Westminster Show

Firstly, I'm kicking myself because I never thought for even a moment of trying to go to NYC for this show. I also didn't know the NYC Comic-Con was this past weekend. I could have had a pretty sweet long weekend of fandom and dogs in the Big Apple. Dunno how attendance was at the Comic-Con, but the dog show is seriously low on warm bodies. I'm not a crowd person, so now would have been a great time to go.

Secondly, I have never seen dogs disqualified for conflict of interest before, much less twice in the same group. It kinda seems to me that if the judge has that many potential conflicts, they shouldn't be judging that breed/group. And if the conflict is with the handler, they had a few hours to find someone else to handle the dog (I've been to enough shows to know if you have more than one dog, you have at least one more handler on standby - you can't be two people at once!)

That said and off my chest... DOGGIES! So many lovely DOGGIES! Yes, I know. I'm hopeless.

Michael Phelps (Rant Warning)

The whole world seems to have weighed in on Phelps, everyone but me - and I'm sitting about 500 feet away from the guy. Every day. Never actually met him, to my knowledge, but he grew up 2 miles from my house, and the office is 500 feet, if that, from the Meadowbrook Practice Facility where he trains every day. He's usually there when I come in to work. The bosses have met him at the pool, and my supervisor's sister, who is visiting for a few weeks to help her post-surgery, has been subject to the media frenzy the last week every time she tries to swim. (She assures me, the paparazzi is absolutely crazy over there.) And as long as we're on full disclosure, I don't smoke pot - tried it once in college, didn't like it, never even thought about it again. Don't drink alcohol either. My lone drug is caffeine. But I don't see the big deal about pot, I find alcohol to be a far more dangerous drug in oh so many ways, and I'm oft baffled that pot is illegal but alcohol is everywhere.

Anyway, all that said, I don't get it. The guy took a hit off a bong. So what? There's what, 300 worse things in the world he could do? And the world's piling on him for doing something that's harmless, if a bit embarassing? How many athletes are out there who've shot people, beat their girlfriends, crashed their cars and killed someone, and no one bats an eye? But this young guy goes to a party and it's a bigger crisis than the financial one. To those people with their underwear in a twist over this: get over it. Get a life. You'll find if you have a life, you'll be far too busy to be freaking out over how other people live theirs.

Rant over.

The Sarah Jane Adventures

Finished watching both seasons last night. I had seen some of the 1st series on SciFi but not all, and none of the 2nd series before. I don't usually watch programs intended for the younger set, and I had to remind myself of that a lot - it's for kids, it may be repetitive or obvious, hang in there. But overall I found it to be innocuous entertainment. It won't change my life, but it was enjoyable for the time I watched it. Although the insistence of the characters on going into blatant traps and never doing what they're told (I'm looking at you, Luke & Clyde) did get old. The young actors are good, and the young man playing Clyde is going to be one strikingly handsome fellow. So I would say, don't rush out to buy/see it, but if you get a chance, you won't regret the time.

For my f-list, some Sarah Jane art upcoming shortly :)