Sometimes I just let it happen. Sometimes I made it happen. Okay, so she does a much better job of recapping the end of an era. Where I failed to adequately reflect on my law school career, she had done a great job reflecting on her sophomore year. (sniff sniff... wipes tear) She's growing up right before my eyes.

For Buffy Fans... An Interview with Whedon. That is all.

Yes, but can you rent to own? The Oregon Blog directed me to this: Rent-A-Negro for all your negro needs. I can imagine Jeff will considered this a hoot. For more information, see this Salon article for more or see the page of the artist responsible. Reading over her site, I realized she is from Portland, so maybe I will check out one of her art show sometime (although I did find her description of her art to be littered with buzzwords, and that detracts from my view of her art already).

Why can't you eat soup in the Matrix? Because there is no spoon. I was pondering about this morning and realized that if there is no spoon, there is no bone and therefore Neo should be able to be a shape shifter. I mean, this guy could turn his entire body into a giant axe and he could just start whacking the heads off the Smiths.

Wierd 'Al' just got wierder So he a new album out. A friend bought it for me and it sucks. There are a few good songs on it, but I got the feeling that Wierd Al has gotten bored with this gig and has tried to do an "artistic" album along the lines of some the of the Beatles creative, break through works. The problem is that it fails here. "Genius in France" sucks. So does his tired Eminem imitation about TV. The Constapated song is by far the best, with the B UR LUVR song right behind. Even the Polka song doesn't flow well. A poor effort to be sure.

The Best Buffy Post Ever This isn't such a post, this is just a tribute. For the best Buffy post ever, go talk to Jean. She's a god. (okay, maybe just a lesser god or a converted demon). (update: The series finale script: HERE)

My Memorial Day Weekend So Friday afternoon, my friend and I got a manacure then I helped her move some of her stuff to her parents place (she is moving to Miami for a job this week). That made me the guy with the softest hands for the fishing weekend. I got up early on Saturday (5:45 am) and drove down to Diamond Lake (east of Roseburg). I got there just in time to hop into a boat and get out into the lake. The weather wasn't great, but was good enough to keep us out on the lake until the night and was good enough for me to get a sunburn. We caught a lot of fish the first day, and let a lot go. I didn't win any of the contests that first day (I guess I should mention the contests... We have 3 contests a day for First Fish, biggest fish, and most fish... each person puts in 3 bucks and the winner of each category gets a dollar from each person.), but did catch a few fish.
The second day had horrible weather. It was miserable to fish as it was raining and windy. On top of that, the fishing was horrible. Once again I didn't win the contests, but we did play poker that night. I made $10 dollars in a nickle/dime/quarter game, so I was feeling pretty good about that. But I was really tired because the night before I thought we had an agreement that we would sleep in.... at 5:30 am someone came busting into the room to wake us up.
The next day (today) I had to get up early again, but at least I was able to "sleep in" until 6:40. today's contest was a 2$ prize for the first person with two fish over 15 inches. My uncle Dennis almost won it, but his second fish turned out to be 14 1/2 inches. I ended up catching a 19 incher and a 16 incher and won the contest. I had another big one, but lost it at the boat because it swam near the motor. (no, it didn't get hurt in the motor, it was off at the time). We did get to see some cool bird things. First we saw an Osprey get chased by a hawk until the osprey gave up its captured trout. Then, once when we had caught a fish and released it, the trout was slow to recover (often when you catch and release they take a few minutes to recover and swim off) and within 30 seconds of us releasing it an oprey swooped in and snatched it up. Was amazing to watch how quickly he spotted it.
As for Sex in the country (as opposed to Sex in the City)... We had walkie talkies in our boat all set to the same channel. Unfortunately, some other fisherpeople had the same radios and we heard their conversations all day. In the morning we heard a couple get in an argument which ended with the female saying "I will talk to you later. I don't feel like talking anymore." We referred to this entire exchange all day as "The Days of our Lives". Later, we heard the lady say to another lady friend that she was going to "polish the helmet" (her words, not mine) and she was referring to what you think she was.
Anyway, that was my weekend.