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Chuck Jones extravaganza on TCM. H.o.p. was on pins and needles, waiting all week. Watched the bio in reverent awe. But he hadn’t realized Jones was dead…
“He lived to be 90!” I told H.o.p.
He was still sad because so many of his heroes are…well…dead.
“Is he/she alive?”
“No, they’re dead.”
“Why is everyone dead?!”

No joke. Military.discovery.com (Discovery channel) offers this quiz. “If you were a gun, what kind would you be?”
The quiz begins with romance and champagne.
It is too bizarre. So I took the quiz to see what the questions would be. The first question, as mentioned above, frames the gun as a romantic partner. After 10 [...]

Watching the spacewalk live via helmet cam on NASA-TV.

H.o.p. was reading a brief bio on the Wright brothers. The illustration for their childhood showed boys playing with blocks and toy cars.
Marty says, “Maybe they invented the time machine.”
Which was what H.o.p. said.

I was thinking H.o.p. just went in to use the bathroom but instead he is shooting a movie in there now called “Super Agent Luigi Meets the Sewer Rat”.

The above pic is from the Views from the Road 2005 set. It was commented on at Flickr that it reminded of Tit Mountain between El Paso and Austin. This is more like a stripper’s pastie, I suppose. The pic was taken on lands near the Petrified Forest National Park and that’s [...]

We used to have goldfish. For six years we had a few goldfish. Now we keep a tropical aquarium. At least for two weeks we have. In it are guppies and neon tetras and snails and a couple sucker fish and several teeny tiny transparent catfsh and two African dwarf aquarium frogs.
Rarely do the frogs [...]

After nearly 4 years, I finally completed processing work on the few potentially decent pics I came home with from the Ioway Fall Encampment in 2005. Problems were presented as I that weekend I was using a foul Nikon Coolpix that comprehended the world as a dizzying blur. But a few were salvaged which I [...]