Boggle Your Brains Out
Somehow in the course of a weekend of dog-sitting I ended up with a spot of poison ivy on my left hand. It itches like crazy and typing at the machine only makes it itch more. Fess is the dog. She’s named after the Boogie Woogie piano player, Professor Longhair. She’s a border collie and nuts as all hell. She herds cars indoors, pretending she’s herding sheep. She could do it ten hours a day. I take her for walks. The walks only slow her down. For her, a walk is relaxation time. Fess and I tested out lots of new music this weekend. We found that we both love the new Mars Volta record. She seemed to heard cars even faster and with more joy when The Mars Volta was on the hi-fi. Other than dog walks the weekend was a good one for catching up on work and drinking Mister Misty’s while playing championship games of Boggle. My best boggle word for the weekend was ‘monster’. I just checked, and the domain ‘boggleblog.org’ is available. Somebody should jump on that. Its got a nice ring to it.

Yesterday the misses won tickets to the sneak preview of the new Kevin Costner movie Open Range. Although she won the tickets on the StarTribune web site, most of the other winners at the packed theater had won their tickets through some country music radio station. The theater was filled with lots of big guys in ten gallon hats. As for the movie…well, if you’re a person who just can’t get enough hollywood patriotism and want to hear Kevin Costner’s reasoning for a ‘Just War’ – or – you are a person who likes a good two and half hour Marlboro Man commercial, then this is your movie. Luckily, all the actors were good, which made the movie tolerable. But if your going to make a western in the 2003, you have to come up with a new angle. Open Range went out of its way not to have a new angle, as if that was its stubborn statement, “Look here pardner, we going to do things the old fashion way and if you don’t like it well then there’s a gonna be some killin’s.” My guess is, this movie will be huge. It’s too bad Schwarzenneger didn’t have a role.