“How did Matthew get the little brother role?”
We are family
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It’s a party!
“I don’t recall a sword in the Sound of Music”
Hurry up and turn the channel from that beat down administered by the Yankees to TCM. They’re showing Casablanca!
“Except for one lucky person who gets a bonus of $3000, or as I like to call it, ‘The Big Bonus’.”
Dear Baltimore Orioles,The season is winding down, and your annual fade to October, started in July, is in full effect. Please, win at least 7 games this last month is all I ask. That may be hard with who's coming to town, but if you win at least one game from the series, it's possible. Possible. Hope.Seven games will get you to sixty wins. Is this the bottom? And is the turn around coming? We'll see.Yours,
Exasperated
“I’ll have you know that a lot of intellectual people watch television. “
I listen to this song and it instantly takes me back to 1996. Sitting on the purple couch at my Moms, late night, after work, thinking about those girls. Smokes. Drinks. Girls. I totally trip out. It is 1996 again. And I was happy. I am smiling.
I always dug this video and song. What ever happened to this band?
“See that knob, the knob marked ‘Treble’? It was turned all the way down.”
Link of the Day [9.01.09]
Even the Yankee press knows we’ll get better. Either that or it’s just pity.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/sports/baseball/01orioles.html
“Dave, just because the man is fat is no reason to make fun of him.”
Something witty here to say, but I ain’t got nothing.
First things first: Sixth Annual NewsRadio Quote Month is on.
I just so love it. There are so many wonderful quotes. I must post more.
202.6
Last day of August. After eight months, lots of eating of food, beer, hot dogs, burgers, slacking of the bike riding, and just lazing about on the couch, it’s 202.6 lbs is what I weigh. Naked. First thing in the morning. That probably translates to 205 lbs during the day.
It must come down.
There are 122 days left in the year. I’m bringing it down. Target goal 185. ONE. EIGHT. FIVE.
The goal is to lose 20 lbs in 17.4 weeks, 0.16 lbs a day or 1.14 lbs a week.
Possible? Yes.
I just have to stick with it. Keep focused. Exercise. Eat lighter. Perhaps do the !! diet. Here we go.
VA Beach
VA Beach
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Better than work.
Quote of the Day [8.25.09]
“Baseball is 90% mental — the other half is physical.”
Yogi Berra
崖の上のポニョ
Ponyo or in the romanji, Gake no ue no Ponyo, is another of Hayao Miyazaki fantastic movies. He’s the last of the animators that still believes in hand drawn animation. It is difficult to find it being used as the medium in the US, but in Japan with its lively anime scene, hand drawn still seems to be a cherished medium. John Laseter agrees considering that it is his Disney that has been releasing the latest Studio Ghibli films, and he has a Disney hand drawn animated film coming out soon.
As for Ponyo, it isn’t as great as Miyazaki’s latest films. It isn’t as awe inspiring as Spirited Away, and it isn’t as cute as Totoro, yet, there is still some charm in it. And still some fantastic imagery.
The scene of Ponyo running on the waves. The joy in her face. The waves cresting and moving. Fun. Exciting. Something that hand drawn animation seems to get done very well. There is an organic quality to these scenes, and for me it illicits a feeling of fun.
As for the story, it was okay. Another of Miyazaki’s meditation of the human-nature conflict. And transformation of the human soul. And it hints at Yellow Submarine.
Still pretty good. I want to hear the original Japanese seiyu.
3 of 5 stars.