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While Perrine was elsewhere, I found a large, ugly bug in the bedroom. I trapped it in a plastic jar, and set the jar on the floor. Then Perrine came into the bedroom and noticed it. She's mesmerized. Having tired of batting the jar around, now she's perched on the edge of the bed, staring down at the jar, which she somehow managed to stand on its lid so she's looking through the transparent bottom. Literally hours of feline entertainment (though she did break off her bug-staring long enough to follow me to the kitchen and back).

"The Star Wars midnight show is still the only place where women will give a man their phone number for dressing like a Wookie." -- badmagic, 2005-05-19

Headache day. :-( Watching the rain, feeling too headachy to try to pay attention to the two hour season finale of Alias sitting in my VCR. Television news keeps saying the rain will move out in time for a wonderful Preakness day, which, if correct, means a good Maryland Faerie Festival day. I'm going to stay awake long enough to do the avoid-a-parking-ticket dance then try to nap, after which I'll practice a bit and get garb & gear ready for the festival tomorrow. I've glanced at recent entries on my friendspage but not commented on as many as I plan to, and I missed a few batches over the past week or so; if I'm up to it later, I'll catch up on comments and mail, and if not, I'll stay focussed on being well enough to perform.

In the meantime, housekeeping bits to make someone else's automation happy: Technorati Profile Technorati Profile

I know I've got some Muppets fans among my readers. I also know that I've got some "don't watch very much television" folks among my readers. So just in case anyone who falls into both categories thus managed to not hear about the Muppets version of The Wizard of Oz tonight on ABC, consider this a public-service VCR alert. For some value of "VCR" that includes devices with discs instead of cassettes, such as Tivo and ReplayTV, of course.

My verdict: worth the three and a half hours to watch. (That's two hours to watch it while it was being broadcast, and the hour and a half I'll spend watching it again later, fast-forwarding past the commercials. It's a watch-twice movie.) I'll save a longer review for later; for now a concise, "Whee! That was cool."

For all that they modernized it and added those special Muppet touches, in some ways they stayed closer to the book than I'd expected.