I found a great new Red Sox blog: Chad Finn's Touching All the Bases. Funny and insightful. The author (umm...blogger?) used to work at the Concord Monitor and now works at the Globe.

My latest beer recommendation: Smuttynose Big A IPA. You may have had it in the past, but it's bigger and hoppier than ever this year.

Also, Ann and I saw Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith last week. It was by far the best of the prequels, and probably the only one that really should have been made. Ann's somewhat minor quibble with the movie was that Natalie Portman didn't look nearly pregnant enough to be having twins, particularly twins that looked to be about 3 months old at birth. I guess as a formerly pregnant woman, she's a bit sensitive. I think she would have liked it better if the movie showed Padme waking up three times in the night to pee.

Good couple games by the Sox this weekend. Of course, they are getting killed right now, but the O's can't keep this up all season, can they? Someone tell me they can't. Please.

I can't believe Bo didn't win American Idol. I'm more disappointed in the American public today than I was the day after the election.

Good movies we've watched in the past few days:

• Hedwig and the Angry Inch - about a transsexual rock star and his/her attempt to get recognized as the real genius behind a rock star. As a side note, every time I heard about this movie in the past, I thought it was "angry itch" not "inch." Strange the way your mind can play tricks on you like that.
  
• Run Lola Run - a very entertaining German action movie that is kinda like Groundhog Day.
  

Bad movie we watched last week:

• The TV movie Hercules. Horrible, yet oddly entertaining.
  

We had a great time with Beth and Jake this past weekend. Friday night Beth, Jake and I went a Ted Leo and the Pharmacists show at Dartmouth. They pretended they were students, we got in for free, and had free beer, water and candy. (Ann stayed home with Sadie). It was a great show, and we were all seriously deaf when we got home. It was amazing just to be out at a concert - thanks for letting me go, Ann!

On Saturday we drove up to Waterbury, VT. We took a quick tour of the Ben & Jerry's factory - our free samples were Triple Caramel Crunch (which was wicked good), Sweet Cream and Cookies and Oatmeal Cookie Chunk. While you are at the Ben & Jerry's website, be sure to vote to raise your favorite flavor from the graveyard!

After the tour we checked out The Alchemist, a new brewpub in Waterbury. The beer and food were excellent. We especially enjoyed the fries with garlic mayonnaise, and I loved the Holy Cow IPA and Grote Bruin.

Also of note - Jake and I passed the first three levels of co-op mode of James Bond: Everything or Nothing (although we kept getting our ass kicked on the fourth) and had great fun making two guys kiss in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Jake needs to get a Playstation so he can practice up.

Red Sox at bat music. My favorite is Keith Folke pulling out the Danzig.

If either Federov or Pork Chop (i.e. Scott) don't get voted off American Idol this week, Ann and I are going to stop watching. Go Bo!