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Monday – 18 January 2010
Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (1, 2).

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Yesterday was a pretty quiet and low-key day. After a little time spent in Paragon City, while SaraRules did… hm… whatever she did while I was saving the world, we headed over to the in-laws’ for dinner and a movie. The dinner fare was a rather tasty homemade chicken pot pie; the movie was Terminator: Salvation.

I watched last night’s pilot of Human Target this morning. As I mentioned before, I was a little concerned about how they would deal with Christopher Chance as a bodyguard, since they had done away with his “master of disguise” persona. They took a rather simple way around it: He just tailors his persona to blend into to the job/lifestyle of his client. It wasn’t groundbreaking, but I enjoyed it. A reviewer noted the following:

The New York Times stated, “because he’s a human target, he has no problem blowing out of exploding buildings … with nary a scratch. Think Jack Bauer with excellent grooming.

Yep, that was pretty spot-on… except he didn’t have the patented Jack Bauer growl. Oh, well, it was still fun. And, there was even a cameo by [SPOILER REDACTED] in the last couple of minutes of the show! That was an amusing twist. I might just have a new Wednesday night viewing habit.

Stray Toasters

• Lost King Speech to be Heard after 50 Years
• SaraRules sent links to a few interesting articles:
  • Theatre: Staging stories of black experience
  • Obamas give $10,000 to Detroit youth theatre
  • When Fear Turns Graphic
  • James Cameron rejects claims Avatar epic borrows from Russians’ sci-fi novels
• I’m watching Conan O’Brien on a rebroadcasted episode of Inside the Actor’s Studio. I have no idea if Bravo is airing this because of the latest kerfuffle or if it really was luck of the draw. Either way, in listening to this interview, I’m finding a newfound measure of respect for him. (But, I’m still a Letterman and Ferguson guy.)
• Disney’s Looking at Paintings: An Introduction to Fine Art for Young People
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• Urban prankster Mark Jenkins art show in Hollywood
• Is it just me or does the “Hungry” monster from Weight Watchers commercials…

  

  …look a lot like Gossamer, from old Warner Brothers cartoons:

  

• Tetris blanket
• With the amount of racket they’re making, it sounds like they are remodeling the apartment behind ours.
• From the “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot..?!” file: At Large: Teen Bandit. Even Larger: His Legend

Time to start thinking about what to do with my day…

Namaste.