Monday, December 29, 2008

In a handbasket

Two comments today, one more controversial than the other...

1) So after my last post about the guy who called the cops about his stolen pot (yes, still legal in Alaska, especially in Fairbanks) I snooped on who was visiting. I do that a lot. I'm a little vain that way, but it is fun to see from where people are checking out the site. Soooo, first hit on the last post...Kingston, Jamaica. Yah mon. Let's work on that stereotype a little more.

2) At the gym today, CNN was hashing and rehashing the current economic crisis, and going on about how a number of retailers won't be with us in 6 months. Very likely true, but is this a bad thing? Perhaps this is the opportunity for our society to become a little less commercial and spend our hard earned money on important things like education, travel, or Heelys (oh yeah, I gots me a pair. Can't stand up on them worth a damn.). I really don't see a huge problem if Sally (or Duke, not to be sexist) can't get that new sweater from the Gap or Bombay Company goes out of business and I can't get that faux Egyptian mummy bookend set (mind you, our house is coordinated in ancient Egyptian style).

Un-American, you say. You know, this is actually how capitalism is supposed to work. Some companies succeed and some fail. I have to admit that I am speaking from something of a position of priviledge in a job that is very unlikely to go away (keep getting colds, folks), and I feel bad for the workers at these companies. But I don't mind the idea of that vast spread of Generica that makes every open air mall look like the next one in the next suburb might be going away a little.

See you later at the Olive Garden. Mmmmm, breadsticks.

PS-Pass the video of Jackson around. It already has 150 hits. I want it to go viral.

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Saturday, December 27, 2008

Robbers steal man's marijuana on Christmas

Thursday, December 25, 2008

Christmas Miracle!

Merry Christmas to you and yours. This might be the best gift ever...sort of.

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Monday, December 15, 2008

New, improved. Now with more Jesus

Jana and I just returned from an evening out at the theatre taking in the spectacle that is/was Jesus Christ Superstar featuring Ted Neely as Jesus Christ. Neither of us had seen this before although a working pop culture knowledge of the original Andrew Lloyd Webber musical and subsequent movie production featuring Ted Neely as Jesus Christ was well in hand. Plus, I had flipped past the movie version on TV a couple of times, and knew that I was in for a lot of bell bottoms and chicka boom booms. As an added plus, the original star, Ted Neely, was starring in the role of Jesus.

Now you might ask, if Jesus was in his early thirties when he died, and the star playing him was in his early thirties (or with theatrical license, maybe late twenties), and the year of release was 1973, thirty five years ago, this would make the star, Ted Neely, playing the part of Jesus, nearly 60 years old (Apparently 65 now per Wikipedia). A sixty five year old Jesus. Hmmm. That would make him old enough to collect social security and have a house in a not-too-distant suburb ripe for gentrification that the grandkids hate to visit because there is no Fuddruckers.

After 30 years of playing Jesus, more years than most of his cast members have been alive, you’ve got to wonder what it’s like working with him. Does Ted Neely have his own dressing room that his castmates tip toe around? “Shhh, don’t wake up Jesus, I mean Ted, he’ll turn your wine back into water, he gets really pissy on Tuesdays.” I’m sure he’s probably a great guy, and very forgiving (remember, he is Jesus) but 30 years of playing Christ Almighty has got to go to one’s head. Does Ted Neely always get the front seat on the tour bus? If he raises his hands, do the crowds part and allow him to be seated first at the Olive Garden?

Needless to say, I didn’t pay very much attention to the story (I’d heard it once or twice before, but without the gay Herod and the White-pimp-suited-zombie Judas), or the thought that a black man was (and has always been) cast as Judas, one of the most despised characters in Western JudeoChristian history, but the music was alright. Oh, and Ted Neely can still apparently scream like a rock star. A sixty five year old long haired Jesus-looking rock star.

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Thursday, December 11, 2008

This is My Family

We have been in Palm Springs for the past couple of weeks and relaxing it was not. Fun, yes. Warm, yes. Nice sun tan, yes. Relaxing, no. Have you met my children? I did realize that it has been some time since I posted new pictures here, and the twins turned one last week.