Wow, major case of writer's block coupled with "who really gives a crap about my take on [fill in aborted post topic]." I've started like 6 or 7 posts and they're all in the drafts folder. Time to clear things out … so here's a bulleted list of random ideas, sort of like those "clearing out the desk drawer of my mind" pieces that columnists do when they forget they had an impending deadline and have to slap something together.
Consider this the blog-entry equivalent of a colonic cleansing for the brain (although hopefully more pleasant for those who have to see the results of it):
- Another Pink Panther movie with Steve Martin? Really?
- I was talking with a friend the other day and we determined that while Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo isn't a bad sequel, the whole franchise really lost its way by Herbie Goes Bananas.
- I've started and abandoned blog entries about 1) issues I have with youth sports; 2) my excessive love of social networking; 3) how awesome our President is; 4) how impatient I am that our new President hasn't fixed everything after 9 whole days in office; 5) how much I hate winter; 6) DuraFlame logs; 7) digital pens; 8) online consumer services; 9) how unethical it would be to post shills about clients or prospects, no matter how vague the references were;
- Saturday Night Live has been getting some hip musical guests (Fleet Foxes!). Not that I watch any more. Actually, does anyone watch any more or do people just catch clips on the Hulu? Actually, in checking out the Hulu, I'd say Letterman wins the hip musical guest prize, with Vampire Weekend, Okkervil River and Ben Kweller.
- Another music clip — Feist on Conan doing "1,2,3,4" (which is a great song) backed by Grizzly Bear. Pretty cool. Is she Canadian? Man, I love Canada's indie rock scene.
- Finally took Colin for his lead test today. The snow day was good for something and now our pediatrician won't be angry or figure out I'm lying when I say, "We totally took him, the lab must have lost the results" and I won't have to blame Juliet for not taking him.
- Jacob watched his third full-length movie tonight, Cars. It's funny that he has around $9,000 in Lightning McQueen-related merchandise but has just seen the film tonight. It's also interesting that Disney is still pimping the hell out of merchandise related to a three-year old film. Then again, they do sell tons of Snow White stuff, don't they? I'm amazed they still don't productize some of their live-action films from the 1960s and 1970s like The Apple Dumpling Gang action figure or California Atoms jerseys from the eponymous film about the football-kicking mule, Gus (starring Ed Asner and potentially Don Knotts, I need to look it up).
- Speaking of Ed Asner, are there any other television characters that made the spinoff transition from a sitcom to a drama, as did his Lou Grant (from The Mary Tyler Moore Show to his character's eponymous drama (ding ding ding, my goal of two "eponymouses" has been reached without having to resort to a reference to the 1988 R.E.M. greatest hits package) where he played the same character, just that he moved from Minneapolis to LA and went from broadcast media producer to newspaper editor)? Maybe Trapper John M.D. (from M*A*S*H, as played by Wayne Rogers, to … wait for it … the eponymous program, where he was played by Pernell Roberts?
- Lou Grant was recently referenced in a piece in the Columbia Journalism Review, which made me want to search out an episode or two. Not enough to actually do it, but to think about doing it. I think my grandmother used to watch it although I may be confusing that with Quincy.
- I still can't believe today was a snow day.
- Spring is going to eventually arrive, yes?
