Archive for July, 2007
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
Meet Scoop Gibson of Springfield
Work paid my way to go see The Simpsons Movie, otherwise I might be waiting until the DVD came out. Then again, it’s had pretty good reviews, so I might have found a couple hours to sneak the movie in. On the movie’s Web site I created this character, Scoop Gibson.
My comments about the […]
3 Comments » - Posted in Pop Culture, Musings by Steven Gardner
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
Harry Potter and the Lowlife Spoilers
I just finished the final Harry Potter book. There are plenty of other places to read about the book itself, so I won’t go into my critique, other than to say I enjoyed it.
What I noticed, however, was how afraid I was that some buttball out there might ruin the ending for me. I had […]
3 Comments » - Posted in Pop Culture by Steven Gardner
Friday, July 13th, 2007
Oh Happy Day
Circa 2002 or so. Some of the people in this photo were not acting.
2 Comments » - Posted in Family by Steven Gardner
Monday, July 9th, 2007
Presidents and Generals
This morning I read this story in the New York Times. It tells how intelligence showed a top terrorist was at a site in Pakistan near the Afghanistan border, that our military was ready to take him out and then Rumsfeld called it off. His reason was to maintain our relationship with Pakistan.
I predicted this […]
2 Comments » - Posted in News by Steven Gardner
Wednesday, July 4th, 2007
An American’s Story
Darn you, Plaschke, for making me cry on Independence Day.
We take it for granted, don’t we? We’ve lived next to Dodger Stadium for so long, we ignore its beauty, shrug at its charm and lose sight of that funky streaking baseball.
We are so worried about the lousy concession lines, inconsistent parking and cramped concourses, we […]