Daddy, make a picture

Happy New Year and stuff.

hehehehe
don’t make me roll initiative….

Scranton was… Scranton. What can I say about a hotel that’s been open for less than six months, that has 170+ rooms and two restaurants and has only TWO FRIGGIN HIGH CHAIRS IN THE WHOLE PLACE AND ONE OF THEM IS BROKEN!?!?!?!?
But I digress…
My Grandmother has spent her entire life waiting hand and foot on […]

We’re off to Scranton, AKA the Avignon of the Coal Belt, to celebrate Christmas with my Grandmother.
But David, you say, aren’t you guys Jewish? Yes. We are. It’s a loooong story.
In other exciting news, the business my wife owns just got a gigunda (technical term there) contract which could potentially double their sales […]

The Wiggles Guitar!
Plays only bits of eight songs!!!
Comes with no volume control!!!!
You too can walk around the house with only a bit of “Dancing With Wags The Dog” running through your brain.

what can I add to this?

24 Hour Party People DVD from Sue
Big Lies by Joe Conason, also from Sue
Beauty in Photography by Robert Adams, also from Sue
(I love my wife)
Quicksilver by Neil Stephenson from my wife’s always perceptive sister-in-law
Various other stuff including a cool Ansel Adams desk calendar from my mother-in-law that’s frankly way too nice to write in.
A […]

My fellow Tolkien freaks on TORN have reminded me of a few things…
Gandalf is the only father figure at the begining of the story. He leaves the action forcing Aragorn to take over leadership/fatherhood of the Fellowship. Frodo, in turn, with Sam, to strike out on his own.
Examine the contrast between Theoden and Denethor (I’m […]

Some profound thoughts following a viewing of The Return of the King yesterday.
It’s been a long time since a movie made me choke up like that. There’s been a lot written about the now classic ‘Beacon Lighting’ scene, the charge of the Roharim onto the Pellanor Fields, that awful moment between Sam and Frodo […]

Um.. they call it sponge painting because you are supposed to use sponges….