ahhh... orange chiken & letterbob

so jenny's busy recovering from her jetlag and sleeping the evening away so i baked myself some trader joe orange chicken, cme downstairs, and put on the letterman. whenever i watch the late show, i laugh out loud a good 5 or 6 times. hearty laughs too - not little chuckles. i'm so thankful that we got to see him in september and that we've got the dvr now so i can watch:-)

anyhoo, tomorrow night's a big sonics/blazers game up at the key and that should be good times! we went to a sonics game earlier this year but the highlight of that whole catastrophe was chanting "SAVE OUR SONICS!" (clap-clap clap-clap-clap) and so on...

juno

alex and i went and saw juno this afternoon and it was really good. the storyline is based around a 16 yearold girl who gets pregnant so, that matter aside, the development was well done.

the acting at the start of the movie felt a little forced from the girl (juno) but she seemed to settle in and eventually it didn't seem like someone reading lines. also, the whole 'girl who hates everything' like janeane garofalo is so tired... ok ok, we get it, you hate everyone and everything - blah blah blah.

the acting by the parents was really good and there were very interesting storyline twists and developments. anyway, we enjoyed this movie.

here's to you!

sad to see our local coffee house go byebye but tomorrow is their last day in business and it's got me kinda bummed. just a reminder to support our local mom-n-pop shops:-)

dan in reel life

date-n-movie night for the brizzninks last night. some good times, some tomfoolery.

we hit the red lobster down in federal way for the splendid cheddar bay biscuits (or at least that's what one of my friend calls them). these things are amazing. if you didn't even eat seafood ever at all, i'd still say eat at red lobster and have a salad and some biscuits:)

so anyhoo - we went over to the 2 buck theater and saw 'dan in real life' which was a solid B-minus. knowing the idea of the story, it was kind of boring. it was still touching to a degree and it was nice to see michael scott -er, uh- steve carell be someone else. overall, it was enjoyable. my mental dust hadn't really settled last night though so i was probably not as fun to be around as i could have been. poor jenny...

shaq from heat to suns?...

so i read this morning that miami is about to ship shaq to phoenix for shawn marion (very good player) and some buster i couldn't pick out of a line-up. oh yeah, marcus banks. doesn't he rap with fitty cent? whatever.

so peeps on espn.com are all enraged that PHX would trade for shaq, that he's too old to stay with the uptempo suns' O, and he'll be a bad fit. apparently these folks have all either forgotten or deleted from their memories the aging lou alcindor who still helped the showtime lakers in his old age. with shaq's hip issues, and this being his worst season ever, he's still averaging 15 pts and 8 boards - plenty of young bigs would give their left ear for that. he's also a champion and brings solidarity to the room. this would be a win-win trade.

ok well, whatever

so the giants won... ah well, i'm not a die-hard pats' fan. thing is, if these teams played ten times, i'd take the pats 7/10 to win. the giants' last drive saw a dropped INT by some NE DB, "the miracle"- where eli escaped 3 sacks in 1, followed by a miracle helmet-catch. these don't happen everyday. the patriots would also not be so lethargic every time these teams played. thus, i say the giants take 3 outta ten matchups.