My Sister's Blog and Stuff

So, I am so proud of my big sister, who has launched her idea of More to Love into a fledgling empire. She's got a blog and two websites, a book deal, and many more wonderful prospects. Someday, maybe I can be her chauffeur!

See all the excitement at Elizabeth Patch's Sketchbook Blog, More to Love website, and Elizabeth Patch dot com.

Her Book, More to Love, will be available this December at Amazon.com.

Original Star Treks - Remastered in High Definition at CBS!

If you are into the old original Star Treks, CBS is offering them online for streaming in High Definition. The shows have been digitally remastered and you really get to see all the details. Those original Star Treks were like dramatic plays.

Check it out and Enjoy!
THANK YOU CBS - YOU R0CK!

- Glitch -

Dirty Jobs | Meet Mike Sweeps

Rant on On-Line Television Programs - MOVE MEDIA PLAYER Sucks

I have been trying to catch a few missed episodes of favorite shows by going to the networks' on-line program offerings. Most networks offer full versions of some or all of their episodes online. However, a FEW networks have switched to a NON-FLASH "New Full Episode" MOVE MEDIA PLAYER that has to be installed in order to play their shows. BUT no matter what I do I can't get the MOVE MEDIA PLAYER to work for Firefox OR MSIE. And the player doesn't even PRETEND to work with Google Chrome. And then they have the gall to SELL their shows on iTunes instead of just GIVING THEM AWAY. COME ON! It's as if you don't WANT to be popular!

The NETWORKS THAT SUCK (because of  the MOVE MEDIA non-standard video player) are:

ABC Sucks - Life on Mars, Lost, Greys Anatomy

FOX Sucks - Bones, Prison Break, House, Family Guy, King of the Hill, Kitchen Nightmares

The NETWORKS THAT ARE COOL (because they offer full episodes that work with all browsers) are:

NBC is COOL- 30 Rock, Battlestar Galactica, Heroes, My Name is Earl, the Office

CBS is Cool - CSI Crime Scene Investigation, Two and a Half  Men, Original Star Trek remastered (nice resolution but missing many full episodes)

Showtime is COOL  - Dexter, Californication, Weeds (but they don't offer many episodes and the online versions of shows are heavily censored)

USA Network is COOL - Monk, House (but TURN OFF  that  annoying auto-play)

In Summary, the MOVE MEDIA PLAYER sucks and so, by association, do the networks that use this stupid program. So if a station asks you to "INSTALL OUR NEW PLAYER" because it does all these wonderful things, DON'T - and then email the network with a link to this posting.

Now, enjoy this from one of the good guys!!



DEXTER Show 301 (edited for content)

US Presidential Election Map, Obama TV Special and more

LINKS for OBAMA

• 30-minute TV Special
• Barack Obama YouTube Page
• Obama | Biden Website

Describing a Rainy Fall Day in the Adirondacks

It's a cold and damp Autumn day in the Adirondack mountains, the sharp air smelling of snow. Dead leaves scurry across the pavement as if they were frantic mice seeking escape from the talons of a diving hawk. A gentle rain falls, a quiet pitter-patter against the wooden deck, creating a sound as soothing as a mother's embrace. Maple trees, covered in pale, milky-green lichen, glisten in shadowless tangles of bare branches. Evergreen boughs shine like morning dew on blades of grass. Fields, mowed and harvested, are like patchwork quilts in shades of green and brown.

May Dawn Frost Your Birthday Cake

Dawn starts like a northern twilight, an extended period of deep blue around the horizon. At last, bands in shades of yellow-orange to the east announce the new day. Ground fog sorrounds the mountain peaks and shrouds the boggy valleys, hilltops like islands in a sea of whipped topping.
The colors of the dawning horizon are unmatched by all, crystal clear saturations that meld endlessly, clear shade to clear shade. Gel colors of infinite variation.
Such is how I would frost your birthday cake, if it were possible. . . an explosion of bright dawn hues to commemorate life and time and love.

Thoughts on Legacy

Why couldn't my family legacy have been money instead of crazy?!

Life is not lived well without the freedom that comes with youth, or money.

Life, love, music. I am still me, just coated in a clay-like lining, the ashes of my life.

Fall is Here in the Adirondacks

So, it may still be warm and sunny where you are, but fall has fallen here in the Adirondacks. The air is cool & moist. The vegetation of roadside ditches and fields are shades of amber and brown. The sky, when overcast, is a solid sheet of gray; when clear, it is all blue. The crickets have been singing madly the last few weeks, presumably in hopes of that last big splurge before it gets really cold.

The garden, such as it is, is starting to fade, the plants wilting in the frosty night air. Even with a nighttime covering of assorted blankets and sheets, things are starting to go soft. This is it - there will be no more ripened tomatoes and the cukes & zukes are struggling to fatten their last fruit of the vine.

I like fall, especially the sometimes long-lasting Adirondack fall. But the sound of crickets really depresses me, as it signals and end to the summer. Time to wrap up all those outdoor projects and prepare to snuggle down for eight months.

My Spore Creatures

The Whompers Fall Tour

The Whompers fall tour

• Thursday September 25 9PM @ Paul Smith's College Library
• Friday September 26 8PM @ Red Tavern, Duane NY
  
• Saturday September 27 8PM @ Samson's Bar & Grill Come early for dinner, stay late for the music and dancing!

Vicious Cluster Migraines

I've had vicious cluster migraines since Saturday, August 30. This morning, I was REALLY floating on the cocktail of medication taken for my migraine: codeine (90), phenergan (75), lyrica (150), indomethacin (50) & pepsid (20). The grand result was a minor relief from the pain, a bit wobbly at times, and now wide awake at 2AM and unable to sleep (I have a paradoxical reaction to narcotics so that what should knock me out winds me up like it is speed).