Helicopter

The Guitar Hero line of video games is a wonderful bridge to cross the generation gap. Using a guitar shaped game console controller, you can choose from a wide library of songs. You have to push the green, yellow, red, or green buttons when a correspondingly colored circle flies by. You miss it, and the song hiccups. You miss too many and the crowd starts booing. Fellow band members start turning your back on you.

Sammy's favorite Guitar Hero song is Bloc Party's helicopter:



And that's great. I love Bloc Party too. Even though I prefer watching them on Later with Jools Holland.

The snake

Ina was scared to death today. While walking Carly along the pond down our street, she ran into a snake. A dead one, but a snake nevertheless. And she is very afraid of snakes.

She's happy we did not buy a home that's backing up to a greenbelt. People in such homes find snakes in their backyards all the time. And coyotes and skunks. All we have are frogs. But wait... snakes eat frogs.

young@heart

The young @ heart chorus hit the big screen today, when the young @ heart movie opened. Young @ Heart is a choir of elderly people from New England. They built a following singing songs from The Clash, The Ramones, Sonic Youth, Coldplay, and Saturday Night Fever. Now they will hit it big with this movie. The generation that told you to turn down your music is rocking. And it looks like they're having lots of fun.

Coach Rob

My friend Rob arrived from Amsterdam today. He's a former youth soccer coach and he brought 2 Ajax jerseys. These sure came in handy for tonight's soccer practice.

Paradise By The GoPhone Light.

Like a bat out of hell, Meat Loaf is back from the Seventies. He's is re-living one of his famous rock opera songs in a new AT&T commercial. Tiffany plays Ellen Foley's part.

Tintin in Tibet

Or could it be The Blue Lotus?

Soft air

What happens when you move to Texas? You start liking guns. Actually Greg liked guns in Georgia as well. He really wants to visit grandpa in France to see his guns and sword.

After having shot Nerf guns around the house for months, Greg traded up to a soft air gun. With biodegradable bullets.