Archive for February, 2005

Sunday, February 27th, 2005

Chris Rock: monologist extraordinaire. He’s making fun of his own movies, and calling out lotsa movies and stars.

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Sunday, February 27th, 2005

I think Scarlett Johansson looks like Elizabeth Berkely with the updo and cheekbones.I also think Mike Myers needs to iron his suit.

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Sunday, February 27th, 2005

Ad for Be Cool, the upcoming movie featuring Travolta as Chili Palmer, so some sort of sequel to Get Shorty. We’re all into that. CTV carpet-walker to Orlando Bloom: “before you were a movie star, you were a serious actor.” ?

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Sunday, February 27th, 2005

Let’s Blog the Oscars

For some reason I’m watching the Oscars with The Lovely One, and my brother and his bride. Let’s see how this goes. We’re watching on CTV, which means Ben Mulroney and others on the red carpet right now. Mike says Laura Linney looks like “the Borg.”

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Sunday, February 27th, 2005

Race Prep

Race is tomorrow morning at 10:30. Bike is upgraded and ready. Rider is carb-laden and focused. What will I do? I will make them suffer. Bike racing in Lent: it’s synergy!

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Friday, February 25th, 2005

Notes and ruminations on the previous week

This post will be entirely, endearingly personal, so if you tune in mainly to hear me tell you about interesting things, go somewhere else. All week I have been preparing the race bike for the season. First race is on Sunday, and it should be hard. It’s just a training race, and it’s on a […]

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Thursday, February 24th, 2005

3M Security Glass Ad

This 3M Security Glass Ad is apparently located in Vancouver. According to Boing Boing, it’s a bus ad featuring some real $20 bills encased behind security glass. It has to be downtown, but I’ll try to get some pictures of it next time I’m down there.

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Thursday, February 24th, 2005

A very very in-joke

I try to avoid too much reference to other blogs, especially political ones. I read a fair number, but I don’t think I have much to add to that discussion. And besides, you either find what is said there boring, or you’re already reading most of the same ones. But either way, I think this […]

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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005

Dr. House’s wonderful drinking game

Okay, so The Lovely One and I are incurable fans of that great doctor-drama, House [DANGER: Completely naff flash site]. But it is, after only half a season, a tetch prone to recurring plot tics. Therefore, to enhance your enjoyment, I bring you the House Drinking Game: PLOT TICSTake 1 sip when: -House pops a […]

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Friday, February 18th, 2005

The McDonald’s Diet

Sheesh. Look, eat whatever you want, just make sure to get a reasonable amount of exercise. That’s not a formula for peak performance, but it sure beats what most people do. For peak performance, sure, you’ll have to actually eat proper food, but diet is less important than exercise.

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