We went to Taiwan yesterday. Wait, wait, what did I say? No, we went to
New Hampshire yesterday. Where did that come from? Not only can I not
type because I sliced my finger today and fought off the bleeding most
of it, too, I can't think either. Enough typing, enjoy the windmills we
saw in Vermont and the train much closer to home.
Duncan had hernia surgery Wednesday and is up and doing just fine. In
fact he was back at work Thursday. Everyone was so nice at Ellis
Hospital. In fact, I've never been to a hospital and not had people
treat me with kindness and courtesy. Oddly for me was the trip home. It
seemed like it took us forever to circle the parking deck to get out and
then 40 seconds to get home. We live two blocks from the hospital.
Price Chopper is
going green. The new 69,000-square-foot Colonie store will be
equipped with a massive fuel cell capable of generating 75 percent of
the supermarket’s power. It will also feature a biohydrator that will
biodegrade fish, meat and vegetable scraps, easy-to-clean without harsh
chemicals colored concrete floors and skylights for sun harvesting. I
love hydrogen cell technology, it's our future.
Casey ate a dead bird yesterday.
And lastly, why didn't I know John McCain's sons were so hot? ...and did
you know the also hot Todd Palin is not registered as a Republican but
rather as not affiliated. Since I was 19, I was registered as
not-affiliated but changed it last year to Democrat so I could vote in a
particular primary for a particular candidate. I had planned to change
it back after this Tuesday's primary, but I may just leave it. Or, I may
just get tired of the whole system and change it back. The future will
tell. New York does not let unaffiliated voters vote in primaries as
other states do.
There's a new
Harvey Milk movie coming out this Thanksgiving. I say new like
there's ever been one except for documentaries and such. Sean Penn is
Milk and it looks like he's gonna do an excellent job. Wonder if it'll
go to mainstream theaters. Anyway, watch the
trailer and if you haven't seen
The Times of Harvey Milk, watch it.
Today I was hell bound to sit here and search
myspace and
facebook for every person I've ever known, and care to know again. I
don't use either much but I have found important people from my past (or
they've found me) on both sites lately and figured I'd spend a day
typing in names and locations and see what turns up. Well I didn't do
that. It was much too beautiful outside so I worked in the yard and
planted some mums for the fall and took Casey to the dog park. Duncan
and I also went to the Greek Festival. Let's just say I've been to
better Greek Festivals but is it really their fault? There are very few
Greeks in the area as opposed to down south or a big city. That said, I
think I may go watch some news. haven't all day.
Where's all my old tapes? I guess I threw them out at some point in
time. They aren't any good any more anyway. I found a drawer full of
them that I put out of my mind long ago but most of them were ones I
recorded myself and I don't remember throwing the pre-recorded ones
away. These were bought at The Record Bar at South Park Mall and The
Record Rack in West Park Mall. I also frequented World Wide Records on
South Blvd. and Ernie's in Park Road Shopping Center. These because they
were reachable by bike. These were actually probably bought using the
old trusty (sometimes) bright yellow Honda Civic.
I heard the
Stand Up 2 Cancer song on the radio from last week's three network
cancer benefit so I decided to see who was singing what. It just goes to
prove, Miley Cyrus does suck. Standing beside these wonderful voices she
sounds like a shrieking whooping crane. Fergie also hit some sour notes
but who's perfect? Mary J Blige still makes me scream out loud.
Right now, watching Ike in real time. Hurricanes scare me.
It's hard to type sitting in the Lazy Boy with a dog who also has her
head on the keyboard. I may or may not finish this. Her obedience
training is going just swell. Last night, we learned how to make her
come when we call. Today, I was in another world and just opened the
back door and let her out without thinking. Normally, she would catch
sight of a squirrel, run three backyards down, start jumping at a tree
and not even think about doing what she was told. Today, she ran three
backyards down, jumped at a squirrel in the tree, etc, etc. The
difference was, she came on the first call with major distractions. I am
super happy and proud. One less crazy point for Casey.
Just wishing being back at Carolina Beach looking at the sun rise as all
the freeze warnings and frost advisories went out last night. We
narrowly escaped it here in the valley so my flowers may live another
day.
Afterelton.com surveyed for the
top 50 gay movies of all time. I agree with a lot of the survey,
especially looking at the time they were released. Brokeback Mountain,
Beautiful Thing, Big Eden. Yes, yes, yes. But really? Latter Days
sucked. It was awful. My favorite gay movie of all time would have to be
The Broken Hearts Club followed by the following in no particular order
for no particular reason. Philadelphia, Big Eden, Brokeback Mountain,
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Transamerica, Longtime
Companion, To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar, Boys in the
Band, Angels in America, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and Beautiful Thing.
OK, so I originally put them in order but kept rearranging them so
they're kind of in order but not really. Also, there was supposed to be
only ten, What's up with that? And the movie Get Real wasn't on there
and where were all the lesbian movies? You must have to go to
afterellen.com's top 50 for that.
Our neighbor is having some trees trimmed so I abandoned my backyard
work in case there were a mistake as a crane hovered above the 50 foot
trees. There is sun where there never was before.
Went to see
Lisa Lampanelli again tonight at The Palace in Albany. It seems like
yesterday but it was for my
birthday last year we went to see her. Duncan was out of town so I
went with my pal Echo. My jaw hurts for laughing. Better than any old
presidential debate for sure. I guess I'll watch that tomorrow on the
DVR. She said she's doing an HBO special. If you haven't seen her, watch
it.
A rainy couple of days lead me to try to escape it at least for a few
hours so being by myself this weekend, I headed down Rt 30 to the
Catskills where I came across the village of Margaretville, a cool
little town at the base of a mountain on The Delaware River. I saw The
Delaware & Ulster Railroad have an old train they use for excursions
into the mountains that I passed that I have a definite interest in next
year. It looks like great fun.
As I was getting closer to home, I tried to snap a picture but I guess
it was set to video so I have a video of me singing some KC and The
Sunshine Band as the camera flails around aimlessly in my hand. WARNING:
It ain't pretty. I don't know how Duncan puts up with it.
Almost finally,
so long Paul Newman. What a great actor and stand up guy you were.
And finally,
Burn After Reading, good but not great. I was a little disappointed
and it was a lot darker than I expected but I still love Brad Pitt. My
friend Rick who I was with had a tranny with very noisy keys sit down
right beside him.
It's a little late but I watched Friday night's debate today. I'd call
it a draw but (no, I ain't voting for him) McCain completely impressed
me on foreign policy issues. I guess being in the House and Senate for
the last 25 years has "learned" him a thing or two. Remember when McCain
used to really be independent and not just pretend to be? I wonder how
this election would be polling right now if McCain would have picked a
decent running mate.
This new American Express commercial is pretty funny.
This old one I've never seen before but it's pretty funny too.
