{"id":887,"date":"2007-05-04T15:07:06","date_gmt":"2007-05-04T19:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/04\/a-friday-afternoon-miscellany\/"},"modified":"2007-05-04T15:07:06","modified_gmt":"2007-05-04T19:07:06","slug":"a-friday-afternoon-miscellany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/04\/a-friday-afternoon-miscellany\/","title":{"rendered":"A Friday Afternoon Miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry about the pause there. It was a combination of tax shock, work, visiting friends, and my avoiding writing a big post about how to construct an amoral ethics.<\/p>\n<p>To ease myself back into blogging, let&#8217;s do a nice easy link-blogging post.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Need to waste a few minutes at work? Are you a child of the 80s? Well then, you can surely burn a few minutes on the <a href=\"http:\/\/ironicsans.com\/2006\/10\/\/idea_the_mr_t_virtual_playset.html\">Mr. T. Virtual Playset<\/a>. Far and away the weirdest part is how completely different the T look if you remove his hair and beard.<\/li>\n<li>Just because I grew up with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ateamshrine.co.uk\/\">The A-Team<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knightrideronline.com\/\">Knight Rider<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/remingtonsteele.tv-website.com\/\">Remington Steele<\/a>, doesn&#8217;t mean that I don&#8217;t have love for TV from before those days. In particular, I have been known to sing lengthy praises of <a href=\"http:\/\/theavengers.tv\/forever\/\">The Avengers<\/a> (especially the 1965-1967 years) and, of course, I am a big ole geek for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/doctorwho\/classic\/\">old school Doctor Who<\/a>. Well, those &#8220;old TV&#8221; urges are easily sated by DVDs these days, and I was very pleased to read this week that another of those &#8220;old TV&#8221; itches was finally going to be scratched: apparently the legal issues surrounding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manfromuncle.org\/\">The Man From U.N.C.L.E.<\/a> have <a href=\"http:\/\/therapsheet.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/going-solo-again.html\">been resolved<\/a>. I think it&#8217;ll be pretty cool to watch 1964 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001816\/\">Robert Vaughn<\/a> one day in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0057765\/\">TMFU<\/a>, and then 2007 Robert Vaughn in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0379632\/\">The Hu$tle<\/a> the next day.<\/li>\n<li>While I was in Boston my wife bought a pair of purple <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crocs.com\/\">Crocs<\/a> for my daughter. Despite <a href=\"http:\/\/ihatecrocs.com\/\">my espoused position on Crocs<\/a> (which my wife essentially ignored, despite her claims that &#8220;we talked about it&#8221;&#8211;yes, we talked about it, no, my position did not change in the discussion) I have to say that the amount that Sarah loves these things makes it impossible to get rid of them now. It&#8217;s a <em>fait accompli<\/em>, and no one could look at a happy two-year old dancing around and talking about how much she likes her &#8220;Crock-os&#8221; and argue with it.<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t usually wear golf shirts, but I would wear <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goatsepolo.com\/classic.html\">this one<\/a>. In black, of course. I could probably be talked into <a href=\"http:\/\/tcritic.com\/archives\/10-polo-shirts-for-people-too-cool-for-polo-shirts\/\">a couple of these<\/a> too.<\/li>\n<li>I laughed several times while reading great author <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walterjonwilliams.net\/\">Walter Jon Williams<\/a>&#8216; quite <a href=\"http:\/\/walterjonwilliams.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/dippy.html\">humorous post<\/a> on going to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arlo.net\/\">Arlo Guthrie<\/a> show.<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>What the concert <em>should<\/em> have had, if they were interested in re-creating the era, were pipes and joints being passed up and down the rows in the theater.  For me, nostalgia does not smell like patchouli. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The ending though, a combination or Arlo and Walter, is serious stuff. I may say more later.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/a.wholelottanothing.org\/2007\/05\/02\/patton-oswalts-dukes-of-hazzard\/\">One sound clip<\/a> comparing Bush\/Cheney to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0773884\/\">Schneider<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0941374\/\">Wopat<\/a> is enough to sell me on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pattonoswalt.com\/\">Patton Oswalt<\/a>&#8216;s new album.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Sorry about the pause there. It was a combination of tax shock, work, visiting friends, and my avoiding writing a big post about how to construct an amoral ethics. To ease myself back into blogging, let&#8217;s do a nice easy link-blogging post. Need to waste a few minutes at work? Are you a child of the 80s? 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