Miraclo Miles

Another Saturday Check-In A gray start to the day hereabouts, it's been a sleep-in Saturday. Last weekend was a wet, dirty nightmare as we had a substantial plumbing problem that did a number on the downstairs -- largely the den, bathroom and laundry room areas, as the upper floor is our main living floor (the place is built into a hillside, and our parking ground level is the same as the upstairs) -- so a great deal was trashed. The blockage was beyond the lowest point in our plumbing, so everything started trying to come up out of the toilet and bathtub in that bathroom. Trav and I hauled a huge amoung around for pick-up this week, including our couch that was down there. The love seat's fine, but the couch was a lost cause. There's still plenty of work to be done down there, including more to battle mildew, but the mood's considerably less tense this weekend. Over on my Clix blog I most recently posted something about the set due for release Nov. 21. A week fr

Time make another prayer circle, Dawg Dog the Bounty Hunter's in the dog house with A&E following the posting of a tape of him repeatedly referring to his son's girlfriend (Monique Shinnery) as a nigger. Apologies have been made, but A&E has halted production on the show.., presumably until they see what the news does to its ratings. Ha. Check the National Enquirer piece for other details and the audiotape itself. That he was using the term as part of a rant concerning how he didn't want to risk losing everything because she might hear him use the term "nigger" and report it to the National Enquirer demonstrates why one should never speculate aloud on worst case scenarios. It reminded me to wonder if the question of extradition to Mexico was still lingering on the table, but upon searching I see that that was dropped by the Mexican government in early August .