I just discovered this album even though it has been around for over a decade: Rage Against the Machine. Awesome. Their guitarist is quite good. He does some really neat tricks with his axe. The first song I listened to on this album was “Killing in the Name” and really liked it, especially it’s repetitive use of “fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me.” You can definitely tell that they have a very leftist tilt after listening to half the songs on the album. And i mean leftist, not just progressive/Democratic. It is very leftist, but enjoyable to listen to.

Today the Earth is its closest to the Sun in its yearly orbit. It is .983273 AU (91420479 miles or 147095551 km). And aphelion will be July 4, 2009.

OK, once again, time for more kitty blogging with the usual cute cat, but tonight a special guest: Puffalump. Puffalump is the orange cat in the picture and she has taken to becoming Queen Isabelle’s “mother”. Even though Puff is spayed (or is it neutered?; i can never remember which is which), and is 3 years old, once Izzy came into the house, Puff took right over as her guardian/protector/play pal. They really have fun playing and wrestling with each other, and after a good match they then lick each other all over and do it again. Very cute.

Mommy cat - Puffalump

Queen Isabelle with my wife. (You figure out which is which.)

One word: Burn-E. That to me was the best part of the whole movie. The bonus short film added to the DVD release of “Wall-E.” In other words, I was not impressed by the movie. It had beautiful (and I mean gorgeous) animation. Some of the best that I have seen. But the story: not so much. Yes, there was some social commentary (and one of the people that I watched it with yesterday noticed it right away. His exact words were: “I don’t know if I like the social commentary.”), but nothing that hasn’t been said in live-action films, and maybe said better. Once it was over, all I could think about was the animation. The movie didn’t move me, or impress me in terms of thought or emotion. So, would I recommend this movie: No. Would I watch it again: no. Maybe someone would like it but I didn’t. I would watch Burn-E again though.

So my boys got enough money from relatives, chores, allowance, gift cards, etc. that they could buy themselves a game system. (Which i find funny because my wife said that we would NEVER have a game system unless it was a Wii that we could do exercise stuff with.) My youngest really wanted an xbox so he could get the game Battlefront 2 and become the grand champion online, but, alas, they ended up getting a Nintendo Game Cube. So here are some pictures of the boys playing their “new” Game Cube.

Nintendo Game Cube.

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Enjoy. Sometimes South Park is worth watching.

so what the hell is Festivus? Is it a made up holiday like Kwanzaa? Please explain.

You have got to see these photos. I actually cried because they are so funny. I especially like the one with the guy ralphing on the ride. Look at their expressions. Priceless.

Today is the first full day of winter solstice, although it officially began yesterday 12/21 according to GMT, but it was nighttime our time, so this is the first full day that we can welcome in old man Winter.