published by Jonathan on Wed, 04/18/2007 - 21:27
It's been nice to be able to catch up on Jericho by watching the episodes online. I missed the first episode and thought the second one was dull when I watched it...and so canceled the season pass. I kept hearing that other folks really liked it, so I gave it another try. I still thought the first few episodes were boring but the latter ones have been much stronger.
published by Jonathan on Mon, 04/16/2007 - 21:18
Today was my fourth straight day of feeling miserable...fever, headache, stomachache, coughing, sneezing, runny nose, sore throat, etc. Lisa and Finn have been sick too. Tonight I'm finally feeling a little better. Elliot has been the only one unscathed so far. I took Elliot to baseball practice tonight while Lisa took Finn to urgent care. Ears, lungs, etc. checked out fine. Probably just a virus.
published by Jonathan on Thu, 04/12/2007 - 21:55
That's the title of a letter to the editor from today's edition of our local paper. It's by Ted Killinger. You can read it here: link. He explains how people like me are opposed to the war in Iraq because we find it inconvenient. He also tells me how I'm physically, intellectually and morally inferior to our troops. I'm also, apparently, lily-livered, a sissy, and a chicken. Read it for yourself.
published by Jonathan on Thu, 04/12/2007 - 21:35
Kurt Vonnegut passed away yesterday. I spent the summer of 1993 at the University of Central Florida. One of my roommates was Rob Wessel, a student from the University of North Carolina who claimed that his middle name was Elvis and never told me what his Bazooka Joe joke was. He loaned me Vonnegut's Hocus Pocus to read, and I enjoyed it. It was different from anything else I'd read before...more stream of consciousness...more creative punctuation (at least that's what I remember about it). Over the next few years I read the rest of his books as he became one of my favorite authors. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater was probably his novel that I enjoyed most. Wessel also loaned me Sam Shepard's Seven Plays which I also really dug.
published by Jonathan on Wed, 04/11/2007 - 19:58
Last weekend, on the occasion of the purchase of a new TV and surround sound system, we watched Star Wars as a family. Only very, very rarely do the boys get to watch a PG movie (Incredibles, Ants, maybe one or two others). Even many of the G movies are out of bounds in our household with violence or excessive negativity. Obviously, we decided to make an exception last weekend. It was funny how much of the story they already knew from miscellaneous kids books. Also, Elliot was very interested in categorizing each character as good or bad...as he has always wanted to do with my old Star Wars action figures that they play with. I remember going to see Star Wars in the theater. I was 5. When my mom asked me if I wanted to go, I remember that it was kind of a shock that going to the movie theater to see a movie like Star Wars was something I could do. I also remember that we had recently been to the beach, and my back was pealing.
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