How Sauron first thought up his "one ring to rule them all" plan

Dr Katz

David Duchovny locks himself in the closet.


Dave Chappelle: "Who would wanna be Aquaman?


Of course my fave ever was Mitch Hedberg: "If you are flammable and have legs you are never blocking a fire exit." "Yeah but what happened to the Dufresnes? Nobody seems to care!"
http://www.spikedhumor.com/articles/29876/Mitch-Hedberg-on-Dr-Katz-Video.html

The next charity single - K'naan's "Wavin' Flag"

Well, obviously I lurv K'naan so I don't have much to say about this charity tribute. I do think it's the most appropriate of all the songs recorded so far -- in part because of the original lyrics/intent of the song, and in part because K'naan altered the lyrics specifically for this new subject matter.

If you haven't yet listened to the original song, you must--out of his many beautiful songs, it's one of the most beautiful. A lot of his songs are about celebrating his home (Somalia) and trying to show a different side to it, to counter-balance the media image (pirates! warlords! Black Hawk Down!)

In 2009, he released his second album, the critically hailed Troubadour which featured Wavin' Flag. The artist is optimistic that music does have the power to reach people and creative positive change in the world.

"I think there's a difference between media coverage of an incident and a song. I think a song does something a little more lasting, I hope. I hope we register into people's feelings," K'NAAN said. "Since Haiti is going to be struggling for a long time now to fix this thing, I think we need a song that stays with people a little bit more than the newspapers are willing to commit to the subject." (Vancouver Sun)

eyelid failure (falling asleep)

I finished watching the Jeeves and Wooster DVDs. Sadness. I needed something else funny to watch, so I'm watching the episodes of Dr Katz that I hadn't yet seen. Sometimes I buy a DVD and I'm in no rush to watch it, because I save it for when I really need it. So thought I lurv Dr Katz, I didn't watch the DVDs back to back when I bought them.

Dr Katz is the cartoon of a therapist living with his grown son who doesn't work. When he's at the office, his patients are just a variety of stand-up comics doing their shticks. I think I find stand-up even funnier when it's illustrated.

Anyway, the conversations between the father and son are so funny, really well written. And Dr Katz reminds me of my dad. So does the Steve Martin character in Parenthood.

I would explain, but I'm falling asleep at the computer because I worked at 6 AM today... I've had 2 hours of sleep... I can barely maintain cohererererence.

My compy -- back and better than before!

Well my compy, Tsau Tsau, is back.

Fernando asked him to put in a new keyboard, because my fingernails had worn out certain letters. And the light's been fixed.

I think the guy cleaned my screen. It looks so nice. And I think he fixed the latch that keeps the lid closed--I had taken to putting a big, cute hair elastic around it. But now it seems to just latch shut again.

loo loo loo break from work

Compy is fixed and awaits pickup tomorrow. Right now I've got the husband's computer... I brought it to my desk, cause his chair is uncomfortable and will probably give me a headache. I'm not used to such a big screen!

I'm working from home today... currently mired in a little project which seems never ending. I keep finding more details I can add.

I really should finish soon cause tomorrow I have to work at 6 AM. But I'm nooot sleeeeepy yet.

Scenes from a marriage

Scene: Standing in kitchen

Fernando is making something to eat

Me: I dreamed last night that I saw Nombly's ghost. He and Hayley were chasing around the apartment, and then he was sitting right there-- [points finger to entrance of kitchen. Husband does not look up from food.] Right there at the entrance to the kitchen, and he was a little bit see-through--

Fernando: Like a Jedi?

Me: And the other cats couldn't see him. And he turned and smiled at me.

Fernando: You had a Return of the Jedi moment.

Me: And I woke up depressed.