they are protesting outside the Eye Institute entrance

That reminds me - when The Last Temptation of Christ was out, some Christian group was protesting... in front of a theater playing Tucker.

Maybe someone from the Eye Institute should offer to give them new glasses so they'll go away and find the right building?

I love that Neil Degrasse Tyson is using the term "snowpocalypse": [link]

Sad about Corey.

I am watching Parenthood and liking it moderately so far, but mostly because I have residual affection for Peter Krause from DSM, even though by the end of that I thought every character was reprehensible, because that was probably the point.

Wary about a couple of the storylines, especially the asperger's diagnosis and the biracial kid popping up in the youngest son's life, but overall finding the dynamic interesting.

There was some other show I was going to start watching post-Olympics but it's beyond me now what it was, since I am no longer watching 18 hours of coverage a day.

Speaking of protests, we were in Topeka (you can guess where this is heading can't you?) this last weekend to drop off Emaryn with my parents to go see a horse show and stay the night.

Anyhow as we're driving along, we see a bunch of Westboro Baptist Church people picketing. I think they were just picketing on the corner, because they were in front of an oil-change shop. Not that it matters with them.

A few moments later Emaryn asks, very confused, why they think God hates flags.

Don't really want to watch Parenthood, but my Lauren Graham crush is strong. We'll see if it wins out in the end.

Sad about the Corey, though I loathed him back in the day. Kiefer was my One True Lost Boys crush, followed by Jason Patric.

Wary about a couple of the storylines,

Liese, the second of the storylines is drawn right from the original film with the apparent difference being that in this case, the father takes responsibility, rather than bailing and leaving his grandparents to raise the child. Beyond that, the child's race was never made a big deal of in the film.

However, haven't watched the show yet-- it's sitting on the Tivo, waiting for me.

7 Year Old Hero Calls 911 During Armed Robbery (VIDEO, AUDIO)

A 7 year old boy may well have saved his family's life through his quick thinking and bravery.

Three armed assailants broke into the boys Norwalk home at around 8:30am, at which point the boy hid in a locked bathroom with his six year old sister and made the call to 911.

The LA Times excerpts the boy's call:

"There's some guy who's going to kill my mom and dad," he told the emergency dispatcher. "Can you come, please? "Bring cops . . . a lot of them! . . . And soldiers too," the boy said. He told the dispatcher that he thought his parents had been shot.

You can hear the boys screams as the men discover him in the bathroom, but upon discovering his 911 call they fled the scene without taking anything.

I haven't actually listened to the tape....

Yeah, it occurs to me I don't have any memory of the original, although I must have seen it at some point. And as per the point in question, it hasn't been made a big deal of in the show, either, so perhaps it will play out okay.

A few moments later Emaryn asks, very confused, why they think God hates flags.

Hahahah! They're flappy and divisive, I suppose. Ooh, and maybe God doesn't like the bit about them not touching the ground. Yeah, I got nothing. That's too funny.

Seemingly there's now a question as to whether the Westboro people's first amendment rights include disrupting funerals and such. A man whose son was a soldier sued them for disrupting the funeral and was awarded, I think, some $5 million.