Monthly Archives: January 2009

Oscar Nominations (or, “Huh?”)

Posted on January 22, 2009 by

See my original predictions here, see the entire list of nominees here. My misses are glaring, although I’d argue they weren’t obvious. I looked up Entertainment Weekly’s predictions, just to see how they did, maybe it’ll be fun to compare … Continue reading →

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Reasons to like the Steelers.

Posted on January 22, 2009 by

The Inauguration is over. The next big overhyped event will be the Super Bowl, and there is talk of the Steelers being the greatest sports franchise in history. Here’s my take – 1 thing I don’t like about them, and 9 things I do. Continue reading →

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Inauguration Day Play-By-Play

Posted on January 21, 2009 by

Video when I get home next week… iMovie is junk and I don’t have Final Cut on this computer…  Here are pictures and the rundown… Cast:  Fletch, PFE115, assorted bit players January 20th, 2009 (all times approximate) 1:30 AM:  Go … Continue reading →

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Oscar Nomination Prognostication

Posted on January 21, 2009 by

Oscar noms announced tomorrow… it’s a little silly for me to put these up such a short time before the actual announcement, but I figure I should at least be on record with my predictions.    Keep in mind, these … Continue reading →

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Hold your horses.

Posted on January 21, 2009 by

Look, it takes time for me to gussy everything up from yesterday’s festivities for you to see.  Just calm down and have a beer and watch Lost tonight.  Or the Shocker game, if you’re brave.   Back soon.

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Travel Day!

Posted on January 19, 2009 by

1:21 pm, DFW Airlines must really be hurting. I’m sitting in DFW and there’s no one here. It’s weird. I’m used to this place being really annoying. Also, on the flight here, they told us they expected it to be … Continue reading →

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This Week on the Agenda

Posted on January 18, 2009 by

Been spending the last couple days putting ducks in rows preparing for the trip to DC. We heard there was something going on out there, so I got the assignment to go find out what the fuss was all about. … Continue reading →

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More random memories

Posted on January 18, 2009 by

More random memories By JP With a great deal of specificity to Wichita: 1. Coca-Cola for a nickel a bottle. If you got it from a machine, you got to push down a giant lever, open a windowed door in … Continue reading →

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Saturday Night/Sunday Morning Music Club

Posted on January 18, 2009 by

Much longer version here, but I like the stark edge of this one.

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Nathan: Cubism: Euclid

Posted on January 15, 2009 by

The greatest straight line that I’ve ever seen happened on an autumn night, almost fourteen years ago.  I say happened because, after that night, it was understood that distance was no longer an accumulation of inches or miles or however … Continue reading →

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