lost & zombies?

Lost, Burnt Thumbs & Suzanne Cryer

LOST - so this weeks episode was a little slow in parts but the scenes with Locke, Kate & Jack in the hatch were interesting. I am very curious to see how this season will play out. The dynamic has changed now that the hatch has been opened and the others are near.

BURNT THUMBS - so yeah, last night I burnt my thumb really bad on a piece of steamy, greasy hot bacon. yeah, that's right, i said bacon. it hurt pretty bad for about an hour. my wife told me to stick my thumb in milk to nuetralize the pain. oh yeah, the bacon tasted really good and i ate the piece that burned my thumb. Reveng is sweet.

SUZANNE CRYER - who is she, you ask? well last night i was watching ER. there was this couple who couldn't have children so eggs & sperm were implanted into this woman named Claire. The baby went in to distress... Claire didn't want to have a C-section, so the baby was born with little or no brain activity (lack of oxygen to the brain). The "parents' then didn't want the baby. The wife looked really familiar to me. I couldn't place it but i knew i had seen her in other tv shows. her voice was so familiar. I watched the credits but couldn't figure out who she was. After a little research (and after remembering that I thought i remembered seeing her on the show TWO GUYS A GIRL AND A PIZZA PLACE (later called TWO GUYS AND A GIRL) i found out her name was/is Suzanne Cryer (Ashley on TWO GUYS...). then after checking IMDB i saw that she was on SEINFELD. She was Marcy in the infamous Yada Yada Yada episode.

classic line: GEORGE: "you can't 'yada yada' sex... can you?"

Lost Season Premiere

what a great way to start off a new season. for the record, i accomplished my goal of watching every season one episode of LOST at 8 PM on WED, 9/21... basically just in time for the premiere of LOST. in 15 days i watched nearly 24 hours worth of Lost programming (including all 24 episodes, the commentaries and the bonus disc).

QUESTIONS:

1. did Shannon really see Walt and why was he talking backwards?
2. why did it say QUARANTINE on the inside of the hatch?
3. what was Desmond doing down in the hatch?
4. can the show get any better?

FAVORITE CHARACTER: John Locke

LOST (ABC website)
OCEANIC FLIGHT 815

lost

so 8 days ago, i purchased Season One of LOST. the season premiere of Season two is Sept. 21... a week from tonite. my goal is to watch all 24 episodes, all commentaries and special features before the season two begins. I wanted it to be fresh in my mind. I am crazy.

so far i am on episode 11.

there are so many redeeming values with LOST. i'm taking notes on the season one episodes. Expect a full rundown before next WEDNESDAY.

My son & Johnny Cash

My son, Micah, is 2 &1/2 years old.
The other day, I was playing Johnny Cash's live album 'At Folsom Prison'
and Micah just started dancing around the room. It was crazy! So i got out the video camera to capture such a special moment.

Who knew Johnny Cash could have such an impact on a 2 year old. Forget about Barney or Veggie Tales. Micah digs Cash!

Today, before I left to go to work, Micah started jumping up and down, yelling "Daddy, Johhny Cash, Johnny Cash, Johnny Cash!"

what a great kid.

9/11... i remember...

September 11th will come and go, for me, without much fanfare. To be completely honest, my mind will be elsewhere. For starters, the NFL season kicks off, so I will be glued to the TV most of the afternoon. Then, later that night, my job as a Youth Director will have me leading a fall kickoff for our youth group. To be honest, it has been weird hanging up flyers, promoting a youth event with the date 9-11 at the bottom. I don't think anyone can look at those numbers, in that order, without thinking about that tragic day in New York four years ago.

I have not forgotten 9/11. Maybe it's that tramatic of a moment in my lifetime, maybe it's because I'm a history buff...I don't know. But I have to admit, a part of me is fascinated by it all. There are so many compelling stories regarding the events of September 11th, when terrorists knocked us down...but not out. I've done some reading and investigating on the events and that which led up to that horrible day. We (United States) missed a lot of signs and opportunities to prevent this. But on the other hand, we don't think like a terrorist. The idea of using people and airplanes as a means of destruction are foreign to us...

I will be busy on September 11th but I will not forget September 11th.

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i remember where i was when i found out... we were having a staff breakfast, celebrating a co-workers birthday @ the Cracker Barrell when the waitress came out and said "a plane hit the Trade Center." It took me a minute to remember what and where the World Trade Center actually was. When we left, my dad turned on the car radio. Peter Jennings was on ABCNews Radio... a few minutes after we departed, the first tower fell to the ground...

Ironically, unbeknownst to us, Flight 93 was probably flying over head about that time, as it was picked up on radar over Northeast Ohio.

By the time we got back to the office, I decided to head home to see what was unfolding. Just as I got home, the 2nd tower fell... before my eyes, on national tv.

the world will never be the same...

american wasteland...pt. 2

"New Orleans firefighters walk through water as a looted sports store burns in the background..."


it continues. New Orleans, first a wasteland as a result of a hurricane is now a more tragic wasteland of degenerate, selfish people, more concerned about their so called needs of $100 Nike shoes and expensive NFL jerseys...


LOOTERS RAMPAGE NEW ORLEANS
"An operation to bus more than 20,000 refugees to the Houston Astrodome was suspended temporarily when shots were fired in New Orleans at helicopters being used in the evacuation, a local government spokeswoman in Houston said."

NEW ORLEANS EVACUATION DELAYED BY SHOOTING
"Authorities suspended an evacuation of New Orleans on Thursday after a reported shooting at a military helicopter..."

An angry Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco told reporters: "We will do what it takes to bring law and order to our area."

"I'm just furious. It's intolerable," she said.

"Elsewhere in New Orleans, gunshots repeatedly rang out and fires flared as looters broke into stores, houses, hospitals and office buildings -- some in search of food, others looking for anything of value."

I know it must be crazy being forced from your home, your possessions and maybe even your family, but these desparate acts are only making things worse and making things take longer. It's fuel to a fire already raging. It's lawlessness.

Last night an entire unit of ambulances stopped making runs because of violence against them and their crews. An ambulance was overturned, a generator was stolen as well as other communication equiptment. Add to that hopsitals being broken in to. That is the lowest of low. Civility must have been blown away with the hurricane-force winds...

TROOPS DEPLOYED TO STOP LOOTING