Marathon TV

Posting with Jason on lap. You'd think that Dakota would have been harder than Jason for this, but Dakota was less wiggly when I would type.

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Stuff like above will just haapxpen with a little help from the baby editor. Anyway-- The new year is a time to make important resolutions. Be resolved to watch the TV that you missed. I'll help:

exciting tv

• dick clark's rockin new year with ryan seacrest
  
• NBC's l&o suv marathon
  
• cartoon network Metalocalypse marathon
  
• food network Ace of kidneys marathon. I'm kidding. It's called the "Ace of Cakes" Hi, Greg Chwerchak! This is followed by a full day of Bubby Flay. Hey, that rhymes! In truth, I hate Bobby Flay. Ever since I saw him give the worst misadvice on how to fry a turkey.
  
• SCI-FI Channel 26 hour Twilightzone marathon!!!! I remember when this was strictly a WPIX deal, but as I don't get that channel, GO SCI FI!!! This was the greatest pinball game ever.
  
• BBCA's traditional new year's eve AbFab Marathon WHeels on fire! Rolling down the road...
  
• CMT Hee Haw Marathon Hee Haw aired at the same time as "Laugh In" the difference was that Hee Haw used computers to edit the show and laugh-in did it manually. Hee Haw lasted a billion years longer than Laugh-in and the jokes are still as funny as they ever were (I understand that this is a matter of taste, but even if you don't think that Minnie Pearl is amusing, my statement is still true).
  
• TNT will ALSO have a law & order marathonn. No link. TNT is for suckers.
  

Mister Chime as it is mere he.

I like cofee.

I am tired of lame visual puns about Java and Linux and I wish they would stop.

This is supposed to be the header graphic

Instead of that corny racetrack thingy. Instead, I have it on the bottom. Ben Loggins, if you are still reading this blog, you can tell me where I messed up on the CSS. "For starters you never really learned it."

True. This is all one protracted study break from Labor Law. Labor Law is an invitation to an ugly fracas.


Finally, NPR had some dofus music critic put down "Christmas is 4 ever" the Bootsy Collins Christmas album. I just downloaded it from iTunes. It's awesome.

Billy Wilson joins indiehq

I have changed the header on this blog to reflect that Billy Wilson has discontinued his blog in order to be a part of a bigger blog. "Indiehq" is pronounced like "Indeed" with an "eek!" at the end, as in a word that rhymes with "William Li is a big geek!"

Three Ice Skating Snowmen Bring a Message of "Peace on Earth"

I'll start with an aside: We just had a brownout that took out the whole block. Was it the Snowmen? I think so. Because I am on a laptop, everything stayed up. Go battery power!

On to what I was going to say:

Years from now, I will probably wonder how I talked myself into this, but I was just thinking about how when I was in elementary school, we used to do musical numbers every year that were about Christmas, which I always like. I don't suppose you can do that now. In particular, they always did "We need a little Christmas" from Mame. Look that up in wikipedia and you'll understand why the rest of the musical is pretty much unperformable now. Anyway... here is the Libretto:

Mame:
Haul out the holly;
Put up the tree before my spirit falls again.
Fill up the stocking,
I may be rushing things, but deck the halls again now.
For we need a little Christmas
Right this very minute,
Candles in the window,
Carols at the spinet.
Yes, we need a little Christmas
Right this very minute.
It hasn't snowed a single flurry,
But Santa, dear, we're in a hurry;
So climb down the chimney;
Put up the brightest string of lights I've ever seen.
Slice up the fruitcake;
It's time we hung some tinsel on that evergreen bough.
For I've grown a little leaner,
Grown a little colder,
Grown a little sadder,
Grown a little older,
All:
And I need a little angel
Sitting on my shoulder,
Need a little Christmas now.
Mame:
Haul out the holly;
Well, once I taught you all to live each living day.
All:
Fill up the stocking,
Young Patrick:
But Auntie Mame, it's one week from Thanksgiving Day now.
All:
But we need a little Christmas
Right this very minute,
Candles in the window,
Carols at the spinet.
Yes, we need a little Christmas
Right this very minute.
Agnes:
It hasn't snowed a single flurry,
But Santa, dear, we're in a hurry;
Ito:
So climb down the chimney;
Put up the brightest string of lights I've ever seen.
All:
Slice up the fruitcake;
It's time we hung some tinsel on that evergreen bough.
For we need a little music,
Need a little laughter,
Need a little singing
Ringing through the rafter,
And we need a little snappy
"Happy ever after,"
Need a little Christmas now.
Need a little Christmas now.

How's that ditty go again?

1. For the Money
2. For the Show
3. To get ready, and
4. To go!

Forget the money part, Dakota preforms for the love of the game. Or the show as it is in this case. Tonight is the first of 4 Nutcracker on Ice: All Jazzed Up! shows that she is skating all weeknd. This year she is a toy and a mouse - meaning she gets to fight soldiers and then die dramatically on the ice! She is totally thrilled, as am I to see the whole thing on Sunday. Till then, I am doing my duty as an involved mother - AKA dressing room mom, er, wrangler. How much trouble can 12 3 4 5 and 6 year olds get into? ha ha ha

We are chilling at home until Will gets out of work, and then we will scarf some grindage, and hit the road to the rink. How glad am I right now that we are actually as close as we are?

I'll post the link to pics in a few weeks when they are available. Till then, enjoy last year's...

http://cnsphotos.dynalias.com/nutcracker2005/Group1/index.htm Can you find Dakota? Hint, she is a tuxedo wearing cat. Tres cute!

and here http://cnsphotos.dynalias.com/nutcracker2005/Tots/index.htm you have to look harder for her, as they are all wearing the same costume.

And here are the pics of Dakota's current skating coach, last year as the featured guest skater http://cnsphotos.dynalias.com/nutcracker2005/Special_Guest/index.htm

enjoy!

Thank you for your thoughts and prayers

Sometime this evening, my beppe, my grandmother, passed away. She had wanted to die at home, but she decided earlier that it was more important for her suffering to end, and less important where, and she passed easily (they tell me). She did recieve the pictures this morning that I fedexed, and the card my brother sent.

Thank you all for your kind thoughts and words. I am reacting very oddly and calmly right now, but I am sure that the full force of this will hit me very, very soon.

She may be "gone", but she will live on forever in my heart and memory, and in the hearts and memories of my family.

Peace.