Contacting Governor Palin

Thank you, and God bless you!

A reader (imagine that!) asks me if I know how to contact Sarah Palin.  Well, I have no special insider knowledge on how best to reach her, but I do have the Google-fu.

Here is a link for sending an email to her via the Alaska Governor’s official website.

Here is a link to a special petition site set up by Michelle Malkin to collect messages for Governor Palin.

And here is a link containing snail mail addresses for the Governor’s Alaska offices.

Emails are nice enough, I suppose, and I encourage everyone to send her a nice message of support and appreciation, but I’m going to send her a snail mail note as well.  Letters stand out more than email, and I think it will impress upon her even more how much she means to us to have physical correspondence in her hands.

And follow the break for a little bonus!

A Private Message To My Cyberstalker

Unless you are my stalker, this message isn’t for you.  It’s only for my cyberstalker.

The Things You Learn — Second Sheets

Always Sleep on Clean Bedding!

I love learning things, even though it can be a little embarrassing sometimes to learn things much later than one probably should.  You know, things like how babies are made, and such.  The stork angle just made so much sense, even though I now know (thanks to pornography) that it really involves a woman’s stomach.

Anyway, this weekend I learned the purpose of second sheets.  The real purpose, according to this wiki on how to make up a bed neatly, is to provide a barrier between your (or, in this case, my) filthy body and my heavy comforters and blankets simply because it is easier to launder a second sheet than it is to launder heavier bedding.

I was flabbergasted by this.  Truly, I had no idea!  I always just used them in the Spring and maybe early Fall, but as soon as it came time to break out the heavy artillery, I tossed away the second sheet as redundant. Anyway, I know better now, and so do you.

I’ve always known I was fundamentally ignorant in a lot of ways, but I had no idea how ignorant.  So thank God for the Internet.  It’s good for more than just attracting cyberstalkers!  There’s some actual knowledge out here for those of us who don’t go in much for fancy book learnin’.  Whoo hoo!

Steve Forbes on Michael Medved This Afternoon

I am utterly, utterly unqualified to comment on this bailout situation.  I don’t know if we should do it, not do it, hold out for less earmarks, wait a few more days.  I just don’t know.  I’m an economic moron beyond a basic preference for capitalism.

But I can’t help but feel a little shudder when I hear Steve Forbes say to Michael Medved:

“I’ve never been an alarmist…I’ve never seen a situation as dark as it is today…people genuinely don’t understand the magnitude of what is before us.”

I don’t have a link to the audio, because Medved charges for most of his podcasts.  Sometimes, however, he posts interviews and/or snippets, and if the Forbes interview becomes available, I’ll post a link to it.  The quote was hastily transcribed by me as I listened to their conversation during the 5:00 hours (Eastern time) this afternoon.

If you’re here, it’s probably because of Ace.  I say, get on back there, because he’s got links and better information than I do.  Thanks for stopping by, though.

Citizen Kane Review

What an amazing movie.  I have to confess that, until now I’ve never really appreciated Orson Welles, at best sort of hypothetically understanding that he was supposed to be some sort of genius but never experiencing it first-hand.  To me, he was always sort of a fat joke or a punchline, the Mephistopholean guy with the snooty baritone hawking Paul Masson wine.  Later, he would be the weird pretentious guy having such a difficult time recording that peas commercial.

Roger Ebert: Gay Jesus Movie Would Not Be Sad As Long As It’s Good

In a recent Movie Answer Man column, Roger runs a letter from a reader asking whether there is a movie named Corpus Christi depicting Jesus Christ as a homosexual and remarking that, if such a film did exist, “it would be sad.”

Roger responds:

It would be sad if it was a bad movie, not if it was a good one. A movie’s quality is separate from its subject.

I can’t wait to show Roger my next movie.  It’s first rate: great script, great cast, great director, great cinematographer, great editor, etc.    It’s about his mom, and it depicts her as a pedophile.

Can’t wait for his four-star review!

My 9/11 Memories

9/11/09 UPDATE: Thanks to Ace for the link, and thanks to you for coming.  May I please encourage you to check out this tribute to Susan A. MacKay, one of the victims from Flight 11?  She needs to be remembered and honored.

After that, go on over to Project 2,996 and see tributes to the other victims.

Thanks.

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I flew into LaGuardia Airport in Queens on the evening of Monday, September 10, 2001.  I was in town to attend a meeting in advance of my upcoming move from Chicago to New York.  The plan was to fly back to Chicago on Tuesday evening, September 11.

It was only my third time in the city. I was staying with a friend in Gramercy and took a taxi to 57th street, opting to walk the rest of the way so I could take in the sights and start getting a feel for the city I would be calling home in a few weeks time.

The evening was pleasant and I enjoyed the sights of beautiful women walking up and down Park Avenue.

I met up with my friend.  We had a nice dinner and caught up. She retired early, and I stayed up late watching cable television.

The next morning, of course, everything went to Hell.

Television Choices: What An Amazing World

I watch too much TV and would like to cut back. Interfering with this, however, is the fact that we are truly in the middle of a television golden age. Never before in my recollection has there been such a plethora of spectacular programming. Forget about movies, TV is the medium for meaningful storytelling and deep character explorations. Too often nowadays, a movie is, almost by virtue of it’s short time frame, superficial. Nowadays it just doesn’t pay for character studies. Consequently, we get a lot of flash and noise and very little that actually resonates in the heart.

My Doctor Who Series 2 Scorecard

 

1. NEW EARTH – Okay start to the season given the novelty of seeing Rose and the new Doctor interacting together for the first time without him suffering from post-regeneration trauma.  Nothing great, but not too bad, either.
Final score: 2.5 out of 5

2. TOOTH AND CLAW – A step upward with this story of werewolves and Queen Elizabeth. Edgier than it seems at first. A bit too much flash over substance, which is a common weakness of Russell T Davies’s scripts (ninja monks that go nowhere, for example), but some nice thrills and a fun yet gentle slam at the royal family.
Final score: 3 out of 5

Bush Was Right!

Awesome, just awesome!