Thank you, Redskins

October 31, 2004 on 9:09 pm | In Uncategorized

The Washington Redskins lost today, which regular readers know I was rooting for.

(When the Redskins lose their last home game before a presidential election, the incumbent or incumbent’s party has always lost the election; when they’ve won their last home game prior, the incumbent has always won.)

On top of that, every single time the Red Sox have won a world series in an election year, the incumbent seeking reelection has always lost. It happened in 1912 when William Howard Taft didn’t get reelected… and so, we’re one for one.

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    From my new blackberry 7100t

    October 31, 2004 on 1:04 am | In Uncategorized

    Simply because I can, I must. The blackberry is a great phone, and service has thus far been exceptional.the predictive typing is the best I’ve used.

    More to come…

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    What’s on TiVo?

    October 30, 2004 on 3:51 am | In Uncategorized

    Judi shared her Season Pass list. Now it’s my turn.

    Sunday:
    • The Simpsons and Arrested Development haven’t started yet, but I am chomping at the bit for the latter. Great show; I have seen and loved every episode.
    • Boston Public — Judi hates it; I love it. James Spader and William Shatner are delightfully vile. Denny Crane.

    Monday:
    • Las Vegas cracks me up. I’m pretty sure the show jumped the shark when Jean-Claude Van Damme “died” in the first season, apparently a victim of the Worst Blue Screen of All Time. Still awful, still awfully fun to watch.

    Tuesday:
    Gilmore Girls — after a few downer episodes to start the season, things are getting good. I love the Luke & Lorelai coupling.
    NYPD Blue has been very strong this season. Fun to watch. But what happened to the old, disappearing, parrot-owning lieutenant? Or the other unappealing blonde chick who was replaced with this new equally unappealing blonde chick?

    Wednesday:
    Jack and Bobby is good. The switch to Wednesday is stupid. Perhaps the easy-view Sunday re-airing at 6pm will become my new time slot.
    LAX seems to be Las Vegas at an airport. Uselessly stupid, and a delight to watch.
    West Wing went from great to mediocre at best. How sad.

    Thursday:
    Joey sucks. After one more non-rerun episode of proof, we will remove this one from our Season Pass manager.
    Drew Carey’s Green Screen is great. But where’s Ryan Stiles?
    ER, in my view, is good this season. I just wish Dr. Romano would haunt someone, though.

    Friday:
    Joan of Arcadia. I loved last season, particularly the season finale. Haven’t quite gotten back to that level yet, Amber Tamblyn & Co, but I have hope. And kudos again to Judi for acknowledging how frickin’ annoying the BLUE BLUE BLUE BLUE BLUE palette of the police scenes is.
    Medical Investigation is great, if you like procedural shows like Law and Order but want a twist on the “Find a dead body, figure out who killed it, get a confession” towards “Find some live bodies, find out what hurt them, fix it.”

    At first, TiVo helped me spend less time watching TV, since I only need 40 minutes for an hour show.

    Then it got too easy to find new shows. Oh well.

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    Fine.

    October 27, 2004 on 10:33 pm | In Uncategorized

    Fine, no one wants to play along with my electoral vote prediction challenge. Fair enough.

    I’m now closing comments on the previous post, because allowing guesses on the “bet against Lex post” now unfairly disadvantages me.

    I’m willing to put Florida back in Bush’s column, and New Mexico as well. But keeping Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin in the Kerry column.

    I’m convinced Kerry’s going to win. Thank goodness.

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    Electoral Vote Prediction

    October 25, 2004 on 4:36 am | In Uncategorized

    This blog cares deeply about politics, but makes no claim to be the most brilliant political mind in the world. That fact, however, shall do nothing to prevent this blog from calling the election, today, more than a week before the actual election day.

    This blog, as you may have inferred, endorses John Kerry for President of the United States of America. Regardless of this blog’s personal opinion, and wholly uninfluenced by it, this blog hereby presents its election prediction:

    281 (Kerry) to 257 (Bush).

    The Bush campaign’s pollsters months ago feared being tied this late in the game. Undecideds break for the challenger by a margin exceeding two to one. That’s going to push Kerry over the edge when the undecideds finally decide to… decide.

    This prediction, it should be noted, is assuming both candidates stay the course. If it’s announced that Kerry has photos of Bush snorting coke, or if Kerry’s pants fall down at a rally exposing he’s in fact a eunuch, or if it turns out Mary Cheney really isn’t a lesbian, these numbers will be way off.

    But assuming we stay the course, I’m predicting the following states (focusing only on states I consider current potential toss-ups):

    Kerry:
    Oregon
    Washington (state)
    Nevada
    New Mexico
    Iowa
    Wisconsin
    Arkansas
    Ohio
    Michigan
    Pennsylvania
    Florida
    New Hampshire

    Bush:
    Missouri
    Tennessee
    West Virginia (minus that one elector who’s promising to vote for Cheney or someone instead of Bush)

    I’m most uncertain, of course, about that Florida pick. But Kerry won’t need it to meet my projected number.

    You are more than welcome to share your prediction of the final electoral count or specific swing states in the comments. If whoever’s closest, as determined by me and my mathematician sister Marnie, isn’t me, I’ll pledge now to donate $25.00 to that person’s charity of choice — even if it’s the Republican National Committee.

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    Three word movie review of Sarah Michelle Gellar’s new movie "The Grudge"

    October 25, 2004 on 4:11 am | In Uncategorized

    Scary, but lame.

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    Ashlee Ashlee Ashlee

    October 24, 2004 on 5:00 pm | In Uncategorized

    During Ashlee Simpsons’s first musical performance on SNL last night, Lauren and I kept asking each other if she were lip-synching. Her performance sounded just identical to the studio track.

    We decided she if it wasn’t a lip-synch performer, she’s the best real singer amongst that teen pop scene.

    As it turns out, she was.

    For Simpson’s second performance on the show, the drums start in, and a bit of bass line. But — wait a second! That sounds exactly like the intro to Pieces of Me, which Ashlee had ALREADY PERFORMED THAT NIGHT ON THE SHOW. Ashlee turns to look at the drummer, who’s playing along with the pre-recorded guide track. She’s confused. The band’s confused. She’s got her mike down at her side. Her voice starts pumping with Pieces of Me. Only she ain’t singing. Or synching.

    As it turns out, here on the West Coast, the delayed SNL was a bit FAKED. After one beat, they cut out the taped vocal track.

    Ashlee’s looking around, confused, embarrassed. She eventually exits stage right. The band keeps playing the background of Pieces of Me.

    After about a minute, SNL cuts to commercial.

    Brilliant.

    Update: At the end of the episode, during what is generally the host’s “wrap-up,” Ashlee apologized — saying her band had played the wrong song. She left to inference the fact that every time her band plays the wrong song, her voice magically fills the room without her lips a-movin’.

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    Britney Spears does not write for this blog

    October 24, 2004 on 6:47 am | In Uncategorized

    As others have noticed, at the end of each preview for the new, sure-to-be-dreadful film “Seed of Chucky” is a huge-fonted disclaimer:

    BRITNEY SPEARS DOES NOT APPEAR IN THIS FILM.

    I have done some research. Neither does the Tony Danza or Elvis.

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    October 23rd, 2004

    October 23, 2004 on 4:21 am | In Uncategorized

    McCain… who has been campaigning for Bush, called the measure [that Bush signed with no fanfare aboard Air Force One] “the worst example of the influence of special interests that I have ever seen.”

    C’mon people.

    And for those of you — and I know there’s at least one — who think that since any Supreme Court Justices have been approved, so Bush’s anti-women, anti-science picks won’t get past filibuster… Let me just remind you that he’ll appoint hundreds of lower court judges as well. The Senate doesn’t have the time to filibuster all of them. And it shouldn’t have to.

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    Reflections on Charlie

    October 22, 2004 on 4:36 am | In Uncategorized

    This evening, Charlie and I went out for a late walk — his fourth of the day, because walk #3 had been, shall we say, unproductive.

    At the end of our walk, we approached the front door. Charlie saw his reflection in the door. He studied it cautiously, then eagerly. He sniffed and stared intently at that doggie in the window.

    A light-bulb lit in Charlie’s brain. (It had to shine very brightly to be seen over the other thoughts, including “Lalalalalala” and “I wonder if I’ll find some food” and “Hey, bird poop, I could sniff that” and “Maybe later I’ll squeak a squeaky toy for a half hour nonstop.”)

    That’s a reflection Charlie somehow realized. What I’m seeing in the glass isn’t actually on the other side of the glass!

    So, he promptly swiveled around 180 degrees to find the mysterious dog. Who, of course, was nowhere to be found.

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