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Monday: First day of 7-4 Shift

I started it today. It was pretty cool. I got up around 620am, got ready, but didn't feel the urge to rush. As far as I care as long as I get in between 7-730 I'm cool. When I'm working the 8-5 shift I am always rushing to get in by, ok, 815am.

So set the clock an hour early, go to bed an hour early, and cool. I won't leave until the work is done, but I had no problem leaving at 430 today.

The whole reason behind this, everyone else is doing it and I would feel silly walking in at 815 every day. And it is hard to stay until 515 when everyone else is gone.

And....carpooling. I'm racking up those carbon credits!!!!!

The Watchmen is on this week's cover of EW. I have subscribed to that magazine since the fruition, I think 1990 (Dick Tracy was on the cover...yes I remember). I can't remember a movie being hyped a year in advance. Comic Books geeks rejoice. I am sure I will be wrong, however.

Nothing else to add. A good friend's wife suffered a miscarriage this weekend. We are circling the wagons and taking care of him. So sad. Been a sad day pretty much, I hate giving bad news.

Debt, Debt and Debt

I can't even finish this NYTimes story. It makes me sick. It puts all the blame on today's credit woes on the loaners. They deceived us. They wanted our money. Their ads about "Priceless" encouraged us to buy what we wanted because it makes us feel good.

Don't buy what you can't afford, ya'll. No Pity. No Sympathy. Except for the fact these people weren't raised to not buy what you can't afford. Should we blame the credit card companies?

/rant

Beijing Bars Ordered to Ban Black People???

I'm just reporting it, folks. I doubt it will be true. I'm linking to the blog with the story, find the rest of the link there. And laugh at the comments. I love the Big Lead.

Months ago it was reported that NBC Cameras were banned from Tiananmen Square . They later relented....This is going to be like the Nazi Germany games. Really, all free will will be suppressed. I'll take a gloved fist in the air any day.....

Bad decision to give the games to China.

Communism Rules!

Best Music of 2008 - So far

Well, I did it with no input from you, thanks. But these are head bopping, keep you running on the treadmill songs I like so far this year. And yes, They fit on one CD:

In the New Year - The Walkmen
M79 - Vampire Weekend
Language City - Wolf Parade
Viva la Vida - Coldplay
Kids - MGMT
Love Me Dead - Ludo
Kids Don't Know Shit - Islands
These Stones Will Shout - Racontours
You - Atmosphere
L.E.S. Artistes - Santogold
Sequestered in Memphis - The Hold Steady
American Girl - Estelle
Hero - NaS
Help Me - Alkaline Trio
The Time of My Life - David Cook (American Idol - squee!)
Handlebars - Flobots
Hammerhead - The Offspring
Do The Panic - Phantom Planet
See you Again - Miley Cyrus ( I always like to end my CD's with cheezy pop)

Dr. Horrible's Sing-along Blog

I really can't hype this enough. It goes away Sunday at midnight. It's three parts, about 45 minutes of viewing. You don't even have to be a Joss Whedon fan (okay, it helps). Great tunes, and Neil Patrick Harris! please, watch.

Texas may get hit by a hurricane this Wednesday or Thursday. The world will be watching...

To be fair, the science guy puts the likelihood at about 50%. Which is rather high, considering.

No, I'm not evacuating.

Go Watch Dr. Horrible! Now!

Trial Run on Best of Music 2008: Feel free to Vote!

SONGS OF 2008 (Considerations for first 6 months!)

TI: No Matter What
Nas: Hero
Vampire Weekend: M79 (really, all)
MGMT: Kids , Time To Pretend (really, all, check out this SXSW Video to fall in love with Kids, and the band)
The Walkmen: I lost you (maybe, still evaluating)
Wolf Parade: Lost Highway
Ludo: Love Me Dead
Atmosphere: You
Estelle: American Girl with Kanye
Alkaline: Trio Help Me
Hanna Montana: See you Again ( I know it is from 2007 but I like it! It turns up when I drive! All on it’s own!)
New Bloc Party?
New Bodies of Water?
David Cook: Time of My Life
Gutter Twins: Idle Hands
Animal Collective: Water Works
Black Keys: Strange Times
Coldplay: Viva La Vida (love, love, love, this song!)
Flobots: Handlebars
Hot Chip: Ready for the Floor (think it may be 2007)
Islands: Kids Don’t Know Shit
Offspring: Hammerhead (love, always love Offspring)
Old 97’s: Dance with me (love the video: BSG geeks rejoice!)
Recontours: These Stones Will Shout (absolutely)
Santogold L.E.S. Artises

Don’t care about Madonna, My Morning Jacket, Kate Perry, NERD, M83

These are my choices: winners must survive on one CD.....

Send me or email me your choices, first 5 will get a free CD in the mail if you include your address!

(I don't know how to embed each song, if I haven't already done it via imeem, so go to hypem to test it out....)

The Office Webisodes: Part two (and one)

Wow! They let you embed! Impressive NBC!! (ok, It is 30 seconds and you have to see the first one which I am posting too)

Friday Night: My Blog Sucks

I realize that titling my blog entry by the evening pretty much does nothing for you in searching. Not that the three of you who read my blog actually search. Yes, I added a third, I have confirmed my mother reads my blog. Don't worry, it won't temper me at all.

Is titling a word? Titleing? Whatever. And then there are my special guests Wayman, and Pei.

Everyone else usually finds it on a search for like "Joker Pictures" (that's why I removed that post it was 3 months old and all hits were on that) and "Watchman Trailer" I am hoping to get a hundred posts a day on that alone, eventually.

My American Idol posts were a hit. 1000 hits the night Cook covered "Billie Jean".

Not that it matters, this isn't a popularity contest. It's all about me, right? (no, no advertising yet!)

Every now and then I'll get a hit from some random person on some random search (most recently, "white brakewater") who finds my blog fascinating and actually spends 20 minutes on it. So I am contributing to someone in Iceland, I suppose....

My biggest hits were on the "Nike Sparx Commercial" and the "Touch Every Base" ESPN story. That's cool.

I'm compiling a best of 2008 music first half, and fittingly for my life, it will be 2 months late. I am trying not to have all Vampire Weekend or MGMT, my rule is one song per band. So it is really hard. Anon in Austin: Can we count David Cook "This is the Time of my Life" to make up for our hours of absorption in AI?

Hope to post tomorrow. Have the headphones in now listening to the odd but cool Bodies of Water new songs. And T.I. And Nas. And The Walkmen have a new album out soon...

as always, leaving with a LOLCAT. they don't fit right, but they are cute.



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The Watchmen Trailer

Wow, can't wait. But have to wait a year. looks exactly like I envisioned after reading the comic book multiple times since 1987. I know, it's a graphic novel but it originally came out in 12 issues and sometimes they were delayed. I worked at a comic book at the time so I always made sure I got my issue.

You can get it here in HD or any other capacity.

Maybe ebay will be good next year for my leather-bound edition. Or maybe I'll just keep it forever.

If you don't know the book, you may wonder what the ef is this all about. This isn't as easy a sell as Batman The Dark Knight. But it should be equal or better than V for Vendetta movie.

rock on...

Have you checked out Dr. Horrible's Sing-a-Long Blog? If you like Neil Patrick Harris (who doesn't) and Joss Whedon, you will love this internet series (currently second of three are online). Backstory, they wrote and made this for the internet during the strike, since that is all they could get away with. Episode one is only free until July 20th. It's the #1 TV show on I-tunes. It crashed the servers the day of release. Need to know more?

Wednesday Night: Socialism Utopia

Got and add for the next summer movie must: Terminator Salvation. Trailer in HD.

Lots of talk to today about the bailouts of the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and how they are tied to congressmen who may, ahem, have financial interest in them. ahem. You think? These agencies were the ones who created the sub-prime market, to get more money, which is why we are here today. (shhhhh...recession)......

Obama and McCain both presented their mortgage bailout plans. At lease McCain said that you must prove first that you were credit worthy to get the loan in the first place...


Who cares, can't vote for either of them based on financial and moral grounds.

Look forward to 1978 again, folks.........

Congress wants to restrict its own from blogging. They can talk to a camera, send an email, but they can't blog....Pelosi is behind it I'm sure.

My co-worker used this term three times today in different conversations: Sheeple. That's what this country is becoming. Global Warming! Carbon Footprint! Hope and Change!

One more morbid prediction: Israel bombs Iran before the end of the year. Oil hits $180 a barrel.

Feist 1-2-3-4 on Sesame Street

I am fairly certain I like this:










And comment about the Batman: Dark Knight score score and everything else. Question of the day, Would Ledger be hyped for this Oscar if he didn't die? I say yes.

Good night now.

New Song: In case you don't know, these are the hot folks of the music world right now. Pharrell Williams (NERD and producer of every hot song you ever know), Santogold (today's it girl), and Julian Casablancas (of Strokes fame) recorded “My Drive Thru” for Converse’ 100 Year Chuck Taylor celebration. Good enough to watch, promise":

Sunday Afternoon

Hey, that's my cat telling me I'm not paying attention to her.

Hey, ya'll. This is a good article about the oil shales in Colorado and what the oil companies are doing trying to extract that black gold.

A good-will 7 on 7 high school football matchup ends in blows. Is anyone shocked about this? Click on the pictures. Evil and scary. The first comment on the site's link was funny: Future U of Miami recruits....

I am really looking forward to the new X-Files movie.

Remember my post about movies I really anticipate? The Watchmen is number one. Really, it is going to be awesome no matter what.

I don't know what to make of this story. South LA Community is asking for a ban on fast food restaurants. It says that people can't eat healthy because of the options. Doesn't McDonalds have a salad, or grilled chicken? Last I checked, it did. This is another example of people's choices being blamed on the government. Here's a quote:

"There's no choice," said Jessica Quintana, 15, leaving McDonald's after a lunch of a fried chicken sandwich, fries and a soda. "It was nasty, but I ate it 'cause I'm hungry."

Fries...fried chicken....How about going to the grocery store? Or getting the Salad? Was it diet soda?

MMMM, I think I'm going to Jack in the Box. All this talk about fries made me hungry....

You know what else? I work out. I earn those curly fries, folks.

I can't vote for McCain. Guess I'll write in myself.

Dog stuff: Saturday Night Post

This is a really interesting story about dogs. Medicate them they are people, etc.

Watching: Little Children