Monday, March 9, 2009

Soup News

March, as you no doubt have tattooed somewhere on your anatomy, is Creamy Tomato Soup Month at the chain of eateries known variously as Souplantation or Sweet Tomatoes. So busy have I been lately that I let the first eight days of the month slip by without tasting my favorite soup. Earlier this evening, I shrugged off all other concerns and hiked to my friendly neighborhood Souplantation where I was...a little disappointed. I hope we just got a bad batch because the Creamy Tomato Soup was not up to its usual standard. My former cleaning lady was eating there, too. She didn't seem particularly thrilled with the soup, either.

I'm going back for lunch on Thursday. I'm giving them one more chance...and probably one more after that.

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A Tip

This year's Comic-Con International takes place July 23-26. If you intend to buy a four-day membership, buy it now. They will all be gone long before July. They may even be gone by April Fool's Day.

The hotel reservation system opens March 19 at 9 AM Pacific Daylight Time.

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Tonight on The Daily Show...

Jon Stewart makes CNBC's Jim Cramer look like the biggest jerk in the history of financial news channels. And it's not like there haven't been plenty of other contenders for that honor lately. Video clip to follow.

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Today's Video Link

Here's a golden oldie — an online animated video to which I linked hundreds of years ago. But it's still funny and (sadly) still relevant...

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Stating the Obvious

The reason you haven't seen a review here of Watchmen — or for that matter of the recent Spirit movie — is that I haven't seen them.

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