dinsdag 7 december 2010

dinsdag 7 december 2010 Up at 3:48. Turn on France 24. Top story - Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange Arrested In London.

Hash browns and a scrambled egg for breakfast. Turn on Stephanie Miller. Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) calls in to talk with Steph about the compromise over the Bush era tax cuts. She had a fight with her Republican family about it. Play with Esteticmen. Walk down to Homestreet to deposit my Xmas check. Drop off Comcast bill. Walk up to 9th and Westlake and catch the streetcar the rest of the way to work. I'm glad that it's not raining. Get feedback on tryout Sarah. Lots of positive comments. Breaks for Kathy and Toni. I hang out with the Sea Otters and Dolphins. I take the six Dolphins out on the deck. They run around with their cars and school buses. They get mad when we go back inside. They calm down when I read books. I set up their lunches. Over to Sea Otters to help with naps and their lunch mess. I try to fill out my survey. An early-riser enjoys sitting in my lap and reading a National Geographic issue about Mars. Back to Dolphins. A couple kids are awake. I take them to the lobby for a little while. They play with a giant Mr. Potato Head. Then we go outside for a while. Nice easy-going day. Turn on The World when I leave work.I enjoy the somewhat rude song abut Sarkozy vs Roma.

Catch a #8 up to Capitol Hill. Walk from Cal Anderson Park to my place. It starts raining. Stay inside and watch KOMO News. Here's an interesting story. WSU Fan Makes Good On His Bet To Walk 14 Miles To Work.

Watch episode of Star Trek Enterprise - Fallen Hero. No! Do not give V'lar to the Mazarites! Burrito for dinner. Watch movie - Leather Jacket Love Story.

maandag 6 december 2010

maandag 6 december 2010 Up at 2:46. Turn on France 24. It's their top story... 10 years after the disaster - Court Finds Continental Airlines Responsible For Concorde Crash. Sort of doze off into a light sleep after the weather report. Up before alarm. Rice, turkey sausage and a fried egg for breakfast. Turn on Stephanie Miller. She chats with the Rude Pundit about his post - This Ain't Rocket Science: Republicans want billionaires to be richer. And there are 6 other rude points. PROUDLY LOWERING THE LEVEL OF POLITICAL DISCOURSE That's my Rude! Steph brings up Frank Rich's article - All The President's Captors. Shower. Up to Kaladi for some of Luka's lavish coffee. Walk through First Hill back to my place. Where's the light of daybreak? Play with FM Forums. Down to the bank for a transaction. Walk up to Whole Foods for my second breakfast. Streetcar to work. How disappointing. The playground in un-usable. $80,000 down the drain. It's a (esthetically pleasing-looking) waste of real estate. all that work for nothing. Do breaks for the Rainforest Kids. We're just hanging out singing songs, water play and diapers. 11 - Charmaine's break. The 7 Seahorses are running on the deck. Someone is desperate for a bike. Be patient. 45-minute lunch breaks today. 12 - Cristin's lunch. Wow! The Starfish are done with lunch so early. Early naps. 12:45 to 1:30 - Kenn's lunch. The 5 Sea Otters fall to sleep. 1:30 to 2 - Tanja's lunch. Kenn and I talk about movies like Paycheck with Ben Affleck and Skyline with Eric Balfour. Compare and contrast. We discuss the popular culture. Kenn is a marvelous resource... a font of information. 2 - Lynette's lunch. Some Starfish wake up early. Jessica takes them out to the lobby for a little while. Leave work with pleasure. Walk d'town. Drop off my stuff. Check e-mail. Short walk around First Hill. It's so dark at this hour. The traffic spokes me. Commuters are leaving work. So they see me crossing the street? Back at my place. Play podcast of Weekday. Interesting interview with Gender Activist Kate Bornstein. Very interesting points of view... including the Postmodern Theory... the involvement of the roles of language, power relations, and motivations in the constantly evolving world of gender. The potent question is - What gender are you? Kate Bornstein talks about Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation.

Kate dares to go where others would not venture. Trailblazing stuff. After that, MSNBC seems very, very bland. Green bean salad and some burrito for dinner. Watch movie - 2012.

zondag 5 december 2010

zondag 5 december 2010 Up at 2:16. Turn on France 24. They do an expose on Christians living in Baghdad and the violence they face. France is helping the victims of a recent Bombing At A Baghdad Cathedral. Catch up with Friday's Rachel Maddow. Rachel elicits the help of her executive producer Bill Wolff in assessing what it'll take to rally Congressional Democrats to stand up to confrontational Republicans. Bill gets fired up with fight songs. He doesn't have any connection with The Ohio State University, but he raves about Script Ohio by the Buckeyes.

Turn on KEXP to hear about the Apollo Alliance. They interview the author of the Death Of The Liberal Class. Also, the author - Chalmers Johnson - talks about his book Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic. Check out Amy Goodman's Memorial To Chalmers Johnson. I didn't know that he recently past away. Two fried eggs on toast for breakfast. Shower. I stumble upon Jared Leto's music video - Thirty Seconds To Mars. There's some buzz about this on the net. It's “a surrealistic nightmare dream-fantasy” as Jared himself puts it.

Walk up to Madison and Boren to catch a #60 to Beacon Hill. The bus stops and goes because the driver is ahead of schedule. I visit the Holiday Bizarre at St. George School. It's rather busy and festive with decorations and music, but I meander through the bizarre for just a few minutes. I walk all the way up to the Beacon Hill Station... almost 2 miles.

Train to Uwajimaya. Get some Hakusturu sake and some egg rolls. Nice warm sake. It's still rather chilly. Listen to A Prairie Home Companion. The mayor of New York - Mike Bloomberg - bumps into Lefty and Rusty. Walk around d'town to do some more window shopping. To AMC to watch Skyline.

Strange lights descend on the city of Los Angeles, drawing people outside like moths to a flame where an extraterrestrial force threatens to swallow the entire human population off the face of the Earth. This is Eric Balfour's Best Movie Ever! The best scene is when his character - Jarrod - tries to beat the crap out of an alien with his bare fists.

I call Michael when I get home and tell him about the movie... all the gruesome, horrible, violent, scary details. I need to watch some normal Sci-Fi. Watch Star Trek - Enterprise: Acquisition. Oh, Charles Tucker The Third! "Just because a guy's in his underwear you think the worst."

- Trip, to T'Pol, when he sees she's startled by his lack of clothing


Very funny episode. Chicken, veggies and rice for dinner. Watch movie - Caprica. This is the prequel to the greatest television science fiction saga of this generation - Battlestar Galactica. We come into contact with the pre-genocide human society of the twelve worlds.

zaterdag 4 december 2010

zaterdag 4 december 2010 Post #666! Up at 2:20. Play movie - Young Frankenstein. There are so many extremely funny scenes, but I love Dr. Frederick Frankenstein's nacht mare. Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: [dreaming] I am not a Frankenstein! I'm a Fronkensteen! Don't give me that. I don't believe in fate. And I won't say it. [pauses] All right, you win. You win. I give. I'll say it. I'll say it. I'll say it. DESTINY! DESTINY! NO ESCAPING THAT FOR ME! DESTINY! DESTINY! NO ESCAPING THAT FOR ME!

I fall back to sleep in the middle of the movie. Up again at 7:55. Turn on KEXP to listen to Fair and Eat The State.

Tandoori chicken and couscous for breakfast. Shower. It's getting bright outside. Clear blue skies. But it's only 37° Walk around Capitol Hill. Down to the library to browse through the travel books. Back at my place. Turn on KBCS to listen to The Hawaiian Radio Connection. That warms me up. I hear Punahoa Slack by Ledward Kaapana.


I guess that Ledward Kaapana got a Grammy nomination. Switch to Rick Steves' program. He chats with author Bill Bryson about his book At Home: A Short History Of Private Life. They discuss the concepts of comfort and privacy. Rick goes on to life in ancient Greece. When I hear "Diogenes lived in a bath tub" I stop and research this philosopher guy who actually met Alexander The Great. Diogenes of Sinope... whose attitude was grounded in a great disdain of folly, pretense, vanity, self-deception and the artificiality of much human conduct. He was one of the founders of Cynic philosophy. Here is Diogenes living in a bath tub.

Rice and turkey sausage for dinner. Watch movie - The Last Starfighter. Trivia: The alien script seen on the computer screens in the movie is actually Hebrew with some variations.

vrijdag 3 december 2010

hair vrijdag 3 december 2010 Up at 5:30. A fried egg on top of toast for breakfast. Turn on Stephanie Miller. Arthur Rankin of Rankin/Bass talks with Steph about the 45th year of “Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer" Yay!
They talk about the sad news that the unemployment rate rose to 9.8%. Well, we know the drill. POMPOUS POLITICIAN: Unemployment benefits shouldn't go on this long, we need to end this freeloading. DEMOCRATIC VOTER: Well, I guess you should of thought of that before you passed a $700 BILLION TAX CUT FOR THE RICH, huh! POMPOUS POLITICIAN: All the other countries get to cut social programs.... DEMOCRATIC VOTER: I might have been willing to talk about it before you abused my trust and passed a $700 BILLION TAX CUT FOR THE RICH. Now you'll have to work to regain my trust. Up to Kaladi for some coffee. I hang out in the shop for a couple minutes. Back to my place to shower and shave. Up to Rudy's for a buzz cut. Shop at Value Village to get a couple pairs of jeans. Get a bottle of Frïs Vodka (only $9.95). What a bargoon!
Drop off stuff at my place. Walk down to Westlake Station. A train comes right away. Ride to Beacon Hill. Shop at the Red Apple. The clerks are very friendly. I love Beacon Hill. It's so diverse.
Wait a few minutes for a train to d'town. Drop off groceries at my place. Up to Whole Foods for salad bar and Stilton cheese. Turn on Tavis Smiley. Also, listen to The World. A report from gay Rio de Janeiro - Breakthrough Pill Could Help Prevent HIV.
A study conducted in six countries, including Brazil — found that a drug currently used to treat HIV can help prevent HIV in men who have sex with men. The drug goes by the brand name Truvada. Men in the study who took Truvada daily saw more than a 90-percent reduction in their risk of catching the virus. Watch movie - The Astronaut's Wife. Rice and Tandoori chicken for dinner.

donderdag 2 december 2010

donderdag 2 december 2010 Up at 12:34. Play movie - Push... a 2009 American science fiction thriller starring Chris Evans and Dakota Fanning. "One Push Can Change Everything"

Back to sleep after the movie. Up again at 7:05. Turn on Stephanie Miller. They talk a little about the charges against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. There’s a bunch of documents about the banking industry coming, things are heating up. And Boehner Wants To Close Down A Smithsonian Exhibit because ants are crawling on the cross of Jesus. The artist's intention was to depict the suffering of an AIDS victim. You, morons! Hash browns and a Havarti cheese omelet for breakfast. #10 bus to Capitol Hill. Walk around the neighborhood. D'town. Do a little window shopping. Visit the bookstores. I find a The iPad For Dummies.

Visit the Pike Place Market. It's busy today with shoppers. Up into the Westlake Center food court. I'm not hungry. Back to my place. Play movie on the YouTubes - Don Juan Demarco.

I love Johnny Depp as Don Juan... funny, smart, sexy, romantic and imaginative. I hope for the best when Johnny meets the judge at the end of the movie. "He's just a kid." But it's the little twist here... The patient cures the doctor. The doctor (Marlon Brando) makes a comment - in his character - The Momentum To Mediocrity. Is it true? We - as a society - are not striving for anything any more? To improve ourselves? Things happen, man. Yet, I'm intersted in Don Juan's origin - Sevilla. Play Rick Steve's Sevilla And Andalusia. Watch MSNBC.

woensdag 1 december 2010

woensdag 1 december 2010

A giant red ribbon hangs on the White House for observance of World AIDS Day.

Up at 5:30. Finish off my big burrito for breakfast. Five meals out of one burrito - $6.31. What a deal. Turn on Stephanie Miller. Hal Sparks is streaming the show.

What does it say on your t-shirt, Hal?

I like your Suicide Girls belt buckle. Steph and Hal must have watched The Rachel Maddow Show last night. They refer to some of her points... Rachel Maddow compares the radically different perspectives of President Obama and Congressional Republicans to the Twilight Zone classic "To Serve Man." Aliens land on earth. Eeeeeeek! The aliens say, "Just trust us." Report - Rachel Maddow: Obama, GOP: Same Meeting, Different Planets.

To Serve Man - full episode

Shower. Walk down to Mae Phim to get some Panang Beef. The cute kid in the kitchen delivers my lunch personally and gives me a heart-warming smile. That makes my day! Bus tunnel to Uwajimaya to get some Ozeki and Orangina. Train to d'town. Turn on KUOW. The Conversation is about the Experiences Of Cambodia Refugees In Seattle. Seattle area is home to one of the largest Cambodian communities in the US. Then BBC News reports Extreme World - Hot And Cold. Dallol, Ethiopia is the hottest place in the world. Look at this place.

Yakutsk is the coldest city in the world. Watch a little Hardball then Star Trek DS-9 episodes. To The Death and The Quickening.