And A Partridge In A Pear Tree

Merry Christmas to all you strangers out there who read my blog but never post a comment or say hi. Pervs.

Been a bleary-eyed week for me. Went to Punta Fuego with Mel and some of our frisbee friends and spent the day playing disc, the night getting wasted, and the next day waking up early to avoid getting dealt the dreaded pentel pen monobrow. The victim this time around was John Joe:



Afterwards Mel and I visited our friend Abi's place in Tali and damn, it was a beach house straight out of MTV Cribs. Huge white house overlooking a killer sunset view, infinity pool, even an underground cave! I felt like I was in a rap video.



Christmas was again a blur of food, festivities, and family pics with blinking Santa hats. And speaking of pics I decided to give Mel's folks a series of Lozano Children Portraits as a present:



Also took photos of our canine food model wannabe George, our lovable dog whose breed remains a mystery. Isn't he cute? And no, he's not pregnant.



I also survived everyone's near-violent suggestions to watch The Incredibles ("CARLO! Ohmigoooood, you HAVE to watch IT!!!"- while shaking me vigorously) and went to a theater to see what the hype was all about. The Incredibles kicks Shrek 2's ass and deserves to win Best Animated Feature at next year's Oscars.

A quick gripe about Shrek 2- I really don't understand how this movie managed to end up as the highest grossing film of 2005. It's humour is too current (who's going to laugh at the Sir Justin poster ten years from now?), and the only laugh out loud moments are whenever Puss N' Boots is onscreen and the Pinocchio gags. And the song and dance finale set to Ricky Martin's Livin La Vida Loca is just lazy. I guess with all the millions they paid to Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, and Cameron Diaz they couldn't afford to hire a decent songwriter.

So yeah, The Incredibles gets my vote. It reminded me of Alan Moore's Watchmen, on more humourous scale of course.

To officially end my sloth phase I took in the Lakers-Heat game on RPN 9 (I find it cool that RPN has been using the same Voiceover Guy forever. Back when I was a kid, this Voice would introduce Harry Gasser on Newswatch! I think he's the same Voice Guy who does the "Hope. The luxury cigarette." voiceovers).

The game truly lived up to the hype. Kobe going for 42, but Shaq and the Heat getting the win. My favorite moment was at tipoff when they uneasily greeted each other minus the eye contact.

So yeah, Merry Christmas everyone! Somebody speed the holidays up so I can get back to work already!