from the moon apparently

• I was just at the gym. There were only two other people in there, both riding stationary bikes. One of them looked like a young Richard Pryor, and the other was a fifty-something little Asian woman. Richard Pryor was listening to his Sony Walkman with gusto. Over his very heavy breathing he sang along with the music he was listening to, using words like "Yes! Yes!" "Faster! Faster!" and even barking like a dog at one point. Richard Pryor punctuated all of this with frequent punchings of the air and even self-slappings. He might have smelled a bit like alcohol. (Do drunk people often ride stationary bikes? I don't know.) I avoided the Asian lady's eye through all of this so we wouldn't accidentally share a conspiratorial smile. It's a good thing I did, because as it turns out, Richard Pryor and Asian Lady were there together! He shared his music with her by gently putting his spongy, sweat-soaked headphones on her head and yelling, "Does that fire you up?!" It did not. And she in turn brought him a rather large stack of wet paper towels so he could wipe down his bike when he was done. Sweet, really.
• Quotation of the day: "It's hard to moon walk in high heels." --Rebekah H.

Bones cute clip

Check out this cute clip from Bones. Second only to House and Wilson, these two are my favorite TV couple right now.

antipodean

Quotation of the day, from the below stolen-directly-from-April's-blog clip: "Listen to me, you antipodean fleck of bum fluff. Every single day I take this from you. The hair is adorable, I don't deny that. The figure is svelte." --Hugh Laurie, Renaissance man

dree your own weird

• Quotation of the day: "Go your own gait and dree your own weird." --Lucy Maud Montgomery's Kilmeny of the Orchard
• I have absolutely nothing else of any use to anyone, to say in this blog post. It just seemed stupid to make one quotation and then write nothing else. So which is worse: to write just the one quotation and let it be alone and bored, or to fill space with triteness and non-platitudes? What can a person do, who is so empty-headed as to lack anything of interest to impart? Boredom abounds and cannot be defeated. I have ear buds in my ears, but I can't hear anything but silence. Not even an echo between the ears. Just a vast, empty land. Forsaken by all intelligence and thought. Nary a traveller therein. A veritable wasteland.

paleolithic sleeping

• Quotation of the day: Rebekah: "What would happen if we had to live outside?" Me: "We'd be okay; we have a tent and warm sleeping bags." Rebekah: "But what if we lived in the paleolithic era?"



• Here is a picture that I didn't take, of some fog.

I actually searched YouTube for "boredom"

Palin hair

Here is my attempt at the Sarah Palin 'do, sans pouf. Very librarian. Is her style retro, outdated, or trend-setting and ahead of its time? I predict that, if elected, Ms. Palin will be the new Jackie O. It is amazing how many hits I got when I searched on "Sarah Palin hair."

House the louse

House was very good. Managed to work in all the regular characters in a believable way, and to make parallels between the regulars and the patient. Masterful, really. I think this show has the best writing of all the TV shows right now. And the House and Wilson relationship is priceless. Even better (dare I say it?) than House and Cameron. House actually said to Wilson, "Your friendship means more to me than this patient." Funny. And about as close to sharing feelings as House ever gets. Now House has to "woo" Wilson back. Can't wait.

poor turkeys

Picture of the day: David Boreanaz from Bones and Jennifer Morrison from House

• I am giving in and reading the last book in the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer. I thought the first three were overrated. I don't like Bella, the main character; she's such a wah-wah. But I would get a kick out of seeing her stop being so mamby-pamby and turn into a vampire and rip out some throats. That would redeem her character for me, and I have a feeling it's going to happen. In fact, I've predicted the entire plot. Let's see how close I am. Ten bucks says I'm nearly spot-on. A and R say that I can't read the first three and not read the fourth. They think I will like it. Alright, alright already.
• I'm going to run my first 5K on Thanksgiving Day. Although I could run it today with some significant pain, I am going to train in the hopes of doing it more comfortably and at a respectable speed.

Fringe

• So I watched the series premiere of Fringe. A lot of people violently dislike it. I liked it well enough to watch again. It is definitely the beginning of the next generation of TV. I felt like I was watching an action movie. I loved the visual lines, the lighting, and the immensity of the buildings. The only funny part in it involved a cow. Throw a cow into anything and it becomes instantly ridiculous. There is a video about the cow on YouTube, but for some reason it won't play, and I am mad about that because I wanted to post it here. So I put a promo for the first episode in instead, below. Anyway, Fringe is kind of like the X-Files in that it involves the FBI solving paranormal mysteries and a shady X-like informant, but it is done in such a completely different, unique, J.J. Abrams way, that I don't think many will be making comparisons to the X-Files as I have just done. Maybe instead, lots of people will make the comparison, then say that they will be the only ones making the comparison, because Fringe is done in such a completely different, unique, J.J. Abrams way.

• Quotation of the day: Me: "The backs of my ears are getting dry." Rebekah: "Mine are quite moist."
• Reaction-provoking words: moist, stinky, virulent, infantile, flatulent, asinine, provoking, virile, phlegm, balmy, snide. To be continued. I accept input.

Camera!

We got a digital camera for this past Christmas. It immediately got stepped on and broken. I finally got around to sending it in to be fixed, and I just got it back. Here are some pictures I took with it. I find them to be gorgeous. No more fuzzy pictures from me. Well, very few. Well, about half.

Quotation of the day: "Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison."--Matthew 5: 25

first day school

Here is Rebekah with her new haircut.
Here is Rebekah on her first day of high school.
I was so sad to hear that Don LaFontaine died. For a video I had posted about him previously, go here.