Tuesday, May 01, 2007
American Idol 5/1If you ask me, Blake owned tonight with his beat box rendition of “You Give Love a Bad Name”. It was really great and serves to remind people why Blake is so special on this season. He’s been kind of dull the last few weeks, but he blew them away tonight. Melinda was arguably the second best. It’s a close call. The fact is, no one was bad tonight. Phil continues to shine. Not just his head.
So it’s a hard call who will go tomorrow night. I have a feeling it will be Chris and Lakisha. They just aren’t as popular as the others. Jordin kind of messed up tonight (for her, anyway) but she was still good and I think people like her too much now. Phil has a decent fan base that may be growing. He is this season’s Elliot Yamin. And Dial Idol predictions hold up my guess that Lakisha and Chris are vulnerable. They both did good tonight, but it will be down to their popularity vs the others.
Bon Jovi week provided some good material. Even though it took people out of their comfort zone, they all did well. It’s hard to believe there are only three more episodes to the finale.
Bust Out the Cell Phones
A swarm of bees clustered outside the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Medical Center shut down the emergency room Monday, as officials waited for a beekeeper to come vacuum up the 7,000 insects.
Although no one was stung, the Little Rock emergency room still decided to be closed for ambulance traffic.
“We’ll take walk-ins, but ambulances are being diverted to other hospitals,” UAMS spokeswoman Andrea Peel said.
Doctors did not see any patients with bee stings, but emergency room physician Dr. Delaney Kinchen said it was an important precaution to close the ER while clearing out the bees.
“I’ve been stung thousands of times and never had any problems, but I know people who’ve been stung twice and almost died,” he said.
But I thought all the bees were dying. Could it be that story is just more media crated nonsense? Like, you know, man-made global warming.
The New FF Trailer
It looks a lot better than the first movie, but that’s not saying a whole lot.
Wow, I didn’t know about this!
A Great Idea
An Arizona student came up with an idea for wind turbines powered by the wind cars and trucks generate on the freeway. The only problem with this idea is that there would be no wind generated during rush hour. Still, it’s the kind of idea we’ll probably see a lot more of as we search for more ways to generate clean energy.
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I’m a Marvel and I’m a DC
Whoops.
I was so busy with things on Monday I forgot to post anything. I try to post something once a day, at least. Ah, well.
Lots of things are happening in my world at the moment. I am starting a new job this week that I have been waiting to do for a year now. It will be a very exciting time for me, based on what I know right now. I will get into it later, but I can tell you that it will involve me moving to Vancouver, Washington in a month or so. I like Vegas, there is a lot to do and see. But I have been here 10 years and I’m due for a change. I miss trees and should see lots of them up there. I’m from Northern California originally, so I should feel more at home up there. I have friends living in the area, so that make sit easier, also. And the job is very cool. More info to come.
I am finishing up my comic 2 To the Chest. It should be all done in the next couple of months and then I will decide how I want to bring it out. I am polishing the script for the last issue right now.
I’ll be going to Eastern Europe in a couple of weeks. I plan to take lots of pictures while I’m there. I should have some interesting travel stories as well. The last time I went over there was in 2000, two years before I started blogging.
I’m trying to sort out the things in my house, getting ready for the move. I have a lot of work to do in that area. But I plan to get rid of a lot of stuff, clothes, books, furniture, etc. I’ll just take the essentials. And stuff I don’t want to part with. Moving is a pain.
So, if I haven’t been posting much lately, it’s because I’ve been pretty busy with stuff.
So, what else to talk about…
I was disappointed that Drive was canceled after 4 episodes on Fox. I wa enjoying it. 24 seems to have jumped the shark this season. It’s getting way too silly. Heroes has been great, though, even though they rip off a lot of their ideas from comics. I think the Sopranos and Entourage have been good this season. For once the Sopranos has been focused. I wish they did that sooner. Now it’s almost over.
The last couple of movies I saw: Smoking Aces: Enjoyed it. It’s fun, wacky stuff. Half Nelson: Over-hyped crap. The Queen: Excellently done. Eragon: Star Wars with dragons. Whatever.
Reading: The Children of Hurin by JRR Tolkien. I am also burning through Life Interrupted by Spaulding Gray. It has his last, unfinished monologues which he never performed. It tells the story of his car accident in Ireland which made him depressed ever since, and led to his suicide a couple years ago. I am a fan of his, and they are re-releasing his movies on DVD. So I got the two I was missing. I only had Swimming to Cambodia on VHS before and Gray’s Anatomy on DVD. Now I also have Monster in a Box. If you haven’t seen his stuff, I think it’s great. It’s not for everyone, but I’ll tell you, the first time I saw Swimming to Cambodia, it was on VHS. I watched it and thought it was so good I rewound it and watched it again. I have only done that with one other movie.
Looking forward to Spiderman this week.
