tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61489552011-10-12T12:37:03.459-07:00...spelunker began to take on the connotation of rank amateur, while those "in the know" began to refer to themselves as cavers... kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.comBlogger3431100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-28781768529416451582008-11-03T21:26:00.000-08:002008-11-03T21:27:18.720-08:00

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It isn't enough that Jon Hamm has been awesomely awesomely awesome the past two seasons as Don Draper on Mad Men. It isn't enough that he's ridiculously handsome with effortless grace. Dammit, he's funny too. His guest turn on Saturday Night Live last week was easily the best show in...I don't know how long. Critics rejoiced that the show was actually more hit than miss which I don't think

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-76317905325304827062008-10-31T22:22:00.000-07:002008-11-01T17:09:01.269-07:00

It's hardly a new revelation that I am addicted to Keith Olbermann on Countdown. Anyone who could gleefully make fun of Bill O'Reilly, for years, because "Billo" got caught on tape sexually harassing a co-worker is tops in my book. Especially because that tape revealed that Billo didn't know the difference between a "loofa" and a "falafel"--a pretty critical distinction when the harassing phone

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-64283568112151811562008-10-26T16:59:00.000-07:002008-10-26T18:39:18.658-07:00

I got my absentee ballot last week and I've already voted, so while the thrill is gone for me, I'll spend the next 9 days anxiously waiting for what the rest of the country will decide. On a local level, there is a proposition to allow for physician assisted suicide if a person has received a terminal diagnosis with less than six months to live. There's also another Tim Eyman initiative

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-77675111217818891022008-10-17T21:41:00.001-07:002008-10-17T22:04:19.282-07:00

I can't help it, I just plain love the "Where the Hell is Matt" videos. While I'm bitterly annoyed that I didn't have a better idea about how to parlay travel into a career, you can't help getting swept up with this guy's charming Snoopy dance. As a follow-up, "Where the Hell is Matt's Girlfriend?"

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-73836692502395131622008-10-14T19:25:00.000-07:002008-10-14T19:55:55.510-07:00

Since McCain's choice of VP was named, I've been loathe to pronounce her name "Pay-lin" so as to not degrade the name of the great Michael Palin. I've considered her appointment so ludicrous and absurd that only Monty Python could do it justice. As it turns out, John Cleese feels the same way. He reveals that not only is Michael no longer the funniest Palin going, but that Sarah Barracuda

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-353916841633657692008-10-07T20:27:00.000-07:002008-10-11T21:07:47.567-07:00

1. This is election is over.Yes, it is. I've gone way past the frenzy and am now in a zen state of complete passivity of what I'm certain will come to pass. John McCain has revealed himself to be exactly what I suspected all along: tired, uninspiring, politically craven and without a clear agenda or vision for the future. Above all, he is a man clearly of the 20th Century and that is just

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-34039723547670831602008-07-19T17:17:00.000-07:002008-11-12T23:41:46.745-08:00

And for once with that subject title I'm not talking about House.One of the few good things to emerge from the writers' strike is Joss Whedon's made-for-internet mini-series/musical Dr. Horrible. (Free viewing online until July 20th and then available only on iTunes and DVD.) More specifically, this is Dr. Horrible's Sing-a-long Blog. There isn't a single frame of Dr. Horrible that isn't

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-8953577205110270542008-07-12T11:57:00.000-07:002008-11-12T23:41:47.177-08:00

John F. Kennedy once said to a room full of Nobel Prize winners that the White House had never seen such a wide variety of talent and intelligence gathered in one room with the sole exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone. If you applied the same sentiment to the world of comedy, you could assume that Eddie Izzard alone in a room equally represents the most dizzying range of

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-46652304205372769762008-07-06T21:41:00.000-07:002008-11-12T23:41:47.470-08:00

I can't remember exactly how the conversation started but in the end, I was at work with some colleagues chatting about funny public signs we had seen. I never fail to laugh at the frequent visual shorthand to pick up after your dog:Likewise, when I was in England and first came across this sign, my first inclination after the naughty giggles subsided was to reach for the camera:But thus far,

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-3003785849541317702008-07-01T11:00:00.000-07:002008-07-02T08:17:19.590-07:00

I've spent the last three months in tween hell. Tween music! Tween movies! Tween TV shows! It's all uniformly awful, unless of course you are some sort of tween! (Though doubtful today's tween-ness would have appealed to me even in the height of my own tween years. It's just not my style.) Fortunately, an alternate project will come along and force you to dig deeper into what you love.

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-53501261311045943922008-06-18T17:31:00.001-07:002008-06-19T08:15:51.960-07:00

It's probably no secret that the prospect of a John McCain presidency horrifies me. I try to reassure myself that at the very least a slim majority of this country can't be so back-assward as to elect the guy that represents the very zenith of 19th Century thought. I don't want to be ageist, but come on. Is the guy that can't turn on a computer really the guy that should be tackling the

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-19413260981914175242008-06-14T22:17:00.000-07:002008-11-12T23:41:47.664-08:00

It was cloudy and overcast this morning and the AMC Renton theater has an am screening with $4 ticket prices. That is my excuse for taking in The Happening on its opening weekend.M. Night Shyamalan is a strange example of a filmmaker who is getting demonstrably worse with each successive movie. Fortunately for him, no one can take the brilliance of The Sixth Sense and about 98% of Unbreakable

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-73518962506428371502008-05-23T15:19:00.000-07:002008-11-12T23:41:47.915-08:00

Vanity Fair is running an excerpt from a new book by Thurston Clarke, The Last Good Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America. It details his short campaign from March to June 1968 and pays particular attention to how it began, in all places, Manhattan, Kansas when Kennedy appeared as a series speaker for the Landon Lectures.Having grown up on and around campus and

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-17209798397626364842008-05-21T18:51:00.000-07:002008-11-12T23:41:48.643-08:00

Several months ago, Entertainment Weekly had a feature collaboration between all their writers where they fess up to pop cultural elements that they just don't like or fully appreciate. Some copped to have never seen a Star Wars movie of any variety. Another admitted to not really liking The Godfather. Someone else even slipped in that they'd never managed to see an episode of The Simpsons. (

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-37967429232999700962008-05-13T12:56:00.000-07:002008-05-13T13:52:15.365-07:00

Never mind that I'm shouting at my television set, "It's Amber! Amber! The necklace is Amber!"Finally! An excellent episode of House I can rally behind again. I've been struggling this season.Raise your hand if you even know what I'm talking about.And if I can just get doubly geeky here for a moment, the new X-Files trailer is up! The new X-Files trailer is up!

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-19998484347350655482008-04-20T17:44:00.000-07:002008-04-20T19:24:26.725-07:00

I've been watching the new HBO series John Adams, which concludes tonight. Yes, I'm a greedy thief that refuses to pay for HBO the old fashioned way. Who's going to stop me?Initial thoughts:1. The intro music and credits sequence are simply wonderful.2. Tom Hanks, as an executive producer, exceeds his already amazing accomplishments as an actor.3. John Adams, as portrayed by Paul Giamatti,

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-42652962299750933602008-04-16T21:39:00.001-07:002008-04-16T21:47:06.376-07:00

I work with a pretty politically conscious guy and we pow-wow at least once a day and discuss the latest developments in the never ending dra-mah of the democratic primary race. It's a given that Clinton just can't win this contest mathematically, but since we're going through the motions anyway, we were both chatting today about how we were looking forward to watching (presumably the last)

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-23385248526058358312008-03-09T15:28:00.000-07:002008-03-09T15:51:28.182-07:00

I have actually started writing something (creatively) again. Which....has been awhile. At any rate, it all sort of makes sense in my head, so here's hoping it eventually makes it typed out onto paper in some recognizably complete form. In the meantime, since it's a period piece--or at least a "slice of life era" piece---I've been digging through the tunes of the times for inspiration. Here

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-19368839842569683162008-03-02T19:32:00.000-08:002008-03-10T10:50:31.586-07:00

The manner in which team Clinton has conducted their campaign throughout the primaries has given me some pretty solid insight into exactly how and why they would lose the general election in November, if given the nomination. They've been coasting so long under the delusion of inevitability that they've put virtually no effort or groundwork into states that aren't what would be considered "

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-27525336486464611702008-01-26T17:42:00.000-08:002008-01-28T11:28:04.024-08:00

Well, ten things that I hate lately at any rate.1. I've not been on the Hillary Clinton bandwagon this year, not because I find her a loathsome person or anything, but because I can't imagine how she could win a national victory in the general election. I think the percentage of the American population that would actually vote for her tops out at about 48%. Nothing she's done on the campaign

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-86786191494911002392008-01-10T09:53:00.000-08:002008-11-12T23:41:49.080-08:00

Or, otherwise known as the post that breaks Dutch Import's heart.I've noticed a radical difference in Seattle between 2004 and now. Seattle is a very political town. People here aren't shy about letting their opinion be known. Four years ago, this town was chomping at the bit to get rid of team Bush. Well before the actual voting in primaries began, you couldn't leave your house without being

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-31807365073538773942007-12-22T14:34:00.001-08:002008-11-12T23:41:49.241-08:00

This is now my favorite photo of the holiday season. Please tell me those antlers move.

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-32370579398537057362007-12-15T17:42:00.000-08:002007-12-19T20:40:54.803-08:00

There's two things I'm glad I'm not: an Iowan and a Republican. For to be both is to be faced with the most impossible of tasks--selecting the standard bearer to be the Republican nominee for the President of the United States. No, I don't envy the choices available.Do you go with John McCain? The guy who, back in '06, everyone was sure was going to be the nominee until he started sounding

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-25861933400644058722007-11-18T18:21:00.000-08:002007-11-18T23:59:25.443-08:00

As I was packing up to leave the UK in the spring of 1994, I spent an evening with my flatmates, likely doing something illegal, while imploring them to come visit whenever they had the chance. As it happened, my flatmate, Will, who was Australian, was actually planning a trip to the USA later that summer with his dad. I reiterated that they absolutely needed to drive through Kansas City,

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-46479280388154242952007-11-04T07:46:00.000-08:002007-11-04T14:45:07.496-08:00

It's time to break out the lyrics of Joe Hill and express SOLIDARITY FOREVER! in support of the Writers' Guild of America who are going on strike, effective Monday, if a last minute settlement isn't reached. Items of contention are residuals on digital media distributed via internet and an increased residual on DVD sales. All very reasonable.Hollywood writers haven't gone on strike since 1988.

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-37142223786893592282007-09-22T08:15:00.000-07:002007-09-24T11:57:09.722-07:00

Paul Allen is transforming the South Lake Union area in Seattle. What was once a mixture of small businesses, warehouses, low income housing and storage centers is slowly being morphed into a hub of for the development of the life sciences. The Fred Hutch center has expanded, leading the way for more biotechnology labs to follow. There's even going to be a new mode of transportation around

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-87191998239304730522007-09-13T09:53:00.000-07:002008-11-12T23:41:49.375-08:00

I am a dog person. Always have been and probably always will be. In a moment of weakness, I decided to get a cat as well and he's far cooler than I would have otherwise expected, but still, a dog person I primarily remain.But I'm not a pit-bull dog person. I don't understand why people want them as pets. And, needless to say, the idea of raising a violent dog for fighting purposes is

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-82796842367169649462007-08-29T20:18:00.000-07:002007-08-31T04:43:28.627-07:00

After the terrorist attacks on 9/11, most Americans were left wondering "why do they hate us?" It seemed unfathomable that anyone, any group, anywhere could be seething with such animosity that they'd fly jet airliners into skyscrapers.While it's tempting to blame American hubris, any number of horrible foreign policy decisions or even the juvenile "they hate us for our freedoms" I think, after

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-18550078522283066912007-08-22T19:57:00.000-07:002008-11-12T23:41:49.492-08:00

A new study released shows that 1 in 4 Americans read no books of any kind last year.I shouldn't say that I'm surprised to find that 25% of our population can't or won't bother to ingest even the slightest bit of information into themselves that might require them thinking, analysing or formulating a conclusion that isn't already drawn for them. Actually, gauging by the sheer number of dipshits

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-64080867551428974022007-08-19T10:39:00.000-07:002008-11-12T23:41:49.648-08:00

There's something rather joyous to me about watching a marketing scheme crash and burst into flames. Perhaps it lies rooted in the fact that I just don't like being sold to, lied to or otherwise emotionally/financially manipulated. Plus it's just fun to mock stupid ideas.The German UNICEF concept to paint up blonde aryan children in blackface as a show of solidarity with children in Africa

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-58360338759526558462007-07-27T08:19:00.000-07:002007-08-01T22:50:39.346-07:00

I never knew Slate wrote love letters.But apparently one of their writers got ahold of the final discs in the entire A Bit of Fry and Laurie collection (Every last bit!) and just couldn't help themselves.Slate begins by slobbering all over Emma Thompson:Among her many marvels—the Sense and Sensibility screenplay, the Hillary Rodham interpretation in Primary Colors, almost making me want to see a

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-76094965883069990092007-07-25T17:27:00.000-07:002008-11-12T23:41:49.837-08:00

Last Friday was the 38th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing. Unwittingly, I celebrated by finishing up the latest book I've been reading Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell To Earth. Amazon was selling it at bargain basement prices, which is a damned steal. It was an excellent read through and through.The very idea of the Apollo program seems practically archaic in these times. It

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-29884781767116442702007-07-17T20:23:00.001-07:002007-07-19T01:08:30.959-07:00

Darfur undoubtedly needs a lot of help these days. Peacekeepers, humanitarian aid, international attention, anything. Undoubtedly what Darfur does not need is Avril Lavigne covering John Lennon's "Imagine" as any sort of salve. And yet that is the intention behind Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur. I'm totally on board with celebrities using their power to

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-81629078196358960942007-07-01T10:47:00.000-07:002008-11-12T23:41:49.984-08:00

You know what I spend virtually zero time thinking about? That's right, Mormons. I've only known a few in my life and have, without exception, found them strikingly odd people. I had a couple young Mormon guys knock on my door a few years ago while I was spending a week at the cabin. I was amazed that they were even traversing that far away from their LDS HQ, but they were made to go away

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-85642542471373562052007-06-23T11:33:00.000-07:002008-11-12T23:41:50.002-08:00

The AFI released it's latest compilation of the top 100 American movies. I did a quick tally and realized that I'd seen all but 6 on the list, mainly due to the fact that I don't care much for Westerns or Musicals. I've lived 34 years managing to avoid The Sound of Music, Shane, The Searchers, Swing Time, Sunrise and Cabaret.As for those last two, I'm willing to rectify that and make sure that

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-4624593185711098182007-06-02T10:23:00.000-07:002008-11-12T23:41:50.112-08:00

What do you know...Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is 40 years old today.It isn't my favorite Beatles album---I'm looking at you, Revolver. Nor does it even include any of my top 10 Beatles songs--"In My Life," "For No One", "Golden Slumbers Medley", "Strawberry Fields Forever", "Two Of Us", "I've Got a Feeling", "Get Back", "I'll Cry Instead", "Long, Long, Long" or "Baby, You're a Rich Man

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-86065384547867943042007-05-31T22:19:00.000-07:002007-05-31T23:57:26.396-07:00

A few months ago PBS did a celebration of 35 Years of Masterpiece Theater and narrowed down the top 12 series ever broadcast, based on viewers voting. Of the 12, I'd seen most of the productions and could knowledgably quibble with the final line-up. (I might be the only one on the planet that didn't just love Upstairs Downstairs. Reckless would have been rated lower, Jeeves & Wooster rated

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-66978481745712248282007-05-20T17:02:00.000-07:002008-11-12T23:41:50.610-08:00

Sometimes I like Michael Moore. Sometimes I'm less than enamored.I was a big fan of Roger and Me when it came out oh so many years ago. How could you fail to be charmed by the David vs. Goliath story of Michael chasing down GM Chairman Roger Smith to get an explanation of why he was so willing to help let Flint, MI slide straight into the crapper?Moore's movies since then have been fairly hit

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-60334514736980273582007-04-24T23:31:00.000-07:002008-11-12T23:41:50.709-08:00

Crushing news of late to hear that journalist/author David Halberstam was killed in a car accident. At various times I've waded through The Best and the Brightest, his most popular book, and until recently wondered if he would be working on any sort of sequel for Iraq 2: Electric Boogaloo. Not that I think the current administration otherwise known as The Arrogant and the Assholes would even

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-89373530339857236302007-03-23T20:38:00.000-07:002007-03-23T20:46:09.348-07:00

So much insanity going on in our country right now. I shall have something to say about that soon. In the meantime, this sketch was brought to my attention today and I laughed my ass off. Ricky, Stephen, et al, contribute to the PSA for Africa cause. It is so much funnier when comedians tickle our consciousness; Sally Struthers always falls way short.No, really: Red Nose Day.

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-51057998060147072082007-03-04T11:13:00.000-08:002008-11-12T23:41:50.906-08:00

You know what the Academy Awards needs? More montages and more people crying about god/their agents/their mothers while the orchestra music swells. For the first time since Rob Lowe sang that diastrous duet with Snow White, I thought the Oscar ceremony was complete crap. Ellen bored me and her opening monologue was painfully unfunny. No one had anything approximating an interesting acceptance

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-18024172771612923122007-02-18T10:45:00.000-08:002007-02-18T17:41:15.744-08:00

I have tried to explain before why I just can't get into the show 24. I get alot of grief about this at work, as everyone else is seemingly dialed into this series, anxiously waiting each week for the next hour to pass. Admittedly, my reluctance comes in many forms:1.) I really don't tend to watch a lot of television. I never have. I latch onto a few shows over the years, but the rest I can

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-62740280622796953732007-02-11T21:23:00.000-08:002007-02-11T22:43:54.190-08:00

As a general rule, I'm not a big fan of the Grammy Awards. This must seem like harsh words from someone whose blog has recently been decorated with more words than necessary for Golden Globes, SAG Awards and upcoming Academy Award ceremonies. The Grammys, though, is too much like herding cats to be enjoyable. Music is so broad and so disparate and trying to fit 5 nominees into a single

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-67428307042932649102007-01-28T20:31:00.000-08:002008-11-12T23:41:51.451-08:00

Whenever there's a lag on the NY Times Best Seller list, some right-wing hack cranks out another tome consisting of a list of everyone to the left of Ronald Reagan that are actively working to bring our country down. This time it's Dinesh D'Souza's turn to vent his hit list in public. D'Souza identifies more than 100 people and organizations as part of a "domestic insurgency" that is "working

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-44068719141845851052007-01-21T13:08:00.000-08:002008-11-12T23:41:51.619-08:00

The Sundance Kid.If you are looking for me, I am here.Much to report, but let's quickly sum it up by saying that Kevin Bacon and I are now within zero degrees of separation. He and his wife Kyra Sedgwick are here promoting and launching their charity organization Six Degrees. He is very nice and has amazingly blue eyes up close. I decided to forgive him for Hollow Man.

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-44385109903147336232007-01-16T10:02:00.000-08:002007-01-16T19:55:58.095-08:00

Good grief. More snow, more everything at a glacial pace on the highways of the Northwest. More (air quotes) working from home.My friend, Ags, generally does a more thorough survey of the day's news, but hey, there's enough funny to go around.I did only moderately well in predicting last night's Golden Globe winners. Got both the top film dramatic actors right along with the male comic

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Award season has arrived--time to assess the previous years entertainment and admire all the pretty. The Golden Globes are on Monday night, an event that I actually enjoy watching as much, if not more, than the Academy Awards. For one thing, everyone is drinking so it's far more relaxed than the Oscars. Secondly, there are more categories and, in particular, recognition for comic performances

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Seattle resembles nothing short of a post-apocalyptic horror movie whenever bad weather strikes the city. A light snowfall causes traffic jams that last for hours; drivers ditch their out-of-gas cars along the side of the highway making a run for it with portable gas containers in tow; left with no other recourse, people willingly (proudly!) urinate in whatever plastic container they have in

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The holiday season has been slightly better than expected thus far. Got some fantastic (and thoroughly unexpected) swag from the nice folks at Bad Animals here in Seattle. A colleague and I have recently spent a good amount of time at Bad Animals producing some broadcast spots for one of our retail clients. Thanks for the hoodie, guys!Possibly even more exciting is the fact that I was able to

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90% of good editing comes from creatively using the material you have to work with. At work I'm fortunate to work with an excellent creative team that can take my half-assed ideas or mediocre footage and turn it into something interesting, entertaining or sellable. Speaking of editors who know where to look when it comes to cutting something hysterical together, check out Seinfeld: The Lost

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-49218651935771002702006-11-28T22:58:00.000-08:002006-11-28T23:59:41.988-08:00

I've been letting my blog go slack for too long now. I mainly started it to write about politics and pop culture and whatever else crossed my reading radar. Over the past year or so it's been the politics that have completely depressed me.Waiting for the rest of the country to wake up to what complete asshats the Bush Administration is was practically like waiting for Godot. At least the

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Maybe it's time we all admit that perhaps these "freak accidents" aren't really so freaky after all. Let's admit it--death by stingray is common enough that we should all rush out and buy insurance for it:LIGHTHOUSE POINT, Florida (AP) -- An 81-year-old man was in critical condition Thursday after a stingray flopped onto his boat and stung him, leaving a foot-long barb in his chest in an

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Honestly, I meant to round out this YouTube Top Twenty thing months ago! Don't know where the time goes.At any rate, pretend that egregious gap never happened while enjoying the rest of my selected moments:1. During the Superbowl a few years ago there was this fantastic commerical about cowboys out on the range, herding cats. It was one of the funniest commercials I've ever seen. (At least

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Continuing on a theme, here are the next 5 great moments in YouTube viewership as decided by moi:1. There is something about watching someone else crack up that never fails to crack me up in return. A few years ago a very vague rumor about Prince Charles and one of his palace aides circulated through the papers. However, it was largely unverified gossip merely hinting at something untoward as

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-1153162255612516442006-07-17T09:40:00.000-07:002006-07-17T14:29:20.556-07:00

According to Wikipedia, 70,000 new video clips are uploaded every day to YouTube.And my god, this is one of my very favorite places to visit on the internet. Due to the variety of outlandish content to be found on the site, it's actually becoming a favorite of millions of other people, too--70 million clips per day get watched on the site.I recently had to program an all-80s music video show

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Another post in which I chastize myself for not posting more often...how long will this self-flagellation continue?The big news of the day (and the past weekend) is the 25th Anniversay of AIDS as we know it. First noted by the CDC on June 5, 1981 was a handful of otherwise healthy gay men in California with severely compromised immune systems who later went on to contract all sorts of

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Didn't see this one coming:LONDON - Paul McCartney and his second wife, Heather Mills McCartney, said Wednesday they are separating after nearly four years of marriage, citing pressures from the media and insisting their split is amicable.Paul's timing could certainly be better. If I'm not mistaken, he's got a birthday coming up next month. At long last he'll be 64 and has deliberately made it

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I guess someone received the love letter I wrote a few weeks ago:Love the baseball commisioner reference.

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By the time we were finished with this interview with Jamie Cullum, I was defiintely swooning. One tiny facet of our revenue model is, when we're finished with the traditional cycle of promotional pieces, to post features we've created on various web outlets. Here is one such piece. When it's finished playing, click on the ad at the end and we get paid. I'm thinking between me and all my

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Seriously?BERLIN (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush told a German newspaper his best moment in more than five years in office was catching a big perch in his own lake."You know, I've experienced many great moments and it's hard to name the best," Bush told weekly Bild am Sonntag when asked about his high point since becoming president in January 2001."I would say the best moment of all was

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This is so not what I needed to read immediately after turning 33:KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — A 33-year-old man in northern Malaysia has married a 104-year-old woman, saying mutual respect and friendship had turned to love, a news report said Tuesday.It was Muhamad Noor Che Musa's first marriage and his wife's 21st, according to The Star newspaper which cited a report in the Malay-language Harian

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If you are inclined to think that the unjustly awarded election of 2000 led to one of the worst Presidencies of this or any other era, it is not easy to look at Al Gore.Oh, Al. You know I have always adored you. You know I read your book.You know that your inclusion on the '92 ticket made voting Clinton far more palatable. You know I knew what you meant when you talked about taking the

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-1145137480816305452006-04-15T14:42:00.000-07:002006-04-15T14:51:24.896-07:00

I've had this emailed to me by so many different parties that it's time to post.If you're like me and only liked Titanic after they hit the iceberg, the idea of a film sequel seems unpalatable. But what you thought had ended in 1912 was really just the beginning...In the meantime, I'm having a hard time determining which was the funniest part of this piece: the fruitless Google search or strains

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-1145072776179045882006-04-14T19:54:00.000-07:002006-04-14T22:56:22.080-07:00

Once again, I completely fall down on this assignment. 12 pictures of my day on the 12th of the month...due, presumably, in a timely manner. One of these days I'm going to actually get this done on it's proper day.Anyway, this is Chad's idea. Chad being a friend of Peter, who seems pretty cool though he doesn't know me and I don't know him other than I occasionally lurk on his blog.Carrying on

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I don't like bowling. I never have. I try to make excuses not to go, even if all the other cool kids are going to be there. If I break down and go anyway, I'm usually only good for one game. Any more than that and my fingers hurt from getting jammed in the ball. This guy, though...he really likes to bowl:CONNERSVILLE, Ind. -- George Blevins bowled his first frame when he was 7 years old _

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Creating a quality television series is a difficult business. And finding an intelligent, dedicated audience during a time when nearly every other program on television is a low-budget reality show dedicated to swapping wives or marrying shallow bachelors is tougher still. (R.I.P. Arrested Development)HBO cornered the market on serial television programs featuring multi-layered writing, ensemble

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Newsweek hosts an article publicizing the new movie coming to theatres later this month, United 93. April 10, 2006 issue - If movie trailers are supposed to cause a reaction, the preview for "United 93" more than succeeds. Featuring no voice-over and no famous actors, it begins with images of a beautiful morning and passengers boarding an airplane. It takes you a minute to realize what the

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The month of March has flown by with little to no commentary by yours truly. April will be more productive, I'm sure.In the meantime, I managed to pull this report from the "no shit, Sherlock" file:CHICAGO — Praying for a sick heart patient may feel right to people of faith, but it doesn't appear to improve the patient's health, according to a new study that is the largest ever done on the

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Taking a side step from all of the frothy blathering about teaching intelligent design in biology class, I've come across a couple of interesting stories recently.Story number one comes from Turkey, where out of a family of 13 children, 5 of the siblings can only walk on all fours.Five siblings from Turkey who can only walk on all fours could provide science with an insight into human evolution,

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-1141448691589795872006-03-03T20:47:00.000-08:002006-03-03T21:04:51.603-08:00

Today the Seattle Times chose the newest group photo of the Supreme Court as its "Picture of the Day". Fair enough. They look like a brainy bunch.But a better Supreme Court picture surfaced a few days ago. Apparently during deliberations, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg started to get a little sleepy. (I'm sure it happens all the time. Some of those cases must get tedious.) In an artistic genre

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For all the media kvetching about how poorly box office sales have been in 2005 this has actually been a very good year for quality movies--so much so that I didn't get to see all the nominees in all categories. But that won't stop me from handicapping the winners in the major categories:BEST PICTUREBrokeback MountainCrashGood Night and Good LuckCapoteMunichThese are all good movies, but as a

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1. Have Paul and Ringo seen this? While the concept seemed random and odd to me, I couldn't help but be drawn into the skill involved here. Not to mention, I thought for sure he would have stopped at the conclusion of Golden Slumbers, but no, he kept on right through The End. Unfortunately, we don't get the chance to see what he might have done with the short and sweet Her Majesty.2. Development

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So far:GREECE, N.Y. - Jason McElwain had done everything he was asked to do for the Greece Athena High School basketball team — keep the stats, run the clock, hand out water bottles.That all changed last week for the team manager in the final home game of the season. The 17-year-old senior, who is autistic and usually sits on the bench in a white shirt and black tie, put on a uniform and entered

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I was explaining to a colleague today how my framed autographed photo and letter from Hugh Grant finally came out of storage last weekend and made it back onto my wall despite my neglect of it over the last couple of years.And the story of how I came to receive this autographed photo and letter from Hugh Grant isn't all that interesting, save that it arrived as a response to a letter that I had

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-1140501912032555692006-02-20T22:01:00.000-08:002006-02-24T00:10:09.696-08:00

Keep in mind that this is definitely not work-safe, at least not without headphones.But it's good for a guffaw or two. After the vice-president shot a 78-year-old man in the face, the most obvious parody to reach for was a take on Aerosmith with "Cheney's got a gun."However, I like this one much better. (Will have to hit the refresh/reload button when this page comes up.)GFY.

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Actually, it's more like 7 on 14...Anyway, courtesy of my friend Peter and his friend Chad comes a new monthly project of taking 12 photos on the 12th of every month, the photos having to include your own body somehow in the shot. This was difficult to accomplish this weekend as I was on a back-country ski trip and the camera wasn't always accessible. So, here it goes: 5 pictures shy and 2 days

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-1139496906997812272006-02-08T21:50:00.000-08:002006-02-09T22:33:13.523-08:00

Something very sad is happening Friday night. Brace yourself.Are you sitting down?The terrible truth is that Arrested Development is going off the air, broadcasting it's final 4 episodes in a 2-hour block Friday night from 8-10pm. Opposite the opening ceremonies of the Olympics, to add insult to injury.I'm embarassed to admit that I came a little late to the Arrested Development party. For far

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There's pretty much only one football game that I watch every year and that's the Super Bowl. I don't care who's in it, it's just the annual chili feed event that I'm game for. One would think this year would be different, what with the improbable Seattle Seahawks in the big game, but I was still, like most of the town, unnable to generate much excitement one way or the other. At our

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-1138903424856125282006-02-02T08:50:00.000-08:002006-02-02T20:35:42.590-08:00

I've heard rumblings about this malcontent for some time, but Atrios has the official New York Times story front and center on his blog this morning, so thought I'd bring attention to it for all 12 of my readers, too.WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 — Christian ministers were enthusiastic at the early private screenings of "End of the Spear," made by Every Tribe Entertainment, an evangelical film company. But

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And so it is.

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Walter Cronkite famously returned from reporting in Vietnam after the Tet Offensive and pronounced the war unwinnable. Lyndon Johnson immediately knew "if I've lost Walter Cronkite, then I've lost Middle America." He decided not to run for re-election.So what happens when one of the major network news anchors gets blown up? Bob Woodruff, who took over co-hosting the ABC Nightly News following the

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For those that wonder just how far and how blindly some conservatives will support the President, cartoonist August J. Pollak has proposed a novel survey. While many of us are concerned that torturing prisoners, illegally wiretapping, outting CIA Agents and sending troops into combat without an actual victory and exit plan gets a free pass from a shockingly high number of Bush supporters, we also

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Those of us without even basic cable get pretty excited when the low number channels decide to air something beyond reality television programming. Hence, my excitement with PBS airing the BBC production of Bleak House beginning this Sunday night.PASADENA, Calif. -- " 'Bleak House' is a great baggy thing. . . . The plot kind of bulges out. You know, it's like -- no, I was going to say like

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-1137385435286780422006-01-15T17:18:00.000-08:002006-01-16T00:00:15.656-08:00

While I get pissed off plenty by the news, I'm rarely organized enough to fire off a letter to the editor. Granted, letters to the editor are probably far more productive than rants on a rarely traveled, irregularly updated blog, but still, the timing needs to be right and I'm rarely in the right place at the right time to get something sent off to the appropriate recipient.I was especially

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"Ted Stevens, I wish I could quit you."I'm probably one of the last people in the blue states to finally catch up with Brokeback Mountain but I made it to a screening today.All in all, it's a very good movie. I'm already biased, because it's directed by Ang Lee and I love pretty much everything that he's ever done. And I can hardly believe that two twenty something actors (Heath Ledger and Jake

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Granted, this is a pretty small category. At any rate, I thought this was an interesting profile of a local bank president who's a bit off the beaten path.Most banks wouldn't hire a guy who looks like Charles Ainslie, so it's a good thing he owns one.Ainslie describes himself as a "longhaired hippie banker." He wears jeans and a T-shirt to work, plus a leather jacket if he's riding one of his

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A few years ago, folk singer/professional agitator Billy Bragg performed an acoustic set for the company I worked at. It was a strange match--even though I worked at a music company which programs audio entertainment for retail settings there was that whole concept of "corporate" and "retail" that completely freaked Billy out. I get the sense that he never quite figured out what he was doing

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The entire month of December has clearly been an impediment to frequent posting. I'd blame it on frantic Christmas shopping, but I haven't actually started that yet. At any rate, between work and a few personal endeavors, I don't imagine getting anything new posted between now and Christmas break. I actually made an attempt this afternoon to go see Brokeback Mountain so I could effectively

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I took Bailey to her favorite place in the world this weekend--the beach house on Puget Sound. She gets free reign there; access to the beach, a chance to sniff all the flowers and, on a holiday weekend with lots of people hanging around, the opportunity for multiple walks. Such was the case this weekend.She went for a walk before dinner on Thanksgiving Day. And then again for another short

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Hunter S. Thompson had possibly the best summary of George McGovern that anyone could possibly hope for. (Were they, indeed, hoping for such thing.) He wrote:"Of all the men who have run for President of the United States in the 20th century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race if we could have kept it out of the hands of greedy little hustlers

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Billy Joel called. He wants his crappy "We Didn't Start the Fire" song and music video back.Keith Olbermann drew attention to a hilarious new pro-war, pro-Bush song by a couple of right wing "musicians." I put that in quotes because as musicians, they totally suck. As propagandists, they're even worse. In fact, it is difficult to believe that this was even done as a serious endeavor and not,

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-1131411562486224142005-11-07T16:55:00.000-08:002005-11-07T16:59:22.496-08:00

A theater full of eager children waiting to see Disney's new Chicken Little film got an eyeful of something more than they bargained for:Adults and kids expecting to watch Disney's G-rated animated flick at the AMC Empire 25 theater on 42nd St. were instead presented with a foreign film that opened with a young man committing suicide."It's pandemonium," Joshua Gallo, 30, told the Daily News as he

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...this is where I'll be. Sigh.For all of those who are not lucky enough to have tickets, here is a nice excerpt of a recent interview in Rolling Stone.

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-1130857371496576832005-11-01T06:51:00.000-08:002005-11-01T07:02:51.520-08:00

Well, and Bailey. Seven years ago today I officially moved to Seattle. I arrived from the midwest with 5 things: my truck, my sleeping bag, my tent, my computer and my dog. Of those things, only the dog remains original. We've lived in 5 different locations in Seattle with 6 housemates of various dispositions. We've paid approximately $1,150 in "pet deposit" fees, none of which has ever been

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-1130530949405016822005-10-28T13:14:00.000-07:002005-10-29T10:51:36.080-07:00

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I realize that indictments have finally been handed down today. First time an administration figure has been indicted in 130 years or some such.I'm here to talk about me. Me, me, me.I finally managed to get a copy of this summer's 48 hour film festival entry encoded and uploaded to the web. (Though the encoding is a little wonky.) I worked with a couple of friends earlier

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-1130209640549946652005-10-24T20:05:00.000-07:002005-10-24T20:07:20.556-07:00

And remember....you do not try to fuck with the CIA.Ever.

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-1130165047821302562005-10-24T07:20:00.000-07:002005-10-24T07:50:24.346-07:00

Couldn't be happier than to read this news:Steve Martin's character in "The Jerk" is ecstatic to find his name in print - in the phone book. "Things are going to start happening to me now!" he says. Twenty-six years later, the actor and writer is receiving a more prestigious form of recognition.For his career achievements, Martin is being honored Sunday with one of the nation's top comedy awards

kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985726167720419300noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6148955.post-1129760822740089962005-10-19T15:19:00.000-07:002005-10-19T15:28:24.776-07:00

Flipping through the Seattle Times online this morning, I saw that the infamous Rolling Stone cover shot by photographer Annie Liebovitz of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, just hours before Lennon was killed, was rated the top magazine cover of the past 40 years. It was so instantly iconic and so fortuitously timed, it's hard to imagine another cover that could ever takes its place.That is, until I

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