Chasing Papi

I read the video reviews every Friday so I can get some ideas for movies to put in my Netflix queue. The Augusta Chronicle publishes about a half dozen condensed versions of the Roger Ebert review. (I don’t always agree with Roger, but I always find him entertaining.) Here is the review for the movie Chasing Papi:

A feature-length jiggle show designed to display Roselyn Sanchez, Sofia Vergara and Jaci Velasquez in a way that would make your average Maxim reader feel right at home. They play the girlfriends of the three-timing Papi (Eduardo Verastegui), and when they arrive simultaneously at his home the plot requires them to run through a lot of scenes wearing high heels and squealing with passion or fear or delight, while a stupendous amount of jiggling goes on.

The primordial man in me is intrigued by this and is trying to figure out how to “accidentally” get Netflix to deliver this movie.

Here is his full review.

Shopping Trip

With our whole day off we decided to go over to Augusta and do some shopping. Donna won a $25 gift certificate to Sports Authority and it was burning a hole in her pocket. We also wanted to go to Bed, Bath & Beyond to pick up a gift card for Donna’s Mom to take to Seattle next week as a gift for her brother’s wedding.

While we were over there we went in a few other stores looking for just the right prizes for tomorrow’s Master’s Miata Club Bug Splat Rally – read cheap. By the time we came back to Aiken it was near 2:00 PM and in the lower 90’s, but the humidity must have been down as it felt hot, not oppressive.

Tonight we drove downtown and got a dish of ice cream and wandered around looking in shop windows. Well Donna was looking in windows, I was looking for possible spots to try out the night mode on my digital camera by taking pictures of the Miata.

Purchased Today: $0
Money spent since 03/03/03: $1181.24
Started down, still down.
Top Transitions since 02/02/03: 213

1/2 Vacation Day

We only had 1 day left of unscheduled vacation and I was hoping to use it the day before Thanksgiving for the drive to eff-el-ay, but Donna won out. She wanted to take a 1/2 day tomorrow (leaving a half for November) so we wouldn’t have to go in to work at all. We now have a 4 day weekend and nothing planned, zero. Seems almost a waste to me, but then again any day out of the office is a good day. With any luck our Powerball numbers will come in on Saturday and we’ll never have to go back.

Just A Little Over Sensitive?

Got a response from my arbiter of taste. Seems he now thinks he was hasty. I think so too, but that does mean he isn’t right. There probably are folks who might find those images distasteful, but I’m sure they are very few and very far between.

Hey Brian, I came on strong. I apologize for that, and I really did mean what I said about best intentions. I realized later that I probably just took it the wrong way, I really came off pretty defensivly right off the bat. And, I did mean what I said about liking those cars too! I actually used to have a datsun Z with the barndoor headlights, had to sell it for school.. Hopefully some day I’ll get another. Anyway, my apologies. Take Care.

I’m Gonna Be In The Paper. Maybe.

Don’t worry I finished the newsletter. Print it up tomorrow at work, collate it at home and in the mail Friday, right on schedule.

I may or may not have my picture in the Sunday paper. I may or may not have my pearls of wisdom printed in the Sunday paper. I know somebody who knows somebody is how it happened.

The local rag, the Aiken Standard, is doing a Sunday feature this week on the plethora of specialty SC license plates. The reporter who interviewed me said that there are 96 different plates available with 6 more on the way. I have Share The Road plate from the Palmetto Cycling Coalition (picture is about halfway down the plate page.) I was not the only person photographed or interviewed so we will see what gets published.

Purchased Today: $0
Money spent since 03/03/03: $1181.24
Started down, still down.
Top Transitions since 02/02/03: 213

Troll or Concerned Citizen?

Got an interesting email last night and I am not sure what to make of it. The subject line was “taste..” Go and look at this page I have on the Barndoor Fan Club site called Barndoors Down Through History and now read the email reproduced in it’s entirety below. What do you think?

I can understand your “taste” in headlights but perhaps you should consider some “taste” where you place superimposed images of a car. I am not trying to be rude, honestly, in fact I am not even sure how I stumbled across your sight or why I am wasting my time on this email. I will say though, I realize you “love barndoors” and “mourn their loss,” and will “continue to cherish their retro beauty”. Just realize that some people might mourn the loss of great leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King and J.F.K. or those lost in the vietnam war, and would also like to cherish the beauty of thier memory and would prefer not to have images of such horrible events made worse by placing in a lame superimposed image of a cheap imported convertable. Really, there are other historical events that you could use instead.. consider perhaps, a miata driving down a dusty street with two huge buildings falling behind it- hilarious!, or maybe one behind Ghandi while he is fasting to stop the brittish empire- he he… actually no, perfect, have a miata speeding away from Princess Diana’s crash scene ;). See what I mean, there are soooo many other great historical events to defile! But I reeeealy love the one where the Berlin wall was going up.. that-cold-war-was soooo silly! and the suferage parade, ha, that one’l keep me giggling all night!

don’t get me wrong, miatas did have very nice headlights. Just consider some taste.

If that whole section was done with best intentions, than so was this email. Please realize though, that your best intentions may be offensive to some.

Can You Hear Me Now?

This evening as my wife and took our walk around the neighborhood at dark, we were marveling at the fireflies. I don’t know if it has been the really wet weather that has kept them scarce or what, but tonight they were everywhere. A few minutes into the walk we were passed by a 20-something fellow on a mountain bike with no lights or reflectors. We exchanged hellos and off he went. As Donna and I started discussing his unsafe riding habits once he was about 20 yards away he pegged the stupid-o-meter. He suddenly swerved across to the other lane as he reached into his pocket to answer his cell phone. At least he was travelling down a quiet street with little chance of getting flattened by an automobile.