Tell Them You're From Detroit

Sunny Detroit disposition...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycUpITiEkj0


The reality now...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hhJ_49leBw

Living out west, it's difficult to describe that not all of the Detroit area looks like a cut scene from the future in Terminator. Detroit looks like an apocalypse according to the national media.

And one of the funniest local commercials from when I was a kid...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKQcZYTZVmI

Films for next year

http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/clash-of-the-titans/feature-trailer

My close and personal friends and acquaintances know I'm kind of a Greek mythology buff (I had them all memorized by the time I was in the 3rd grade. Thanks grandma for giving me that Edith Hamilton book.) This has possibilities. I see harpies, giant scorpions and maybe a cyclops or two. Medusa looks true to the original. For some reason Hollywood likes to portray Hades as a bad guy when really he stayed down in his crib underground and jealously guarded the riches of his realm - the souls of the dead and the precious metals hidden in the ground. Looks like they went PC with Andromeda too. Instead of just a hot chick chained to the side of a cliff waiting for a sea monster to suck the marrow out of her bones, they've made her an action hero kicking butt with Sam Worthington's Perseus. Looks kick ass.

http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/12/17/must-watch-first-official-trailer-for-jon-favreaus-iron-man-2/

Looks bad ass. I'm also a comic book extraordinaire, though I haven't really read in a couple of years because they started getting real political. When anti-Bush messages start creeping into Spiderman and they kill off Capt America because they don't know what to do with him and bring Bucky back as some sort of sleeper agent then something is wrong. You read comics for an escape not to hear the writer's personal political beliefs. I'm going to write a whole series of comics exposing how naive and destructive leftists are. That'll go over well. /s

Anyhow. Mickey Rourke looks like a mix between Whiplash and the Crimson Dynamo. I say this because Whiplash is an Italian/American dude but Rourke looks Russian so there's the Crimson Dynamo angle. Scarlett Johannsen looks delicious as the Black Widow and it looks like they are bringing in War Machine.

Joke of the Day

George Bush, Queen Elizabeth, and Vladimir Putin all died and went to to The hereafter.

While Waiting at the way station that led to heaven or hell, they saw a red phone and asked what it was for. The devil told them it was for calling back to Earth. Putin asked to call Russia and talked for 5 minutes. When he was finished the devil informed him that the cost was a million dollars, so Putin wrote him a check.

Next Queen Elizabeth calls England and talks for thirty minutes. When she was finished the devil informed her that cost was six million dollars. Queen Elizabeth wrote him a check.

Finally George Bush got his turn and talked for four solid hours. When he was finished the devil informed him that there would be no charge for the call and for him to feel free to call the USA anytime.

When Putin and the Queen heard this they went ballistic and demanded to know why Bush got to call the USA for free when they had to pay to call home.

The devil replied, “Since Obama became president of the USA the country has gone to hell, so it’s a local call.”

Nights in White Satin

I always like the poem that ended the song.

"Breath deep the gathering gloom, watch lights fade from every room
Bedsitter people look back and lament, another day's useless energy spent
Impassioned lovers wrestle as one, lonely man cries for love and has none
New mother picks up and suckles her son, senior citizens wish they were young
Cold hearted orb that rules the night, removes the colours from our sight
Red is gray and yellow white, but we decide which is right and which is an illusion."
-The Moody Blues

Hark the Herald Angel Sings!

It's a boy! "Curtis William" born at 4:51 am on Thursday, September 24, 2009. We're going to call him "Will". He weighed 6 lbs 1 1/2 oz and was about 19 inches long. He stayed in 9 weeks longer than my daughter who was born at 26 weeks.

Mom and baby are doing fine and both came home today.

GO WINGS!!!

Game 2 tonight. As part of the Michigan diaspora, I'll be lounging on my couch watching the game instead of at a bar in the land of peninsulas nursing an Oberon. Nonetheless GO WINGS!!!!

Sea Lions in Yaquina Bay, Newport, OR

Foxes