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Patio furniture

May 10, 2003
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The Neighborhood Diner has opened up their patio and, apparently, closed their inside dining area. Or something, but anyhow they wouldn’t let me in, so I had the patio experience under somewhat more breezy conditions than I was prepared for. Less wordily: it was a little chilly and I had no sweater. But the food was good as always and it’s nice to be outside. Next time I’ll bring my laptop down and check for wireless.

Meanwhile, for those of you who’ve wondered what an airplane full of naked people would look like, now you can find out. Real naked people, not naked porn stars sprawled out on top of each other or anything. Life’s surreal.

There is no Juicer

May 9, 2003
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Palladium Books just announced that Jerry Bruckheimer and Walt Disney Films have optioned the Rifts universe for a live action motion picture. Disney also gets dibs on marketing resulting from the movie.

Now, chances are the thing will never get made. Options are just options, and don’t pan out at a high percentage. In fact, it’s kind of goofy of Palladium to announce it — trumpeting your options is sort of a sign of amateur hour. But that’s Palladium for ya, god bless their overpowered little hearts.

Still, I can’t help but imagine Rifts-themed rides at the theme parks.

In my dreams

May 9, 2003
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The political commercial I’d like to see:

OPEN on a shot of Rick Santorum. Smarmy still shot. Something that makes him look like he’s preaching.

VOICEOVER: “This man…”

CUT to similar shot of Bush.

VOICEOVER: “And this man…”

CUT to freezeframe of the infamous Newlywed Game footage. It’s the woman looking embarassed, giggling, caught in the camera’s lens.

VOICEOVER: “Want to send this couple to jail.”

The freezeframe leaps into life. The woman’s speaking, giggling around the words. “I guess that’d be up the butt, Bob.”

CUT to Democratic Party logo. Swelling music.

VOICEOVER: “Vote Democrat. Because we trust you to make your own decisions about that sort of thing.”

Someone came walking through

May 8, 2003
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At one point in his ill-fated reign over the Celtics, Rick Pitino told the team that Larry Bird wasn’t going to “come walking through that door.” He was right. But it looks like Danny Ainge is. This is pretty awesome news. It relieves the team of the burden of Chris Wallace, who has made some good moves but has also made some moves so incredibly boneheaded that I can only say “Wow, what a boneheaded move.” It provides a connection to the most recent Celtics dynasty. And Ainge has a good basketball mind.

He says he’ll keep O’Brien as coach. He’d say that anyways, since the guy has another year on his contract and they just extended the assistant coach contracts to make O’Brien’s. Figure that the next year will be an audition year for the coaching staff; the bar won’t be impossibly high but O’Brien will have to work for a new contract. Not that he hasn’t been working so far, of course.

The big question in my mind is whether Ainge and O’Brien will get along better than O’Brien and Wallace have been. Wallace lost O’Brien’s confidence when he traded for Baker. The GM and coach need to be in sync.

Restoring understanding

May 8, 2003
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It looks like the whole looting question has been more or less cleared up. Various people were quick to jump on reports that only a handful of artifacts were missing. Turns out that there are only a handful missing… now. Because Customs did its job and found thousands of missing items (mostly manuscripts, some artifacts).

Praise is due to the US for making a strong and serious effort to fix the initial mistake. People who can’t wait for the full story to be in before mocking those who mourned the initial loss might want to consider getting a little more patient.