"I think..."

On this day in 1859 Charles Darwin published the book that gave birth to modern biology. Happy 150th!

WWAD? Addendum

Forgot to add.

Got back to Honolulu and told my sad AC/DC story to Blair, an Aussie who by old down under habit refers to the boys as "Accadacca".

I told him that in a weird way I was kinda glad that the concert fell through.

Here's my thinking: when the last notes of "For Those About to Rock" faded at the end of the show I'd have a sinking feeling that this would be my last AC/DC show. A part of my life would be officially over.

That was gonna be rough.

Blair summed it up.

(With Aussie accent) "Listen to yourself man! What do you think Angus would want you to do....? He'd want you to ROCK ! Get over it."

WWAD?

Ok. Enough time has passed I can tell the story.

So back in October Kim and I took Lily and Jake to Disneyland. Coley noticed that AC/DC was playing in Vegas the night after we got in and so he set to sweet talking (successfully) Kim into letting me go.

So we caught a flight to Vegas in the early afternoon and checked into the MGM Grand where the concert was to be held.

Here's what we found:



Concert canceled. Brain was recovering from throat surgery, so the Vegas concert would be rescheduled for next spring. Sigh.

The Joy of Spitfires

A great video.

A middle aged British nerd tries to convince the 13 year olds of today that plastic models are actaully kinda cool.

And uses the same kit that got me back into model building after 30 year...the 1/72 Airfix Spitfire...as blogged waay back here....

Carhole of Scariness, Mk V

We've been at it for five years now and we're (which is to say Dave) getting pretty good at quickly putting up the walls and running the juice for the many lights, fog machines, dimmers, lasers (yes really), and more.

As a result the Lemmonds' now have more Halloween decorations than X-mas.....buwahahahaha.

Old favs are back. Bottomless pit. Black light room. Pictures with the eyes cut out.

But the vortex is new this year. Oh the vortex..must...go... into....the......light.

For 2009 we let the neighborhood teenagers do most of the staffing/acting. Last year our three hour marathon of presentations of our take on Young Frankenstein meant that I didn't get to walk around and go trick or treating with the little ones.



Only a few years left of that, whereas we can go on building haunted houses for far longer....

Muzak 2009

Some strange music experiences over the last few weeks.

Went to a large Asian style supermarket a while ago and I was suddenly an 8th grader again. Planet P. Waitresses. DEVO. And not Whip It....not even Girl You Want. They were playing Through Being Cool? Seemed a little subversive for a commercial environment. Absolutely no mix just the top New Wave hits of 1980-1982.

Had a 20 minute wait for tech support and was listening to the BIZARRE mix on speakerphone while doing other stuff. Elvis. Bob Marley. Sinatra. Dido. Huey Lewis. Radiohead? Granted it was from The Bends, but still. WTF? Who (besides me) would like this mix? I'm actually thinking about just calling to be put on hold.....

Lily and Jake were watching Scooby Doo the other day and I was only partly paying attention...until the chase scene started and the music started up...what? The Ramones? No way!