Broken Flowers
 

I've always thought of you as a feeble-minded, pathetic, thinking-inside-the-box type of guy. About as trite and uninspiring as anyone I have ever met. More a caricature of a human being than an actual person.

But I found your movie review, with it's humorous verbless sentences and faux street patois, to be oddly compelling. I'll have to check this movie out.

Football pool
 

Someone with evacuees in their house was asking about long-term hotels last week. I'm sorry I can't recall quite who. I was curious - is the family still with you or are they someplace else now? 'Cause I was wondering if you were going to find yourself, de facto, "volunteering" to keep them sort of long term.

Broken Flowers
 

I don't want to want to watch it
 

Yes and no. It's too long. About 1/2 hour too long. I saw it at the IMAX, was pretty cool (but $13 a ticket?). But you have to hear that whole story again about how Batman became Batman. Only in more excruciating detail.

And I didn't buy Michael Caine as Alfred. And I discovered that I don't really like Katie Holmes (shocking, I know). And Liam Neeson makes you think you're watching a Jedi fight. And Morgan Freeman plays a guy that you want to call Q.
Otherwise, the husband really really liked it - said it was his favorite Batman movie. It's probably because of the Batmobile.

But Batman is hot. Except for a slight speech impediment, and crooked teeth, which makes you wonder why Katie Holmes couldn't figure it out. And of course the obvious and obnoxious teaser for a sequel at the end. And I don't think there can be a better Joker than Jack Nicholson, but I guess I'll have to wait and see in 2008.

But don't wreck it.
 

You checkitout, my man. Check. It. Out.

I don't want to want to watch it
 

Assume I don't know how Batman became Batman. Would it be more fun, or less fun?

Football pool
 

It was me. They have moved temporarily into an Extended Stay America since my brother-in-law has a job and has been transferred to the Houston office of his company. They are looking for an apartment. If the New Orleans office is reopened, they intend to go back (not to Jefferson Parish, but to a lot in the country that they had already purchased and intended to build on). However, I believe their stay in Houston will extend greatly beyond the six months or so they now intend, mainly because I think it will take at least a year to find a contractor to even start on the house, given the demands on labor and materials. We may now be taking in his parents for a longer stay, as they finally made it to other relatives. (For future reference, it really sucks when the place that you evacuate TO to escape a natural disaster also loses power, water and phones for several days).

I don't want to want to watch it
 

Oh, then more fun. It sucks to hear it the second or third time around. And Batman is hot. Did I say that already?

http://www.mtv.com/shared/media/news...tless-mira.jpg

try not to think of Sebby.
http://www.reel.com/Content/Reelimag..._bale_pic2.jpg

I don't want to want to watch it
 

That is not particularly my type, but the body is nice. If I go, I will endeavor to lust appropriately.

Football pool
 

Well, I'm glad his job permitted him to transfer temporarily and keep working - that's an excellent bit of luck!

I was wondering how many people had evacuated to areas that also got pretty fucked; I'd imagine it was quite a lot. Hence my "out of city" evacuation sites - I've got alternatives lined up near Tarrytown, West Point, and the Canadian border.

BR(Just need means of getting there ...)C

We are the world
 

LOS ANGELES - Pop star Michael Jackson, who has been in seclusion since his acquittal on child sex abuse charges, has written a song that he will record to benefit victims of Hurricane Katrina, his publicist said Tuesday.

Jackson will record the single, “From the Bottom of My Heart,” within two weeks, and he plans to enlist other entertainers for the project, spokeswoman Raymone Bain said.

He added: “I will be reaching out to others within the music industry to join me in helping bring relief and hope to these resilient people who have lost everything.”

Jackson, who left his Neverland Valley Ranch in California for Bahrain after his acquittal on child molestation charges in June, will record the song on a label owned by Bahrain’s crown prince, Bain said, and donate the proceeds to hurricane victims.

Football pool
 

I just feel for soft spots in the ground. There's usually a nut burried there.

Broken Flowers
 

I liked how he gave credit to some other poster who "invented" some statement. I always notice that several people claim to be the one who "invented" most anything, and his giving credit to the inventor was a surefire way to enlist several allies to his side.

I guess Flower and i both give "thumbs up" to this review.

Broken Flowers
 

Yep. she's really a woman. You got lucky with your play on Notme, but most of the females here are actually female. Sorry to burst your bubble.

Just call me NFH
 

Didn't he *just* retire? Who is he, paigow?

Lance is considering a "comeback."

http://sports.yahoo.com/sc/news?slug...v=ap&type=lgns

I was pretty neutral about him, but he has crossed the line to annoying now.