FINALLY! All the old gang introduced one by one to enjoy the audience sizzle, an NKOTB dance number, and they broke the 4th wall to jab at the Olsen twins! Have mercy!
Published writer, compulsive reader, Old School Whovian, Match Game enthusiast, NKOTB fan, data hoarder, and - surprisingly, given that list - married with four kids. Welcome to my take on life, fatherhood, entertainment, and whatever strikes my fancy. Enjoy!
Friday, February 26, 2016
Poodle Skirt Darling
LuLu looking fab on throwback day thanks to Grandma Jeanne and her poodle skirt making skills! Thanks!
Tony Burton
Tony Burton - aka Duke from the Rocky films (Apollo and Rocky's trainer) has died at 78. RIP
Thursday, February 25, 2016
The Good Dinosaur??
On Monday Lisa took the youngest two and a friend to see "The Good Dinosaur" at 450pm. By 510 she was texting me about the incredibly long wait for the movie to start, and subsequently the inappropriate trailers. When the movie started she realized the truth: they were sitting in the wrong theater. It wasn't her fault (the wrong film was listed above the door) but LOL.
So Says the Junebug
Junie on eating Peeps Bunnies: "You have to eat the ears first. It's good manners."
The Judge (and a great quote)
This is a solid movie with Robert Downey Jr and Robert Duvall.
"Everyone wants Atticus Finch [as their lawyer] until there's a dead hooker in the bathtub."
Lone Survivor
A fine war movie. Not as important as American Sniper, or as moving, but worth a viewing.
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Da HIp
The hip pain was on full blast when I woke up, like I woke up midsurgery. It was bad enough I took painkillers before I even stumbled to the bathroom. Then I warned Lisa it was probably best to avoid me. I'm a right as*hole when its that bad. She's known me long enough to take the advice.
Someone asked over the weekend why the hip isn't healed yet and it's a comment that's still stuck in my craw. It isn't a damn skinned knee. There was lots of stuff wrong with it, some of which they fixed, some they couldn't, and there's the surgical pain on top of it. Overall its much better - I'm not on crutches am I? I'm working, and going to school, not sitting on the couch - but there's going to be bumps in the road. F, I'm grouchy today.
Wickedly proud of myself for sucking it up and making it to class, although the walking did me no favors.
The Lasso of Truth
My Evidence Professor just brought up Wonder Woman and her Lasso of Truth. Neat fact: the creator of WW was one of the early inventors of lie detector machines. On the downside, the prof called it a Marvel comic. SMH
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
The Walk
The movie version of Philippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the Twin Towers. We saw the documentary and I'm familiar with the event, so no surprises. The movie is done in a visually whimsical, charming fashion, and it's definitely worth a rental.
My Thoughts
I've said it before, but it's worth repeating. When a candidate - ANY candidate - says they won't take money from someone because they "won't be bought", all it says to me is that they're so morally weak that a dollar in your pocket could buy their vote.
Monday, February 22, 2016
This didn't age well
"Action on a Supreme Court nomination must be put off until after the election campaign is over. That is what is fair to the nominee and essential to the process. Otherwise, it seems to me...we will be in deep trouble as an Institution." -- Joe Biden, 1992
Black Mass
This is the movie we watched last night. I enjoyed it very much but I have to think the character of FBI agent John Connolly was poorly done. He was one thing, then the other, with no transition to explain it away. If that's the way it was in real life, it should have screamed "trouble."
Samuel Willenberg
Straight Outta Compton
It was very good until about midway through, at which point they really, really needed a good edit to keep this on the rails. There was some talk it should've got a nomination for Best Picture. That talk is foolish.
21 years ago today, at just about this time (give or take an hour), I met Lisa for the first time. As today is full of appointments and school, we celebrated Sunday with shopping, a nice dinner at Carrabba's, drinks, and a movie rental. Love you baby! Happy Anniversary! Xoxo
update: The best half-anniversary gift ever: Lisa let me sleep in and avoid the chaos of sending the kids off to school. I didn't hear a peep of what was surely the usual awful experience!
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