Split

At the Avalon with Lisa: 

 M. Night Shyamalan's latest tale is about three teenage girls held captive by a man with split personality disorder. James McAvoy (sp?) is wonderful, and the story is strong. It's not Shyamalan's best work, but it's far far far from his worst.

LOL

 My oldest came down this morning and said "I had the worst dream, you were screaming at me in the grocery store, really loud". I replied, "that's not a dream, that's a flashback". Lmao.....i amuse myself!! - Lisa

So Disrespectful

I saw something at Mass today I never have before: a few pews in front of me was a young woman and her son. She spent a chunk of the Mass on her phone, then abruptly got up to leave. Rather than ask the lady beside her to move, she stood on the pew bench and climbed over the pew. It was so unexpected that I found myself saying "No No No."

EW Sucks

 Someone leaves old issues of Entertainment Weekly behind at work. I read them on lunch to aid my weight loss efforts, as EW's obnoxious, pandering, SJW agenda inspires me to purge. From a single review of a sitcom: "the intolerable wrongheadedness of middle aged men" "lack diversity" "white male entitlement" "alpha male lout" and ends by saying masculinity should disappear or else men should. #gag

John Hurt

RIP actor John Hurt. The War Doctor's reign was short.

Barbara Hale

Barbara Hale, best known as Della Street on Perry Mason, has died. RIP

Mike Connors

 RIP Mike Connors, TV's "Mannix," age 91.

Cookie Sales are Ending!

 Girl Scout Cookie Sales are ending tomorrow. If you haven't ordered from my girls yet, now's the time!

This is a lie. I never voted for Dion Tennuci.

 I'm married to a man who can't dance and who voted for Dt, I'm living a nightmare. - Lisa

The Stock Market

 The Dow hit 20,000 for the first time ever today

14 Oscar nominations for La La Land?? Really?

14 nominations?? Hollywood really must be on the decline. It was a pleasant little musical that featured below par signing and flat footed dancing (then tried to say the mediocrity was intentional). NO WAY it deserves 14 nods.

Enough with the Hyperbole

 No one was jailed or executed just for protesting Saturday. If he's "literally Hitler" Trump better step up his game.

Crazy Hair Day

 Crazy Hair Day at school!

The Girl on the Train

 As is the case more often than clichés allow, this movie was far better than the book that inspired it.

An Old Neighbor's Son!

Guess who we saw at Stonefire Pizza Brenda!

A Sad Truth

I think the Packers have become the "Groundhog Day" team of the NFL. They keep repeating the same season over and over. Every year they stubbornly bring Dom Capers back and use their first draft pick on defense. Every year they are one of the youngest and most injured teams in the league. Every year they start out slow and finish strong. Every year they make the playoffs and every year their defense collapses at the most crucial point of the post season. -Jim F

Maybe She Was Right

The press seems to take pride in the relatively low turnout for the inaugural events, but look at stuff like this. My boss, a die-hard Trump supporter from the minute he joined the race, would not go to DC because she feared violence from the Left. Apparently, she wasn't far off.

The 45th President

Congratulations Mr. President! The open and orderly transition of power.

Edge

 If you feel the need to constantly call yourself edgy, I assure you you are not.

My Upcoming trip to India! - YaYa

If you didn't already know, I'm going on a trip to India this winter through Girl Scouts. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity- not to mention that it would be a great experience.

If you feel like contributing to my trip, as little as $1, you can use the link below. I'd really appreciate any help and support. Thank you!

Emergency!

My favorite show as a youngster, although *I* called it "John and Roy" after the names of the two main characters. The first half hour featured the pair responding to a paramedic call (back in the days when paramedics rolled out alone, without the fire truck), and the second half of each show typically had them fighting a fire. 

I loved it. I had a black toy firefighter helmet (with an Emergency! logo if I remember right) and my Little Grandma fashioned an "oxygen tank" to strap on my back from a plastic bread bag stuffed with newspaper and tied with string. Great memories!

The dedicated members of Squad 51 of the Los Angeles County Fire Department's newly created Paramedical Rescue Service take on a series of life-or-death challenges in this drama filmed in semi-documentary style. Partners John Gage and Roy DeSoto put their lives on the line to save people from all sorts of mishaps - IMDB

To the New President

Welcome to Cooperstown!

Tim Raines

Jeff Bagwell

Ivan Rodriguez 

Bagwell was overrated IMO, and Vlad should have got his spot instead. Tim Raines is a borderline selection, and Pudge deserves it, no question. But congrats to all!

My Day

Not a great day. My hip hurts, I'm very tired, my weight has plateaued for yet another week, both George HW and Barbara Bush are hospitalized (prayers for them please), and Marquette finally posted the grades for last semester but they fell short of my expectations. I've had enough of this day.  I'm going to bed.

is OJ Innocent?

This morning I finished watching "Is OJ Innocent?," a three night, six hour docuseries on the Simpson case. Most of it is preposterous and in poor taste, and unreasonably besmirches the reputation of a "suspect" created for the series. But two points of value in this show: they revisit many of the people involved in the case, both the big names and the obscure, and it's great to see them again. And, in the end, they debunk their own theory and exonerate their suspect, so at least they had some shred of integrity.