Look down the fixture list of any football club (actually any sports team) and there are big games. The games against Portland and Vancouver stand out for the Sounders this year. I think the Houston games have a little extra bite to them. These are the games you put a little asterisk against and make sure nothing else is going on that day. Then there…
Two great views :)
Been a busy couple of days getting presentations together and going through a just brutal class at work. Last night was wonderful, laid back, a couple of drinks and I finally got to see the reconstructed version of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis over a great dinner that I did not have to cook (better and better). Really wonderful movie, restored, with the missing footage that was…
Saturdays and kids TV in the UK
Over dinner this evening I was asked about kids TV in the UK, it turned into an interesting discussion. It seems every generation has their Saturday morning ritual. For dad it meant a weekly walk to the cinema to enjoy serials like Flash Gordon, westerns and so on to go along with his cartoons. This weekend ritual lasted into the 60’s and perhaps early 70’s…
A Sunday well spent
The sun is out, it’s nice morning and its time to be productive outside. Got a bunch of clearing up done and it looks better, there is a lot of trash in the greenbelt and I spent 20 minutes fighting with the blackberry thorns to pick up some beer cans and wine bottles. It looks far better except for the dead tree thrown off the…
Social Distortion
Last night was Social Distortion at the Showbox SoDo. It’s been a good couple of weeks for live music, and there is more over the next week or two. Driving into Seattle and the heavens opened, at one point I could just about make out the car in front through the rain, it really was that bad. On the bright side, at six last night…
Happy hour
My group bailed from work a little early today to celebrate a couple of milestones being hit. Any excuse for a little happy hour. 🙂
People finding me…
Trawling through my Google analytics can be absolutely fascinating. One of the things I get metrics for are the search terms that people plug into search engines and rather unceremoniously find themselves deposited here. The following search terms (and both the terms and the spelling used are genuine) somehow led people to davekean.com, and I’ve no idea why their particular journey ended up here. Video…
Nothing interesting happened today so…
…You get another cat picture. Actually that’s not true, but it’s all work stuff, turned into a long day, but some good stuff. I admit this is not a terribly flattering picture of Tubby, but he is a great cat.
Schedule announced… Finally
At last the MLS schedule has been released, there are a couple of games that clash early in the season with planned travel, but not too bad. May 14th and June 11th are going to be fun, as will the corresponding fixtures at Vancouver and Portland. In addition to the two local teams an away trip LA on the 4th of July weekend was fun…
Here we go again…
My plans for the evening got rather messed up, I did something rather dumb and put a drill into my finger and under the nail. Rather stupid, but not nearly as bloody as last June when I cut off the end of my index finger (and that still hurts occasionally). I stopped in Central Market, picked up a couple of really nice steaks, a pile…