survivor is going to be GOOD!

Not only was Jeff extra mean to the contestants, not only did we totally predict who would be voted off first (and second!), not only is there a really bitchy gay guy, but...

The tattoo girl...?

Hot, hot, hot, hot, hot!

(Dave eagerly awaits Angie's inevitable pictorial on Suicide Girls once the season comes to an end.)

God, I love this show...  (posted by Dave at 9:28 AM || )

  at least the knob goes back ON fairly easily...

You know... democracy and "free markets" are great and all, but... seriously... I bet in Soviet Russia and Communist China, ALL the washers and dryers you either PUSH to turn them on, or you PULL to turn them on.

Mine are from the SAME FUCKING MANUFACTURER, PEOPLE!!

What the hell??  (posted by Dave at 11:12 PM || )

  still in the "denial" phase...

As I was getting the kids fed and dressed this morning, I caught a glimpse of the driveway through the front window out of the corner of my eye, and my immediate, automatic, unconscious first thought was...

"Oh look... company!"

No, Dave... that's YOUR minivan.

Oh yeah... right.  (posted by Dave at 12:33 PM || )

  freedom is on the march... and on the bus...

Ian has a Fisher Price talking school bus toy that, on top of being irritating as hell, must have been designed pre-9/11, because its most frequently uttered catch-phrase is "Let's roll!!", which might at some point in the past given the impression that the little bus was ready for an afternoon of driving fun, but now just implies that the little scamp is out to thwart an imminent terrorist hijacking, or perhaps just intending to invade a foreign country under false pretenses.

Either way, it seems inappropriate.  (posted by Dave at 5:28 PM || )

  at least they come by it honestly...

Took the kids to Target today, so Jenn could get some freelance work done. At one point the Katie asks - "Can we go to the toy section?" and I said... OK, but what do I NOT want to hear? To which she correctly replied, sadly..."I wanna, I wanna..."

She kept to her promise, even though my hardline position was hardly defensible after I bought myself one of these.

Sometimes I just realize... "Hey, I'm 35 and rich... I can buy myself toys whenever I want!"  (posted by Dave at 10:19 PM || )

  the opposite of writing...

I'm supposed to be writing a script. Instead I'm reading. Read...read...read... you know... "research"? Because the thing I'm writing isn't exactly my field... which means I'm having a tough time getting an "angle" on the whole topic. It's not the factual information that's the problem, it's putting it all together into something coherent... something with a POINT.

Anyway, so I sit in my office and read...read...read... for three days now, and something's got to give, because I'm driving myself crazy and my head is just a big jumble of IDEAS and yet nothing comes out when I stare at the paper/word processor.

The whole thing brings to mind a quote I've read by Aaron Sorkin about the agony that is his writing process...

"I have a real schedule, too. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday I freak out cuz I haven't thought of what next week's show is. Thursday I start yelling at people because I haven't thought of what next week's show is. Friday I go, 'Ohmigod, there's going to be a half hour of dead air on ABC next week,' and then it finally gets done."

This, too, is me.

In other news, we got Sirius satellite radio the other day, so... scratch one more techno-gadget off the list. (Do we have them all yet?) I also got a car kit for my iPod, so... say bye-bye- to the front seat full of loose CDs that fly around the car like little silver frisbees everytime I turn a corner.

I think that's it... at least, nothing else is going on that rises to the level of rantworthyness. I promise to deliver something anecdoty soon...


  (posted by Dave at 3:19 PM || )

  how to bait and switch an entire country...

Term One: "We have a surplus! Look at that surplus! That means we're taxing too much! It's not the gubmint's money! It's YER money! Here, take it all back!

Term Two: "We have a deficit! Look at that deficit! That means we're spending too much! Gotta cut 150 gubmint programs. But not the War on Terr'rr! Freedom is on the march! Gotta spend more on that. Buy your own damned heart pills, Grampa!


Huh? Wha? What happened there? We weren't listening...

On another note, about the only program Bush isn't cutting is NASA. He's giving NASA even MORE money. And yet there is no money in the budget to save the Hubble... they're gonna let that crash into the ocean. Where is all the NASA money going? To the Manned Mission to Mars of course... because, why spend money to fix something we already have, that already WORKS, when we can blow it all sending people to Mars to wave a 'Merrican flag and kick around a bunch of rocks?

Stupid...




  (posted by Dave at 8:34 AM || )

  There's a new player in the pherma biz! member...

There's a new player in the hood - and you're gonna like it.
Yep, nomore the old fashion, this one is new, good and will
give it to you like with prjjces you never knew you can get.
I'm talking about the new shoop.
Come iin to observe more!
We can't wait till the winter comes :)

I love spam. Seriously.

  (posted by Dave at 8:33 AM || )

  like father like daughter...

We went to Target yesterday, and I don't know if maybe the impending Super Bowl has us feeling particularly "sporty" or what, but we bought cute little baseball mitts for the kids. Then when we got home I took them out back to play catch.

The first toss, my daughter missed. Darn!

The second toss, my daughter caught! Yay!

The third toss hit my daughter smack in the nose and reduced her to a hysterical sobbing heap and cemented the inevitable truth that her future will be free from organized sports activity of any kind.

Oh well... it was bound to happen soner or later.

  (posted by Dave at 11:16 AM || )

  dave gets all semantic with the appliances...

Our dryer has the little lint-trap thingy inside, as most dryers do... and on the edge of the trap is says "PLEASE EMPTY BEFORE EVERY USE"...and I never really noticed it or took issue with it until last night. Not that I DO empty it after every use... that would be extremely anal and deprive me of the pleasure of peeling off a big 1" thick pillow of compacted blue-gray fuzz after every 6 or 7 loads. I never FOLLOWED the suggestion, but it never bothered me either.

Until now.

Because last night the question arose... Are you emtpying it BEFORE every use, as the label says... or are you emptying it AFTER every use? I contend that it is the latter, because the FIRST time you used it, it had never been used... therefore, you didn't need to empty it before THAT use... you began emptying it AFTER the fist use, and continued to empty it AFTER every subsequent use. Am I right, people??

This is what it's like to live inside my head, folks. Be thankful...

  (posted by Dave at 1:54 PM || )