Monday, June 22, 2009
Random Notes, Night at the Museum II edition
by Ken Houghton
So some random notes about it, and around the web:
(1) Lance Mannion did not warn me that the three cherubs are played by The Three Antichrists. Consider yourself so cautioned.*
(2) Ezra schools McMegan. Not that it will do any good.
(3) Did anyone else think Amy Adams at the end looks like a hennaed Erin O'Brien?
(4) The Hunting of the Snark did a two part post weeks ago on McMegan, bankruptcy, and health care that I'm still trying to digest. Which I mean in a good way. If rdan is reading this, yes, I think you should recruit Susan of Texas for Angry Bear; her latest post is a perfect summary of What's Wrong with Contemporary Conservative Thought. Though, as the Good Roger Ailes notes, she's developing a strong following for good reason.
(5) I assume it was the location of the theatre that got a laugh from the audience at the end of the film when Amelia Earhart leaves 77th Street and starts flying to "Canada." YMMV, but the film sorely needed laughs.
*However, since my version of H*ll would feature the "JoBros" performing "More than a Woman" and "This Song Must Drone On," their first appearance does qualify as an Adult Moment in a movie that has more of those than kid jokes.
Yes, Youngest Daughter got to pick the movie for Father's Day/her birthday. Her review: "It was boring." Even worse: that was as compared to her sixth or seventh viewing of Hotel for Dogs.
So some random notes about it, and around the web:
(1) Lance Mannion did not warn me that the three cherubs are played by The Three Antichrists. Consider yourself so cautioned.*
(2) Ezra schools McMegan. Not that it will do any good.
(3) Did anyone else think Amy Adams at the end looks like a hennaed Erin O'Brien?
(4) The Hunting of the Snark did a two part post weeks ago on McMegan, bankruptcy, and health care that I'm still trying to digest. Which I mean in a good way. If rdan is reading this, yes, I think you should recruit Susan of Texas for Angry Bear; her latest post is a perfect summary of What's Wrong with Contemporary Conservative Thought. Though, as the Good Roger Ailes notes, she's developing a strong following for good reason.
(5) I assume it was the location of the theatre that got a laugh from the audience at the end of the film when Amelia Earhart leaves 77th Street and starts flying to "Canada." YMMV, but the film sorely needed laughs.
*However, since my version of H*ll would feature the "JoBros" performing "More than a Woman" and "This Song Must Drone On," their first appearance does qualify as an Adult Moment in a movie that has more of those than kid jokes.
Labels: Erin O'Brien, Health Care, just life, Mannion, movies
Monday, May 18, 2009
Short Subjects
by Ken Houghton
The OnionESPN reports on a bodybuilding championship.
Brad DeLong says the problem isn't that Geithner isn't organized, it's that he doesn't organize, leaving that to his assistants.
Two things that, for some reason, made me think of Erin: this today and this (via The New Yorker's Book Bench).
Another discussion of Harlan, from Nancy Nall, probably via Lance.
For all the complaining some SF(F)WAns do about Scribd, you would think the place was Pure Evil, not a Marketplace for Sf/Fantasy writers (see the screen shot) (also via The Book Bench).
Apparently, not all men from Brussels are naturally "six foot four and full of muscles."
Susan of Texas has an immortal post on the housing crisis, McMegan's ratiocination, and the persistence of ignorant memes.
Brad DeLong says the problem isn't that Geithner isn't organized, it's that he doesn't organize, leaving that to his assistants.
Two things that, for some reason, made me think of Erin: this today and this (via The New Yorker's Book Bench).
Another discussion of Harlan, from Nancy Nall, probably via Lance.
For all the complaining some SF(F)WAns do about Scribd, you would think the place was Pure Evil, not a Marketplace for Sf/Fantasy writers (see the screen shot) (also via The Book Bench).
Apparently, not all men from Brussels are naturally "six foot four and full of muscles."
Labels: Erin O'Brien, just life, Mannion, pop music, sf
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Housecleaning: What I Missed in the Past Week while house-cleaning
by Ken Houghton
There's probably more.
*By the way, does this mean Obama loses a delegate? Chris Wallace should ask The Annoited One-to-Be on his regularly-scheduled Fox News appearance.
**"Since Secretary of State Fall was convicted or receiving a bribe Doheny was acquitted of paying."
***Louis Wu's Birthday Party at the 1989 WorldCon in Boston
This is by no means a comprehensive list.
- You Not Sneaky! dropped two great posts here and here on Malthus, Economics, and Malthusian Economics, complete with a spreadsheet model available for the download (all right, this is really two weeks ago but (1) I need something that keeps this relevant to economics and [2] I really did only find them today)
- Gary Farber is moving from Denver, CO, to Raleigh, NC. Maybe he just can't deal with Democrats. Oh, wait, there's another, much better, reason:
Why Raleigh? Enter: Amygdala Woman. (Sometimes known as "Malibu Stacy.")
Go hit the tip jar, those of you with revenues.* - There have been multiple earthquakes in Reno, but fortunately, Susan Palwick and her husband Gary are fine so far. Our best wishes to them and others, some of whom were likely not so lucky.
- Larry Niven, who is independently wealthy to the extent of having a relative of his named in a passage blind-reffing the Teapot Dome scandal in a Heinlein novel** and was responsible for Shira's last Major Fandom Event Participation,*** has gone completely bonkers (sad h/t to Dr. Black).
- Erin uses cold cream. My imagination runs wild, but not on a family blog.
- Janelle of Bond Girl Fame hasn't posted an update on the injuries on the set of the latest film, but one can understand that she has other things on her mind.
- I was expecting Rory at Eat Our Brains to respond to this post of Patrick's, but he has (instead?) decided to become a Zen Master or something, and, finally,
- Shira can rejoin SFWA (though I still need to find out who the Canadian Regional Director is).
There's probably more.
*By the way, does this mean Obama loses a delegate? Chris Wallace should ask The Annoited One-to-Be on his regularly-scheduled Fox News appearance.
**"Since Secretary of State Fall was convicted or receiving a bribe Doheny was acquitted of paying."
***Louis Wu's Birthday Party at the 1989 WorldCon in Boston
Labels: Eat Our Brains, Erin O'Brien, just life, MakingLight, sf
Monday, February 04, 2008
In the Grand Tradition of Isadora?
by Ken Houghton
She didn't put a limit on it, so they can range from "Does Cleveland Rock?" to "How does it feel to live near a Ghost Town?" to "Have you ever met Lea Thompson, or the members of Cherry Bomb?"
Go ask Erin questions.
She didn't put a limit on it, so they can range from "Does Cleveland Rock?" to "How does it feel to live near a Ghost Town?" to "Have you ever met Lea Thompson, or the members of Cherry Bomb?"
Labels: blogging, Erin O'Brien, Meta
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
PSA
by Ken Houghton
(Try not to contribute too many more Bad 1970s Songs to the thread though.)
Throw Erin some love.
(Try not to contribute too many more Bad 1970s Songs to the thread though.)
Labels: Erin O'Brien, pop music
Thursday, July 12, 2007
IFAQ, part 2: eight possible things before breakfast
by Ken Houghton
Continuing Tom's post below, mainly because I need to finish the tagging:
Tags: Ms. Mochi-tsuki (who is as brilliant as her father), al zorra (who is as brilliant as her husband), and Susan (who is brilliant).
And President-to-be Erin, of whose brilliance I shouldn't have to convince anyone who reads here regularly.
UPDATE: Erin comes through with flying colors.
Continuing Tom's post below, mainly because I need to finish the tagging:
- I made my "television debut" (one of those kid shows, as a birthdayer/audience member) in 1967. Except for a brief appearance on The David Susskind Show ca. 1980 (non-speaking), I have managed never to do it again.
- When Shira and I visited Israel in 1999, we stayed at the Park Hotel in Netanya. That hotel is the one that was attacked at Passover, 2002. What the American press appears not to have mentioned is that it was primarily a French hotel (French staff, French visitors, etc.). Why they would leave that out in early 2002, I don't know.
- A high school teacher who lived down the road asked why I wasn't going to one of the military academies on graduation. At the time, I weighed about 107 pounds.
- I first left North America in, I believe, 1988.
- I first went below the Mason-Dixon line (not counting Washington D.C. as a tourist, or for weddings) when I started my MBA at UGA in 2000.
- Except for diving trips and a Thanksgiving in Montreal, I have never traveled anywhere outside of the U.S. except to the United Kingdom and the above-referenced trip to Israel.
- I am from a long line of ancestral Republicans, and wish the party still existed.
- I know several really brilliant women, but very few of them blog. (There may be a connection there.)
Tags: Ms. Mochi-tsuki (who is as brilliant as her father), al zorra (who is as brilliant as her husband), and Susan (who is brilliant).
And President-to-be Erin, of whose brilliance I shouldn't have to convince anyone who reads here regularly.
Labels: Erin O'Brien, Meme-A-Riffic
Thursday, May 10, 2007
More Similarity between EOB and E. O'B
by Ken Houghton
Compare this from Maureen at EOB with this from E. O'B.
Labels: Eat Our Brains, Erin O'Brien
My Unity Party Ticket
by Ken Houghton
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Erin 2008. Not certain about that second point, but the rest of the platform is solid, especially this:
The problem is that she needs a Vice President. And it should be someone with whom she gets along well, and who can appeal to those who might not be thrilled about the Screaming Yellow Zonkers and promise of nude pictures.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Rory Harper.*
So the only question is who should be president, and what their slogan should be. Subject to approval of the candidates (and given that Rory hasn't announced yet):
*Whose post provoked this response from his fellow EoBer, Steve Gould.
While I can't argue with the appeal of Sharpton/Tancredo as a choice, and my preferred mainstream candidate (of those currently declared) is no secret—especially in light of recent events—I've been waiting for an Exciting Candidate Who Wasn't a Year Behind Me in College.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Erin 2008. Not certain about that second point, but the rest of the platform is solid, especially this:
Everyone can still bear all the arms they want, but bullets will cost $10,000 each and will only be available for sale between the hours of 4 and 4:30 a.m. on the third Wednesday of every month at a remote outpost deep in the heart of Death Valley.
The problem is that she needs a Vice President. And it should be someone with whom she gets along well, and who can appeal to those who might not be thrilled about the Screaming Yellow Zonkers and promise of nude pictures.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Rory Harper.*
So the only question is who should be president, and what their slogan should be. Subject to approval of the candidates (and given that Rory hasn't announced yet):
O'Brien/Harper: Because Erin Should Be On Top.
*Whose post provoked this response from his fellow EoBer, Steve Gould.
Labels: 2008, Eat Our Brains, Erin O'Brien, Politics, Unity08
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
In Case You Missed It II: Eight Days a Week
by Ken Houghton
Ms. Erin O'Brien has a guest post at Eat Our Brains.
This is probably grounds for adding another day to the calendar week. Or doubling down on a rotating basis.
It was inevitable, but the key is how naturally it fits in.
Ms. Erin O'Brien has a guest post at Eat Our Brains.
This is probably grounds for adding another day to the calendar week. Or doubling down on a rotating basis.
Labels: Eat Our Brains, Erin O'Brien
