This Sunday we stayed in bed all day and upheld our “Bad movie Sunday” ritual.  This ritual general consists of finding a flick with Lou Diamond Philips in the cast list (lead role?  EVEN BETTER!) and snack on Dorito’s or “Death by Chocolate” ice cream while occasionally napping.  It really is the greatest thing ever.  Well, this Sunday I got a wild hair to look up an old cartoon I used to love on Nickelodeon as a kid.  Unfortunately, I could not find it, but I did find this:

After watching the dozens of intro’s captured in this amazing clip, I thought of dozens of other shows and movies that are a part of my nostalgic past.  After having a good laugh and exhausting ourselves by jumping around the room screaming about how thrilled we were to rediscover our past, my wife and I considered just how much TV viewing that really was.  And just in the 80’s! Remarkable.  I was basically raised by Nickolodeon.  Don’t get me wrong.  Nick was a great dad.  I just feel a little guilty that I got more excited about finding these clips than I have been since some time around Christmas of ‘89.

Anywho, I plan on getting as many of these as I can get my digital hands on and I’ll post as much as bandwidth allows.   Hope you enjoy.

Do you know of any good classic cartoon collections out there?  Please click “Add Comment” and leave me a link!

OK, its actually the second sweetest thing.  Seriously, though I stumbled on to this great resource called PocketMod whilst reading Life Hacker.  PocketMod let’s you build these handy little customizable little booklets to organize your life.  I am a big fan of organizers but get frustrated with bulky, cumbersome calendars and don’t have the dough to drop on an iPhone or the like.  Also, I have this neurotic block when it comes to starting to use a new journal or organizer.  I want them to be so neat and clean that I never use them.  This new solution eliminates all of those issues for me and fits into my wallet.  Get it a try and I think you’ll dig it.

I love Wes Anderson films and feel that the further down the road he gets the better his work becomes.  While The Royal Tenenbaums may never be outdone, Darjeeling is an instant classic.  I admit that I had my reservations with Adrian Brody’s introduction into troupe of regulars.  To my delight he was fantastic!  His ability to play grief stricken, disturbed characters is uncanny and he turned out to be really funny as well.  Owen Wilson and Jason Schwartzman are classically uncomfortably and awkwardly charming.  I almost leaped in my seat when I saw Bill Murray and literally laughed out loud when I saw Pagoda.  The colors and sets in all Wes Anderson films are amazing and this did not fail to please.  Beautiful shots through Indian themed backdrops were absolutely classic.

Now for the brass tacks…   I realize that this film doesn’t break a lot of new ground and in fact it repeats a few themes familiar in Rushmore and Tenenbaums.  However, the transitions make a bit more sense than normal and the characters, though quite odd, are believeable enough to think you could see them in real life.  At the end of the day, Darjeeling is basically what you expect when you plug in an Anderson flick.  Whimsical, bizarre and completely satisfying.

So a couple of weeks ago on the 2nd or 3rd of July, my wife and I noticed that our tag had expired and needed a new sticker.  I got a little freaked out and worried about getting pulled over and fined heavily.  I assumed the fine would be substantial if one got busted for such a thing.

My wife assured me, “Nooo, they will see that it is only a couple of days expired and let us off.”

We are between paydays and a little stretched so the decision is made and the dice are rolled.  One the next couple of mornings in to work, I strained and scrutinized to see the probability of getting busted.  Content with my findings all worry was cast aside and heads held high.

The wife calls, “I just got busted for no seat-belt and they got me for the tag as well!”

Blind justice strikes for the first time.

I get upset for a while, but mostly laugh it off because the fine turns out to be relatively light.  I also assumed that once you get popped you are done if you get a tag in a reasonable amount of time, and whether that is true or not we have already commited and have to wait until payday get a new tag.

6 days pass.

I drive to work and have great success on a linux project I have been grinding away at.  The day is going great when I get an email from my wife informing me that Comcast just turned off the cable for which they had not been charging us.

Blind justice strikes again.

We have a good laugh and I finish my day and drive home.  To my dismay, I get busted for the tag inches before making the turn onto my street.  I tried explaining the situation to the officer, but apparently they don’t care if you have already been ticketed for somethings.

Blind justice strikes thrice…

The morals of the story:

1. NEVER bank on the benevolence of an individual who gets paid to execute justice.
2. NEVER get attached to cable television.  It is a drug that wastes your life.  But I so miss food network…
3. ALWAYS assume police officers have an itch to ticket you and do not care how many prior tickets you have gotten ( unless it means the fine can inch higher… ).