Nonstop Dr. Horrible

Spent all weekend watching Dr. Horrible. And I do mean all weekend. Love, love, love it. Commentary! the Musical??? Holy crap, I think I might love it more than the show. So good. Ten Dollar Solo is my current favorite, but just because that's the last song I listened to.

Luckily the boys are just as obsessively insane about the show.

42 minutes of perfection

Joss and Co. make #4 on the TIME Top 10 TV Shows

Amanda Palmer @ First Avenue

And because Blogger doesn't like my video (okay, because I'm too lazy to figure out how to change the format of my video) here's a link. Amazing show, still sleepy.

Thankful. And full.

We had a nice, relaxing dinner at mom and dad's. Lots of food and hanging out with family. Family which will be bigger next Thanksgiving, Bobby and Marie are expecting so I'll have another niece or nephew!

The boys all spent the day in the mancave, my mom spent it in the kitchen (of course) and the rest of us were entertained by the kids. Ruby is quite the dancer and we got to see another video of Katie's skating competition. She's awesome!

I only pouted a little bit about not getting to go to Tucson this weekend to see my sister. I was too busy eating to pout too much. I didn't take may photos (stoopid camera) but here's the link.

Tofurky dinner at mom's house. The photo is a little misleading
in that I ate the entire bowl of black olives, not just the two on my plate. And I took the photo before pouring on the vegan gravy.

My mom would be horrified to have anyone left with the impression that she throws a vegetarian only Thanksgiving, so here's proof. Not one dead animal but two!

She doesn't mess around people. :)

Happy Thanksgiving!

So many things I'm thankful for this year. OBAMA! All my peeps* are healthy and happy. You are all happy, right? The economy sucks but I've got a roof over my head and can afford to heat my house. I can not only afford to feed my kids but also my ever-growing eating disorder. And seriously, I can afford a vacation (just as soon as the timing works out) so I've got nothing to complain about.
Looking forward to dinner at my mom's tomorrow. Boys, nieces and nephew and Tofurky. Can't ask for more than that.

Have a good one.
xoxo

* did I just type "peeps" in public? Sorry about that.

New furniture

Really kicking myself for not getting the floors repaired or painting the walls before the new furniture was delivered. Lazy at a professional level people, it's not as easy as it looks.

So here's the ugly-but-oh-so-comfy new living room set. Can't bring myself to take the tags off because that will mean they're really mine.

Oh and I have to add, because I'm an asshole, that I beat Macaroni's high score on Donkey Konga my first time out. Holding those damn bongos between my knees hurts the old lady arthritis like nobody's business but it's actually fun. Not Mario Kart on the Wii fun but I like having a game Macaroni and I can both enjoy.

Thank You Veterans!

I haven't been to work since Thursday. It's heaven. Well, heaven would have been taking that trip to New Orleans with the girls, which is what we had originally planned when I took the days off work. Or, possibly even better, laying on a beach in Mexico all alone for five days. But not being at work is close enough.

I'm so not missing my messy desk

Trying to get a few things off my To Do List today, so that I can reward myself with a movie. Going to see Zack and Miri Make a P0rno this afternoon. So far I've almost finished shopping for the foster care kids we're sponsoring this Christmas and finally got around to framing a couple of photos from my vacations. I still need to schedule several appointments; an estimate for repairs on our hardwood floors, a physical, an eye exam and a new tattoo consultation. I also need to clean my bedroom...the window ledge above my bed is so dusty I could hardly sleep last night. Yucky dust mite nightmares! I'm sure there are a million other things too, but I really want to see this movie and feel like sitting in the dark all by myself.

Golden Gate Bridge/SF and Advocate's Close/Edinburgh

I wanted to hang these in the bathroom but Mackie

thinks that's weird. There's a giant spider in the corner.

More Halloween

I love her little shoes

Mackie's Stephen Colbert

with Grandpa and Grandma

Ruby's sugar stash

Marie, Ruby, Mac and Uncle Bobby

Does Stephen Colbert really have his mouth open constantly?

L from Deathnote with Stephen Colbert

I love what nerds they are!

Guess who got new glasses?

What is Missouri waiting for?

President Elect Barack Obama!

Still too spent to string any words together. So happy, so relieved. So glad it's over.

Halloween cuteness

Rubilicious

Obama '08 - Vote for Hope

Colin Powell Discusses His Endorsement of Barack Obama

Yum

New Ewan movie

Trailer for Incendiary and a bonus clip. This looks really, really good. And Michelle Williams does an impressive English accent. Oh, and there's naked Ewan on the couch.

I wouldn't normally do this

but damn, look how hot he is. I hate the way the paparazzi go after celebrities, but since his kids aren't in the photo and he's on a movie location I'm going to let this one slip. Because again, damn.



Apparently there was an earthquake where they're filming, which I think is in Puerto Rico. Hopefully no one was hurt, thankfully Ewan wasn't.

I'm sitting here watching Macaroni play video games and painting an Obama onesie for a woman I work with. Thrilling life, isn't it?

Welcome to Minnesota Nice

Nathan's new show - trailer

Funny photo from Jody

Crap! It's so little. (Hint: those are beer cans and bottles on the steps) Oh well, it was exactly what I needed on a Monday morning.

From this Rolling Stone Article

At least three of McCain's GOP colleagues have gone on record to say that they consider him temperamentally unsuited to be commander in chief. Smith, the former senator from New Hampshire, has said that McCain's "temper would place this country at risk in international affairs, and the world perhaps in danger. In my mind, it should disqualify him." Sen. Domenici of New Mexico has said he doesn't "want this guy anywhere near a trigger." And Sen. Thad Cochran of Mississippi weighed in that "the thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine. He is erratic. He is hotheaded."

Favorite Food Songs

Joss's little brother Jed and his fiancee Maurissa.

Dollhouse Interview with Spike Feresten!

Look how cute my Jossy is!

Grumpy Old Men are funny...

...when they're not so fucking scary.

35 days and counting

I got this as an email so I'm going to be bad and copy the whole thing. I'd link if I could find it somewhere. FYI Eve wrote The Vagina Monologues.


Drill, Drill, Drill

I am having Sarah Palin nightmares. I dreamt last night that she was a member of a club where they rode snowmobiles and wore the claws of drowned and starved polar bears around their necks. I have a particular thing for Polar Bears. Maybe it's their snowy whiteness or their bigness or the fact that they live in the Arctic or that I have never seen one in person or touched one. Maybe it is the fact that they live so comfortably on ice. Whatever it is, I need the polar bears.

I don't like raging at women. I am a Feminist and have spent my life trying to build community, help empower women and stop violence against them. It is hard to write about Sarah Palin. This is why the Sarah Palin choice was all the more insidious and cynical. The people who made this choice count on the goodness and solidarity of Feminists.

But everything Sarah Palin believes in and practices is antithetical to Feminism which for me is part of one story -- connected to saving the earth, ending racism, empowering women, giving young girls options, opening our minds, deepening tolerance, and ending violence and war.

I believe that the McCain/Palin ticket is one of the most dangerous choices of my lifetime, and should this country choose those candidates the fall-out may be so great, the destruction so vast in so many areas that America may never recover. But what is equally disturbing is the impact that duo would have on the rest of the world. Unfortunately, this is not a joke. In my lifetime I have seen the clownish, the inept, the bizarre be elected to the presidency with regularity.

Sarah Palin does not believe in evolution. I take this as a metaphor. In her world and the world of Fundamentalists nothing changes or gets better or evolves. She does not believe in global warming. The melting of the Arctic, the storms that are destroying our cities, the pollution and rise of cancers, are all part of God's plan. She is fighting to take the polar bears off the endangered species list. The earth, in Palin's view, is here to be taken and plundered. The wolves and the bears are here to be shot and plundered. The oil is here to be taken and plundered. Iraq is here to be taken and plundered. As she said herself of the Iraqi war, 'It was a task from God.'

Sarah Palin does not believe in abortion. She does not believe women who are raped and incested and ripped open against their will should have a right to determine whether they have their rapist's baby or not.

She obviously does not believe in sex education or birth control. I imagine her daughter was practicing abstinence and we know how many babies that makes.
Sarah Palin does not much believe in thinking. From what I gather she has tried to ban books from the library, has a tendency to dispense with people who think independently. She cannot tolerate an environment of ambiguity and difference. This is a woman who could and might very well be the next president of the United States . She would govern one of the most diverse populations on the earth.
Sarah believes in guns. She has her own custom Austrian hunting rifle. She has been known to kill 40 caribou at a clip. She has shot hundreds of wolves from the air.

Sarah believes in God. That is of course her right, her private right. But when God and Guns come together in the public sector, when war is declared in God's name, when the rights of women are denied in his name, that is the end of separation of church and state and the undoing of everything America has ever tried to be.

I write to my sisters. I write because I believe we hold this election in our hands. This vote is a vote that will determine the future not just of the U.S. , but of the planet. It will determine whether we create policies to save the earth or make it forever uninhabitable for humans. It will determine whether we move towards dialogue and diplomacy in the world or whether we escalate violence through invasion, undermining and attack. It will determine whether we go for oil, strip mining, coal burning or invest our money in alternatives that will free us from dependency and destruction. It will determine if money gets spent on education and healthcare or whether we build more and more methods of killing. It will determine whether America is a free open tolerant society or a closed place of fear, fundamentalism and aggression.

If the Polar Bears don't move you to go and do everything in your power to get Obama elected then consider the chant that filled the hall after Palin spoke at the RNC, 'Drill Drill Drill.' I think of teeth when I think of drills. I think of rape. I think of destruction. I think of domination. I think of military exercises that force mindless repetition, emptying the brain of analysis, doubt, ambiguity or dissent. I think of pain.

Do we want a future of drilling? More holes in the ozone, in the floor of the sea, more holes in our thinking, in the trust between nations and peoples, more holes in the fabric of this precious thing we call life?

Eve Ensler
September 5, 2008

Funny with a disturbing ending

My Liberal Identity:

You are a Working Class Warrior, also known as a blue-collar Democrat. You believe that the little guy is getting screwed by conservative greed-mongers and corporate criminals, and you’re not going to take it anymore.

Take the quiz at http://www.fightconservatives.com/Inside-the-Book/What-Breed-of-Liberal-Are-You.html

Took this little quiz from a link at Cecily's site. Was funny and cute right up until that last, vomit inducing question. WTF was that about? Naked pyramid?

Life is good

Even though I'm at work, eating a birthday cake with zero trans fat (WTF?) but lots of after taste.

This might be my favorite tattoo ever

I've been wanting to get a sugar skull tattoo for a long time, almost made an appointment when we went to Cabo San Lucas last winter. I also have an idea for a Mexican style tattoo of my grandparents, but I think my mom would kick my ass if I actually got it.

Anyway, the tattoo below was done by Morag (at Tribe Tattoo) who did my map of Scotland when I was in Edinburgh in February. She made a Mexican sugar skull Scottish! I really love this and kind of want one of my own now.



I think maybe I need a new tattoo for my birthday.

Free Sarah Palin

Holy Tax Plan Batman!

This is just one of the many reasons why I'm voting for Obama.

How cute is Noah?

Lisa and Noah were in town today and we got together for a few laps around the mall.

Love Noah sticking out his tongue in the background

Reminds me of pyscho summer photos...except we're
counting something very different these days.

Sharky kinda looks like he's ready to kick ass

Look Lisa, your dolly's in the photo too!

Those are the eyes of a future heartbreaker

See why I heart Scottish boys most of all?

A transcript from the Late, Late Show w/Craig Ferguson:

“This is a very important election, this one, but you would not know it from the way it’s being reported. Y’know politics is covered like show business, now. On the Today Show this morning, they’re, like, “Which candidate would you rather have dinner with?” Here’s an easy answer—NONE! They’re politicians, I don’t want dinner with you, I don’t want your friendship. Here’s what I want to know; what are you going to do for this country, pal? What are you gonna do?...

…The news reports are either very tabloid-y, or they’re trying to be funny like Jon Stewart, maybe because more and more people say they’re getting their news from late night tv, which, believe me, is not a good idea. I like the Daily Show, I like Jon Stewart, I think he does a bang-up job, a great job, but let him do it. The rest of the news people, TAKE THIS JOB SERIOUSLY! This is important…

…Do you know what bothers me? Every election year, as well, you get the voter registration drives aimed at the young people—“Rock the vote, the vote’s crack-a-lackin’!”…are we so lost that we have to be sold our own democratic right? What the hell is wrong with, what is going on? We have to “sexy up” the vote for young people?...

…Here’s what I’m saying to you—if you don’t vote, you’re a moron. I know what you’re saying—“well, not voting is a vote.” No, it isn’t. Not voting is just being stupid.

Voting is not sexy, voting is not hep, it’s not fashionable, it’s not a movie, it’s not a video game, all the kids ain’t doin’ it. Frankly, voting is a pain in the ass, but here’s a word, look it up, it is your DUTY to vote.

The foundation in this democracy is based on free people making free choices, so, young people, if you can’t take your hand out of your Cheetos bag long enough to fill out a form, then you can’t complain when we end up with President Sanjaya.

Listen, I’m an American. This country, as it is, at war, right now—Americans in foreign lands wearing uniforms representing this country are losing their lives. Americans here in this country are losing their homes. We have two patriotic candidates, right? They both love this country, they have different ideas about what to do with it. Learn about them, read about them, question them, listen to them. Then, on election day, exercise your sacred right as an American, and listen to yourself.”

A proper post

So I've twittered away and I've got to say, it's so much easier than sitting down to write a whole blog entry. I'm currently watching a tape of Jboy in a musical at church when he was about 10 years old. He's supposed to be a mouse or a rat and has one ear that keeps falling over. He's cute but this is the age he started getting embarrassed in front of people. Too bad because he's really good. And so funny. OMG, they're dancing now. Shayne, it's the duet he did with Julie...had you already moved when they did this? (Yes, you were gone. At the end I'm telling all the kids that you'll be in town the next week.)

I was actually cleaning when I found all these old videotapes of the boys and now can't stop watching. They start when Macaroni was about 18 months old. So much for getting stuff done. I do need to get the TV out of my bedroom and ready to go, we're bringing a load to Jboy's tomorrow. Macaroni will be excited to see the dorm, he's been talking about it non stop.

What else? My cousin who I haven't talked to in years found me on facebo0k and sent me an email. That was weird. Ran to Targhetto again, I swear they get all my money. Ooh, I went to my first Tai Chi class yesterday. It was cool, but the best part is that it's just down the block from the co-op. Since Macaroni and I said we were going to start eating healthier that should help.

Now I'm watching the boys golf with a little Playsch00l thing, the day before Jboy's 10th birthday. Macaroni looks so much like Jboy did, not so much in the face but their mannerisms and stuff. Too trippy. Aah, nice shot of Mac singing and dancing in the shower in Las Vegas when he was two or three.

Okay, a few photos from my brother's wedding and then I really have to get back to work.

Twitter

So I just realized how boring most of my blog entries have been lately. Not only am I boring but now everything I write is boring too. Not a lot of inspiration lately I guess. Or time.

So I'm going to try twittering for a week and see if that makes things any better. I've just started following Felicia and Cecily there and figured I'd give it a go. I can't promise I'll be any more interesting, but at just 140 characters per post, I certainly can't been less interesting. Can I?

I'm also going to do 101 Things To Do in 1001 Days. Still working on my list, being specific is a drag. Because I know me so well.

My Big, Fat Netflix Review

I cheated and looked up my last dozen or so rentals. They get older as the list goes on, so I remember less and less about the movies as the reviews go on. Fun for everyone.
Too lazy to link, but they're all on Netflix just waiting for you to add them to your Queue.

Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall - I love, love, love Steven Sondheim. Into The Woods may be my most favorite thing ever. Fun concert with songs from all of his shows, really good performances. Although anyone other than Bernadette Peters signing Children Will Listen makes me sad. Just not as sad as Bernadette makes me when she sings it. I adore her.

Dresden Dolls: Live at the Roundhouse London – I love the Dolls, one of the busiest bands on my iPod. Their live show is incredible, all the freaks come out. It's not even really a concert but a circus show. Awesome. Now if they'd just come to Minneapolis.

House of D – David Duchovny is always yummy and I love his wife, I just never remember how to spell her name. Tia? Tea? Very cute/sweet movie about a boy, his retard and his "lady" in prison. But not really.

Cape of Good Hope – very cute South African movie set around an animal rescue, loved it!

Sweeney Todd in Concert – I still haven’t seen the Johnny Depp movie because I’m afraid that maybe they killed Sondheim. Lisa, I'm sure you've seen it...is it safe? This not-a-play version though? Super good. And not just because of Neil Patrick Harris, although everything is better with a little sprinkle of NPH. *looking for a link to him on Sesame Street*

The Warrior – I’m not sure how this ended up on my list but I’m glad it did because it was so good. Tear jerker. I’m not usually a big fan of samurai type movies. Which this really isn’t, but I don’t know what else to compare it to. Really good, makes you want to go to Mongolia.

Corpse Bride – Parts of this were good, funnier than I expected, but I think I read a lot while it was on. It's no Nightmare Before Christmas, no matter how hard it tried.

The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till – American history is ugly, and not getting much prettier. Interviews with his family and the autopsy photos, uggh. I think I was sobbing loud enough for the boys to hear over their video games. Have a box of Kleenex ready.

I’m Not Rappaport – Gotta love the cute old people. I can’t remember the ending, except that I liked it. I think. Ozzie Davis is amazing, as always. Bless his sweet, sweet soul.

The Boondock Saints – Aah, the Irish accent, second only to the Scots. Lots of blood, religious zealots, cute boys, a flaming Willam Dafoe. Oh, and Billy Connolly. Of course I liked it.

New York Doll – Oh. My. Crap. I thought this would be a cute little flick about the other Dolls, the old Dolls. No, it was a heartbreaking look at what happened to one of the Dolls after the band fell apart. Absolutely broke my heart. Seriously, even if you don’t like the music this movie is totally worth it. And if you don’t like the music, you might want to have your ears checked. Total. 80's. Flashback!

Layer Cake – Daniel Craig. Drugs. Daniel Craig is pretty. Lots of drugs. Daniel-Boom-Chicka-Waa-Wah. Funny. Damn-iel is hot. Bodies in freezers. And did I mention that Daniel Craig is pretty and/or hot? Almost makes me want to see the James Bond movie that he's in. Almost.

On a Clear Day – Classic, this is a fine example of why Brits are better. Even my parents, who can't understand English when spoken by the English, loved this one. Thank God for subtitles.

Howard Zinn: You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train – As soon as this ended I got on the interwebs to see if I could get an “I heart Howard Zinn” t-shirt. Love, love, love Howard…totally want to lick his brain. Everyone on the planet should get to sit in a room and listen to Howard, especially the ones who wouldn't want to. Brilliance. Why can't I meet a cute, progressive boy like that? I need that t-shirt.

Cache – I didn’t shoot up enough drugs to really understand this movie. Of course I didn’t shoot up any drugs so that might be why I didn't get it. That said, the movie was good. I just felt like I was missing things. Like the plot, I think that’s the part I missed.

Tsotsi – I loved this sad, disturbing movie. I really recommend this "tale of redemption", even if you don't like foreign films. So good.

That was fast

Wow, it's an illness

At least it's for charity!