Wednesday
I don’t know when sleep and I became such distant friends, but last night’s excursion to The Dreaming was not as smooth as I would have liked. I got to bed about an hour-and-a-half after I had planned. I didn’t fall immediately to sleep, as I usually do, but I wasn’t awake for very long, either. The problem is that I kept waking up for no apparent reason. The best way to describe the feeling would be to say that it was like being anxious about oversleeping for something.

The morning was made better with back-to-back calls from my uncle and father. My uncle is tentatively coming out here in February. For Super Bowl weekend. That should be fun. And, there’s the additional plus of us having room for him to stay here, as opposed to the last time he came out here – while we were still in the apartment – and he had to stay in a hotel downtown.

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Did some errand-running this afternoon. I also found out that we’re not going to Moab this week. They closed Spanish Fork Canyon, which is on the route to Moab, earlier this afternoon. So… we’re heading out Monday for three or four days.

The night ended at Nyx and Nox’ place for a new RPG. The game started a couple of weeks ago, a session that I missed, but the premise seems interesting. We shall see how it goes.

News
Morning Edition: Program Matches Poor Mothers with Nurses
Morning Edition: Take Two: Goodbye, City Life
Morning Edition: Smithsonian Struggles with History

The Museum of American History is presenting “The Price of Freedom,” a controversial war exhibit that starts with the American Revolution and extends to present-day Iraq. But some historians — and members of the Smithsonian’s advisory board — worry that the museum is telling only part of the story.

Media Matters for America: Coulter: Canada is “lucky we allow them to exist on the same continent”; Carlson: “Without the U.S., Canada is essentially Honduras” (Thanks to for pointing this out to me… and my apologies to friends north of the 54° 40′ for the insipid rantings of a couple of idiotsticks with national media exposure.)

Stray Toasters

  • I’m kind of particular about covers of songs that I like. My feeling is: If you can’t do something to make the song “your own” or do something to enhance the song, don’t cover it. Natalie Merchant does an excellent cover of David Bowie’s Space Oddity. A prime example of a cover gone horribly wrong: Britney Spears’ version of My Prerogative.
  • Since her birthday does not appear on LJ’s birthdays page: A very happy birthday to .
  • Back for a return engagement: Disturbing Auctions
  • : I still have your sunglasses. They say “hi” and they miss you, but they’re doing fine.
  • Let the Good Times Roll, the opening musical track from Quincy Jones’ Q’s Jook Joint CD just played on Winamp. Ray Charles was one of the vocalists on the track. If you haven’t gone to see Ray yet, do so.
  • By way of Broken Frontier: An Ever-Ending Battle

    Superheroes and Mortality are the focus of the new comic book research study launching this week, entitled the Ever-Ending Battle project. Sponsored by A. David Lewis’ Caption Box and already receiving support by organizations such as the International Comic Arts Association, the Broken Frontier news site, and Silent Devil Productions, Ever-Ending Battle plans to explore the “the curious and unique relationship between mortality and the superhero comic book genre,” says its new website.

    The website is: EverEndingBattle.com

  • “Fuzzy Casanova.”
  • By way of : The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the l33t
  • : Click here.
  • : Ultra Boy (v6)

Quote of the Day

She hopped in and she asked “Where we going?”
Yo, we like a twig in the Nile: We just flowin’.

Namaste.