[...i ate #187] Kashi 7 Whole Grain Honey Puffed Cereal

July 13th, 2009 Graig

I’ve tried a lot of Kashi products and haven’t really been all that fond of any of them, but this cereal is like a healthy, awesome version of Sugar Crisp, which I can totally get behind. Check the ingredients:

Whole hard red winter wheat, evaporated cane juice, whole long grain brown rice, whole oats, whole barley, whole triticale, whole rye, whole buckwheat, honey, sesame seeds.

Where’s all the chemicals and fake shit? And since it’s not all vibrantly packaged, JJ wants nothing to do with it, which means more for me.

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[...consumed all new #187] Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire

July 11th, 2009 Graig

It was Star Trek: The Next Generation that made syndicated TV programming acceptable for more than just game shows and talk shows, bringing it out of you know, traditional afternoon fare. Thanks to the success TNG, we’ve received dozens upon dozens of syndicated genre shows, some SciFi like Stargate, but the more popular ones have a fantasy twinge to them, reaching their apex with Xena and Hercules. Now these live action cartoons are, at best, guilty pleasures, quality control always suspect given the restricted budgets and inherent camp value in the bulk of them, so it’s almost self-satire, making an outright parody unnecessary. So, when I Comedy Central’s Krod Mandoon advertised weeks in advance of its Canadian premiere on City TV, I was ready to dismiss it completely (as I do almost all syndicated genre shows) save for the fact that it co-stars Little Britain’s Matt Lucas, so I thought there had to be some redeeming quality to it.

I was surprised to find myself genuinely laughing at the show, which turns out to be more of a Naked Gun or Mel Brooks-style adventure-comedy than the “____ Movie” or Wayans Brothers form of “parody”. It’s silly as hell and it lampoons a lot of the conventions of the low-budget fantasy show, much as Austin Powers did the spy genre, but it also generates its own humor situationally and through characterization. It’s not memorable comedy but it’s certainly passable entertainment.

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[...learned #187] things I learned about my little girl on her first day

July 9th, 2009 Graig

1. she likes to have a hand up by her face at almost all times. Usually her right one. During her last ultrasound she was seen with her hand up by her face, and I recall Aden say that she’d better move it before she comes out. She did, but it was right back up by her face when she came out.

2. she doesn’t like her feet exposed to the elements (well, except warm water). When she’s swaddled, if her foot comes out she gets quite upset.

3. The foot thing, along with gas and dirty diapers are what makes my little girl upset.

4. She was born 7 lbs exactly, and exactly 50 cm long.

5. She doesn’t really look like me or Aden yet, but she does kind of look like her half-brother (more when he was a baby than now).

6. she’s kind of ticklish.

7. despite having her hand by her face she doesn’t suck her thumb or fingers all that much, unless she’s really upset, and even then its only for a few minutes of comfort. She does ten to poke herself in the eyeball a lot though.

8. She kicks and flails a lot in her sleep. I now understand why Aden was so uncomfortable carrying her.

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