Thursday, November 24, 2005

Set Your TiVo!

This weekend's vintage Saturday Night Live rerun (the one they run in the wee small hours of the A.M.) is from November 22, 1986. Robin Williams is the host, Paul Simon is the musical guest and there are some pretty good sketches with Phil Hartman, Jon Lovitz, Jan Hooks, Nora Dunn, Dennis Miller, Dana Carvey, Victoria Jackson, Kevin Nealon and a few others. The opening sketch is Williams as Ronald Reagan getting the answers for a press conference via a secret earpiece...a bit that should have been rerun during the last election, when there were rumors that George W. Bush was being prompted via a hidden radio receiver. There's also a funny sketch with Paul Simon waiting on line for some event and being approached by fans who don't believe he'll remember them but he does. You'll see the punchline coming but it's still pretty good.

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Nap Time?

Okay, so you just finished that big Thanksgiving dinner and the tryptophan in the turkey is making you sleepy, right? Well, these folks say that's a myth.

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Another Raccoon Pic

Here's another photo from the other night. The raccoons are, by the way, doing a good job of destroying that fence, knocking slats out of it. I'll have to do something about this one of these days.

I have no idea where these fellows live most of the time. For a while, I thought they were spending their non-foraging hours in the crawl space and basement under my house, but I had a company called Attic Busters come in. They go over your house with a magnifying glass, locate every entrance where anything larger than a cricket can get in, and seal it up. They closed off the passageway by which I thought the raccoons were getting in and reported that while there was evidence our masked friends had passed through that portal, there wasn't a lot. Most likely, they'd gone in to look for food, found none and then left. So I don't know where they go. A neighbor says she's seen them crawling out of the curbside catch basins that lead down to the sewers, so maybe that's their main hangout. Where the possums come from, I really can't imagine.

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