If you’re local, and you haven’t been living under a rock, you’ve heard about the local blogger at MPD Enforcer 2.0. He/she/it blogs about the Memphis Police Department. They have been critical of the muckity-mucks in the MPD, and of the way some investigations are handled. Now the city of Memphis and Police Director Larry Godwin are suing to find out the identity of the blogger. Here’s a blurb about it from the Commercial Appeal

Paul Alan Levy, an attorney with the Public Citizen Litigation Group, a Washington-based public interest law firm founded by Ralph Nader, will represent the anonymous bloggers at MPD Enforcer 2.0 whose identities are being sought by Police Director Larry Godwin and the city of Memphis.

The lawsuit, filed in Shelby County Chancery Court, asks AOL to produce all information related to the identity of an e-mail address linked to MPD Enforcer 2.0, a blog popular with police officers that has been extremely critical of police leadership. The bloggers operate under the name Dirk Diggler, a porn-star character in the movie “Boogie Nights.”

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I am completely stuck listening to the Leona Lewis song “Bleeding Love” over and over again. My kids will be thrilled that at least I picked a song from this decade to fall in love with.

Look what I Wooted

And here’s how I came to do the wooting I do.

The following is an email exchange between me and my sugar daddy.

From: Yours truly
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 07:28
To: The keeper of my heart (and the checkbook)
Subject: Hey

Good deal.
http://www.woot.com/

From: Sugar Daddy (gonna make you ask for it)
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:36:49 -0500
To: Moi
Subject: RE: Hey

It is, I don’t want it…happy enough with mine.

From: Ready to eat humble pie for an iPod
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 07:39
To: He knows he’s going to cave in already, geeze
Subject: Re: Hey

Ah, ok.

I might want one that big……..

From: Master of the obvious
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:40:12 -0500
To: I just want a damn iPod already!
Subject: RE: Hey

As I suspected, so put it on one of your pretty pieces of plastic.

From: Finally got my iPod on the way
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 07:45
To: Don’t you have enough damn gadgets (including iPods) already?
Subject: Re: Hey

Thanks, I wooted!

I am such a spoiled brat.

Thanks to Ramsey, for finding this gem and sharing!

I know I enjoy the Wii Fit, but since I started going to The Club, I haven’t used the Fit much at all. But if you’re looking for a fitness program at home, and without recurring fees, the Fit might be exactly what you need. It appears that it’s gotten the attention of some health care professionals as well. Check out Are Wii Fit Yet, USING WII FIT IN YOUR LONGTERM FITNESS PLAN: 40+ TIPS, TUTORIALS AND SUCCESS STORIES and The Wii: A new Approach to Rehab

Modano Plans Return for 19th Season
By Ken Sins from MikeModano.com

Mike Modano will mark his 38th year on the planet in June, and for most professional athletes, that’s geezer status.

Not for the Stars’ center, however. Modano still looks at least 10 years younger, and that’s how he performed on the ice this season.

Modano is all but assured of returning for a 19th season with the franchise. He has two years left on his five-year contract, and the NHL’s all-time leading U.S.-born scorer with 528 goals will again center one of the team’s top three lines.

He avoided the injuries that reduced his contributions to 59 games in 2006-07, registering 21 goals and 57 points in 82 regular-season games while averaging almost 20 minutes of ice time. Then he chipped in with five goals and 12 points in the playoffs.

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You know you’re from Oklahoma and Kansas when:

• You let your 14-year-old daughter smoke at the dinner table in front of her kids.
• The Blue Book value of your truck goes up and down depending on how much gas is in it.
• You’ve been married three times and still have the same in-laws.
• You think a woman who is “out of your league” bowls on a different night.
• You wonder how service stations keep their rest-rooms so clean.
• Someone in your family died right after saying, “Hey, guys, watch this.”
• You think Dom Perignon is a Mafia leader.
• Your wife’s hairdo was once ruined by a ceiling fan.
• Your junior prom offered day care.
• You think the last words of the “Star-Spangled Banner” are “Gentlemen, start your engines.”
• You lit a match in the bathroom and your house exploded right off its wheels.
• The Halloween pumpkin on your porch has more teeth than your spouse.
• You have to go outside to get something from the fridge.
• One of your kids was born on a pool table.
• You need one more hole punched in your card to get a freebie at the House of Tattoos.
• You can’t get married to your sweetheart because there’s a law against it.
• You think loading the dishwasher means getting your wife drunk

WARNING: There might be a spoiler or two here.  So don’t read if you don’t want me to ruin some part of “The Dark Knight” for you.

So we go see “The Dark Knight” Saturday. It’s good.  I’m totally immersed in the movie but Small Fry is a little scared so somewhere in the second hour she gets scared and gets in my lap.  Nothing too graphic, but a LOT of violence that you don’t see.  It is scarier than most Batman movies, but I like that.  Small Fry is not so thrilled.  

She’s already scared, then the Joker turns Harvey Dent into Two Face. If you haven’t seen it yet, this Two Face is about a million times better than the Tommy Lee Jones’ Two Face. At least the face/scarring stuff is better. As far as the character, I couldn’t tell you. This is where the story turns sad.

As soon as you see Two Face in the hospital, looking way cool with half a face, Small Fry turns to me and starts crying and asking to leave.  So of course, because I’m the mommy and she’s breaking my heart, I go with her.  We leave the boys and other parental units in our group in the movie, because no point in ruining it for everyone.  That and the boys already cause her so much grief, why give them more to harass her about?

So she and I go to the lobby, hopefully to save me some future bucks on any future therapy bills we might incur.  She’s happy she’s out of there, but feeling guilty for making me leave.  I tell her it’s fine and we sit and talk and play games.  Her psyche is fine, mine is a little blue.  

The family comes out, talking about how fabulous it is, and now I’m trying to figure out a time I can sneak out to re-see it.  Anyone wanna go?