Consider this update unplanned and perhaps a bit scatterbrained. I am leaving for my usual holiday trip to Arkansas and Texas today and have some extra time on my hands. Aren't you lucky? Or maybe you even feel a bit blessed? Ha! Read on...

During the past weeks I've been a bit busy, but I found the time to edit, code, and upload two new photography galleries for your viewing pleasure (or displeasure if you don't like what you see). The first one is of some snaps I took while Up North earlier this fall. The leaves were on the tail end of beauty, ready to fall off and die. And the second gallery is of Fall around my house, dead leaves and all. The second one is a little morbid, but that's life, that's nature in all it's splendid and dying glory. Please click the Gallery link above.

How could I let an update go by without putting in my two cents on Michael Jackson? I've debated this issue over and over in my head. Ya know, innocent till proven guilty. And he has such an amazing talent, genius if you will. SIKE!!! That crazy mofo is so guilty! It's so not a coincidence that these charges have come back to haunt our favorite baby-dangling pop star, it's just not. I don't care if he had a messed up childhood. I don't care if he never even had a childhood. You just don't touch kids like that, you don't even LOOK at them like that. He's an adult, he's a father, he's a role model, it's just not right. I hope he's found guilty and goes to jail. Maybe he'll get some state-sponsored therapy, which he so desperately needs. Or maybe he'll find out what it's like to be the object of someone's affection if you know what I mean. If he goes to jail I hope soap-on-a-rope isn't allowed in the shower.

Tis' the season for major movie releases. I haven't seen too many lately, and haven't had a great desire either. Although, there are a few movies coming up that have peeked my interest.
First, the ones I don't want to see and why. I would like to put Master & Commander in this category, but I saw it. It pretty much sucked smelly fifteenth century ass. In my entire life I've only left one movie early by choice and it was this one. I had no desire to find out what happened, none whatsoever. And that's all the space I am willing to give that horrid movie. Next movie I don't want to see is The Last Samurai. Is anyone else SO over Tom Cruise yet? Please, take your Scientology holier-than-thou preaching's and shove them up your Nicole-Kidman-dumping-for-ugly-Penelope-Cruz-ass! Next on my shit list is Peter Pan. I've seen the previews and am not impressed, in fact I'm scared by it! It looks dark and depressing and I got enough of that in my life right now, I don't need it in a freaking Disney movie too.
Next, the movies I am eagerly anticipating. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King!! I read the entire trilogy as a whole and this was by far my favorite. Aragorn is my favorite character of the series and finally he is triumphant! It's going to be great! Next, Paycheck with Ben Affleck and Uma Thurman. There is a buzz going around about Ben Affleck's ability to draw in the audience after his 2003 was filled with a bombed movie, Gigli, and a bombed attempt at a wedding, but I don't give a rat's ass about all of that. If the movie is good then it's good, it shouldn't be about the life of the actor. And before Affleck was involved with J.Lo he was somewhat respected so I'm hoping that this is a success for him. And about the movie, it's from the guy who wrote Minority Report! AND Uma Thurman from my fav movie of 2003, Kill Bill, is in it! And lastly I want to sort of see Mona Lisa Smile, primarily because Julia Roberts is such a joy to look at. I just rented Confessions of a Dangerous Mind this week and she was great, as usual. (Great movie by the way, very artistically shot).

So Saddam Hussein has been captured alive. What do I think about that? At first I was very unpatriotic about it, like the military just stumbled on this hole and he was in there, like it was a mistake, a fluke. But I am happy he's been caught and I hope he gets the death penalty if such a thing exists in a war crimes tribunal. My major problem with this is President Bush's celebration of this as a personal triumph, as if he crawled into the hole and found the fucker himself. It's going to boost his campaign for re-election, which in my eyes is just a deception to the public. I don't trust Bush, I don't think he has the American people's interest first and foremost in his decisions, unless you're a rich businessman with the capability of giving his campaign lots of money. If this capture had come any closer to election time it would be no contest, Bush would win, but I am hoping we can see through the deception.

Well I'm off to Arkansas and Texas for a week of holiday bliss. I've got all the necessities...laptop, dvd's, mp3 player, journal, book, tampons, midol, excedrin pm...the list goes on. Holiday travel, or any travel for that matter, is a bitch. People get so flustered and over-sensitive to every little thing, myself included. But it's fun to watch other people at the airport. I am hoping to brainstorm a new site design over the holiday break. The orange just isn't rocking my world anymore. I am hoping to incorporate my photography in some manner. Of course, a site redesign will entail a lot of work and seeing as how I start back to school on the sixth of January it will be a minor miracle of it gets accomplished.

I hope you all have a safe and relaxing holiday. Enjoy your families, enjoy the season, and my best wishes in the New Year!