I guess I am a blog tease. The posts are drafted but the pictures need to be inserted. When I get back from the Cape tomorrow, I’ll try to appease you all. But you should never, ever trust me. Ever.
Anyway, kill some time by watching this. I flip-flop on Ferrell, but I laughed a lot at it.
In case you can’t deduce it from the title, this is a book…that has been written and published and is available in major brick-and-mortar and online bookstores…that is a collection…of a website’s summaries and guesswork…about what’s going to happen…in another book…that’s coming out in less than a month.
OK, so the book came out last fall…but still, it’s going to be rendered completely moot in a few weeks. This boggles my mind. I refuse to believe that anybody can convince me that we couldn’t all come up with something more interesting and publication-worthy than that.
(And, yes, this is basically a placeholder post so we can tread water for the day…consider it the SP version of an extended Tony dream sequence. There is much to write about the North Carolina trip. I’m envisioning a five part series. But that might just be the blog tease in me. Who really knows?)
In (checks watch) four and a half hours, Lisa and I will be getting in a cab to head to the airport, where we will get on a plane to head down to Wilmington, North Carolina. While there, we will do things like visit a battleship, take a Ghost Walk of the area, and check out the Cape Fear Museum.
Oh, we’ll also be seeing an all girl Led Zeppelin tribute band in a venue that is rock club-slash-laundromat. There’s no way this could not be a good weekend.
“Come out, come out, wherever you are.”
Unoriginal? Yes. Entertaining? Ummm…hopefully.
1. boston.com: Springfield man accused of running BMW off road in attempt to kill female passenger
A 64-year-old Springfield man will be arraigned on attempted murder and other charges today … Palmer was also charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, domestic assault and battery, operating to endanger, and a marked lanes violation.
Yeah, yeah, attempted murder. Assault and battery…meh. Domestic? Yawn. And he…wait, what? He committed a marked lanes violation? Son…of…a…bitch!
Wow! Great story. I definitely want the back story on this one. And we’ll also throw this into the “first thought” category. I want to know the first thought that led to the conclusion, “You know what? The best way to settle this dispute is for me to drive my Beemer off the road and into those trees.” Sounds like a great plan. Glad it worked out for him.
“Another judge might care – but you committed a marked lanes violation! You’re goin’ in!”
2. boston.com: Lids for cocktails inspire critics
Well, OK…I guess it speaks more to my naivete and less to the inanity of the whole concept that my first reaction was, “Really? Is there really that much date rape drugging going on? Really?” But there probably is. People are awful.
Almost as awful:
Critics say adding a flimsy plastic cover would remove the cachet from holding a gin and tonic. Carrying a cosmopolitan classic suddenly isn’t so sophisticated with a protec tive covering, and something seems lost when you have to remove a piece of plastic to get to the pineapple spear in your pina colada.
Something seems lost, all right. Here’s my solution to your cachet problem: go to hell and die. How does that work for you?
3. boston.com: The early druid gets the first rays of solstice sun
I love that the URL lists this as “breaking news.” I think it could also be entitled, “Breaking news: June 21 is the longest day of the year!” Or, “Breaking news: Old Druid Has No Life!”
But, really, this picture says it all:
Happy solstice, everyone.
1. boston.com: Friendly sold to buyout firm in $337m deal
Wait…this doesn’t mean that Friendly’s will close, does it? Where will I go to get a peanut butter cup Friend-Z, and then vomit afterwards? Where will I get a band aid with my ice cream? What restaurants will we close down due to disease outbreaks?
Just kidding, Friendly’s…P.T. still loves you. Please don’t close.
Looks like Manlio and I were on to something with the Jude Law thing. I don’t know who Patrick Wilson is, but Jackie Earle Haley definitely could work as Rorschach. And I couldn’t be happier that Keanu Reeves “priced himself out” of this production. Ted as Dr. Manhattan? No thanks. Plus, it leads to the inevitable Speed 2 jokes if they really go with Jason Patric. (And I think I speak for Manlio when I say: CGI! CGI!”)
3. boston.com: Many sex offenders end up at shelters
But sex offenders released from prison often find themselves boxed out from housing. Gerard Theriault, for example, was forced out of a homeless shelter.
After living for more than a year in the basement of St. Paul’s Church, the 64-year-old pedophile returned to the Dorchester shelter one day in February and was told he had to leave, immediately.
The Archdiocese of Boston had decided it would no longer allow sex offenders like Theriault, who spent five years in prison for molesting a child, to stay at the shelter, which the Pine Street Inn has run for 20 years.
The irony is palpable. Palpable.
This is a personal service announcement…with guitar.
As some of you may know, half of the SP contingent (i.e., me) will be going to London next month with a special someone (i.e., Lisa…if I don’t specify, I risk a bottling). We have a lovely little trip planned – we’ll be staying somewhere in Kensington (I think) for six nights. The agenda as it stands so far:
We also want to walk around, see the big tourist sites, check out museums, etc etc. This is where the service part comes in: I’m sending out a request to all readers to leave comments with recommendations of things that have to be seen, places that must be gone to, and activities that can’t be missed. We sort of want to check out a small local music club, and a nice restaurant or two. We’re open to pretty much anything – though budgetary concerns will stop us from being too extravagant.
So fire away, dear friends. Your suggestions are greatly appreciated. As a reward, we’ll…thank you. And maybe take a picture of ourselves at whatever you recommend with a thank you message written on a piece of paper. Or trash. Or something. See? Rewarding.
Right, so I know that some of you don’t care about this show, and that others of you do care but are catching up on DVD and don’t want to talk about the season finale. So I apologize for taking up more bandwidth talking about the show, and invite anyone in the two aforementioned groups to stop reading this post…now.
We’re going to do a little double perspective thing about the finale. First is jz’s take, and then my response to that. This was an email exchange we had this morning. I’m posting his words without his permission. I’m a jerk with no sense of netiquette.
Emails after the jump…warning, there be SPOILERS ahead.
Sopranos chatter…some SPOILERS if you haven’t seen the finale.
That’s right…I said SPOILERS.
jz sent me a mild spoiler via email during the episode. Then he apologized in case I hadn’t seen it. I said, “Of course I fucking watched it. Who do you think I am?”
I was way down. I liked the ending. This is what his life will be like…constant tension, constant alertness, constant stress. Is that guy at the counter going to come out of the bathroom with a gun? Are the two black guys going to jump him? Who’s coming through the door: his daughter, a hitman…or a nobody?
“You don’t know who I am, do you?” That was clearly going to be with Livia when they originally designed it, back when the series was only going to be three seasons long. That would have been a great bookend. At least we had the cat closing out the whole duck thing.
I liked it.
Public reaction will be negative. I’m thinking it will have a Seinfeld-like fallout. But I liked that finale too, so whatever.
I can’t believe it’s over. It’s been a long time since college when I started watching it four episodes at a time on VHS tapes. After the final episode was over, I called my mom. I told her that she called me right after the first episode aired for the first time, and she told me I had to start watching this new show, that it was really great. I didn’t believe her. Well, she was right on this one. I gave her kudos.
It was well deserved.
So…when do they announce they’re making a movie?
edit: Holy crap, Lisa’s brother just sent over a really interesting theory that he read online somewhere. It was that the reason the screen cut to black and there was total silence lies in the conversation that he had with Bobby B. in the first episode of this final run of episodes: “You never hear the one that gets you.” Is that really how it ended? Are we supposed to just decide for ourselves? No easy answers, not even in the end. You magnificent bastards.
Dear Ms. Hilton,
Thank you for allowing us to sum up everything wrong in America in a single person. I hope you get stabbed in prison.
Burn in hell,
ptm
For anyone looking for something to watch before tonight’s Sox game at 10:00 pm, might I recommend the all-new episode of Ghost Hunters on the SciFi channel at 9:00 pm. It’s good stuff.
Anyone wanting to catch up, iTunes has a free download of the Best of Ghost Hunters, Vol. 1 [link opens in iTunes].
SciFi even has two older episodes from 7:00 – 9:00 pm if you really want to get crazy.