Author Archives: patrickrhett

I’ve been a bit off the blog recently, between the post-vacation blahs, the not smoking angst (20 days and counting) and general blog burnout. That is, until yesterday, when I rescued some of my old posts from oblivion. In the … Continue reading →

At the beginning of November I moved to a new webhost. (site5, since you asked, and we’re very happy together, thanks) I was so anxious to get away from Yahoo webhosting and move on with my life that I skipped … Continue reading →

…has a new song, “Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly (Fond of Each Other)“. You can say he’s jumping on the gay cowboy chuckwagon, you can say the group who originally sang the song are a one-note joke band, but damn if … Continue reading →

No time for a big post, so here are a few diversions. Choose your life. I’ll warn you up front, it’s not going to be good. From the same source, Become Republican. Yes, it’s tounge-in-cheek. How to make pop-art portraits. … Continue reading →

10. Best in Show This is funny and you know it, because you’ve seen it a couple of times before, just like me.

9. City of God What an excellent movie. Beautifully filmed, great story. It opened my eyes to a part of the world that I knew next to nothing about. Just go see it. Even the DVD extra documentary was better … Continue reading →

8. Wedding Crashers I started watching this days ago and wasn’t feeling it. I finished it today and it got better. There were some funny bits, but I don’t see what all the fuss was about.

7. Enron – The Smartest Guys in the Room Another Saturday morning on the couch with the wife, this time with slightly more serious fare. At 110 minutes, this doc makes quick work of some aspects of the story, but … Continue reading →

Yesterday was the first full day of my step-down to Camel Ultra Lights, and it went much better than I expected… until this morning. I guess the drop in my body’s nicotine level took a day to register, because this … Continue reading →