I found Hampster Dance a LONG time ago and thought it was hilarious. And back then, they only had the Hampster Dance song. I remember thinking, “this would make an awesome Cartoon Series.” Apparently, I wasn’t the only one.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Day 625: TV Review – The Amazing Race
REF: Day 611: Tuesday TV Review – Big Love, Season 4
A few weeks ago, my cousin/SchutzHappen addict, Pauline commented on my tirade regarding Serena’s love for reality television. Yes Pauline, we watch “The Amazing Race”… in fact, it’s one of our favorites.
This season I am pulling for Louie and Michael, the New York Police officers. They started off a little shaky, but have matured and are more focused as a team. Plus they are funny. I like funny. Some people might think they play dirty because they U-Turned Joe and Heidi… but their intention wasn’t to knock them out of the game. Louie and Michael merely wished to deflate their egos a little bit. I was actually shocked Joe and Heidi were unable to complete the task. However, wasn’t heartbroken, Joe and Heidi never appealed to me as a team, I agreed with Louie and Michael, they were overly cocky. Plus, U-Turns are part of the game… so play the game people!
I am also a huge fan of Survivor. So far the Hero v. Villains is shaping up nicely. I am really happy Colby wasn’t voted off the Heroes Tribe last week. I really liked James during his original season, but part of the fun the first time was because he didn’t know what he was doing. This time he was too cocky and frankly, he was rude. Colby has always been a classy player and ten years later he is even more classy and cool. The way he let the things James said about him roll off was awesome. Then again, it wasn’t like James was making up things, he was being truthful about Colby’s performance. Anyway, with the Heroes down to five people, it’s a whole new game for Colby.
As for the Villain’s watching Boston Rob and Russell has been awesome. I’m a big fan of Boston Rob I really want to see him prevail. Rob may be considered a Villain, but he makes very sound decisions for his tribe and for the most part, he is very fair. Russell on the other hand… oh my god… I just can’t figure this guy out. He burns peoples socks, he buries the tribes machetes… he is one of the most transparent liars in the game! Spotting a liar isn’t hard folks. Russell is a liar! But, even though I can’t stand the guy… he is shrewd and a smart strategic player.
Tyson! Why Tyson! You and Boston Rob had Russell over the fire. He would have been gone if you voted with your trip! You knew you were going to get votes… yet you let Russell play you! Why would you ever change your vote? I don’t understand. I think Russell must be a vampire. It’s the only thing that makes sense. He must be glamouring the other contestants into doing his bidding. ERG!
I’m hoping for a Survivor Mix-Up. Boston Rob and Colby need to team up. They could rock the game.
Monday, April 5, 2010
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Day 622: The Birth Experience – Northside Picture Time
When I started blogging about our birth experience I had complete forgotten about this story. Serena reminded me. I guess this was my first official protective fatherly moment. When Serena reminded me, she was like, “You were pissed… don’t you remember? You went to the nurse’s station and demanded to see the head nurse?”
Slowly it all came back to me: The Northside picture guy. I think I destroyed this guy. And I don’t feel bad about it.
First, I need to put this into context. Remember my previous post about Creep-Monkey and the incessant interruptions of our sleeping time-bliss propagated by the Northside Nurses? Well… it’s safe to say we were tired… and a bit punchy. But still. This guy had no excuse for what he did and deserved the throttling he got.
After our first sleepless night and surviving our assigned and extremely rude nighttime nurse, Serena and I requested limited interruptions for our first full day in Northside’s Post Partum wing. That afternoon, after Serena and Gray finally fell asleep… and I got hungry. So I got up, closed the door behind me, and headed down to the Hospital’s McDonald franchisee. When I returned, I found the door to our room wide open and I remember thinking, “Great, another nursing visit.” When I walked in, I found a short little man holding a camera pushing on Serena’s shoulder saying, “miss, miss… you need to wake up.”
After being reminded of this incident, I remember this event exactly how it went down… I can replay the event in my head. I arrived just as this guy was successful in his mission… Serena was just lifting her head and trying to focus her eyes. I broke into the scene, “what’s going on?”
The guy flinched a bit. I surprised him. But he quickly said, “I need to take pictures of the baby.”
Serena and I looked at each other. I said, “It has to be done now? She was sleeping. You just woke her up.”
The guy was very scattered and was trying to direct Serena on how to hold the baby… but she was still out of it. Evidently, he didn’t feel the need to address my question. So I persisted.
“Wait a minute, what is this picture for? Is this something the Hospital needs? They already took a Polaroid of the baby when he was born… I don’t understand.”
The guy finally stopped what he was doing and looked at me, “No, that was for the hospital, I’m a professional photographer, I’m taking pictures of the baby for you… don’t you want to buy pictures of your baby?”
I believe this is the point where my head spun all the way around and I vomited split-pea soup on the guy. “Get the hell out.” “Excuse me?” “Get the hell out of our room. You walk in unannounced and woke my sleeping wife? For what? So you could sell me pictures of my own baby? Get the hell out of our room now. Who let you in here? Did you even knock? What give you the right to…”
This is when I started walking back down the hall towards the nurses’ station. This is also the time the guy disappeared for good. I never saw him again. And he certainly didn’t try to defend his presence to be with the nurses’ station.
Of course, the nurses were just as helpful as they were regarding food options at 11pm. “Who? I don’t know, I don’t think he works for the hospital, he’s probably a contractor or something.” What really got under my skin is the fact the nurses’ station was on our hall about three rooms away. I know they saw the guy and simply didn’t’ want to take responsibility of the situation. My favorite question from the nurses was, “Did you tell him you weren’t interested?”
Me: “Huh, now that would have been a good idea. Thank you. I guess I should have known before going to get food that some strange guy was going to enter my wife room unannounced intending to take picture of my new born child.”
At this point I put a moratorium on unannounced visitors to our room and spoke with the head nurse about my concerns. “If you want to sell me pictures, sell me pictures, schedule an appointment. But entering a room unannounced and waking up a sleeping mother is unacceptable. Keeping people out of our room isn’t my job, it’s your job.”
I know… harsh. But I didn’t pay for the room upgrade to have an open-door policy.
I can only assume random photographers slip into rooms trying to sell photographs at Northside all the time. It seems very strange. And a security risk.
Friday, April 2, 2010
Day 621: Friday Film Review – Crazy Heart
Honestly, there isn’t much I can say about Crazy Heart… except that it was my favorite movie of the year.
I know I’ve given a lot of high praise this Oscar season, so don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that “The Hurt Locker” didn’t deserve Best Picture, it certainly did, it was a better all around film… I’m just saying that “Crazy Heart” is exactly the kind of movie I like. Scratch that… exactly the kind of movie I love.
The only real travesty is the fact it wasn’t at least nominated for best picture. Especially when films like “The Blind Side,” “Up in the Air,” and especially, “The Serious Man” made it into the competition. There should have been a spot for “Crazy Heart”.
Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhaal were simply amazing. And well deserving of all the praise they have received. And folks, remember when I said Vera Farmiga would have won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress is Mo’Nique hadn’t made “Precious” this year? Well, I spoke way too soon. Maggie blew my socks off. Mo’Nique still deserved the Supporting Actress award, BUT, that said, Maggie deserved the Leading Actress Award.
I’m confused as to why Maggie’s character is considered a supporting player. Her screen time alone should have qualified her… but far beyond that, her relevance to the overall story should have graduated the role to leading. Maggie’s LEADING Actress role in Crazy Heart was amazing. And if Crazy Heart’s producers had submitted her in the leading category, she could have taken down Sandra.
Producers play weird games when they submit actors for Oscars. Remember Timothy Hutton? He was the leading actor in “Ordinary People” who won Best Supporting Actor, not Leading Actor. At 18 years old, Ordinary People’s producers didn’t think he would be taken seriously during awards season as a Leading actor… so they demoted him to Supporting… and he won awards. While in the same movie, Mary Tyler Moore was nominated for Leading Actress for playing a supporting role. You get the idea.
Anyway… I don’t mean to get side tracked on Oscar politics.
Go see Crazy Heart! You won’t regret it. The film has a really great indie feel without being pretentious, gimmicky, falsely emotional, or overly dark… it’s a wonderfully beautiful film about redemption. And it’s just simple. Unlike my blog postings… oh how I wish I could post like “Crazy Heart”.
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Day 620: Interesting News
Well… it turns out that Serena is prego again. I didn’t realize I had that much Irish in me.
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