The Rantings of a Very Tired Man

Hey folks,

So...Malcolm has officially learned to climb EVERYTHING in the house...chairs, tables, his high chair...if he can reach it and pull himself up onto it, he will. It's just a matter of weeks (probably days) before we hear that "THUD" in the middle of the night as he plays Steve McQueen in his crib and tries to figure out how to turn the doorknob (he can lock the door from the inside).

So while he's running amuck in the three rooms he's currently penned into, I figured I'd sit down and write before he turns on the most annoying toy in the world (note to self...remove batteries...of course, I've been saying this for the better part of a week now and don't have the energy to find the screw driver to do the job).

Anyway, with the new James Bond film, Casino Royale, opening November 17, I figured it was time to sit through the entire series from start to finish before the new one opens. So starting in the next few days, you should be getting a piece every week looking back at two films at a time. That is if Malcolm hasn't figured out how to shimmy up the drain pipes yet.

Speaking of spies...Time Life Home Video has the exclusive rights to one of my favorite TV comedies, Get Smart, on DVD for one year...and they're going about releasing it the correct way. Unlike most series these days where it seems like we get one season at a time with minimal extras over the course of many months (or years) only to be served up with a "Complete Series" box set in weird packaging with even more extras, Get Smart is being released in mid-November on 25 DVDs with over 9 hours of extras in phone booth packaging. Cool...and if you search around on their site you can find coupons to take some money off the deal. Even at the retail price of $199.99 for all 5 seasons (138 episodes) it's a pretty good bargain.

And my last complaint for the day (as Malcolm starts climbing me and tries to remove another key from my laptop in addition to the "ESC" key), Warner Home Video has created what I'm voting as the WORST package art EVER for their upcoming new special edition DVDs of the Christopher Reeve Superman films. With wonderful poster art that was used on previous releases, they bad photo collage crap things are just plain embarassing. Shame on Warner. Shame shame shame. Hopefully someone will post better alternate covers on line for printing and replacement.

Well...that's all the time we have for today. If you're interested in new pictures of Mac, check out:

http://www.seemegrow.net/gallery/fenster

And click on the latest album where you can see him attempt to escape down our driveway only to split his lip open.

Be seeing you.