Doh! or in Matt Groening's case: Dough$$$
I meant to post this yesterday since
December 17, 1989 was the
first episode of the
Simpsons, an episode called
Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire. There's no reason to believe the 20th anniversary won't be rolling around next year of
this phenomenally popular 6th grade - adult cartoon comedy hit. It (well, House and Dancing with the Stars) is the only show that is constantly TIVO'd at our house (recorded in case you might miss an episode or even a rerun). Must be a male thing because while I recognize the cleverness of the writing, I just sometimes get too much Homer.
At any rate, if you love the Simpsons and want to get ready for your 20th anniversary party (which you might want to hold in some other month than the one Christmas is in), the website to find out all things Simpson's is
http://www.snpp.com/ (
Springfield
Nuclear
Power
Plant). The picture in the upper left shows the Simpsons as they first appeared on shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, also on the Fox Network in 1987. "Wikipedia it" if interested. :-)
We'll probably be watching the Simpsons on Christmas . . . sigh. I'll let you know. This may not be our best Christmas anyway. But it will be Mojo's first Christmas. We're so pathetic we're even thinking of decorating him. Tastefully.
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Bill and I had a wonderful time with Dave and Erin at Erin's parents, Roger and Muriel Pfaff, in Marietta, GA. We drove down on Sunday and spent 2 nights at a Drury Inns & Suites, but ate all our meals (except the free breakfast at the motel) with the Pfaff's. Erin has one sister, Alison, and her boyfriend, Mike, were also in attendance. Mike is a med student at MCV, where Bill's brother Jim went (a few year's ago!).
We got hooked on dominoes, which we played when we weren't eating one of Murierl's wonderful meals. Of course, when we played we ate homemade cookies and candy, made by Erin and her mom. Dinner Sunday night was a wonderful chicken dish over pasta; Christmas Eve was 2 kinds of hearty homemade soups and homemade rolls; and Christmas dinner was prime rib. Wow! Were we impressed. Best thing to me: sticky pecan rolls at Christmas breakfast. Super yum.
On Christmas Eve we went to a candlelight service at 11:00 p.m. at the Pfaff's Lutheran church. It felt very similar to our Methodist candlelight service. I think the big Christmas present was something called a Wee, an interactive games thingy played on your TV. Like all playstation things, it's beyond me.
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Favorite Quotes
Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life . . . PicassoBe who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind . . . . . . . Dr. SeussThe truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away . . . Robert M. Pirsig "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret . . . Henri-Fredric AmielWhat worries you, masters you . . . . Haddon W. RobinsonWhen we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience , so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape . . . Louise Erdrich in The Plague of Doves
this phenomenally popular 6th grade - adult cartoon comedy hit. It (well, House and Dancing with the Stars) is the only show that is constantly TIVO'd at our house (recorded in case you might miss an episode or even a rerun). Must be a male thing because while I recognize the cleverness of the writing, I just sometimes get too much Homer. 
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