Next Food Network Star:

WOOOOOOO HOOOOOOO!!!!! Go Guy!

Freaky! Some time ago my vcr turned on by itself and started rewinding an old tape that was in there while I was watching The Ring on dvd.

I ejected the tape and threw it away. You know, just in case.

I suspect in your shoes I would have evicted the television set like the Freelings at the end of Poltergeist for good measure.

Huh. Kinda' sad:

LONG BEACH, Calif. - The last Boeing 717 has left the factory.

The slender airliner, trailed by dozens of the workers who built it, was rolled out before dawn last week and towed across a boulevard to Long Beach Airport.

Its delivery to AirTran Airways next month will mark the end of seven decades of commercial airplane production in Southern California.

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Is this a big deal in the LA area?

Is this a big deal in the LA area?

Hasn't percolated to where I sit. But I don't pay the most attention.

Paintball was good. It was a fun group of people (15 people, mostly instructors, plus friends) and everything was very light and relaxed. A lot of the people there were taking things very seriously, especially the kids. It verged on the creepy.

I have three welts, one on my ungloved hands, one thigh, one knee. None of them hurt more than krav, and the bruises will barely be noticed among my other ones.

The main problem is that the place was not only way far away, but in the same neck of the woods as my workplace. Hate driving near work on a weekend.

My migraines are kinda daily again. Am not impressed.

Have we talked about Lestat (the musical)?

"Lestat" has gotten some of the worst press in recent memory, including universally awful reviews during a January tryout in San Francisco. Elton John's songs were called "unrelentingly saccharine," "banal" and "virtually undistinguishable," and the show's book cursory and jumbled. While audiences familiar with Ms. Rice's work were most likely prepared for the fact that the story contains no heterosexual love angle, critics complained that even the homoerotic tension had been neutered, leaving little oomph of any kind.

"...even the homoerotic tension had been neutered"? OK, they just lost me as a potential ticket buyer....

But wait - they changed things!

Since moving the operation to New York in February, Mr. Maday and the creative team have engaged in a thorough overhaul.... The passionate undertones of Ms. Rice's novels have been restored, some sly humor added....

But did they add the gay stuff back in?

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Watching the GA recap.

George still makes me cry when he gets Bailey to push. *sniff*

Best. West. Wing. EVAH.

so far as shippyness goes JOSH N SAM4EVAHJHHHHHH!!!!!

WW: My sister thinks you're very attractive.

She doesn't have a sister

so. fuh. nee.

tommyrot, I imagine that would be big news in some communities. Aerospace is the "other" industry down there. From what the article says, it seems the good blue collar jobs have dried up and that the white collar folks are still employed. Which sucks because good blue collar jobs are hard to find in the US at all anymore. Let's hope the white collar stuff doesn't start to get exported as well.

Despite my dread, the gig was actually a raging success tonight. Of course the concept kinda sells itself. Thank god. I only flubbed one chord. Although being unsure of what I was playing made it a little harder for me to connect with the audience. Just too worried about what notes I was playing.

One of the players works at Chabot Space Center so she wants us to play the whole thing (a bunch of ukulele players playing "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars") there on May 26th. The crowd really went wild tonight.

Fun stories about the posessed electronics! My stereo turns itself on every night at midnight, but I think that's because the cats managed to program it. I haven't yet figured out how to unprogram it.

How is it daylight already? I just got home from work a couple of hours ago!