Blame it on the Rain

The cold 8 degree temps that greeted me off the plane on Tuesday night are long gone. All those people that told me to bring some warm weather back with me should be pleased -- with the temps anyway! It is over 50 degrees here in Wisconsin, and the lovely snow is melting away very quickly with the pouring rain. Cold and snow advisories have given way to fog and flash flood warnings. No doubt the cold will be back soon, but for now it almost feels like home...

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Happy Holidays to you all, wherever you may be. For my part, I am happy to be home amongst family, friends, snow and cold.

Winter Ball

I would never have guessed that I'd be playing softball a week before Christmas - in short sleeves no less! Yet, that was exactly the case last Sunday when we were playing a doubleheader for the league championship. We won both games and also this handsome T-shirt for our efforts. Go team go!

Button Up!

I've been waiting a long time for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. While the wide release comes on Christmas Day, I fortunately got to see a preview last week and was not disappointed. Because I think the movie is better seen without knowing too much about it, I won't spoil any details here.

After the Variety screening I was at, Director David Fincher and Writer Eric Roth spoke. They talked about the painstaking process of making the film -- the special effects, the make-up, the locations, the 150-day shoot... The narrative of the film is far different than the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story it's based on. Eric Roth (who also wrote Forrest Gump) weaves an intricate and poignant tale (Fincher chastised Roth for calling it a "fable" which in many ways it is) that will stick with you.

Miami in L.A.

I got to work as an extra this week on CSI:Miami which is shot at a studio in Manhattan Beach - about 30 miles south of L.A. It was good fun - I got to play both a prison guard and a Miami-Dade cop, roaming the halls of the Police Department. The set was nice, but cold - and the days were long, which is good because I can use the money! Oh, and traffic is great when you are driving at 4:30 a.m. - of course, I had to wait about 10 seconds for the coyote to walk out of the middle of the road as I left my driveway. Ahh, L.A.: never a dull moment, even in the wee hours of the morning...