Just something silly and meaningless for the 300th post on ShindoTV. It only seems appropriate to pull the Gerard Butler pics from my files to celebrate. Enjoy.
August 8th, 2007
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Aug 07
Shirts
Yesterday, I found a replacement for that plaid shirt I had to throw away in the midst of my clutter clearing. I just didn’t see my coins forming that shape yesterday before taking them to the Coinstar machine, where I got $26. Payday is only a couple days away for me, but any amount of money, however small, is enough to put me in a good mood. I then went to Costco to pick up cereal and soymilk. Unlike many people (my mother, the ultimate Costco power shopper, included), I can walk out of Costco with only a handful of items. This mega store normally isn’t my go to place for fashion, but I found a Kenneth Cole shirt for only $19.99. I liked it a lot and it certainly blows out of the water getting a shirt from the Gap on sale for $25.99 (which I believe is what I paid for the plaid shirt a few years ago).
Here is the shirt, pictured with the 40% remaining book inventory.
There are at least four other shirts that went bye bye this week. I may not find replacements for them all right away. I’ll do what I always do – shop around until I find stuff I like. I still have a few black t-shirts, so I’ll find a way to phase them out of my wardrobe as well.
A few days ago, when I was having fun with my paper shredder, I came across some business cards from Malcolm, my ex-gay lover from a long, long time ago. The website of his freelance design company has been long defunct. I tried calling the mobile number listed one last time and the number was no good. Unlike Ennis (of Brokeback Mountain), I couldn’t swear and I quit Malcolm once and for all by feeding his cards into the shredder. Surprisingly, my twenty-one year old self didn’t even think of stealing one his shirts. It would have gone in the refuse pile anyway.
I have someone’s shirt, but that’s from something very current.;)
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Aug 07
Eureka, Season 2: Duck Duck Goose
This week, I saw Eureka live on the Sci Fi Channel like the rest of the mortals. No sneak peak here.
Exploitative parents, high school has-beens, and mean girls in Eureka? Strangely enough, yes to all of the above. A not so ordinary science fair seems to bring out the worst in some students, a parent, and the anxieties of a science fair winner from the past. As usual, Carter gets drawn into the case due to some quirky circumstances.
A funny moment is when Carter goes to the gym to impress Allison. The local gym, like most places in Eureka, is high tech. Carter grappling with some odd technology of the week is one thing, but since he isn’t a gym bunny, his workout clothes are on loan from the gym: a tank top with RELAX across the chest and black and white vertical striped shorts. This has got to be some kind of 80’s fashion joke from Wardrobe. As for Nathan Stark, he does work out (and that’s something that was evident at Comic-Con).
After the gym visit, an incident caused by irresponsible parenting draws Carter into the case of the shooting stars. Despite his clumsy fathering moments, it’s safe to say he’s not the culprit. However, someone’s child rearing skills is suspect, and it’s taken to a high tech level.
In Eureka, the mean girls are smart. In a town where most adults are highly intelligent and their children are infinitely smarter, these girls are super geniuses. Needless to say, they’re not nice about it, especially to Zoe. This episode, though, reveals some nice surprises for Zoe in how she measures up.
Many towns are littered with former star high school football players, but Eureka’s full of former science fair winners. As shown in previous episodes, science fair alums, like anyone else in Eureka, are capable of a lot of damage. There aren’t any former high school Wii baseball players (see “Blink” for the ball game) who are out to run away from or reclaim their high tech fame. Then again, virtual sports players don’t serve this story, but the parallels to juvenile athletic glory are there (or spelling bee winners).
Much of the technology in Eureka so far has been reminiscent of something shown on Star Trek, but it’s nice to see that they’ve gotten more inventive in this episode. The gym technology is one thing, but device responsible for freak incident of the week is quite another. I’m not giving it away. You’re just going to have to watch and find out.
Maybe next week, we’ll get to see some Carter skin. That’s what the trailer implies, anway.
Stay tuned this Friday for Flash Gordon on the Sci Fi Channel, 9pm local time.
