A Good Year

Patsy has been bugging me to see A Good Year since she recorded it a few weeks ago. I've resisted because I'm really not the biggest Russell Crowe fan even though I've liked him in everything I've seen him in. Add this one to that list. A Good Year is a thoroughly predictable light romantic comedy but it still works ... mainly because of Crowe but there are also super performances by Archie Panjabi, who plays his delightful assistant, and Isabelle Candelier, who plays his equally delightful housekeeper. Albert Finney turns in his usual reliable performance, too. I think he was born to be a great character actor. This is a fun movie and I may just have to watch it again.

Good to see Kansas and Memphis get wins yesterday even though it eliminated my brackets from contention. The sports pundits desperately wanted a NC/UCLA final.

GEAUX Lady Tigers

Sorry. Had to say that.

Thinking about abandoning this blog and starting another here. Internal server errors still plague this one. Comment moderation is ON for that reason only. When I leave it on, there are no errors. I don't like that, though. All of the other CrabAppleLane blogs work fine. Movable Type says it's the server that's at issue and proved it to me by moving this entire installation to another server where everything works. I don't like getting chased from one server to another because of this so I'm thinking I'll just start a new one, use fewer categories, and abandon trackbacks. A new one would also necessitate a new URL and maybe the spammers will take a while to accumulate. They're still hammering this site. All of these steps should lighten the server load. It just annoys me that an obscure site such as this one has any kind of server load. This is just a thought at the moment. I have to decide on a server to move my domain to by November. I like Network Solutions except for this one issue.

CrabAppleLane Raccoons - April 6, 2008 Patsy calls the one on the left "Big Girl". Not sure why. We're not at all certain that it's a female. In fact, I think it's probably a male. Anyway, that's a full grown adult on the right. "Big Girl" is about twice the size. She/he has been coming to our back yard for several years. These two have been squabbling. That's Big Girl's spit on the other one's back. Their fights are very noisy but mostly harmless. I don't think one ever hurts another.

Quote of the Day

I cannot work with this woman! Jamais! Never! I love her, she is like Henry ... with a nice ass.

Francis Duflot, A Good Year

Blog of the day here.

Quote from said blog: "I was re-energized and came back here to NY with a deeper appreciation for where I’m from. Somehow that has made NYC a friendlier place."