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March 31, 2008
Visual Backup
Apparently, computers won't let you do the "Print Screen" function from the DVD player. Bummer. But I found out it's real easy to work around, and have been happily busying myself (while not recovering from the mild form of bubonic plague I contracted last week) starting to make screenshots of my favorite movies.
So when I make one of my countless references to "that scene in Airplane! right after Elaine asks if there's anybody aboard who can fly a plane", I can now show rather than tell:
I got 19 stills from Airplane! alone. This could be a big development in BunkoSquad timewasting. What can you make of this?
(If the pictures aren't perfectly clear, remember I'm new at this.)
Posted by Michael at 09:54 AM | Comments (1)
March 21, 2008
Medieval Boston
Thanks, Josh, for sending me this: Medieval Boston, a huge collection of photos showing Boston before the Expressway, before the car took over, before the West End became inconvenient, before everyone in the city took LSD and decided City Hall Plaza was a good idea, because what a quirky harbor city really needed was a joyless acre of concrete.
In some of the pictures, it's really easy to picture what's there now, and how uninspiring it is now compared to how it was. In most of them, I don't want to know.
Posted by Michael at 11:16 AM | Comments (0)
March 19, 2008
Happy Fifth Anniversary
The United States was in World War I and World War II for a combined five years, three months, and thirteen days.
Of course, in those wars, the U.S. had clear enemies, obvious strategic objectives, and competent Presidents.
Think we'll be out of Iraq by July 3rd? Do you think we'll actually have heard the President tell us what "victory" actually means in this war by then? How many more corners are there to turn? Do we know who we're even fighting? Is "al Qaeda" just Arabic for "whoever we're shooting at at the moment and/or suspects in plots vague enough that we can say we've thwarted them"?
"No one would argue that this war has not come at a high cost in lives and treasure," says the President, as if he's a D&D villain who's just had his lair cleaned out by adventurers.
Posted by Michael at 10:28 AM | Comments (0)
March 18, 2008
Question For the Right
Am I supposed to hate Barack Obama because he's a Muslim? Or because he belongs to a cuckoo Christian church? You guys really need to keep your irrelevant-distraction stories straight. Kthxbye
Posted by Michael at 09:25 AM | Comments (2)
March 17, 2008
Self Torture, or: Guess Who's Bitching About the Weather Again
I know I swore I wouldn't look at the 10 day forecast for the rest of March, but it's like a machete wound that you just can't stop picking at.
I'd leave Boston today, just to move somewhere where 50 degrees is actually physically possible, if it weren't for pending playoff basketball games. If anyone has any stories about places where a human being can survive outside for more than 90 seconds without two coats on, please tell them here.
Posted by Michael at 01:39 PM | Comments (2)
March 12, 2008
Oh, The Indignity
Mike Greenwell, my favorite Red Sox player of the 20th Century, and the 1988 AL MVP in Exile, was hassled by a security guard when he went to visit the Sox at spring training.
The Gator emphatically stated that he never did steroids. Which, honestly, was a possibility that never crossed my mind. No, his current physique appears a testament not to illegal drugs, but to the vast variety of chain restaurants and buffets in the greater Fort Myers/Cape Coral area. Good for you, Greenie.
Posted by Michael at 09:21 AM | Comments (0)
March 11, 2008
I Know
Yes, we're in another prolonged stretch of not writing anything. Which is probably a good thing.
Posted by Michael at 09:45 AM | Comments (0)