Halloween Costumes 2007

We went all-superhero this year: Batgirl, Wonder Woman and Wolfpack from Weird War Tales.

He Is Always Watching Me

Best $14.99 I've ever spent. I hope response is strong enough that they make the nurse.

Week #7 NFL Picks

Wherein the slide continues...

NEW ORLEANS over Atlanta
BUFFALO over Baltimore (who hasn't beat a good team all year)
DETROIT over Tampa Bay
WASHINGTON over Arizona
HOUSTON over Tennessee
NY GIANTS over San Francisco
New England over MIAMI
OAKLAND over Kansas City
CINCINNATI over NY Jets
SEATTLE over St. Louis
DALLAS over Minnesota
PHILADELPHIA over Chicago
Pittsburgh over DENVER
JACKSONVILLE over Indianapolis

Last week: 6-7. Season: 55-34.

Three Rivers Film Festival 2007

The Three Rivers Film Festival website posted its list of films recently, and I'm a bit disappointed. I suppose I shouldn't be; I've seen the up-and-down crowds at the screenings I've attended over the past few years. But I remember how exciting it was to see Notre Musique in a packed theater on a Saturday afternoon. And three years ago Guy Maddin appeared at the festival's opening night with Cowards Bend the Knee, on the same night they screened Moolade. Don't get me wrong-- there are a few really great films in there. We'll get a baby sitter and see Persepolis, and I'm going to catch the Kenneth Anger program and the Burnett film and a couple of others look really good. I'm sure there are some great films in there that I just haven't found yet. I had just been hoping we'd get more of the Toronto films, like we have in years past. I'm not as surprised that 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days is absent, but from the nothing I know about festival programing it seems like Silent Light or The Banishment or The Man From London or Secret Sunshine or Useless would have been in the range.

As always, any recommendations would be warmly appreciated.

Week #6 NFL Picks

KANSAS CITY over Cincinnati
JACKSONVILLE over Houston
CLEVELAND over Miami
CHICAGO over Minnesota
N.Y. JETS over Philadelphia
BALTIMORE over St. Louis
Tennessee over TAMPA BAY
Washington over GREEN BAY
ARIZONA over Carolina
DALLAS over New England
SAN DIEGO over Oakland
SEATTLE over New Orleans
N.Y. Giants over ATLANTA

Last week: 8-6. Season: 49-27.

I am fading fast.

Week #5 NFL Picks

PITTSBURGH over Seattle (the bounce-back, Super Bowl XL was no fluke game)
NEW ORLEANS over Carolina (the season's not lost yet game)
KANSAS CITY over Jacksonville
Detroit over WASHINGTON
TENNESSEE over Atlanta
HOUSTON over Miami
NEW ENGLAND over Cleveland
Arizona over ST. LOUIS
N.Y. GIANTS over N.Y. Jets
INDIANAPOLIS over Tampa Bay
DENVER over San Diego (the Travis Henry swan song go-crazy game)
SAN FRANCISCO over Baltimore (the Trent Dilfer revenge game)
GREEN BAY over Chicago
Dallas over BUFFALO

Last week: 6-8. Season: 41-21.

It seems to me...

It seems to me that the pertinent question is not whether it was proper for the Mayor of the City of Pittsburgh to use a vehicle purchased by Homeland Security for personal engagements, but rather whether the City should want to have as its Mayor any individual who willingly spends his leisure time at a Toby Keith concert.

September, 2007 Film Viewings

9.1- Trust
9.2- Donkey Skin
9.3- Blades of Glory
9.4- Le Retour a la Raison
9.5- Rhythmus 21
9.6- Anemic Cinema
9.7- Ballet Mecanique
9.9- Baby Doll
9.10- Symphonie Diagonale
9.11- Le Vampire
9.12- The Hearts of Age
9.13- In the Company of Men
9.14- Blazing Saddles
9.18- Croupier
9.21- Marooned in Iraq
9.22- The Fountain
9.23- Death of a Cyclist
Day of Wrath
9.24- Hua Yang De Nian Hua
9.25- Stranger Than Fiction
9.26- Iraq, My Country
9.27- Hotel Chevalier
9.28- Knife in the Water
9.29- The 40 Year-Old Virgin
9.30- The Wire 3.1, 3.2