Day: October 11, 2004

The passing of Christopher Reeve, actor who will be remembered for his work as Superman and lobbying for many political and public interest issues.

South Asian Hindus of Queens celebrating Diwali, the Festival of Lights, a month early – to take advantage of the nice weather.

Plus, on Slate.com – “Ad Report” presents a review of the latest Burger King ad: wherein Burger King (and I mean literally – a person in robes and wearing a plastic mask with a BK crown) serves a guy a BK breakfast in bed. I think the ad is strangely funny, in a camp sort of way, although I wouldn’t give it the high grade that Slate.com’s Seth Stevenson gave it.

Enjoying what’s left of the three day weekend.

Local UPN station had plugged in to the Yankees game on ESPN on Friday night, and delayed broadcasting “Star Trek: Enterprise” ‘s season premiere until Saturday night, so I ended up accidentally taping 45 minutes of the game Friday night. I did end up taping and watching the season premiere; umm, I cannot make an honest assessment until Part 2 of the season premiere airs this coming Friday. Part 1, to say the least, left me thinking, “What?” The Enterprise crew continues to cease to amaze me; digital filming of the episode made for a clear looking cinematic look; and poor time traveler Daniels… his fate is bizarre, as usual.

Saw “Garden State” on Saturday. Good movie – sad, darkly funny. Decent soundtrack. Moral of the movie – it’s ok to feel and to live and all that. Oh, and actress Natalie Portman can act (as opposed to how George Lucas’ Star Wars reduced her talent to pretty minimal stuff); actor/writer/director Zach Braff (whose day job involves playing that screwy doctor J.D. on NBC’s “Scrubs”) – pretty interesting talent he has – to write and direct and act (and I think even produce?)…

Yankees v. Bosox – argh. How much more of the running soap opera can we put up with these two teams?

Happy Columbus Day. Geez, I actually miss Toyota’s Christopher Columbus Action Figure. ’nuff said…

Pei dragged me to the doctor on Saturday. I had a low grade back pain, and there were some kind of unusual bumps on my back. Pei thought the worst. Anyway, 2 out of the 3 turned out to be knots in the muscle fiber caused by too much stress, so I was given some muscle relaxants to help straighten them out. The third one turned out to be a benign lipoma, which should it grow will have to be removed surgically. The muscle relaxant knocked me out for most of Sunday morning, but I stayed at Pei’s house just to be cautious. Not exactly the best way to spend an anniversary, but at least we’re together.