Holiday Traditions Poll
 

So you got home at like 3:30?

Holiday Traditions Poll
 

There was NOTHING in the instructions about this.

Holiday Traditions Poll
 

The ATV game rocks, as do the Lord of the Ring games (if you're really into learning tricks and playing long, involved, plot-driven swordfight games, as are some of my kids.)

The sports-minded among them also love the basketball and football games - at least, the "good" ones (which, of course, I can't name right now.)

The James Bond games are fun if you're all drunked up and just want to shoot stuff. Oh, and the kids like them a lot, too.

Holiday Traditions Poll
 

Which brings up another feature: you can export players from NCAA to Madden. Was he not curious about how his NFL career would have been?

Ho Ho Hum.
 

I don't understand the hostility toward these pictures of other people's kids or the persistent need to ascribe some odious motive to the parents for sending them. I generally like receiving these pictures because I'm really into pictures, but if I don't want to keep them, I toss them without guilt. I do think it's more tasteful to enclose a snapshot or a wallet sized studio print inside a holiday card rather than have Mystic Color Labs or PhotoShop on your PC print up a photo greeting card, but as long as it's got a handwritten greeting, there's nothing wrong with it.

But it is very important that the senders address their cards to me, my dogs, and my cat. It really pisses me off when people forget the names of my pets, especially when I sign their names on all my holiday picture cards.

Holiday Traditions Poll
 

I'm an uber-geek. I got home at 1:30.

Holiday Traditions Poll
 

Would have been?

Lizard, please.

What's the name of the board?
 

Not a big fan of LA Weekly, which should just rename itself "Going Down on Dean Weekly."

However, as a tip to Jack and the other hipsters, I'm very very glad I picked up the Flaming Lips "Fight Test" Japanese EP. It's got this amazing cover of Radiohead's "Knives Out." Hearing Wayne Coyne singing "Knives Out/Catch the Mouse/Throw it down/Shove it in your mouth . . . " well, you just haven't lived until then. There's also a 9 minute "Do you Realize" remix.

Viagra & Sexual Acrobatics
 

You know you still want me.

Ho Ho Hum.
 

Do I get points for always bringing a great treat for the pet along with the standard holiday-party hostess gift?

Viagra & Sexual Acrobatics
 

You bitch, please. I hate you too!

Ho Ho Hum.
 

exactamundo. while I may not remotely give a crap what your kid looks like and will gladly use the pics to stoke not quite seasoned logs in the fireplace, I am annoyed by the impersonal nature of the card I described eariler. the mailing label, and the "thinking of you" with no actual handwritten thought or human signature (which shows she was not actually thiking of me). Then I noted that bc it was so impersonal, it seemed that the only purpose it served for her was to massmail pics to everyone on her mailing list. I cannot think of other reasons. And I also noted how reccockulous it was to attribute this "thinking of you" horsefeathers to a five week old who is thinking of nothing but the next meal or how wet his diapers are. It is one step above putting little kids on the answering machine, or even just sayikng that "Susan, Tom and Junior (who is six weeks old) are not here to take your call". Like the six week old gets calls. My sisster does neither of these things.

Namaste

Ho Ho Hum.
 

My hostility is not limited to the people sending these pictures - they just happened to be the topic de jour at the moment. The credit card company solicitations, 1800 Victoria's Secret catalogs, student loan refinancing soliciatations and "10000 FREE WEB HOURS" AOL discs are just as maddening. I have a table covered in clutter. Its invasive. I miss paying bills because I'm overwhelmed by the piles of shit I get every day.

When I was 14 and jacking off to Voctoria's Secret was great I appreciated the constant catalogs. However, I don't need 100 a month now, particularly since the magazine is utterly useless as some religious nut has brow beaten the company into airbrushing out any hint of nipples or pubes.

Oh, and to whoever put me on a mailing list for "Yankee" magazine... Do I look like a 66 year old New England spinster to you? Who exactly reads this painfully dull piece of trash every month? If you stand at the mailbox hyperventilating every month waiting for your copy of Yankee to arrive, do yourself a favor - jump in front of the mail truck while its moving.

Viagra & Sexual Acrobatics
 

Penske, don't worry. You have not been placed on the Ignore List, but Cooter has, something I have been dying to do since March. No more twelve year old vaginal references, no more putting my braids in the inkwell and no more tedious red sox shit.

Rings Geeks
 

No, these people are uber-geeks.

http://www.startribune.com/stories/411/4272159.html
(Spree: story about Rings marathon attendees)

The final chapter in "The Rings" film trilogy, "The Return of the King," started screening at many metro theaters at 12:01 this morning. However, Megastar was one of 120 theaters in the country -- and the only one in Minnesota -- selected to run a daylong marathon Tuesday. Starting at noon the theater also showed the extended versions of parts 1 and 2, "The Fellowship of the Ring" (3 1/2 hours) and "The Two Towers" (4 hours), followed at 10 p.m. by "The Return of the King" (3 1/2 hours).

As the truest of the true fans lined up for the Megastar's doors to open at 11 a.m., they seemed destined to become members of another organization by the time the last reel unspooled at 1:30 a.m. today: the Numb Butts Club.

BTW, how did you get home at 1:30? I thought it opened everywhere at 12:01 and was 3 1/2 hours long?

The reviews are good -- I may have to break down and go yet this week.