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As mentioned below, I wasn’t as impressed with Brokeback Mountain as the rest of the world seemed to be. The one thing that did impress me, however, was Michelle Williams, who I am pleased to see has been nominated for an Academy Award for best supporting actress.  Given her screen time and the performances of […]

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Ashley Judd doesn’t want to have any babies as long as there’s starvation, overcrowding, and childhood disease in the world.  I understand completely, Ashley.  And I’m not saying that because I believe attractive women can get away with saying whatever they want in public.  I really mean it. Actually, I’m like you, Ashley.  Children do […]

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A while back I added this geo tracking code to avablog after seeing it on Aprille’s blog and being smitten by it.  I hadn’t advertised it at all before now because I was curious to see what kind of hits it would get just by being over there in the menu bar. So far I […]

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Leah claims I have road rage issues.  Nonsense, I say. I regularly move about town on foot, on my bike, or in the car, and I always see plenty of examples of inconsiderate, selfish, and downright dangerous driving.  Do I get frustrated?  Yup. The problem is that we live a block from a high school […]

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Leah and I watched Ava’s little friend Mack this afternoon while his mom went on a short errand.  Mack spent most of his time at our house trying to keep his trucks and cars out of Ava’s greedy little mitts. When it was time for him to leave, I told Ava to say bye bye.  […]

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You may have read the post below about Steve Martin. Pretty bland. Nothing terribly provocative. So tonight we get a phone call from the Dove Foundation. Of course we don’t answer it, since it screams “solicitor.” But I’m curious, so I Google them. From their site: THE DOVE FOUNDATION is a non-profit organization established to […]

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I just saw — again — the trailer for The Pink Panther starring Steve Martin. Look: Even if you can’t bring yourself to say that The Jerk was one of the most influential comedies of the last 50 years, you can at least concede that Steve Martin deserves better than he’s had in his last […]

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Ava came up with a new trick last evening.  My mom and brother came over for dinner, and while we were in the kitchen getting ready to eat, Ava was running around like a crazy person, yelling at the top of her lungs. Newness and cuteness trumped annoyance last night, but I can see this […]

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Leah is a nightlight freak.  I like it dark. I saw this product on Boing Boing this morning and thought it looked like a really cool way to enable Leah to stumble into Ava’s room in the night.  It uses LEDs, which is nice, and has a dimmer switch and a 6′ cord!  Pardon me, […]

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We got beat last night five games to none.  Sounds pretty bad, and it is as far as out team rank goes.  But I think we played better last night than we have so far this year.  We took the other team the full hour; they were all young college guys (no girls on their […]

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The family headed up to Madison this past weekend to visit Aunt Rachel (“Rashe”) and Uncle Kevin (we’re still working on that one). Aunt Rachel came up with some cool activities for Ava.  On Saturday we went to the Madison Children’s Museum and had a great time playing with the different musical instruments and watching […]

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Leah and I saw Brokeback Mountain a while back. It was O.K. Leah enjoyed it quite a bit. I tried to go into the theater with an open mind, not so much because I had a problem with the relatively graphic depictions of rump ridin’ (see? I’m down with gay cowboy slang), but because the […]

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when it hits, you feel no pain. I was waiting for Leah this morning while she fetched her morning joe from her favorite coffee shop.  I had the iPod plugged in and was flipping through my shuffle of 1,937 songs. It’s an amazing thing, music, the way it infuses meaning into whatever’s going on outside […]

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Huge, huge entertainment industry news.  Keep an eye on how this changes the face of Apple’s video content offerings at the iTunes music store.

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I was browsing my Webalizer logs this morning like I do every day and was surprised to see that my mention of Steve Carrell’s acceptance speech at the Golden Globes was a pretty hot search topic. So this post doesn’t come across as too blatant a hit-whoring tactic, I will say that I’m consistently amazed […]

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There’s a story on the front page of the Wall Street Journal today about Disney being in serious talks to buy Pixar.  This would be a huge win for Steve Jobs.  Absolutely huge.  And not just because it would make his stake in Pixar worth about $4 billion.  Consider the investment genius here, from the […]

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This blog has killed whatever small urge I ever had to learn how to crochet.

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As I drove home from dodgeball last night (we won two of the five games against a team that had no girls), I started thinking about giant animals. Sharks in particular. When I was in elementary school I loved sharks and dinosaurs. More than anything else about them, I was impressed by their size. I […]

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Just started watching it at 7:30 CST. Some random musings: Geena Davis is a big woman. I’ve never watched more than 10 straight minutes of this House M.D. show, and this guy is winning a Golden Globe? Pamela Anderson looks like she’s smuggling tortoises in a Hefty bag. Terrible dress. I like Steve Carrell’s acceptance […]

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I’m sitting here watching Law & Order.  Yes, yes.  Whatever. Anyway, there’s a woman in tonight’s episode who looked vaguely familiar to me.  Sure enough, I’d seen her before. Her hair looks a lot better now.

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