Tuesday, November 4, 2008
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Monday, October 6, 2008
Friday, September 26, 2008
Friday Fun
Taking a break from political things and having a good laugh before the debate, I share with you clips from one of my all-time favorite movies.
The Pirate Movie and all it's cheesiness.
(And yes, that is Kristi McNichol and Christopher Atkins.)
And finally....
If you haven't seen this movie yet and are in the mood for utter cheese, RENT IT! It's so bad it's good!
Enjoy and happy Friday all!
The Pirate Movie and all it's cheesiness.
(And yes, that is Kristi McNichol and Christopher Atkins.)
And finally....
If you haven't seen this movie yet and are in the mood for utter cheese, RENT IT! It's so bad it's good!
Enjoy and happy Friday all!
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Getting Political
I'm a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight.....
* If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're "exotic, different."
* Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, a quintessential American story.
* If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
* Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you're a maverick.
* Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.
* Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you're well grounded.
* If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a sta te of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you don't have any real leadership experience.
* If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you're qualified to become the country's second highest ranking executive.
* If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a real Christian.
* If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a Christian.
* If you teach teach children about sexual predators, you are irresponsible and eroding the fiber of society.
* If, while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state's school system while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you're very responsible.
* If your wife is a Harvard graduate laywer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family's values don't represent America 's.
* If you're husband is nicknamed "First Dude", with at least one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn't register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that hates America, The Alaskan Independence Party, and advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.
Ok, much clearer now.
Just think about it please.
* If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're "exotic, different."
* Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, a quintessential American story.
* If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
* Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you're a maverick.
* Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.
* Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you're well grounded.
* If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a sta te of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you don't have any real leadership experience.
* If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you're qualified to become the country's second highest ranking executive.
* If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a real Christian.
* If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a Christian.
* If you teach teach children about sexual predators, you are irresponsible and eroding the fiber of society.
* If, while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state's school system while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you're very responsible.
* If your wife is a Harvard graduate laywer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family's values don't represent America 's.
* If you're husband is nicknamed "First Dude", with at least one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn't register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that hates America, The Alaskan Independence Party, and advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.
Ok, much clearer now.
Just think about it please.
Saturday, September 13, 2008
HELL YEAH!
The Creative Emmys were tonight and this won Outstanding Original Music And Lyrics:
Jimmy Kimmel Live • Song: 'I'm F***ing Matt Damon' • ABC • Jackhole Industries in association with ABC Studios
Jimmy Kimmel Live • Song: 'I'm F***ing Matt Damon' • ABC • Jackhole Industries in association with ABC Studios
Friday, September 12, 2008
Education
READ THIS
And, please, please PLEASE take the time to educate yourself and not take everything the media and the candidates tell you at face value. It's your duty as an American citizen to arm yourself with all the knowledge that you can and THEN make an informed decision.
I don't care who you vote for, just please make sure you're doing it for the right reasons and not because of one issue or superficial reasons.
It's not hard and it won't take you long. It's all out there at your fingertips.
Thank you.
And, please, please PLEASE take the time to educate yourself and not take everything the media and the candidates tell you at face value. It's your duty as an American citizen to arm yourself with all the knowledge that you can and THEN make an informed decision.
I don't care who you vote for, just please make sure you're doing it for the right reasons and not because of one issue or superficial reasons.
It's not hard and it won't take you long. It's all out there at your fingertips.
Thank you.
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Monday, August 18, 2008
PE News
Source
The July 1, 2009 release date is official.
AND....
I’m told that even though the film is still in the midst of editing, there will be enough cleaned up and pieced together footage for theater preview trailers to be ready for theaters to begin teasing on their big screens in time for the Christmas holiday movie releases.
*SQUEE*
The July 1, 2009 release date is official.
AND....
I’m told that even though the film is still in the midst of editing, there will be enough cleaned up and pieced together footage for theater preview trailers to be ready for theaters to begin teasing on their big screens in time for the Christmas holiday movie releases.
*SQUEE*
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Because I'm Uber Ghey
I am so excited for this movie.
And I am unbelievably stoked for this movie (even though the last book SUCKED!)
And I am unbelievably stoked for this movie (even though the last book SUCKED!)
Saturday, August 16, 2008
One Of The Things
One of the things I did on my trip was the one thing I had hoped to be able to do. I'm a pretty big fan of musicals and my all-time favorite is "Phantom of the Opera." I've loved it since I was a teenager - for my 16th birthday, my mom took me to see it in Chicago and even got us box seats. I cried through most of it. :)
I've always wanted to see it on Broadway, and luckily, my two friends also wanted to see it. We stood in the TKTS line last Saturday for over an hour, and were lucky enough to get tickets.
While the performance was not mind-blowing (the three main characters overacted in some parts and Raoul sang way too loud), it was still beautiful and I cried in the same two places. I'm a sobbing mess at the very end - I can't help it, I feel so bad for Phantom. When Christine says she loves him, I lose it every time.
As for the other part, "Music of the Night" is one of my all-time favorite songs, and makes me cry every time I hear it. I don't know why, just that it is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard and it touches me in a place no other song does.
(This is from the movie version with Gerard Butler. I actually prefer his voice over Michael Crawford's (I know, blasphemy) and I loved the movie version. Which, ironically, is on Oxygen right now. Two Saturdays in a row with the Phantom. Life is good.)
I've always wanted to see it on Broadway, and luckily, my two friends also wanted to see it. We stood in the TKTS line last Saturday for over an hour, and were lucky enough to get tickets.
While the performance was not mind-blowing (the three main characters overacted in some parts and Raoul sang way too loud), it was still beautiful and I cried in the same two places. I'm a sobbing mess at the very end - I can't help it, I feel so bad for Phantom. When Christine says she loves him, I lose it every time.
As for the other part, "Music of the Night" is one of my all-time favorite songs, and makes me cry every time I hear it. I don't know why, just that it is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard and it touches me in a place no other song does.
(This is from the movie version with Gerard Butler. I actually prefer his voice over Michael Crawford's (I know, blasphemy) and I loved the movie version. Which, ironically, is on Oxygen right now. Two Saturdays in a row with the Phantom. Life is good.)
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Musee D'Orsay, part deux
Sir Jack was so kind as to post a couple of his pictures from the Musee D'Orsay in Paris, so I thought I would post a few of mine.
Whistler's Mother by Jacob McNeill Whistler
Monet is my FAVORITE artist.
I wish I had those hanging in my dining room.
A little Van Gogh.
And some Renoir.
My mom and I stumbled upon the Grand Ballroom quite by accident. What a magnificent room!
I loved this statue.
Such magnificent chandeliers.
Orsay from across the Seine.
So, that's just a few of my pics from Musee D'Orsay. I hope you enjoyed them.
Bonne nuit, mes amis. J'espère que vous avez apprécié mes photographies du Musee D'Orsay. Jusqu' à la prochaine fois !
Whistler's Mother by Jacob McNeill Whistler
Monet is my FAVORITE artist.
I wish I had those hanging in my dining room.
A little Van Gogh.
And some Renoir.
My mom and I stumbled upon the Grand Ballroom quite by accident. What a magnificent room!
I loved this statue.
Such magnificent chandeliers.
Orsay from across the Seine.
So, that's just a few of my pics from Musee D'Orsay. I hope you enjoyed them.
Bonne nuit, mes amis. J'espère que vous avez apprécié mes photographies du Musee D'Orsay. Jusqu' à la prochaine fois !
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
I'm BAAAAAAAA-ACK!
I survived NYC (barely) and am back safe and sound in the land of Cheese. NYC made Cranky pretty cranky at times and I'll tell y'all about it soon. Until then, this is just about the cutest damn thing I have ever seen.
Monday, August 4, 2008
*happy dance*
I'M ON VACATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tomorrow I leave for Boston and New York City for a week with my two best friends. It's the first time in almost 16 years of friendship that just the three of us have gone away together for more than a night.
We are going to have so much fun!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tomorrow I leave for Boston and New York City for a week with my two best friends. It's the first time in almost 16 years of friendship that just the three of us have gone away together for more than a night.
We are going to have so much fun!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thursday, July 31, 2008
I Love The Onion
Bears Unveil New-Look-Like-Shit Offense
BOURBONNAIS, IL—The Chicago Bears put on a display of inaccurate passing, sluggish route running, and careless ball-handling Wednesday as the team exhibited their new-look-like-shit offense to fans and media attending training camp to view a full-squad practice. "We finally have the personnel to implement a game plan of high-percentage incomplete passes, completed passes of four yards or less, and a rushing attack that lets us lose control of the game clock with complex plays that take forever to develop and generate negative yardage," offensive coordinator Ron Turner said, explaining why the Bears abandoned the "West-Coast-My-Fat-Ass" offense they ran last year. "I'm confident that both Rex Grossman and Kyle Orton possess the ability to overthrow a receiver on a deep fly pattern or find an open defender and deliver the ball with laser-like precision, so we'll be switching between them often and at random intervals to avoid either one getting into a rhythm or developing any confidence." According to Turner, the offense is starting to malfunction as a cohesive unit and has shown much more consistency at blowing assignments, missing blocks, and fumbling snaps.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BOURBONNAIS, IL—The Chicago Bears put on a display of inaccurate passing, sluggish route running, and careless ball-handling Wednesday as the team exhibited their new-look-like-shit offense to fans and media attending training camp to view a full-squad practice. "We finally have the personnel to implement a game plan of high-percentage incomplete passes, completed passes of four yards or less, and a rushing attack that lets us lose control of the game clock with complex plays that take forever to develop and generate negative yardage," offensive coordinator Ron Turner said, explaining why the Bears abandoned the "West-Coast-My-Fat-Ass" offense they ran last year. "I'm confident that both Rex Grossman and Kyle Orton possess the ability to overthrow a receiver on a deep fly pattern or find an open defender and deliver the ball with laser-like precision, so we'll be switching between them often and at random intervals to avoid either one getting into a rhythm or developing any confidence." According to Turner, the offense is starting to malfunction as a cohesive unit and has shown much more consistency at blowing assignments, missing blocks, and fumbling snaps.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
What I Did Tonight
He was at EAA in Oshkosh introducing "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" at the Fly-In Theater. He is the Chairman of the Young Eagles program and comes almost yearly.
I did not get to meet him - we bugged out as soon as he finished his brief talk.
Hopefully, it'll be Gary Sinise (and maybe John Travolta) on Friday. :D
(I apologize for the quality. It was just after sunset and this is the best my camera did. I was taking pictures of the screen because they were clearer than trying to take pictures of Harrison.)
Sunday, July 27, 2008
I Admit
Every time that Pepsi Max commercial comes on, I bop my head like this.
In fact, every time I heard the song, I pull a Butabi.
In fact, every time I heard the song, I pull a Butabi.
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