It’s been awhile.

Brown, Ford, and Hussein died. (They need one more for a bridge game.)

Many top ten lists have been released, reminding me that movies take a long time to come out when you live in a third tier city. (Still waiting for Volver , Pan ‘s Labyrinth, and Children of Men.) And that the music world is way too big and fractured to make any casual sense of. And that I rarely read recently published books.

Indiana Jones 4 is finally going into production this year for a May 2008 release.

Nevada has a new governor who, in a fit of ego and self-aggrandization, was secretly sworn in at midnight on January 1st: “We didn’t want any word out in advance because of the security concerns… This is a new world since 9-11 and the first major change in Nevada government since then.”

I now have a Mii on my brother’s Wii.

And I’m a little more than halfway through Against the Day. Turns out it’s hard to find any reading time when you’re home visiting family.