celebrity time capsule...

I've been watching old episodes of "Late Night with David Letterman" on the cable network Trio recently. They are from around 1989, and I keep encountering this fairly creepy phenomenon where there will be a guest on the show who is now known for some other cultural association, and seeing them absent their modern-day cultural referent is quite jarring. Just this week, I've seen a pre-Parkinson's Michael J. Fox... a pre-9/11 Michael Moore... and a pre-double homicide OJ Simpson.

It's just weird to watch them and think... "Wow... look at them... they don't know." Or in the case of OJ... "DAVE! LOOK OUT!!"

Anyway... creepy.  (posted by Dave at 1:24 PM || )

  the boy is strange...

The other day, Ian emerged from the bath, wrapped in his yellow bath towel, and stated... "I AM A LEMONTROOPER!! I shoot LEMONS!" (pause) "Do we have any lemons to shoot?"

I'm still not sure if he shoots AT lemons, or shoots lemons AT things. I was too tired to pursue the ambiguity.  (posted by Dave at 9:56 AM || )

  and it only took a MONTH...

Not that anybody reads this at all, but I figure I can't just start writing again without briefly commenting on the move.

The drive was hell. The two weeks without furniture was hell. They broke all our stuff. Our house up here is kinda of a dump. And speaking of dump, we dumped our realtor in Alabama because the damned house down there still hasn't sold.

That pretty much covers July... we now return to our regularly scheduled ranting.  (posted by Dave at 1:21 PM || )

  it's pronounced like the brits pronounce "MANchester"...

My 6 and 2 year old were playing with stuffed animal pets, and I asked what the dog's name was, and the 6 year old (used to the expensive Beanie® Brand) naturally checked the tag, only to be met with a bunch of indecipherable fineprint. She stared at the tag for a while and finally said - "I think is name is Polchester"

No, Katie... that says "Polyester".

It is a good name for a dog, though. Or a butler.  (posted by Dave at 1:20 PM || )