The best episode of Boston Legal yet. Tonight took Alan Shore to Texas to take up a death penalty case. As the episode unfolded, as Shore made his appeal to the Texas High Court, as the inmate headed to receive the lethal injection, the laissez-faire attitude of previous episodes all but evaporated. This was aContinue reading “On Tonight's Boston Legal”
Author Archives: Allyn
On the Things I Don't Understand
I don’t understand why the water pressure in my shower doubled in the last week. I don’t understand why the Muzak system at work insists on playing the Spice Girls. It’s not 1997 anymore. I don’t understand why Obi-Wan calls Anakin “the Chosen One” in the Revenge of the Sith trailer when we all knowContinue reading “On the Things I Don't Understand”
On a Silk Flower
I bought a flower today. It’s a fake flower, a silk flower. VW Beetles have a mini-flower vase built into the dashboard. After three months, I needed a flower for it. It looks really nice. 🙂
On the Cubs' Pitching Woes
The ghost of Murphy’s Goat hates us. The ghost of John McGraw hates us. From the wire reports in today’s Raleigh newspaper: Kerry Wood will not pitch in the season-opening series in Arizona, but the Chicago Cubs are hopeful he will be ready for the team’s opening homestand a few days later. And when that’sContinue reading “On the Cubs' Pitching Woes”
On St. Patrick's Day
Overall, yesterday was dismal. Snow and sleet in the morning, changing over to rain by the afternoon. Precipitation fell all day. I wrote 2500 words yesterday, finishing up a story that had been in a stuck position for a few weeks. Surprisingly, the writing came easily, and after dinner I finished the writing. Then IContinue reading “On St. Patrick's Day”
On Lego Star Wars
I receive the LEGO Club Magazine every other month. The latest issue arrived yesterday. The issues contains an ad for the PS2 and XBox game, LEGO Star Wars, coming out at the end of the month. I’m positively giddy thinking about it. It’s freakin’ LEGOs! It’s freakin’ Star Wars. Okay, it’s Prequel Trilogy Star Wars,Continue reading “On Lego Star Wars”
On Kentucky Zombies, Take Four
I planned on making a response in the comments to Kae in Winchester, Kentucky. It seems, instead, that “promoting” what I want to say to a full-fledged post would be a better idea as others from Winchester have left comments as well, and addressing them all in one fell swoop would serve a better purpose.Continue reading “On Kentucky Zombies, Take Four”
On the Morning's Reflections
Rain, not snow, is the order for the day. North of Raleigh there might be a “wintry mix”–how I love that term, one I never heard living in Pennsylvania–but here temperatures will stay well above freezing all day. Roads today will be wet, not wild. Yesterday I stopped by Suncoast Video at the mall downContinue reading “On the Morning's Reflections”
More on pains
The kidney doesn’t ache today. I actually find this worrisome. Has the kidney stone moved? Lose one pain, gain another. My right hand hurts like hell. I worked the yard Sunday trying to clear off leaves from last fall, and a massive blister formed on the palm between thumb and index finger, only to drain,Continue reading “More on pains”
On Lovely Pains
I feel like someone grabbed me by the shoulder and sucker-punched me square in the right kidney. Yowch!