Juno, the new movie from Jason Reitman is currently tied as my favorite movie of 2007. The other one being Sunshine.

A friend of mine is out of town for a week and so I stopped by once a day to feed the cat. Ain’t she adorable?

Yes, I do. I thank the Lord for giving me my friends, for getting me the ones I love. Lord reach down and help innocent men on death row. Lee Taylor needs help, Bobby Hines, Steve Woods. Not all of us are innocent, but those are. Cleve Foster needs help. Melyssa, I love you girl. I know I wasn’t going to say anything, but I’ve got to. Jack, Irene, Danny, Doreen, I love you guys. I said I was going to tell a joke. Death has set me free. That’s the biggest joke, I deserve this. And the other joke is I am not Patrick Bryan Knight, and ya’ll can’t stop this execution now. Go ahead, I’m finished. Come on, tell me Lord. I love you Melyssa, take care of that little monster for me.

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice keeps a log of all its executed inmates dating back to 1982. There are a wealth of information about the offender, the crime committed, the victims, as well as the offender’s last statement before being put to death. Reading their offenses, it’s not hard to see that most of them are monsters. It’s pretty morbid, but it makes me question why we’re the only civilized, developed country in the world that still needs the death penalty.

While I was out the other night I looked up at the almost full moon and noticed a very distinct halo around it. I’ve never seen anything like it and it kinda freaked me out. I suspect it had something to do with light and atmosphere and all that jazz.

It was a clear and cold, maybe upper 30s, when I got home at around 2AM. Now the ring was really clear, I even noticed some color. Then I realized that it was the color spectrum and that I was looking at a rainbow halo. Apparently it’s cause by the light from the moon (reflected from the sun) refracting through cirrostratus clouds which contained ice crystals. See, you learn something everyday.

Interestingly, “Cirrostratus” also happens to be the name of a short lived late 90s progressive folk rock band, whose biggest hit was titled Halo of the Moon. Wow, who knew I can make up such bullshit? Only this last part though, the rest of the meteorological stuff is all true. I tried taking pictures but my ultra compact just wasn’t up to the task. The above picture is from google, click here for more.

Once in a while I use this contact cleaning solution containing 3% hydrogen peroxide. It comes with a little bottle whose cap have two compartments for the lenses. Underneath that, there’s a widget attached that is supposed to react and neutralize the H₂O₂, cleaning the contacts in the process. The reaction takes some time, so the instructions say to leave the lenses in there for at least 6 hours prior to wearing them. I usually just leave it in there over night and in the morning it’s like I have a new pair of contacts.

Well, I was being retarded and wasn’t paying attentions and used the H₂O₂ solution to rinse one of my contacts before putting it in my eye. Bad idea. It burned like you wouldn’t believe and my eye got crazy red. Luckily the pain subsided after feverishly rinsing my eye with water, and it took about an hour for the redness to go away. I thought I was gonna go blind or something. Lesson learned: don’t put acid in your eye. But seriously, when used correctly, this stuff works wonders on contacts.

Yeah, you heard right, that’s Mariah Carey. I don’t care how you feel about her, this song is still a jam. Go ahead, bob your head and tap your feet. You know you want to! I’m going back to S.A. for a few days of family time. Have a great Christmas everyone! Travel safe, eat lots of food and stay warm.

Judd Apatow hasn’t disappointed me yet, and this one looks like another winner. Directed by the writer of Undeclared and starring Kristen Bell and Jason Segel. In theaters May 2008.

Speaking of Apatow, I was indifferent to Walk Hard at first, but the red-band trailer won me over. Check it out after the jump.

I saw this ridiculous commercial for Tampax on TV just now. It’s about how girls in Africa are missing school each month because of their period apparently because they don’t have Tampons. Not having a vagina, I couldn’t even come close to understanding how annoying periods are (or aren’t, I don’t know). But their period isn’t the biggest problem these kids have to deal with.

Upon further investigation, it turns out that the proceed will go towards hygiene products in addition to sex ed programs, schools, dorms, clean water and the likes. So maybe it’s not so bad. But I didn’t get that from the 30 second TV spot. I thought when you buy tampons they’ll give African girls tampons. Which is good, to be sure, but let’s not compare Tampax with food, water, and life saving medicine. Tampax: good intention, conceited ad. Although, it still seems like a half-assed attempt at using the image of poor African girls to sell Tampons.

It’s a good show, probably my favorite L&O besides the original. Seasons 1 through 8 are on Netflix available for streaming. I’m working my way from the beginning. The scene where Christopher Meloni tries to talks to his daughter about sex with soccer goalie metaphors is hilarious (Hysteria - Season 1, Episode 4).