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The title for my post today is taken from Jeremiah Johnson , an epic western filmed right here in glorious and now snowbound Utah. What? We are ten days into spring at there is four inches of new snow at my house? That's right. I know there are those of you out there griping about this, but I kind of like it. It is like the winter is not going to go without a fight: that spring (which hasn't even taken a foothold yet) will just have to lump it a while longer. As I recall there was a lot of snow in Jeremiah Johnson too.

Our mutual acquaintance Joel Veitch over at Rather Good dot com has a new video based upon an advertisement he created: feel_the_burn_small.mov (video/quicktime Object). Why the hell not?

Just in case you are not prepped for the debut of the 4th season of the new Battlestar Galactica, here is an 8 minute update. I kind of wish they had the narrator in the actual series, so I could reclaim about 4 solid days and nights of my life, but oh well. And you thought those people who obsess about the Lord of the Rings should get lives.

I am going to be very self-conscious the next time I go out for Indian food.

From the Utah Rivers Council : Renowned Rivers - The Council recently released a report that highlights the top riversin Utah'sNational Forests. The report is designed to show what these incredible rivers look like and provides information that allows Utahans to explore these rivers. The entire report can be viewed at the Council's website . Also, read this article in the Deseret News about the report . Take Action! Visit our Action Center to sign a petition in support of your favorite rivers !

Oy, I have been watching far too much basketball since Thursday--given all the fun of the NCAA tourney and the horrific (and badly officiated) Jazz loss to the hated Lakers on Thursday, but, dear god almighty, how the hell can the Jazz be falling to the Sonics? I know you are gloating, Middlebrow. I can sense it all the way over here. Ok, that's better: Korver just scored a trey. 38/29 Seattle. I might be less pissed off at the Jazz. Now as far as the NCAA: at least UConn and Duke are out. My odd bracket picks pay off! UPDATE (10:32 pm) Ok, the Jazz pulled back together. I might add that they only did it because I went to watch them do it. UCLA also squeaked out a win--damn.

Our Sun is scary and beautiful: Solar images at SDAC , isn't it?

Music! Music! Music: Forest Gospel You will be 2.3 times cooler having read it.

Well the Idaho Press-Tribune article about Built to Spill didn't use my photo after all. Instead they chose a much crappier one. In any case the article is a nice view into the band: When asked what it is about their music that resonates so deeply with their fans, the members of Built to Spill are truly at a loss. “It’s just a weird thing,” Netson says. “When you start getting people buying your records that you wouldn’t necessarily hang out with, once you cross that line, it just turns into something else that you don’t even know. … You just make the record and once they put it out, it’s out of your control. … I don’t think anyone understands it.”

Multimedia message Originally uploaded by Theorris This was taken before the Jazz had officially won, but hell yah! Jazz win! Beat the best team in the league. I'm predicting round three again, as I predicted previously.

Paul Ford of The Morning News wrote Six-Word Reviews of 763 SXSW Mp3s by Paul Ford - The Morning News . The really good ones, of course, are the one star ones. For example, one review of an experimental artist is quite simple, by no doubt accurate: "Like a dog fucking a blender." I think this might inspire me to write haiku song reviews. Oh yeah, I already do that with bars. Shit.

Well during the 4th quarter of the Jazz vs. Bucks, I was steeling myself to write a sad-sack, why the hell can't the Jazz win on the road post, when suddenly in the last 2 minutes, they finally showed why they are the good team that they are. Finally the fouls went their way and their ability to contain the ball came back. Credit Boozer for pushing it to the Bucks. I will no need to trim my nails for a while, that's for sure.

I am endeavoring to remain positive about the Jazz's performance tonight against the Bucks, but it is difficult. How could they blow their lead and be only up by 1 at the half? Okay--okay: at least I have the solace with the notion that the Jazz tend to have stellar second halves.

A few things of note in the Jazz loss to the Bulls tonight: Kirilenko came back with a vengeance and looked pretty good. As usually people don't notice his scoring and defensive contributions. Lucky he had a great dunk and 2 three pointers tonight. Okur continues his super strong games (holy hell if he would just step back a bit and stop toeing the line on those 3 pointers.) The jazz seem literally cold (not metaphorically) when they play at other venues. Did you notice how much they continually blow on their hands at the beginning of away games? What's up with that? The Jazz are trying too hard to draw fouls that are never going to be called in their favor early on in away games. The Jazz still have a peppy game, but aren't bringing it out very often on the road. The Jazz's passing has gotten quite good lately. They used to be such a predictable team. The passes they are making are risky, yes, but cause for some great baskets.

It is all downhill from here Originally uploaded by Theorris I went up to the World Superpipe Championship at the Park City Mountain Resort in Park City, Utah this weekend with friends. We were late, of course, since it was a Saturday morning and some numbskull decided it was a good idea to start the competition at 9:00 am. Consequently, we missed pretty much all the snowboarders, save the last 5 and Shaun White's victory lap, where he pushed the big air limits. What the hell is up with the world? Why is this activity rewarded while I, as a fifth grader in 1975 had to go to the school nurse because of unfortunate contusions due to my skateboard wreck and, therefore, caused the banning of all skateboards at my elementary school? Where is justice? I was not in pain. My friend Kevin Scheib and I were forced to go to the nurse because some ninny teacher thought we looked too banged up after we took the whole of the asphalt hill at my elementary school and wiped out, painfully, I...

Hey my fellow droogies (that is bloggers of the Internet's tubes), I have a challenge for you: starting on 16 April 2008, I challenge you to adopt one environmentally sound practice a day and follow it for the entire week ending on Earth Day (22 April) 2008 and then blog about it. So, for example, on day one, a blogger could decide to only use portable mugs rather than getting coffee in a paper or Styrofoam cup. The next day, she might decide to forgo plastic shopping bags for the rest of the week, while also getting her coffee in her portable mug. On day three she might decide to forgo bottled water. So she would put her new Nalgene in her reusable shopping bag while sipping on her portable mug of coffee. On day for she might forgo coffee altogether, given how far it has to come to get to her...you get the idea. All the while she would be writing about her choices, I should hope not in a smug way, but I suppose if one adopts such a course, she can be a little smug. Want t...

Middlebrow has a post about Hong Kong Phooey , number one super guy. My comment on his question about remembering HKP, was, and I approximate, "Who the hell could forget Hong Kong Phooey? It was Scatman Crothers !" For God's sake! Scatman! Has Scatman been forgotten? Dear God, say it ain't so? Scatman! You made so much of my childhood possible what with your multiple appearances on daytime TV and, of course, the fact that you were Hong Kong Phooey! Even I knew that at a tender age. Scatman also singularly saved Kubrick's The Shining from near deadly bland dullness: "You don't need to know nothing about room two two seven!" All that and when he arrived to save the day he was greeted with an ax to the chest. Enough said. ---------------- Listening to: The Be Good Tanyas - Scattered Leaves via FoxyTunes

Battlestar Galactica Last supper Originally uploaded by kidddrunkadelic14 Too cool for words. I've become a big DVD addicted fan of BSG.

Weedy & Son Originally uploaded by Theorris Since my friend Richelle is leaving Zion for parts known (New York!), I thought I would pay tribute to her with the one of the best pictures I've ever taken. Ok, maybe it is not the best picture I've ever taken, but it is one that I stumbled upon this evening while trying to find another image from my past. With all this PhotoShop learning I've done over the past month, I also felt the urge to touch it up a bit. In any case, it was taken with a positively pre-historic digital camera on September 16, 2000 at the Avenues Street Fair. Its native format was 640x480, so I'm afraid this is all you get. I still really like the picture, however. Richelle (who author's the Beamships blog I mentioned earlier) will be sorely missed in Utah.

So how much is the league going to fine Nowitski for mangling Kirilenko and throwing him to the floor simply out of his own frustration for sucking? At least Kirilenko manned up and made the free throws. Theorris's judgement: Nowitski should be fined at least 10 grand and suspended for a week. Johnson must be anticipating this a bit, as Nowitski hasn't been in the game since the incident. Well that could simply be because Nowitski is indeed sucking, but I is nice to think that the Johnson has made a moral decision to keep Nowitski out of the game.

The SL Tribune editorializes this morning on more silly Utah legislation: "This land is our land: We're just thankful that Utah House Resolution 10, which tells Congress to quit creating federal wilderness areas in Utah without the unanimous support of the state's congressional delegation, is nonbinding. Built on the erroneous argument that Utahns should have more say over federal land here than other Americans who also own it, the resolution ignores the economic reality that ranching and energy extraction are yielding to tourism as Utah's primary economic engine. Wilderness-quality lands must be held in trust for future generations. We don't believe that we should entrust Utahns alone with that responsibility." ( The Thumb - Salt Lake Tribune ) or, as Frost noted: The land was ours before we were the land's. She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people. She was ours In Massachusetts, in Virginia, But we were England's, still c...