Our New Car

As you can see, we have a new car. A 2007 GMC Envoy SLT. Ain't it pretty?

We named the dog Indiana!

On Thursday, production began for a movie that many people expected we would never see . . . Indiana Jones 4. I've been eagerly awaiting this movie for a while now. After all, has there really ever been a bad Indiana Jones movie (Temple of Doom, while being the weak link of the series, was still better than 65 percent of the movies out there.

Everyone complains about Harrison Ford's age, but in the world of CGI, stunt men and other special effects, I doubt it will really matter.

This is a picture that Steven Spielberg took at the start of production.

Girl Power!

So Rags to Riches won the Belmont Stakes, the first filly to win the 1 1/2 mile endurance race since 1905. She edged out Preakness winner Curlin by a head to win the race.

So now I wonder how long it will take people to propose a match race between Rags to Riches and Kentucky Derby winner Street Sense. The Derby winner is supposedly retiring, but I doubt that would stop any speculation.

Matches used to be a pretty popular event in horse racing, with such classics as Seabiscuit and War Admiral (The Match of the Century). The event fell out of favor after the fateful match race on July 6, 1975 at Belmont Park.

The race featured the filly Ruffian, who won her first 10 races and was dubbed "Queen of the Fillies," and Foolish Pleasure, the Kentucky Derby winner. The "Battle of thew Sexes" tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs had taken place two years earlier, and this horse race would be dubbed "the equine battle of the Sexes."

Ruffian led by a nose after the first quarter-mile and soon extended her lead to about half a length. But then tragedy struck. Both of Ruffian's sesamoid bones in her right foreleg snapped. Her jockey, Jacinto Vasquez, tried to pull her up, but she ran on for another 50 yards, apparently unwilling to give up the race.

She was treated in surgery for 12 hours, but when the anesthesia wore off, she thrashed around, destroyed the cast and broke her other leg. She was euthanized soon after, and was buried in the infield at Belmont Park, where she got to watch another filly win the Belmont 32 years later.

...And Kirk Cameron as The Smoke

First of all, let me start this with a spoiler warning. If you are at all interested in what happened in the season finale of Lost and have not yet seen it (This means you, Sam!), stop reading and definitely don't watch the video.

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So on the season finale of Lost, we got a glimpse into the future, with Jack and Kate (and I assume others) presumed rescued, but it not being the happy ending Jack envisioned. So the question was, "Where do they got from here?" Well, this video tries to answer that.

We have a winner!

After much debate and dozens of names that were considered and rejected, Christine and I have decided on a name for our second child, previously known as "Noname" and due to enter this world on September 29, 2007:

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Aidan Anthony Stratton

True Yankee

This season has been pretty void of clutch performances in New York. A-Rod has cooled off, Jeter was 0-for-4 for 3 strikeouts in a win (OMG!) on Wednesday, and Posada's hitting hasn't changed things in Yankee Stadium.

But the sports parody news site thebrushback.com has identified a true Yankee because of his clutch performance: LeBron James.

I've never heard of this sitye before, but it's pretty good. I liked the blurb entitled "Red Sox Open Up 13-Game Lead Over Only Other Team In Division" and the story entitled "Madden Curse Strikes Vince Young In Form Of Shitty Wide Receivers."

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Okay, I stand corrected. The Brushback can't compete with this.