Looks like someone beat me to it. Still, my idea was for an animated version of the story. Maybe someday someone will give it the WestonWoods treatment.

To counteract the previous post, a new reflection for Corpus Christi is up at CrossBeams.org.

Dance, Dance, Resurrection

Truly blasphemous or a wry commentary on the readiness of most Christian artists to co-opt rather than to truly transform popular culture? You decide. No thanks to POF for finding this link.

Fatchett Design

I wonder if that's the same Casey Fatchett I went to college with, and who has been in several plays out in New York since then. Maybe someone will know.

Brigitte Bardot would make a great drinking buddy... or a senator.

Motown momentum: Pistons' stifling defense shuts down Lakers in Game 3 rout

We watched half of this game last night and it was AWESOME (well, flipping between the game and the MXC marathon on Spike!). It's almost enough to make me want to run out and buy NBA 2k5 or something.

Rest In Peace, Ray Charles.

>bt: The Children of Reagan

Touching eulogy from Evan Coyne Maloney, a member of the real Greatest Generation (mine). Anyway, I don't have quite the same, vivid memories of Reagan. My parents admired him, and I remember the 8 x 10" glossies arriving in the mail every Christmas, but we didn't have a TV and so I was spared pretty much all of the great disasters of the 1980s (including MTV; the sparing of me from which I will ever be grateful).

I do remember, in third or fourth grade, drawing angry eyes and a sharp-toothed monster mouth on the USSR whenever we'd get a map of Europe off of the ditto machine, so apparently something of the "Evil Empire" speech filtered through.

Stevie Wonder has a new album coming out!

Yes, it's his first in over nine years (I can remember exactly where I was when Conversation Peace came out). Yes, we'll preorder it as soon as we get some cash. Yes, he was on Oprah today, singing some new songs. Yes, Jackie taped it, and yes, I'll be watching it tonight.

Maybe it was just the time (May, 1997) and the way (live to four-track) this track was created, but this has got to be one of my favorite (Victor-made) tracks of all time.

Captain Sisko's Badasssss Song (.mp3 format)

And that's one thing they can't take away from me.

The 3rd season of "Dead Zone" started last night on USA. If you're thinking it's been a while since the second season ended, you're right (yes, that was even before the bizarre and still-unsolved case of Brian Wells). It played pretty much like a continuation of the second season, although now they have a new CGI sequence to show the destruction of Washington, D.C., in 2015. And Frank Whaley did return as Future Man (though the billing at the start of the episode was f'd up... how does "2nd-season 24"-chick get "Very Special Guest Star" status and Frank Whaley, one of the best actors of our time, doesn't even get an "and".

Still the best part was the commercial they showed with Adrian Monk and Johnny Smith attending the American Detectives Association meeting (I guess that organization shares an abbreviation with the ADA, the Dyslexics Against Drugs -- motto: "Just say on!"). It was a very funny commercial with the germaphobic Mr. Monk wondering if Johnny really needs to touch someone to read them ("You can't just jab... or poke?"). That was the best part.

Anyway, that's it for me. I'm looking forward to watching Venus' transit on my walk tomorrow morning.

Garageband.com has taken the content from mp3.com and ... well, my page is there, anyway, but none of my songs are yet. I guess I could put them up (after doing 30 reviews), but what's the point?

Bangtown is from up the road in Flint, Michigan. Noted songwriter Pharlon Randle plays and sings everything and it's pretty good Nu soul/funk ("Funky Pill" being my favorite so far -- though there's a lot to be said for "Superreactivepsychobump").

"He was a Christian gentleman. His prospects are good."

- My father, on the passing today of Ronald Reagan.

"seiklus is an exploration/adventure game that I made. Try it and see what you think."

A fun and whimsical and free PC game featuring a little white guy who runs around a diverse world collecting things (and never dying, which is nice). The music is vintage C64, which is very cool.

Migraine today. Behind on everything. Will see what I can get done this weekend.

Crossbeams.org

A site Jackie and I have been working on (it's been active since about the start of Lent). The Reflections archive page is forthcoming.

INSTALANCHE!!!

Well, I guess that explains why I haven't been getting any fanmail lately: MailWasher, our favorite free (used to be free, anyway) "delete the spam and viruses while they're still on your mailserver" utility has somehow added entire domains like hotmail.com and attbi.net to its blacklist.

So if you've been sending me fanmail and I haven't replied, that's why. If you've been sending me hate mail, don't give up: I'll probably come around to your way of thinking eventually.

Great... NOW I'm addicted to YoHoHo! Puzzle Pirates!

Seriously: if you like MMORPGS, Puzzle Games, or pirates DO NOT play this game. If the idea of walking around talkng like a pirate, swordfighting, joining a crew of real live people, battlin' other ships, sharin' the booty, and buying new clothes appeals to you DO NOT play this game.

You WILL become an addict. You have been warned.

Still if you happen to see "Freestarr" walking around, give me a holler.

Wired.com: The Thermochemical Joy of Cooking

Rather nice article about Alton Brown. I also enjoyed this entry, from AB's 'blog:

Thursday, May 27, 2004

The fact that “Dr.” Phil has the number 1 cookbook on Amazon.com makes me want to end it all.

posted by Alton Brown, 7:38 PM