Day 199

We want to restore honor and integrity to the White House.

2000

Happy Birthday America

In celebration of Jesse Helms’ death, may we present Marian Anderson.

HT: C&L

Day 202

There’s an old saying in Tennessee - I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once - shame on - shame on you. You fool me, you can’t get fooled again.

Nashville, 2002

Flashy

Your results:
You are The Flash

The Flash 65% Supergirl 63% Catwoman 60% Iron Man 60% Superman 55% Spider-Man 55% Robin 55% Hulk 55% Green Lantern 55% Wonder Woman 48% Batman 30%

Fast, athletic and flirtatious.

Click here to take the “Which Superhero are you?” quiz…

Congrats KG

One heck of a blowout last night as the Celtics spanked the Lakers.

Kevin Garnett, scoring 26 points and pulling down 14 rebounds, finally won an NBA championship as the Boston Celtics overpowered the Los Angeles Lakers en route to their first NBA crown in 22 years.

Good for KG.  He’s one of the good guys and as much as we miss him in Minnesota, I’m happy that he finally got his ring.

As Jeff said:

No, I don’t feel betrayed by Garnett; instead, I feel sort of like you feel when a you run in to a former flame with his or her new love. You don’t wish them ill, indeed, you’re happy that they’re happy, you truly are, because that’s what you want for them. But there’s still just a little twinge, a little sense of loss, of asking why it couldn’t have been you. I’m happy for Garnett, truly. But I wish he could have won it here.

Day 220

I think - tide turning - see, as I remember - I was raised in the desert, but tides kind of - it’s easy to see a tide turn - did I say those words?

This is only a test…

Try this personality test.

Apparently I am a haughty intellectual.

My wife’s comment is “duh”.

But it’s a dry heat

My friend at Coyote Blog has some comments about summer in Arizona, and how reality ties in to a recent New York Times feature that listed Scottsdale as a hot summer tourist spot.

You may be here but we’ll all be gone, if we can afford it.  Typical summer temperatures every day are 108-112F, with occasional excursions higher into territory that is stupid-hot.  Yeah, its dry heat, and that is exactly what we tell our turkey every Thanksgiving.  And yeah, the wind blows a bit — feels just like a hair dryer.

I rolled laughing when I saw this.  I have said the EXACT same thing.  No, I’m not from Arizona, but I am from the Southwest, and I have spent more than enough time in Phoenix in August to know I don’t want to be in Phoenix in August.

RIP Bob Justman

One of the greats behind the original Star Trek.

Robert H. Justman, a producer who was one of the creative forces behind the original “Star Trek” television series of the 1960s as well as the 1980s-era “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” has died. He was 81.

Justman died Wednesday at his Los Angeles home of complications from Parkinson’s disease, his son Jonathan said.

Justman’s death came within days of those of his “Star Trek” friends and colleagues Joseph Pevney, who directed some of the original series’ most popular episodes, and Alexander “Sandy” Courage, who composed the series theme.

Hat tip:  Wil Wheaton

Day 233

Actually, I - this may sound a little West Texas to you, but I like it. When I’m taling about - when I’m talking about myself, and when he’s talking about myself, all of us are talking about me.

Hardball, 2000

A bridge in Brooklyn

A nifty bit at Improv Everywhere with cascading lights flashing down the Brooklyn Bridge a week before it’s 125th anniversary.  Go to the site and look at all the photos, the write up, etc.

more about “A bridge in Brooklyn“, posted with vodpod

Rest in peace Sandy Courage

Funny what gets remembered, isn’t it?

Over a decades-long career, Courage collaborated on dozens of movies and orchestrated some of the greatest musicals of the 1950s and 1960s, including “My Fair Lady,” “Hello, Dolly!” “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers,” “Gigi,” “Porgy and Bess” and “Fiddler on the Roof.”

But his most famous work is undoubtedly the “Star Trek” theme, which he composed, arranged and conducted in a week in 1965.

“I have to confess to the world that I am not a science fiction fan,” Courage said in an interview for the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation’s Archive of American Television in 2000. “Never have been. I think it’s just marvelous malarkey. … So you write some, you hope, marvelous malarkey music that goes with it.”

Courage said the tune, with its ringing fanfare, eerie soprano part and swooping orchestration, was inspired by an arrangement of the song “Beyond the Blue Horizon” he heard as a youngster.

“Little did I know when I wrote that first A-flat for the flute that it was going to go down in history, somehow,” Courage said. “It’s a very strange feeling.”

Courage said he also mouthed the “whooshing” sound heard as the starship Enterprise zooms through the opening credits of the TV show.

Happy Memorial Day

Beyond reprehensible

Hillary digs herself deeper and deeper.

Ms. Clinton, I have a Dr. Seuss book you should read.

Classic apology note

This dent note rocks.  Come on now, admit it, you’ve wanted to do this too.