Rethink this one?

I’m really not the patriotic and easily offended sort.

But…

On this particular weekend, it strikes me as not in the best of taste–and also pretty fucking creepy–to have an air show going on that involves lots of really loud, low-flying planes that can be heard all over town.

Weekends

Two weekends ago: Plans ruined by car trouble.

Last weekend: Nice visit with emotional undertones.

This weekend: Lots of homework.

Next weekend: I may just sort of watch movies and not react to them (or the world) in any way whatsoever.

Five weekends from now: Shuffle off to Buffalo and points north (and west and east).

NY1

For some reason, I seem to be getting Time Warner Cable’s New York news channel on cable this week. I assume it’s related to the upcoming anniversary–they seem to be running lots of special programming–but it’s kind of a nice change of pace watching their morning news rather than the perky morons on Fox 8.

Soup strainers

Yeah, I have to pretty much agree. It is damned near impossible to look sexy (or even to look like you want to be taken seriously) with a standalone moustache. Not completely impossible, I guess, but damned close.

I once briefly considered doing a blog featuring photos of preposterous facial hair. This was many years ago when I still lived in San Francisco–fertile territory for such things, what with all the hipsters and bears roaming around off-leash and cross-breeding. I got as far as scouting domain names. Should’ve rolled with that. Might have been fun.

Hmmm…

The plot summary

I rather enjoyed this little exercise in creative writing and decided it deserved to be expanded into a new “about the site” page.

I’ve been thinking lately that my life the past few years bears a striking resemblance to The Doris Day Show, with a pretty major format change every year. This seemed a little more entertaining way of saying that than your average self-indulgent navel-gazing post. It also meshes nicely with the fact that so many big events in my life tend to occur in fall or during sweeps.

Season premiere

Otherstream

The long-running dramedy, which began as a mid-season replacement called Planet SOMA in January of 1996, enters its seventeenth season with some big changes in format. Most dramatically, our hero finds himself divorced–co-star Mark Arsenal departed for greener pastures at another network last season but is scheduled for at least one cameo appareance–and increasingly responsible for the care of his aging parents.

Like much of last season, most of the action now takes place in the college library where David works, allowing some youthful contributions to a series whose ratings have been skewing increasingly older in recent years. In October, the series will embark on one of its periodic “field trips” with hilarity expected to ensue somewhere in the vicinity of the Canadian border.

There has been speculation that a later plot development might include a relocation (David moves into the apartment above his parents’ garage?), the addition of a teenage character (the result of a long-forgotten heterosexual encounter from the mid-1990s?), or the death of a beloved long-term character in a helicopter accident somewhere in Korea. The producers would neither confirm nor deny these rumors at press time.

Season Premiere: Sunday, September 11 at 9PM Eastern.

Otherstream: The Plot Summary

Friday from hell

I don’t like to whine, really, but what a shitty day.

I felt a little rotten this morning and stayed home from work, which is fairly unusual for me. But I ended up spending much of the day being inordinately stressed by something really pointless. No, I don’t care to elaborate right now. But I finally finished all related tasks and was headed home to start having my weekend.

And then my car started overheating. It’s no doubt the same problem that almost killed my trip to Atlanta three months ago, an it’s now ruining more weekend plans for me. I think I need a new car.