Monday, January 19, 2009
The Green Wagon is open in Nashville
"Nashville's First Eco-Friendly General Store" - The Green Wagon
Sylvan Park just gets cooler and cooler.
Sylvan Park just gets cooler and cooler.
I'm in an ink, horror, and metal kind of mood. Rawk!
Lone Wolf Body Art - Voted best tattoo studio in Nashville by The Tennessean and All The Rage at the first annual Toast of Music City Awards.
Old Habits Die Hard - Directed by Ben Dixon and starring Kane Hodder, Stacey Dixon, Jim O'Rear, Tricia Cast, Roger Hewlett, and Audrey Warren.
Motley Crue - I like a lot of different kinds of music, but there's nothing that moves me more than a good Crue song. Nothing. (NSFW)
Old Habits Die Hard - Directed by Ben Dixon and starring Kane Hodder, Stacey Dixon, Jim O'Rear, Tricia Cast, Roger Hewlett, and Audrey Warren.
Motley Crue - I like a lot of different kinds of music, but there's nothing that moves me more than a good Crue song. Nothing. (NSFW)
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Friday, January 16, 2009
Mission Accomplished?
"Sir, it has come to my attention that we were made in China. Can you explain this?"
(Joshua took this picture. I cropped and played with it a bit.)
Feel Good Friday - Checking In?
"Hotel Staff Bringing Sexy Back" - Just a day in my life, kind of.
And here's the Orlando version of me.
And here's the Orlando version of me.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Rhymes With Oodles
Anti-Love Drug May Be Ticket to Bliss
Here in the Tennessee area when you hear of re-enactors, it's usually of the Civil War variety. In Fernandina Beach, however, you get pirates!
Valentine's Day is coming up. Here's a list of the best pay-by-the-hour hotels, courtesy of The Guardian. What? No Drake Motel?
Isaac Himmelman, son of Peter, sounds really good. My latest happy discovery.
And a mere $6 will get you the latest five-song EP by Geoff Baker. It's called Adding Up the Everything We Lost and I like it lots. Check his MySpace page and give it a listen. I rested in the car the other night after work and under the year's fullest moon as it played so beautifully for me. I'm glad I know his music.
La Boheme
I'm guessing quite the opera could be written about the aftermath of a man's choice to actually attend one instead of being by his wife's side during childbirth. No worries there. I'm a smarter man than that.
Monday, January 12, 2009
Pictures at Chez Bez
It wasn't that long ago when all pictures of this little guy were baby pictures. Now, introducing...homework!
Apparently, a Candyland piece got a bit drunk and wandered into the Hungry Hungry Hippos play area. Not good. Not good.
Um, me.
Apparently, a Candyland piece got a bit drunk and wandered into the Hungry Hungry Hippos play area. Not good. Not good.
Um, me.
Odds and Ends, This and That, Waits and Jovi
(I changed my header. And I think it looks pretty cool.)
The laptop works but not as well as it should. We took it to a local repair shop not too long ago when it wouldn't restart. The guy couldn't get the C: drive to work so he simply loaded a version of Windows to the D: drive. Less of a fix and more of a work-around I suppose. And now the audio is kind of funky and everything is a bit slower. I've moved all of my music and photos to an external hard drive that Paige bought but for some reason iTunes won't load for me anymore. That's a lot of favorite podcasts that I've been missing lately.
The good news is that Paige is going to Boston soon to spend time with a friend and go to a Bon Jovi fan club show. Her friend knows her way around these things better than us and I hope that Paige will return home with a laptop that does more of what I want it to do.
In other music news, I was pleased to glimpse in Google Reader that there will be new Tom Waits in April. A second glance revealed that it's just a new Tom Waits bio that's coming out in April. Cool enough, but I'm getting impatient for new songs.
The laptop works but not as well as it should. We took it to a local repair shop not too long ago when it wouldn't restart. The guy couldn't get the C: drive to work so he simply loaded a version of Windows to the D: drive. Less of a fix and more of a work-around I suppose. And now the audio is kind of funky and everything is a bit slower. I've moved all of my music and photos to an external hard drive that Paige bought but for some reason iTunes won't load for me anymore. That's a lot of favorite podcasts that I've been missing lately.
The good news is that Paige is going to Boston soon to spend time with a friend and go to a Bon Jovi fan club show. Her friend knows her way around these things better than us and I hope that Paige will return home with a laptop that does more of what I want it to do.
In other music news, I was pleased to glimpse in Google Reader that there will be new Tom Waits in April. A second glance revealed that it's just a new Tom Waits bio that's coming out in April. Cool enough, but I'm getting impatient for new songs.
No Delay-Of-Game Call, Titans Delayed Destiny
Maybe it would have been more dramatic had we entered the playoffs as a lower seed, won one playoff game, and then lost. One playoff win would certainly have given the season one more mark of achievement. As it was, the Titans' loss to the Ravens on Saturday didn't even hurt like I expected it to. I worked during the game and relied on Twitter for updates until midway through the 4th quarter when I took my break and watched the rest on T.V. I saw a few of the bad calls that robbed us near the end, but more importantly I saw a team that didn't play well enough to overcome some bad calls. So the season ended with a three point loss and I shrugged my shoulders and went back to work.
Even with an exceptional run to an 10-0 start, a 13-3 regular season finish, and that top seed playoff spot, I was never moved to think that this was a team of destiny. These are not sour grapes though. These Titans were just as capable of continuing their march to that Lombardi trophy as any other team still in it. It just didn't come as a surprise that they came up short Saturday.
My wife cried when they lost to the Rams in the Super Bowl. I didn't, but it did bug me for months. When they lost in the playoffs to the Ravens the following year, she and I both had that bad taste in our mouths. It was the bad taste left from watching your team dominate in absolutely every statistic except for the most important one, the final score: Baltimore 24, Tennessee 10.
In January 2003, Oakland won by a score of 41-24 and it just seemed like the way it was supposed to go down. (The Titans had lost to the Raiders 52-25 earlier in the season.) The following year, Tennessee went to New England and lost by three to a team already already associated with the word "dynasty" as much as the Bengals carry around the "hapless" adjective on their backs. And anyway, it was really, really cold that day. Not meant to be.
As for last year's 17-6 loss to the Chargers, I don't have much memory of that game. I might have been working during that one as well. The best we got out of that game was a new West Coast rival and the constant reminder that we've never given anyone any reason to truly be afraid of our offensive firepower. The 2008 season ended with only a touchdown and a field goal scored in a game where ten points just wasn't enough.
Sigh. There's always next year.
*In the post, I'm trying to be nice and thoughtful. In truth, the Titans were jobbed on that non-call. That should have been a penalty instead of a big first down.
Even with an exceptional run to an 10-0 start, a 13-3 regular season finish, and that top seed playoff spot, I was never moved to think that this was a team of destiny. These are not sour grapes though. These Titans were just as capable of continuing their march to that Lombardi trophy as any other team still in it. It just didn't come as a surprise that they came up short Saturday.
My wife cried when they lost to the Rams in the Super Bowl. I didn't, but it did bug me for months. When they lost in the playoffs to the Ravens the following year, she and I both had that bad taste in our mouths. It was the bad taste left from watching your team dominate in absolutely every statistic except for the most important one, the final score: Baltimore 24, Tennessee 10.
In January 2003, Oakland won by a score of 41-24 and it just seemed like the way it was supposed to go down. (The Titans had lost to the Raiders 52-25 earlier in the season.) The following year, Tennessee went to New England and lost by three to a team already already associated with the word "dynasty" as much as the Bengals carry around the "hapless" adjective on their backs. And anyway, it was really, really cold that day. Not meant to be.
As for last year's 17-6 loss to the Chargers, I don't have much memory of that game. I might have been working during that one as well. The best we got out of that game was a new West Coast rival and the constant reminder that we've never given anyone any reason to truly be afraid of our offensive firepower. The 2008 season ended with only a touchdown and a field goal scored in a game where ten points just wasn't enough.
Sigh. There's always next year.
*In the post, I'm trying to be nice and thoughtful. In truth, the Titans were jobbed on that non-call. That should have been a penalty instead of a big first down.
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Links, Kids, and Paris
From Daguerreotype to Photoshop, as found linked by Arts & Letters Daily.
What Heidi did yesterday. I wish I did it, too.
The other day in the car, Josh asked, "Why is the moon up in the middle of the day? Is it because it misses seeing the sun?"
Same day in the car, I put in a CD of French songs for children entitlted, Let The Good Times Rouler! Less than fifteen seconds in, Josh asked, "Um, is this English?" (It sounded funnier than it might read here.)
Oh, and speaking of the French, last night I went to Paris and had a Heineken at La Pause, courtesy of Google Street View.
What Heidi did yesterday. I wish I did it, too.
The other day in the car, Josh asked, "Why is the moon up in the middle of the day? Is it because it misses seeing the sun?"
Same day in the car, I put in a CD of French songs for children entitlted, Let The Good Times Rouler! Less than fifteen seconds in, Josh asked, "Um, is this English?" (It sounded funnier than it might read here.)
Oh, and speaking of the French, last night I went to Paris and had a Heineken at La Pause, courtesy of Google Street View.
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