… for that UPS interview, when I came across a tie-holder at Target for $3.99, I couldn’t resist buying it. I mean, really, I’ve tried draping the things over clothes-hangers and they always wind up on the floor of the closet. No more!

Snappy!

As mentioned earlier, Battlestar Galactica: The First Season is one of the few exceptions to my newly-enacted “don’t buy DVD” policy. I was looking forward, on Tuesday, to swinging past Best Buy and pick up the set, which is theirs as an exclusive from July 26th until the national release in September.

Then I read this post in DVDAnswers about the differences between the exclusive set and the national set.

The Best Buy set is a FOUR disc set, with only DELETED SCENES as bonus features. Best Buy states on their website that their set will not work with some North American players.

I’m going to play it safe and wait for September. With a full slate of 22-episodes for the show’s second season, it won’t be like I’m not getting a Battlestar fix, right?

The book, by James Bradley, tells the tale of his father and the five other men who were in the famous photograph of the flag-raising on Iwo Jima.

Iwo Jima, if you’ll recall, is not located near Iceland, where the movie version is being filmed. (I guess Clint Eastwood’s memory is starting to fail…)

…has been on my agenda for the past few days. I should have re-read Order of the Phoenix before diving into The Half-Blood Prince. I was like, who are these people? Luna who? Katie who?

I finished watching Sorceror’s Stone last night and also made it through the first hour or so of Chamber of Secrets. They really are fun movies and there’s something to fill every scene — even when you’re seeing some of these films for the second, third, or fourth time, there’s stuff in the background that makes you go, “Cool!”

The dog’s been enjoying the company. She’s not good as posing, but man … I swear … she can snore! In any case, I hope to finish Chamber tonight and then watch all of Prisoner of Azkaban tomorrow night. I’m going to rewatch all three before going to see Goblet of Fire, which opens in five months.

I’m a little bummed that Order of the Phoenix won’t be released until 2007, but I guess they want to space out the movies a bit more evenly so they don’t (too) screwed if Rowling decides not to release Book Seven for three years, right?

… The Backstroke of the West.

… but all good things must end.

Doohan died at 5:30 a.m. at his Redmond, Wash., home with his wife of 28 years, Wende, at his side, Los Angeles agent and longtime friend Steve Stevens said. The cause of death was pneumonia and Alzheimer’s disease, he said.

RIP Jimmy.