Monday, February 26, 2007

Post Post After a week off school for Winter Break, my son actually took a shower last night, went to bed at a reasonable hour, and got up in time (loosely defined) to make it to school.  This is a miracle on par with...I dunno...maybe Alan Arkin winning an Oscar?  YOU THINK? I can't begin to express how much I love Alan Arkin, except to say I love him so much I actually love Adam Arkin, that's how much. What's funny about all this is that I thought Arkin's character in "Little Miss Sunshine" was the weakest part of that film (which I also loved), but for a very specific and maybe selfish reason (I'll be quiet about it since maybe now some of you will rent it.  For those of you who've seen it, let's just picture a scene at the end where Arkin's character is saying, "What?  What's the big deal?" as the van drives away.  That's the flaw I saw.  'Nuff said). I actually had an Arkin conversation a week or so ago when I was huffing my way up the hill from downtown Seattle to my car, which was conveniently parked at Eighth and Madison while I was watching a movie ("Little Children"; also very good) at Seventh and Pike.  If you don't know Seattle, the difference between these two locations is all about elevation. Anyway, the friend I was with had actually never seen "The In-Laws," therefore not being a serious Arkin fan at all, so I was describing that film and we were talking about how his career never really peaked, etc.  And now here he is, 73 and bald and holding a statue last night.  I couldn't be happier for him.  Or Forrest, or Jennifer Hudson, or Helen Mirren, who is so hot I'm wondering about myself now.  First Nancy Pelosi, now Helen.  I'm developing a thing for 60-somethings. Not Hillary though.  I sort of want her to go away.  But Nancy and Helen are women I can appreciate. I went out to a meeting last night and so TiVo-ed the Oscars, thinking I'd just whiz through later.  Listen: It's not the same thing at all.  Just sucks the life out of the experience. But yay for Alan.  -------------------- Some fun things may be happening very soon to this blog, in terms of it moving to a new site with fancy furniture, lots of widgets, gratuitous nudity, spellchecking, etc.  I'll let you know. -------------------- One more Oscar note.  You gotta love Al Gore.  He's going to the Academy Awards, surely he knows this well in advance, and he still didn't bother to drop those extra 60 pounds.  -------------------- Finally, a woman in my household turns 52 tomorrow.  She'll be gone all day, as usual, but she's instructed her students to bring cake to class, and maybe I'll make her some brownies.  She really likes brownies.  And I probably need to be nice to her, because if I've done the math right in 10 years or so she'll be in her 60s, which obviously is when the female hotness gene kicks in. I, on the other hand, will look like Al Gore, but then probably so will George Clooney.  And Alec Baldwin is pretty much already there. 11:03:22 AM    comment []

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