My Morgan Spurlock impression

While I haven't been posting for the last three weeks, I haven't been shaving either. Call it "No Shave November April" or "No Shavril" if you know French (which I don't). I did it because my ISU friends have never seen my horrible mustache, which can be found on Facebook (at a wedding, no less).

My facial hair is varicolored, and the hair above my lips comes in rather slowly, so I planned to grow out the whole beard for six weeks. The goal was to get this out of the way before wedding season begins at the end of the month. After three weeks, I got sick of much of the beard, and gave it a decent trim. Now, like many of the folks in the 2002 World Cup, I have decided to play with it.

I chose the photo that looked the goofiest for this post. Enjoy.

Double your pleasure

While I was in New York, Susan and I were going from the Met to meet some friends at a pub on the Upper West Side. Walking up Broadway, we happened upon a Tower Records which was having a final liquidation sale. We spent a half hour or so perusing the remainder of their CD selection, which reminded me how little I knew about music. I eventually managed to prize two soundtracks from the store: Thank You For Smoking and My Name is Earl. Upon examining my finds, I found that each of them had a rendition of "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! That Cigarette." WATFO?

I'm keeping both versions on iTunes, because one is by Tex Williams and the other by Sammy Davis, Jr., respectively. If somebody can provide a compelling reason for one track over the other, I'd be happy to hear it.

Robots in Disguise

I enjoyed the movie. Some funny stuff, and it was mostly intentional. Shia LeBeouf did a good job at being an awkward teenager, and Megan Fox's character seemed to receive a decent amount of characterization. However, Jon Voight and Josh Duhamel were ridiculous. Yuck. I did enjoy the VERY minor characters being played by people I recognize, like this fellow from "Titus" and Tom Lenk.

Being a geek, I was annoyed that the only returning voice actor was Peter Cullen. I rarely hear Frank Welker doing human voices; it would have been nice to hear him do Megatron again.

So, it's a bit long, but you will laugh and be entertained. See Transformers.