This & that

Here’s some items of interest to me over the past week:

• Check out good friend and frequent Chuck E Cheese patron Chris White’s new video Guys Watching 24. It’s of SNL quality and a good laugh to email to all of your friends and coworkers.
• Bethany and I watched The Aristocrats over the weekend and we both enjoyed it more than we thought. For those of you who don’t know, this unrated documentary allows numerous comedians (Robin Williams, Bob Saget, etc.) to tell their version of an old vaudeville joke named after the movies title. Why is it unrated? Because it takes the dirtiest, nastiest story you know and multiplies it by 100. Needless to say it’s not for the conservative, but if you can take it there’s some hilarious material with Drew Carey, Kevin Pollack, Andy Richter, and the staff of The Onion.
• We made fajitas over the weekend and I encourage our loyal readers to make the chicken and vegetables on the grill the next time you make this dish. We found the food to taste fresh and have a better taste than the stovetop.
• It’s only a few more weeks until The Da Vinci Code makes it to the big screen and I look forward to seeing it even if Tom Hank’s looks foolish with that hairdo. I recommend reading The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason if you enjoy Dan Brown’s novels. I also read this week that the sequel with be called The Solomon Key and will involve the Freemasons.
• Speaking of reading, I’m in a big time, unsatisfying three books slump I hope to break with Amy Tan’s Saving Fish from Drowning. I was on fire with my selections in 2005, but I’ve made some recent gambles with a couple of non-fiction memoirs I found unsatisfying. Oh, I do urge you to read The Tender Bar by JR Moehringer and please let me know if you have any good suggestions
• For those of you who haven’t discovered Monday night’s newest sensation, How I Met Your Mother came out strong last night with a Barntastic episode. Fun fact, Robin’s date, Sandy Rivers, was played by Alexis Denisof who is the real life of husband of Alyson Hannigan who portrays Lily on the show. Why do I know this? Because they both played key roles on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.
• What’s the feeling out there on United 93? Personally, I still don’t have pleasant memories of that experience and have no interest in seeing it.
• In closing I’m posting a picture we took in my office/theme park as we tested out our new costume purchases. To answer all of your questions I am neither the coffee cup nor the donut because I am holding out for the Omwich.