonight I rented Resident Evil: Retribution and gleefully watched it with Lu and YaYa Hypocritical? No, mon ami. DK is a stark retelling of the world as it sadly is, while RE is but a cartoon fantasy. Plus, the children must know how best to handle the upcoming zombie apocalypse, and I do feel they picked up a trick or two.
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Monday, December 24, 2012
Jack Klugman
RIP Jack Klugman. From The Twilight Zone, Odd Couple and Quincy, I loved your work. And what an instantly recognizable voice. RIP
t's a Wonderful Life
Lisa and I are watching "It's a Wonderful Life" on NBC. It remains my favorite movie ever. No contest - there's not a scene that doesn't make me smile and/or cry. Just seeing it on the screen makes this awful Christmas week nearly tolerable.
Sunday, December 23, 2012
Facebook - October 2009 (bonus coverage of the Yanks run to their 27th World Championship!)
Nice to
see TBS pimp the "A-Rod is in a slump cr*p" every time he steps to
the plate. [bleep] [bleeps].
October 7,
2009 at 6:26 pm 
2 out RBI
hit for A-Rod. :)
October 7,
2009 at 7:06 pm
Followed
by a two run blast by Matsui. The floodgates are open.
October 7,
2009 at 7:10 pm
Arod: 3
AB's with RISP and 2 out = 3 hits, 3 RBI. I may just swoon from all the love I
feel. Seriously.
October 9,
2009 at 7:20 pm
2 run home
run by A-Rod in the bottom of the ninth to tie it up . . . I bow to you, Oh
Great One of This and Any Era!
October 9,
2009 at 8:42 pm
Arod does
it again. He toyed with Pavano, then yanked one to the opposite field to pull
the Yanks even.
October
11, 2009 at 8:07 pm
"There
goes an A-Bomb from A-Rod!" lol
October
11, 2009 at 9:39 pm
Congrats
to my Yanks as they move on to the ALCS for the first time since 2004. ARod's
line in the 3 gms of the 2009 ALDS: .455, 2HR, 6 RBI.
October
11, 2009 at 9:42 pm
Ok!
magazine is running with a story claiming ARod has asked Goldie Hawn for
permission to marry her daughter (Kate Hudson). This can't wait til we have
ring #27 people? There's playoffs to worry about!
October
12, 2009 at 3:04 am
Lisa just
took LuLu to the ER after she woke up short of breath with chest pain.
Hopefully (?!) it's 'just' her first/last horrific asthma attack.
October
12, 2009 at 6:24 am
RIP
Legendary
wrestling figure Captain Lou Albano, perhaps best known for his association
with pop singer Cyndi Lauper, died Wednesday, according to World Wrestling
Entertainment.
October 14, 2009 at 3:07 pm
"Safety
Third!" - Mike Rowe
October
14, 2009 at 8:09 pm
Random Jon
and Kate thought: Jon's full name is spelled "Johnathon", which is an
odd spelling, but then he shortens it to 'Jon', which to me has always read
like a poor man's spelling of "John". Huh. Deep.
October
15, 2009 at 1:35 am
Another
night’s sleep lost to this damn toothache, w/ the dentist appt. pushed back
another week. At least I got something done 2night, hammering out a column for
the Journal.
October
15, 2009 at 3:48 am
Funniest
snark comment I've gotten: merging my whine about my tooth with my Mike Rowe
Quote, Carlos wrote ""Mike Rowe's dirtiest job would be your
dentist"
October
15, 2009 at 12:57 pm
Milwaukee
Public Library just Facebooked to say their health presentation @ Center St.
library is cancelled today . . due to illness
October
15, 2009 at 12:59 pm
I was
going to say this week’s episode wasn't worth a prison riot, but the show in
question was actually the Jim and Pam wedding, so . . . yeah, it was.
Apparently
one Sheboygan County Jail inmate isn't a fan of
October 16, 2009 at 8:20 am
A-Rod, 0-2
in the bottom of the eleventh, blasts a game tying home run to the opposite
field - and w/out full arm extension! Truly, my man love for A-Rod has reached
unhealthy proportions.
October
18, 2009 at 12:18 am
Lest
we forget, Mariano shut down the Angels for 2 1/3 innings.
October 18, 2009 at 1:15 am
Pope
Benedict XVI has has created a new church structure for Anglicans who want to
join the Roman Catholic Church.
October 20, 2009 at 1:00 pm
Barnes
& Noble is launching the "Nook" in November to compete w/ Kindle.
October
20, 2009 at 4:06 pm
RIP Vic
Mizzy, age 93, the man who gave us the theme songs from Green Acres AND The
Addams Family.
October
20, 2009 at 4:10 pm
Uh, why
are you on Facebook right now? You should be watching Glee on Fox.
October
21, 2009 at 8:08 pm
If you
happen to be in England, lucky you. Not for the commie medicine that weakens
your soul ;) but because Sarah Jane Adventures will be on in ~11 minutes on
BBC1
October
22, 2009 at 10:20 am
Who wants
to buy some girlscout nuts? LuLu’s goal is 45....damn her ambition! LOL....
October
25, 2009 at 12:12 am
Sure it
was great watching the Pack win and the Bears collapse (sorry Ken), but best of
all, this NFL.com headline: "Favre fumble, INT help end Vikings'
run". Sweeet!
October
25, 2009 at 7:47 pm
Yankees
win the pennant! Yankees win the pennant! Best. Anniversary Present. Ever.
October
25, 2009 at 11:08 pm
Anyone
who looks at Arod's #'s in this ALCS, and the impact he had, and *doesn't*
think the MVP snub was PED based . . . well, share your stash, cuz it must be
kind sh*t.
October 26, 2009 at 1:07 am
Had anyone
else heard of this? A Columbian soccer team was kidnapped in Venezuela, chained
in the sun to trees for weeks, then brutally murdered. A freakin' TEAM.
The Los
Maniceros massacre was the kidnapping of twelve members of a Colombian amateur
association football team Los Maniceros (Peanut Men), ten of whom were later
murdered. The dead were aged between 17 and 38.[1]
October 26, 2009 at 10:44 am
I'm
watching Tony LaRussa's press conference as he names Mark McGwire as the Card's
new hitting coach. Kudos to Tony for the helping hand to restore Mark's place
in baseball.
October
26, 2009 at 11:20 am
"You
can't build a reputation on what you are going to do."- Henry Ford.
'Course, Henry never met the Prez.
October
27, 2009 at 9:23 am
{shudder}
I just had the misfortune of reading something penned by Joy Behar. Wow.
October
27, 2009 at 10:14 pm
Hot damn,
the Escort is fixed and back in my hands! Now the big question - how to cover
the check I just wrote to pay for the repair. Eek.
October
30, 2009 at 4:56 pm
Reminder:
if you are setting your DVR to record Kate Gosselin's much anticipated
interview w/ Natalie Morales, it's on Monday under the title "Kate: Her
Story" *not* "Jon and Kate Plus Eight"
October
30, 2009 at 4:06 pm
And don't
get me started on the Duggars. I love me some Duggars.
October
30, 2009 at 4:55 pm
The Phils
will start Blanton in game four, saying Lee shouldn't pitch on 3 days rest . .
but they'd toss Lee back out there for a possible gm 7 on 2 days rest!?
Okeedokee
October
30, 2009 at 7:32 pm
"One
of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's
work is terribly important."- Bertrand Russell
October
30, 2009 at 10:59 pm
Arod
homers, Yanks win and take a 2-1 lead in the Series.
10.31.09:
Alex Rodriguez is awarded a homer after the umpires use instant replay, the
first postseason homer ever awarded in this manner
Never Give In
"Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. " - Winston Churchill
Saturday, December 22, 2012
A Powerful Quote
"Anyone can carry his burden, however hard until nightfall; anyone can do his work however hard for one day." Robert Louis Stevenson. (a quote POW James Kasler held dear during 6 years of torture in Hanoi)
Air War – Vietnam by Frank Harvey
I’ve finished reading my 103rd book of the year: 'Air War – Vietnam' by Frank Harvey, a 1967 expose advertised as the story of “What our Airmen are really doing in Vietnam!” and “The headline making eyewitness story of America’s devastating new brand of warfare!”.
Harvey spent several weeks embedded with Navy and Air Force pilots in 1966, and what emerged is a frank portrait of the air war at the time. It is frank, in that it discusses the good and the bad, but it is by no means prescient; while more a dove than a hawk, Harvey is a bit awed by the blunt power of our weaponry and overestimates our success. Not the greatest stylist in the world, Harvey still composed an entertaining account that is filled with details of everyday life that would now otherwise be lost to time.
Grade: B
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