This Side of Lost

I have definitely fallen out of the habit of posting to this thing. I can blame it partially on the fact that I have a full-time job, which generally leaves me with less free time. But I can also blame it on good old fashioned laziness. Besides, one of my new librarian friends keeps a blog and I daresay keeps it better than I do mine. So in the spirit of friendly competition, I'm going to try to kick it up a notch. Starting... now:

Some of you may recall a classic bit of True Internet Weirdness™ entitled Badger Badger Badger. (If you were not aware of this, feel free to click above. Make sure your speakers are on.) Well, in the great cyclical nature of the interwebs, everything comes back again. So check out this mashup of the badger and a recently popular movie, as well as a small collection of amateur video interpretations. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, right? Oh, and did I use that term "mashup" correctly? It's so hard to stay on top of the vernacular these days...

Other things we have done of late:
* Visited the beautiful burg of Pasadena several weekends ago, in the marvelous company of Andy and Lauren, our fellow Minnesotan transplants. We toured the gardens and exhibitions at the Huntington (a locale so venerated that no further descriptors are required beyond its name), walked around Old Town, sampled the local cuisine and smoked cigars in a local dive. Good times were had by all.
* Ventured to Universal City, which as far as I can gather is not really a city, but rather an entertainment destination. We went under the guise of attemping a viewing of a 3-D film and found the theater amongst overpriced restaurants, stores and the entrance to a theme park. I guess being a movie studio is a big thing in this town, huh?
* Netflixed recently: The Island (terrible, proving that a movie can have Scarlett Johanssen in it and still be nearly unwatchable), The Tick Vs. Season 1, Disc 2 (yup, still hilarious) and Cool Hand Luke (very good, if a little depressing).
* I made cookies to bring to choir last night. They were Splenda cookies -- a recipe on the back of the bag of Splenda Brown Sugar Blend. They turned out well -- light and fluffy. Making cookies without an electric blender means lots of stirring, though.
* The best Halloween costumes I saw: a Tetris piece (from the waist up he/she was one of the L-shaped ones) and The King of All Cosmos from Katamari Damacy.

Adios! See you again soon -- really!