Prince Albert takes over in Monaco.

They let him out of the can, I see.

Just beat it.

Yay!

HBO Renews 'Deadwood' for Third Season.

How long will we have to wait, I wonder?

Terri Schiavo has died.

She's found peace at last, I hope. Maybe we'll all have a little peace now.

Woman gives birth in car before police pull her over at gunpoint: "'She caught that baby, put it to her chest, gave me a look, like, 'I gotta go,' closed the door, put the van in gear and away she went.'"

OK, that's funny.

Patrick Kennedy Will Not Run for Senate: "In a statement, Kennedy did not cite family responsibilities as a reason for his decision, but he and his brother and sister recently took temporary guardianship of his mother to ensure she receives treatment for her alcoholism. Patrick Kennedy was seeking to become her permanent legal guardian."

I guess I didn't realize Joan was as far gone as she is.

Which Johnny Depp are you?

You Are Ed Wood From "Ed Wood."

You definitely have your name in history, although probably not for the reason you believe. Yet you are very accepting, non-judgemental, and optimistic almost to a fault. You also have a thing for angora sweaters. How could anyone not like you?

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Joan Kennedy hospitalized with broken bones: "Joan Kennedy, the former wife of Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, is in the hospital recuperating from a concussion and a broken shoulder after a passer-by found her lying in a street, according to her son."

Yikes. I wonder what happened to her? She was probably drunk, unfortunately, but did she get hit by a car? Get beat up? Again, yikes.

Don't. Get. Eliminated!

You're Vic Romano! You're almost always calm and
cool, but sometimes you'll get a little angry.

Which MXC Character are you?

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So here's my question: When the hell are they going to put this show on DVD?

Be F*cked! The Quotes Thread

Al: "I have just fled my own office in horror at his fucking dimwittedness."



TWoP Forum for the best Deadwood quotes.

How about:

EB: "August beginning to my adiministration. Being locked outside standing next to a degenerate tit-licker"

Or perhaps this exchange:

Calamity Jane: “I'm calling on the widow and the little one in her care, and if I was you I wouldn't try to stop me."

EB Farnum: "Be brief."

Calamity Jane: "Be Fucked!"

EB Farnum: "Her gutter mouth, and the widow in an opium stupor. A conversation for the ages.”

Makes me laugh right out loud.

There are just too many to choose from.

Chili Con Finger

Officials: Diner finds finger in chili: "'This individual apparently did take a spoonful, did have a finger in their mouth and then, you know, spit it out and recognized it,' said Ben Gale, director of the department of environmental health for Santa Clara County. 'Then they had some kind of emotional reaction and vomited.'"

Nooo, really?

Drive-by Review

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason - Only so-so, definitely not as good as the first, which wasn't even as good as the audio version of the book, imo. I think it all comes down to my lack of love for Renee Zellwegger. Still, I think Edge of Reason could have been a lot better, especially if they didn't make Bridget such a pathetic case. The director (a woman) must have some serious self-hate issues. Colin and Hugh are very cute, as is the interview between Bridget and Colin Firth, included in the extras.

Beating a dead horse, so to speak.

The man behind "Deadwood": "David Milch talks about turning the sanitized Hollywood western on its head with foul-mouthed misfits and miscreants who, no matter how vile, are touched by the divine."

I'll get you to watch this show if it's the last thing I do.

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Look at what this fight is doing to these poor people.

Please, just let her go, for everyone's sake.

'Alone' at the top.

I've been watching American Idol this season, enough to know who I like (Bo, Carrie, Nadia) and who I don't (Constantine, Mikhala), so I wanted to just make a quick comment about last night's show.

Bo is still my favorite, but when Carrie started belting out the chorus of Heart's 'Alone', she nearly won me over. I've still got goosebumps thinking about it. (the hair has got to go though, honey)

Oh COME ON.

Enough already:

Mar 23: Rain and snow this evening, becoming all snow overnight. Snow may be heavy at times. Low around 30F. Winds NE at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of precip 90%. 6 to 10 inches of snow expected.

Mar 24: Snow during the morning will taper off and give way to cloudy skies during the afternoon. High around 40F. Winds NNE at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of snow 80%. 1 to 3 inches of snow expected. "

Drive-by Review

The Manchurian Candidate - Fair for a thriller, but pales in comparison to the original. Acting was above-average on all counts, but the screenplay was too cluttered and not enough time was spent on Raymond (Schrieber). Worth the rental, but if you're going to rent anything, see the 1962 original with Lawrence Harvey, Frank Sinatra and an evil evil Angela Lansbury.

The Schiavo Case.

I suppose I should weigh in on this with my opinion. I'll keep it short and sweet - there are enough gasbags out there with something to say on this.

This should never have gone on as long as it has. It is a private matter, and not a right-to-life issue. It is certainly not the business of the federal government. Congress, I think, could find other things to spend their time on. The President should know better. The courts have decided, over and over again, in favor of the husband. Case closed. Let the poor woman go.

It might be time to get that Living Will in order.

Life imitates art again.

Life: "Prosecutors are investigating the death of a man who was subdued by several fellow airline passengers after he became disruptive on a New York-bound flight, a spokesman said Sunday."

Art.

Drive-by Reviews

Shaun of the Dead - Funniest movie I have seen in years. Great take on a classic horror movie, and still managed to have some truly scary moments mixed into the fun. Need to buy, I think.

The Incredibles - Did buy, and very glad about it. Wonderful movie, with a theme (the evils of mediocrity) I found personally appealing. See this movie!

De Nada.

Speaking of Spanish, are you looking to hook up with that Latin cutie from across the way, but just can't find the right words? Here, let me help.

Dios Mio!

'Alias' en Espanol: "Regular viewers of ABC's 'Alias' will notice something a little different about Wednesday's episode. And it's not just that the series' central character, the leggy superspy Sydney Bristow (played by Jennifer Garner), makes only a cameo appearance. The dialogue in the episode, which is set primarily in Argentina, will be almost entirely in Spanish, with English subtitles. "

It's no secret that I'm not too jazzed about the whole Nadia thing, and I've been really enjoying that most recent episodes, one reason probably being the low Nadia-count. Now I guess she's returning with a vengeance. This oughta be a true test of my love for the show.

Celeblogger

Attack of the celebrity blogs: "From Rosie's ramblings to Melanie Griffith's cringe-inducing memos to herself, the rich and famous are increasingly exposing themselves online. Why? "

"Don't tell me what I can't do!"

Take the quiz: "Which LOST character are you?"



Locke
You are Locke. You are the Ambassador of the island. You can be a wierdo at times, but you know more than anyone else.

Happy St. Patrick's Day

1991, Inishmore, Aran Islands

My other favorite show.

Welcome (back) to 'Deadwood': "It is, in no particular order, a western, a gangster picture, a political drama, a lewd farce and a comedy of manners; an operatic potboiler chock full of sex, violence and profanity; a sustained long-form narrative that interweaves parallel plots tighter than hangman's rope; a satire on American hypocrisy and greed; a portrait of needy, ambitious people who see through other people's illusions but cleave tight to their own; a revisionist look at frontier life; a case study of a civilization struggling to create itself, and a weekly showcase for characters and dialogue so rich in complexity and contradiction that they deserve to be called Shakespearean. "

You've gotta see this show.

Not your father's Battlestar Galactica: "This new "Battlestar" series, which has already been renewed for a second, 20-episode season, isn't just about killing the alien bad guys -- it's about love, sex, survival, freedom and friendship, and finding out that the bad guys might be good guys, or maybe even God. If you dismiss the show because you don't think you like sci-fi TV, you're missing out a stellar drama with an increasingly impressive cast."

Garber and Garner, Side by Side

SpyDaddy and Syd Sing for charity: "Garber, who rehearsed his big musical number with Garner on the Alias set in her trailer, recalled his very first 'musical' was his bar mitzvah at age 13, 'and I was very good in it.' "

Of course he was.

McKellen will fulfill Coronation Street dream: "He will play Mel Hutchwright, a flamboyant romance novelist with a host of secrets, in episodes due to start airing in May. "

God, why doesn't BBCAmerica carry Coronation Street?

Fug Is The Next Big Thing.

The good, the bad and the fugly: "'Being ugly implies a plainness; there's no shock to it, and there's no sense of being taken aback by something's hideousness,' wrote Cocks, 27, in an e-mail. 'Ugly is straightforward. But when you're fugly, you are fantastically, furiously ugly -- the level of atrociousness is more of a shock -- 'Oh my GOD, what was she THINKING? Oh NO!'' (Picture a barefoot Britney in a public bathroom.) 'That, to me, makes fugly a notch or five worse than ugly.'
Calling someone out on it, she adds, 'is just our way of pointing out to them that they've had a hand in their own sartorial idiocy.' "

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The Outing of Anderson Cooper?

Out.com's Michael Musto drops hints about Cooper's predilections, and breaks my heart. With a really BAD accompanying photo.

How about a Monica Lewinsky joke while you're at it?

Judge: Leno Can Tell Jokes About Jackson: "The judge also joked about Leno on Friday, saying 'I'd like him to tell good jokes ... but I guess I can't control that.' "

We here at tig.com find it sort of pathetic that Leno's fighting so hard to tell his corny, predictable Michael Jackson jokes. Anyone else think so?

Sigh.

OK, God, it was nice for maybe the first 15 snowstorms we had this year. Now? Not so nice anymore.

I was so happy yesterday that the predicted snow, even though it started earlier than they thought it would, amounted to almost nothing, a mere dusting. Then I woke up this morning, with the intention of going into the office for an hour, and was greeted with the sight of at least 6 inches of new snow. And it's still snowing.

I just want it to stop. Please.

So anyhoo, here I am! Many apologies for the lack of posts, but real life has been dogging me recently, real life being mostly work. I expect things to calm down by the end of next week, though, at which point like should get back to normal here.

Thanks for hanging in there!

Jesus Christ!

Cuddle Bug goes for a ride.

Martha is Sprung

I'm considering breaking some sort of small law, small enough that I get a 5 or 6 month sentence, so when I get out I'll look better than when I went in. She looks great.

Don't you f*ckin' forget.

The season 2 of HBO's Deadwood airs on Sunday night at 9:00. Watch it or Al will feed you to that c*cks*cker Wu's f*ckin' pigs.

This made me smile: "Members of the North Dakota House of Representatives show support for Read Across America Day by wearing 'Cat in the Hat' stovepipe hats in the House chamber at the Capitol in Bismarck, N.D., on Wednesday, March 2, 2005."

Pass the butter, please!

Seriously, though, that's a damn shame.

The Oscar party table I wish I was seated at.