Karate Exam

I am happy to let you know (since I know you were all curious) that last night Danny and I both passed our Karate exams. (Danny's my son... may never have mentioned it.) I earned my yellow belt, but more importantly, Danny earned his orange belt. And he really worked his tail off practicing for it, so he deserves a lot of credit... that's a lot of work for a "far off" goal for a kindergartener. At any rate, just wanted to let you know and I wanted to throw in a plug for the on-line karate store where I have bought some of our karate gear and other miscellaneous swag. So, here's the plug!

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Enoy, peoples!

Steve

Zima goes to the great liquor store in the sky

The powers that be announced recently that they are going to stop selling Zima. This was not really sad news to me. It was a bit shocking, as I didn't even know they were still for sale. Steve and I have a funny story about Zima. When the stuff originally came out it was not available everywhere. As it turned out, it was not available in the DC/MD/VA area when I first heard about it. Steve and I didn't know this and went on a very long, very fruitless Zima run back in college. At the time both Steve and I didn't really like beer. Zima promised to be the beverage that we could order and not look like a total girl. (This is not true as anyone who ordered a Zima in the past more than likely had a vagina or an honorary vagina.)

Well, we drove around for hours and hours and came up empty. It was our Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle moment sans the marijuana. We drove in MD, DC and Virginia. (Gas was about $1 a gallon back then.)

I don't remember when I ended up trying my first (and last) Zima but it was a bit of a disappointment. I decided to stick with beer and thankfully grew to love it. Check out the beer ground Steve and I host on Flickr here.

R.I.P. Zima. You made a good run for such a terrible, terrible malt beverage.

Michael

How Have the Summer Movies Stacked Up?

Today's show Steve and I talk about some of the movies we have been able to check out so far this summer. We both got a chance to see the new Indiana Jones movie as well as the Dark Knight. I think we both liked the new Batman movie more than the Indy one. Which is predictable but still disappointing. Maybe Indiana Jones would have been better if Alf didn't make a cameo at the end.

(Speaking of which, where is my Alf movie? Come on Hollywood, take a shot!)

I'm moving (again!) next week so I don't think I will be able to push out a new podcast for a while. I will have to battle with either Comcast or RCN to get cable and Internet service. If I am lucky, I will have it all up an running before the end of August. Time will tell.

The opening song was the theme to Raiders of the Lost Arc. Awesome. The closing song was "We Don't Need Another Hero" from Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome." A classic Hollywood movie from my youth. Love that song!

If you have not had the chance to go see any of the big summer movies, go do it! See the Dark Knight in IMAX if you have the chance. I still need to do that.

Michael