June 2008

"Weekend," by Dutch group Earth & Fire, from 1979. Deeply awful video
I have all sorts of things to watch for work, but this turned into a weekend for other activities. The bride and I swam into the muck of competing cell-phone plans, since we're coming to the end of our current deal. How many minutes, [...]

Tonight I saw "Hancock," which was both different and better than I expected. More about that later.
If you haven't seen my review of "WALL-E," which was posted online earlier today, you can find it here. I wasn't all that hot about "Ratatouille," so "WALL-E" was a pleasant surprise.
When writing about "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" [...]

Full release after the jump. (Memo to Bravo: Snow is co-captain, not captain of the Cavaliers.) ..

– If you've seen one of the ads for the Lifetime movie "The Tenth Circle," you may think it got pretty good reviews. After all, there are these big quotes calling it "fascinating," "powerful" and other things. But there's a catch. The voiceover for the ad notes that it's based on "the book critics call…" [...]

Here's the official announcement from NBC today:
Beginning on Sunday, June 29, NBC News' Tom Brokaw will serve as moderator of "Meet the Press" through the 2008 presidential election. The broadcast will continue to originate from the NBC News Bureau in Washington D.C. The announcement was made today by NBC News President Steve Capus.
"A lot [...]

It's not Christmas in June.
For all of my adult life, a visit to the Outer Banks included the Christmas Shop in Manteo. …

(USGA photo)
See that picture above? That's not the way you saw Rocky and Creed after their first fight, or the Bears and Yankees at the end of the first "Bad News Bears." …

Today the bride and I saw a trio of dolphins, a horseshoe crab the size of a Buick, more gnats than should be allowed in one place, a young rabbit, sundry seagulls and tiny sand crabs. We worried about a smoke warning and soaked up sun, ate fine hush puppies (with chicken and crabcakes) and [...]

Scrambling some this morning. Spent last evening at a screening of "Get Smart" (which, among big-screen adaptations of TV shows, I would put well ahead of the new "Incredible Hulk"). Had some music on my mind, including "I Had a Talk With My Man Last Night" by Mitty Collier.

I love the song (which was [...]