Hollywoodland

Ye gods. I swear some of the people around here (geographically speaking) are so freakin’ stupid. A city south of us released a bunch of stray dogs into a national forest (which is stupid enough), but when asked what if a child is bitten by one of these strays, the mayor said “that would be the responsibility of the stray’s owner”. WTH? Hello? If it’s a stray, it doesn’t have an owner, you moron!!! I swear some of these people are just plain too stupid to live. And how did this idiot get elected to be mayor???

A couple of things I forgot yesterday, why is it that smoke alarm batteries always act up in the middle of the night? Every time it’s happened to me it’s been the middle of the night!

And still beating the bulldog/pug dead horse *g* having now seen pictures of miniature bulldogs, I’d have to say it really is one, but that mask of Bandit’s always made me think pug and having never heard of miniature bulldogs until this week, may I pleased be excused? *g*

Last night’s Doctor Who (which featured Agatha Christie) was, in my opinion, bloody brilliant! Donna and the Doctor traveled back to 1926 England and joined a house party at which Mrs. Christie was a guest. Spoilers ahead! Giggle-worthy moments included:

Professor Peach talking to himself, “Why didn’t they ask– Heavens!” For those who don’t know a lot about Agatha Christie, one of her books was Why Didn’t They Ask Evans. And with a dash of Clue tossed in, Professor Peach was killed in the library with a lead pipe.

And they managed to work in at least 13 other titles of Christie’s books that I caught. There may have been more.

And what the heck was up with the ending of last night’s Battlestar Galactica??? They finally make it to Earth and find a large city which seems completely destroyed. But I had to laugh at the thingie at the end that said the show would be back soon. I would hardly call 2009 “soon”.

Then there’s Charlie Jade. What a very peculiar show. It’s very confusing and I really haven’t got a clue what’s going on, but I can’t seem to not watch it. If they didn’t keep switching between the three dimensions without warning, it would help. There’s the Alphaverse, then Betaverse and Gammaverse. And they’re all similar enough so you can’t really tell which one is which without a scorecard. Charlie’s from the Alphaverse, but inadvertantly got knocked into the Betaverse (or was it the Gammaverse?) and now he can’t get home.

There’s nothing on tonight, so I’ll get to clear off more DVDs. Gotta clear a bunch off for the upcoming Olympics, don’t ya know. They start in less than two months!

Tim Russert died yesterday from a heart attack. He was only 58. He was the Washington bureau chief for NBC News and the moderator of Meet the Press.

In archaeology news from MSNBC:

1780 British warship found in Lake Ontario
A 22-gun British warship that sank during the American Revolution and has long been regarded as one of the “Holy Grail” shipwrecks in the Great Lakes has been discovered at the bottom of Lake Ontario, astonishingly well-preserved in the cold, deep water.

Reading: I’m now reading the last of my Indiana Jones books, Indiana Jones and the Secret of the Sphinx by Max McCoy. Looking forward to when I finish it tonight, what should I read next?

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