Parking sucks. I am amazed at how many times I see cars completely parked in in my neighborhood. Like, an inch of space both ahead of and behind a car.

The apex of my LA parking issues revolves around the Hummer (oddly, I saw one the other day that had a gazillion things strapped to it, and it looked almost useful. But I digress..) and the ultra-long'n'wide pickups with the bed-flap down. They bleed too far over in their parking spots, and/or you have to weave around them just to navigate the parking area.

IMDB says Hayden Church is playing Venom in Spidey 3.

Timelies everyone!

On Alias: Isn't it funny that Vaughn stumbled upon Elena (if that is who she is) while Jack and Arvin are searching high and low for her.

I've never actually seen the Theismann play. The descriptions were so bad that I always change the channel when someone says they're going to show it.

DX is wise. Saw it once; never need to again.

It's possible that he's out to get ya, but more likely he's just being extraordinarily self-involved and has his head up his ass.

My paranoid guess was that he reparked so that he could just pull forward into the space in front of the house next door without having to shovel out, or with minimal shovelling, which he couldn't do if I was in that space. Why he didn't park that way in the first place, I have no idea.

That is, if it is the guy next door, and not just some random idjit.

Gah. Upsetting. No more mousetraps.

Yikes. I mean, yay for the Beatrix Potter gentleness, but boo for having to demonstrate it. I am thinking the humane traps are your best bet. Although now thinking affectionately back to moments in history of my stepmother girding herself to catch a mouse in a bathroom once -- apron, boots, oven mitts, broom and paper bag. She looked like a hockey goalie, lacking only the mask.

Emmett! That face! Glad to see someone has already invoked Owen Wilson. By no stretch of the imagination should anyone say the name Tony Conigliaro to him.

I've never actually seen the Theismann play. The descriptions were so bad that I always change the channel when someone says they're going to show it.

I've seen lots of talk about it, but never seen it either. I don't think they actually show it any more, only still photos of afterwards. (I did watch part of an NFL game where a man broke his neck, and was being breathed for on the field, and the commentators in their booth were carefully not explaining that as they hastily cut to commercial. He ended up OK later.)

Anyone else seen the AARP commercial criticizing Dubya's Social Security plan where the woman has a clogged sink and they demolish her whole house?

I saw that! Halfway through I was like, Oh, this is political! Clever.

(Is the Theismann play the broken-leg one? 'Cause, ugh.)

Timelies. Poor Emmett! May his ENT be as kick-ass as mine.

Yes. Basically, if you depend on your legs for your job, don't let Laurence Taylor sit down on your lap. That goes double if he leaps into your lap at 30 mph. IIRC, it was a compound fracture, too.

Anyone familiar with Michelle Delio? She's a freelance writer - if you google her you'll see tons of articles she's written.

From Wired:

A Note to Readers
In light of TechnologyReview.com's recent retraction of two stories by freelance writer Michelle Delio, we are reviewing articles written by her for Wired News. We have assigned Adam Penenberg, a journalism professor at New York University who writes a media column for Wired News, to conduct the review.

From technologyreview.com:

Technology Review, Inc. cannot vouch for the accuracy of "Carly's Way," by Michelle Delio, published online on March 4, 2005. Nor can we stand by "Carly's Gone. HP Celebrates," also by Delio, published online on February 10, 2005. We regret publishing the stories.

Details on the retraction: [link]

The “Carly’s Way” story was an “as told to” from the perspective of a former engineer and was billed this way: “A former Hewlett-Packard engineer tells his version of how Carly Fiorina, HP's ousted CEO, wrecked the company's greatest asset: its labs.”

Hmmm... this stuff fascinates me.

Is the Theismann play the broken-leg one?

Yuppers.

Or what Nutty said.

Is the Theismann play the broken-leg one? 'Cause, ugh

Yep and yep.