Happy Blog-o-versary To Me

Wow. It's been a whole year. I wrote my first blog entry exactly 1 year ago today. Neat.

It's funny -- I completely forgot this sorta-kinda event was coming up until I read ESC's blog earlier and she noted that it was her blog-o-versary as well. No big observations to throw out as a result of the day, really. More just pleased that I've stuck with it for an entire year.

It was a terrific Saturday -- breakfast out with the kids, afternoon lounging around the house, a couple of hours over at Ray and Gina's for their annual crawfish boil (it was terrific -- wish we had stayed longer, but we had evening plans back at home which actually wound up getting cancelled after the fact...), then we stopped or some unbelieveably good gelato, ran back to Ray's to grab my wife's forgotten purse (sigh...) and now the kids are down and we're just sort of lounging around.

But yeah, a year of blogging. I feel like I should reflect on the past year. I don't really feel compelled to, though. I mean, I really loath self-important blogging. I use my blog as a means to sort things out, mostly, or just to connect with other people I know or am getting to know or don't know but would like to. But I try to avoid using it as a soapbox, and I don't really think of this collection of thoughts as "important," at least not to anyone else but me. I try to keep it entertaining, at least.

But yeah, for me it's been important. I'm writing again, for one thing, which is a big deal for me. And while the past year has had a few too many challenging moments for comfort this blog has provided some opportunities to sort things through in a way that has really helped.

Anyway, happy blog-o-versary to me, and I hope I've not bored you all terribly. Stick around -- I've got a feeling that some big stuff is coming, and I might actually be writing happy stuff for a change!

Mood: Chillin'
Now Playing: "Love, Actually"

I'M TOTALLY GEEKING OUT!

OK, so have y'all heard about the new Joss Whedon movie, Serenity? The one based on the most excellent, dearly departed, unfairly cancelled, and sorely missed TV show Firefly?

OK, l LOVED Firefly. Great show, bought the box set, watched it a bunch of times, spent lots of otherwise useful time feeling angry and betrayed as once again a terrific show went bye-bye WAY too soon, etc. I was thrilled to hear it was being made into a movie. The trailer was just released yesterday and it looks AMAZING. But the darn thing isn't being released into theaters until September 30th. What to do, what to do?

Well, turns out they're doing some very early screenings. In 10 cities, one time only, next Thursday at 10:00, and Austin is one of the lucky locales, AND I'VE GOT TWO TICKETS AND I'M GOING! YEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!

Ahem.

I'm a little excited.

Mood: Ecstatic
Now Playing: Nada.

Danger! Danger!

OK, so. This. This is ... oh, damn ... I can't even ... jeez. It's so evil, so maddening. My god, the song ... the song.... I feel like that dude in Lovecraft's "The Rats in the Walls." "The song... the song in my ears...

We Stand As One

It's like every single hackneyed and cliche post-9/11 image compiled and distilled down into 3 minutes of pure, unadulterated banality. I'm sorry. I'm so very sorry. But I have a feeling that it's like that video in The Ring, and if I don't pass it on it'll do something terrible. Like make me vote Republican. Force me to buy Thomas Kincaid prints. Listen to Toby Keith albums.

Or worse.

When you've managed to watch it, and need a cure for the pain, check out the antidote here.

Mood: Disgusted, amused
Now Playing: Fantomas, "The Director's Cut"