Category: General

Enjoy Spring 2004 while you can, because it’s about to be gone forever.

Also – what’s the deal with the intolerable hotness these past 2 days? And I don’t mean me with my shirt off. Yvonne promised me a thunderstorm tonight and I feel cheated.

Please god, let it be cooler tomorrow. I give you so much and ask so little in return, you can do this one little favour for me, ok? I promise when I arrive in Heaven I won’t embarrass you by showing everyone your baby photos. Remember when I was 10 and I gave you that ultimatum – that if I didn’t have superpowers by the time I was 11 I would stop believing in you? I realize now that you gave me the power to RAWK and also I am a super-kisser, but at the time I didn’t know (and thanks a lot for not letting me find out until 8 years later, you prick), so I apologize for being an atheist for 22 years. No hard feelings, right? I’ll make it up to you by converting Marlo. But after that we’re even and I’m going back to waiting out death on the couch in front of the tube. Is “Wings” still on?

Kodos has been sick the past few days, but I think he’s getting better. Maybe he was just sick about Stewie being gone for so long (Toronto). He threw up quite a bit and I caught him trying to pee on things that aren’t supposed to be peed on (least of all by him), and sometimes succeeding. Well – I was going to throw that jacket out anyway. I was suspecting at first that it was the dry cat food I’ve been feeding him – you’re not supposed to feed male cats dry cat food because crystals build up in his urinary tract – it’s all very complicated and sciencey- any vet will tell you. But, I think he just had kitty flu. But – I won’t be feeding him any more of that dry cat food for a while, I’ll tell you that. So there is constant vigilance over here, but luckily I know Kodos well enough that I almost have a sixth sense when something is going wrong. For example if you’re in the living room and eating a burrito and he’s not by the couch pawing at your leg, shenanigans are afoot. There’s a trick I learned on my very own to make sure Kodos is getting enough liquids – dip him in the sink. It’s probably a bit on the traumatic side for him but then he slinks off and spends the next hour licking himself so its win-win. Uh, both of those wins are for me, by the way. Sometimes when I’m in the can he’ll wander in and start meowing, so I turn on the bathtub faucet just a tiny bit, and he’ll drink from the stream, constantly sneezing as water gets in his nose (he’s a bit of an idiot). It’s a well-documented factoid that cats prefer to drink water when it’s running. Who can blame the little cuties? I’m sure you feel the same way. I used to keep a bowl of water by his food bowl but instead of drinking it he’d just knock it over from time to time (see idiot note above), and that’s in everyone’s worst interests.

I watched a lot of lovely ladies try on clothes tonight, as Anghold threw a clothes-trading party. I took a few items there but brought back a telephone, a Superman comic on tape, and some other nifty stuff, including a little case that will replace my old Country Crock margarine container as my long-time* dice domicile. It was a lot of fun. Highlights include Marlo trying on a Budweiser swimsuit, Chold burying himself in the pile of clothes and Miikey seeing him as a pile of trash and then being unable to resist humping him, and then MST3K-ing some terrible pornography. Yes, a night to remember.

*since 1990 or so, I’d wager. Truly the end of an era.

I cleaned out the fridge today, and earlier in the week I cleaned out a closet.

So, I’m just saying…watch out. Fair warning, and all that.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2941259a7693,00.html

Answer at your peril. Again – Janet’s fault.

1. Who are you?
2. Are we friends?
3. When and how did we meet?
4. Do you have a crush on me?
5. Would you kiss me?
6. Describe me in one word.
7. What was your first impression?
8. Do you still think that way about me now?
9. What reminds you of me?
10. If you could give me anything what would it be?
11. How well do you know me?
12. When’s the last time you saw me?
13. Ever wanted to tell me something but couldn’t?
14. Are you going to put this on your blog to see what I say about you?

Subject: James Bond Exhibition.
Last night Erin and I went to Science World for the James Bond exhibition. Highly recommended. Lots of props, vehicles, costumes, storyboards and Q’s gadgets from probably every movie. I won’t spoil anything because part of the fun is turning the corner and seeing one of your favourite Bond props right in front of you, but to give you an example: They have Jaws’ teeth. Yep. Whoa cool.It runs until September. $8.00 will get you in, but if you go on a Sunday or Wednesday, you can pay $11.00 and see a Bond film too. We stayed for Goldfinger last night. The movie changes weekly. Doors open at 6:30 and the movie starts at 8:00, and it’s recommended you get there right at 6:30 because there’s certainly an hour and a half of Bond stuff to see before the movie.
More info here (including movie listings): http://www.scienceworld.bc.ca/whats_on/exhibitions/featured_exh/bond.htm
Enjoy, Phil

Yes, this sounds like fun, and yes, we’ve got a 2 for 1 coupon for Science World and yes, I do have some free time week after next.

* Things to do in Denny’s when you’re fed
Things to do in the library when you’re read
Things to do in Springfield when you’re Ned
Things to do in the Ozarks when you’re Jed
Things to do in the pantry when you’re bread
Things to do in the future of the UK when you’re Dredd
Things to do in winter when you’re sled
keep ’em comin’

What a packed day of fun and frivolity. I went to be at 5am last night after drawing and playing Snood, and I woke up at 8:45 thanks to Kodos trying to get into my garbage, and I decided to be on hand to record Woodsy’s interview on Studio 4 – a local cable program. I was going to just tape it with the timer but since I was up I thought I would see it through and cut out all the crap. The first half of the show was supposed to be young people into politics debating and the second half was supposed to be Chris. Naturally the politicians went over by 15 minutes so Chris only got a like amount of time. After that, I tried to go back to bread but to no avail, so I got up and started pricing the comic books I’m selling and waited for Anghold to call. She did at about 11 and we went to Falafel Magic for some falafel magic, if you know what I mean. Actually it was more like tabouli magic. It was a lovely day and I wished I was playing tennis but no time for that – because then Woodsy came over and we went out to see Army of One, which was pretty interesting but not amazing. We came back, we went to Rogers for snacks and possible movie-renting/buying but we ended up in the blEocVkbustIerL where he purchased season 2 of Curb Your Enthusiasm. We watched a couple episodes and it was pretty funny. At that time James & Marlo came over and James didn’t protest loudly enough when we decided to go for karaoke. I sang Elton John’s “Daniel” and Tears for Fears “Shout” and Chris sang some Frank Sinatra. Marlo sang some songs and I’ve already forgotten what they were but maybe she’ll enlighten us. Then we went for donuts at Decadent Donuts and we watched them put lard in a big fat fryer, among other things. Oh and we watched some hilariously gross and grossly hilarious shorts on the 2nd disc of the Tenacious D DVD. I laughed and laughed until I stopped laughing! It was the most fun I’ve had for days and days!

I watched an hour of the election debate today. The constant likenings of the debate to a boxing match is at best spurious and at worst annoying. In a normal debate – is somebody declared the winner? I guess in this case that will be decided on the deay of the election. Hey, that reminds me of that movie with Reese Witherspoon…American Psycho.

Now I am drawing and learning Japanese. Mata ashita!