May 25, 2007

-- Any plans for the long weekend? We have a few, but nothing overly ambitious. 

I guess we’re going to take the younglings to the new Pirates movie (three hours?!), and I think Toney and I are supposed to take one kid each to lunch on Saturday. That’s something we do every once in a while, so the Secrets can have some alone-time with us away from their brothers. I think it’s a valuable exercise.

And there’s a block party on Saturday night, which was an unexpected blast last year. So we’re going again. Last time the kids all played together while the adults got drunk, and a man eventually started playing blues harmonica. It was crazy, and I'm a big fan of crazy.

What about you? Any plans?

-- Our dog Andy is back in the saddle. He remained distant and detached yesterday, and barely even yelled at the mailman. But at 3 am last night he let loose and went on a wild barking jag that woke up the entire house. It almost brought a tear to my eye. 

Today he’s his old self again, and rode shotgun while I took the youngest Secret to school (dog is my co-pilot). Buck sent me another newspaper clipping this morning, and I’m starting to suspect these might be fakes. I have no recollection of dying, none whatsoever.

-- Speaking of Buck, here’s a voicemail he left on my cell phone the day after I lost my job. Yes, it’s important to have a strong support network…

-- I recently finished off complete seasons of three TV shows (24, Veronica Mars, Homicide) and am now filling in with a few movies, before cranking up three more series. 

Last night I watched The Queen, and it was pretty good, I guess. I’ve got Bourne Identity and Bourne Supremacy in the chamber as well, and might ingest a couple more.

Then it’ll be time for The Wire season one, The Shield season one, and Rescue Me season two.

Netflix is all about the TV shows for me. Is that unusual?  When I joined their comfy little cult I thought I’d be renting movie after movie, but find that I actually enjoy TV shows more.

Will somebody please hold me?

-- One last question about the Surf Report t-shirts, before I finally man-up and place an order for the things. Which color combination do y’all prefer, olive & tan or gray & black? Let me know, and I’ll put this thing to rest. It seems like I’ve been hemming for months now, and hawing even longer.

-- This is a good article about those Doc Martens ads I have linked on the homepage. Are the ads tasteless, or kinda cool? You can probably guess my opinion.

-- And finally, here’s yet another Smoking Fish sighting, this time in Hawaii. Our logo, man, he gets around. Thanks for the pic, Tim! 

Hey, you know what would be great? If we could somehow feature a map of the country here, and when you click on each state a Fish picture opens from that state. It could be a fun project to fill in the entire U.S., and would be really cool once finished.

So, let’s work on that, ‘kay?

You guys have yourselves a great holiday weekend, and check the site on Monday for a possible Sunshine & Mumbles update. I’m not promising anything, but I’ll do what I can.

And now it's almost time for me to abandon the subterranean babyshit-green bunker, and move to my afternoon office at Panera Bread. 

Laugh all you want, but I'm getting stuff done since my new office came online; I'm a freakin' word processor now that I've fully surrendered to pretentious bastardism. Yesterday I spent at least an hour instant messaging with Metten and Mark Maynard there, and still managed to crank off an amazing amount of bad writing. It's a beautiful thing.

See ya next time.



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