I will shortly be making my gloriatial and spectaculary return to regular substantive blogging. I have much in the way of Yuletide dramatics to relate. Topics will include:
The Bhutto Assassination
My Sister’s Graduation
My Sister’s Job Interview
Families & The Holidays
Gift-Giving
I will also be cleaning up all these half-finished movie reviews.
This Christmas saw the addition of 53 titles to my DVD collection. Here they are:
You will notice all the James Bond films (excluding Casino Royale (2006), which I already own, and Casino Royale (1967) and Never Say Never Again, which don’t count) and a large number of Hitchcock films. I received the James Bond Ultimate Collection and two Hitchcock collections which account for the atrociously large title count this year.
I also received several other lovelies, including a Linux-based wireless router, new 7.1 speakers and sound card for my desktop, a 250GB portable hard drive, and the PC game The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. I also received a positively scrumptious black wool peacoat.
It is difficult for me to express exactly how much this man scares me. Not just from a political standpoint, but as a person. Even the look of him portends terrible things. Perhaps he smells of doom.
It isn’t even the possibility, however remote, that he might be elected that scares me. A theocrat at 1600 Pennsylvania couldn’t do so much damage as, say, a theocrat at One First Street. It would still be awful, but if putting up a theocratic government is your goal, the Oval Office isn’t the most effective route.
What is really frightening about Mike Huckabee is that so many people - people who have secretly yearned for a more religious government for decades - are becoming more vocal about their desire for a tyrannical government. What happened?
But there is one upside:
If he does get nominated, voting for the Democrat will sting just a little bit less.
Warning: Project Runway spoilers ensue!
Augh!
For some reason, I’ve been watching Season 4 of Project Runway. I blame Flibbert, but it’s not really his fault.
Last week, Chris March left. I disagreed with that choice, purely on quality-of-product grounds. I think the judges booted him because of his poor performance as leader, rather than the quality of his own work. Leader in a group challenge. A group challenge really early in the show. The second group challenge in the show. On the fourth episode. In my uneducated and inexperienced opinion, group challenges this early in the game are putting too much emphasis on interpersonal dynamics and not enough emphasis on quality of product. I don’t think the show should be so much about personalities, but it is. Even so, Ricky’s mess last week was far worse than Chris’.
So I was a bit distressed when Chris left. But today, Chris came back.
He got un-aufed.
Joy!
Everyone says he’s too costumey, but if Chris is costumey, then I like costumey.
Normally, this would be a delightful turn of events, but it comes at a horrible cost - Jack Mackenroth (whom I found mildly irritating, but whose designs I universally enjoyed) elected to leave the show for medical treatment of an MRSA infection.
Agony!
If I were more invested in this show, I’d be very conflicted about this.
Update: Bah. I’m done with Project Runway.
I cannot recommend the Amazon Dot Com highly enough. I love the Amazon Dot Com.
The Amazon Dot Com always has great prices, frequently marks things down by huge percentages, has just about anything you could ever want, often has free shipping. And so on. The Amazon Dot Com is absolutely Amazing!
They have great customer service. Several years ago, I ordered some Christmas gifts for friends and family and had them shipped to me. The UPS delivered them, but left them sitting on my apartment doorstep. My apartment at the time was in a building where you keyed in the front door (or got buzzed in) and then walked up the stairs to the apartment door, which had a separate key. The UPS left my Amazon Dot Com package on the doorstep of my door, not the building door. So it should have been safe. But I lived in a building with other college students, and so safe it was not. It got snatched. I filed a police report and complained to the management. I then called the Amazon Dot Com to tell them, and they replaced the lost items at no charge, even for shipping. They did not even require me to fax over the police report. They just did it.
Two weeks ago, I ordered some very very expensive Alfred Hitchcock DVD sets for myself. See, my Granmama sends me a check and tells me to use the money to buy something, wrap it up, and put it under the tree from her. Its just easier that way. So I used the money to buy the Hitchcock DVD sets. Well, the dang blasted United States Postal Service, which I despise, went and lost them. I called the Amazon Dot Com today and once again they replaced them right away. No charge. And they’re not using the USPS this time. All they asked was that if the old ones turn up, I should let them know.
So in addition to having everything you want at great prices, the Amazon Dot Com also has great customer service.
If anyone is just dying to try out the Amazon Dot Com, but doesn’t know what to buy first, you are of course welcome to buy something for me off my Amazon Dot Com Wishlist!
