Sisterhood of the travelling Pets

What if we all took our pets everywhere and we expected people to be 'ready' for them.

"Hi I'm bringing my 2 cats to the party tonight, is there a room with a litter box and some water where they will be safe but still get to enjoy the party? " (also implying that if they were a good host they would have some cat treats so the cats don't feel left out of all the fun.)

Then someone will bring their pet mice and they get out of their cage and between the boa constrictor Jeff brought and my cats those mice are soon history and all the while the little yappy dog is yap yap yap yap yapping away.

Then the pit bull breaks loose from its' chain in the yard and comes in and is in a frenzy and starts chewing up the children(the cats are smart enough to get up really high out of reach). And we won't even mention the miniature horses that came and the little presents that are left every where.

Doesn't that sound like fun!!!

My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park by Steve Kluger


I enjoyed this book, which is told through journals, e mails and text messages of 3 High School Freshmen. But it was a rather lame way to write a book. There wasn't a lot of teen angst, but their should be a more than this!


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Dressed: A Century of Hollywood Costume Design by Deborah Nadoolman Landis

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rating: 5 of 5 stars
This is a great book for a movie buff. It is organized by decade and features photos of the movie stars in their costumes w/ commentary by the the actor/actress, designer or director. Just a lot of fun.



I learned that you can make "chain mail" from hemp rope and painting it silver. A chance to put those macreme skills to use for halloween ;).


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Week of Concerts

Last November, I went to 4 concerts in one week. Sunday was Jim Gaffigan at the Paramount, he pretty much did his Beyond the Pale show. It was fun the seats were extremely uncomfortable. R and G got their pic taken w/ Jim after the show.

Wednesday and Friday I saw Sonny Landreth in concert, Wednesday at Triple Door in Seattle and Friday at JazzBones in Tacoma. He was superb. The Triple Door is more a 'concert' nightclub, and JazzBones if more of a bar. Both shows were great and fitting the settings the 1st was rather formal and the next more casual. I really should have blogged about this at the time.

Darcy and Josh came into town on Friday and attended Sonny with me in Tacoma, though they had come to town to see HIM.




HIM played Saturday at Showbox SoDo, a venue near Safeco Field. Showbox SoDo is just a big empty room, with a bar on one side. It was a fun show. The opening band Bleeding Through (or something like that) did that scream shouting vocals which is tedious, even though on occasion the singer would actually sing and he was good. HIM were really good. Pretty too.

EXCITEMENT ON MY STREET

Last Thursday morning, all of a sudden my street became the sight a lot of police action.

A bit before 9 am I heard many sirens, but didn't pay a lot of attention as my street is used as a shortcut for police and fire. Then I heard gunshots, that got my attention, I peeked out my east window just instinctually knowing it was happening at the 7-11. YIKES Seattle Police, Shoreline Police, marked cars, unmarked cars.

So of course I went for my camera, which had gasp it's last gasp of life. So the pics below are from my phone camera.

KOMO channel 4 report

Seattle Times report

PLAYOFF BASEBALL BROADCASTING

Game 2 of the ALCS went for a long time. What gripes me is the broadcasters were like "wow what a long game" well duh you freaking morons, FOX adds at least a minute longer to each commercial break than games normally have. So how can they be so damn amazed?

Tim McCarver continues to underwhelm with his hardly insightful analysis. He must have something on the bigwigs at Fox Sports, that can be the only explanation for his continued employment.

Who the hell dresses Craig Sager? I'm all for people expressing themselves, but sheesh some of outfits make me wish for black and white tv.

KJR 950 AM Seattle's ESPN affilliate, is very spotty on having the games on the radio. When they aren't having the game they suggest tuning to 850 AM for the ballgame. I don't know where that station is located, but it isn't in Seattle and it has a VERY weak signal. If I do happen to tune it in it has so much static barely a word can be heard. SIGH.