Mark O’Meara: the blog

Indiana wants me by kevindooley

There is nothing warm about forty degrees. This is just damn hot.

Lesson for the day - this is the rare day when even I sizzle.

Good Vibrations Festival Melbourne by DJ Taka

It was my fond hope that a good night’s sleep would see my neck returning to normal and me being able to look about the place with impunity.

Annoyingly I was a little too sore to sleep at all well so today is the third day of this malarkey. Nicky was ready to pack me off to the doctor but before that we pressed her massager/heat doover into service. This warm vibrating wonder hasn’t completely fixed me but it has made me feel heaps better than I did so hoorah for it and hoorah for Nicky for thinking of it.

Lesson for the day - sometimes a little shake-up help a lot.

Catch-22 by Ranjith Wijewardene

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"The Gathering Point" by * Nina *

For the small number of folk invited to spend New Year’s Eve at our place we will be allowing you in any time from five o’clock. Just one minute earlier and there will be trouble. I am not a man to eat trifle with.

There will be a space for little girls to play and sleep and a room for four year old boys to play and sleep.

If you wish to drink booze then you’d do well to bring some. Other than that we are pretty well set.

Lesson for the day - not all explicit is bad (for kids or adults)

Photo from the SingStar® FlirtShop! by SingStar® VIP Lounge

My neck is a better today than it was yesterday. However things like sitting down and especially sitting in the front of the computer make it worse. I had this idea that playing SingStar might be a good idea. It would keep me standing and moving albeit gently.

And I think it did me a little good. I am still stiffening up a little but I did have good fund singing and it’s good practice for tomorrow night.

Lesson for the day - singing is probably good for you.

The Preternatural Glow of Twilight by The_Gassman

I was beginning to suspect that preternatural did not mean what I thought it meant. Happily this time I was pretty much right.

The preternatural or praeternatural is that which appears outside or beyond (Latin præter) the natural. While this may include what is more commonly called the supernatural, it may also simply indicate extremity - an ordinary phenomenon taken ‘beyond’ the natural.

Lesson for the day - it is nice to know that some smartarse words do mean what I think the mean.

Ach, my neck! by Bradtholomew

I have been for a decent sized walk. I have had a shower. I have had Nicky rub anti-inflammatory gel into my shoulder. I have had Nicky rub by shoulder gently. I have even had a very still lie down.

I think my neck is worse than it was when I got up.

I am sure by tomorrow I will be all fine again but for now I am utterly sick of being utterly useless.

Lesson for the day - you never know what tomorrow brings.

stiff by Nmarie

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Summer Viewing by MarkOMeara

The rush of Christmas is over and we have finished season three of Battestar Gallactica. I have a little over a month before I go back to school so I thought I might get through some movies that I either have not watched or would like to watch again. I figure eleven films in a month is not too much to ask.

So here’s the list.

Tristram Shandy
Casino Royale
Seven Samurai
Shaun of the Dead
A Very Long Engagement
Children of Men
V for Vendetta
Gallipoli
Kingdom of Men
Napoleon Dynamite
Ten Canoes

Lesson for the day - even sitting on the couch being lazy is more productive with a plan.

no-country-for-old-men by Shaneeza Aziz

I was talking to Rad yesterday and she was telling me how much she had enjoyed a couple of films she had seen recently. The first of these was the Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men and the second was Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling Limited. She described the first as really good but not funny in the way you expect of Coen film to be. She also really enjoyed the second even though it has one or other of the Wilson brothers in it.

This got me thinking about this review I read about a film that looks to be crackingly good.

With his fifth film, There Will Be Blood (Paramount Vantage), Paul Thomas Anderson goes from the brainy poet of new American cinema to its deranged visionary. Even those of us who’ve always admired Anderson’s work (for me, Boogie Nights was one of the best films of the ’90s) never suspected he had anything like this in him.

There Will Be Blood is a masterpiece. - By Dana Stevens - Slate Magazine

Lesson for the day - there are worse things than a little blood in movies (and something nothing better than a great deal of blood)