Archive | April 2006

The best Dog evah

Apr30

Synopsis: Dog and the team head to San Francisco to catch the elusive Samu.

Should I give away the ending? Okay. Bonnie turns 6 and has a birthday party at the beach. Such a cutie patootey!

Ohhhhh, the ending to the Samu part! After 3 long years, and on the 120th day of a judge’s 120-day extension, the following dialogue unfolds…

Young Blood (Tim): “If we stole seventy-five thousand dollars from your Mom wouldn’t you come after us 3 years later?”
Dog: “WE CAUGHT YOU, MOTHER*bleeeeeeep*ER!!!!!!!!”
Beth: (snotty with tears) “Call the judge. Five hours to spare. CALL THE JUDGE *sniffle* and tell *gulp sniffle* him we caught Samu.”
Duane Lee: (to Samu who is locked up in the back seat of the police cruiser) “Thanks for the chase, bra.”
The swat team surrounding all suspects: (bigass scary guns pointed at the heads of people on the ground) *crickets*

This is why I love Dog.

Tales of Elyria

Apr30

    “In 303AD, the Roman Emperor, Diocletian began his anti-Christian campaign. Christians were ordered to participate in the imperial cults. Anyone who refused was killed. Many eastern Christians fled to the Western Empire where Christianity was still tolerated.

    Elyria, a young, Celtic healer from the alpine region near the municipum of Juvavum in the Roman province of Noricum, becomes involved in hiding a group of Alexandrian Christians. When one of the group is found murdered at the entrance to the saltmines, Elyria becomes involved in the search for the killer, the discovery of who exactly she was helping to hide and thwarting the will of a living god. In order to do what she believes is right, she must trust strangers that could ultimately end her life.”

The adventure continues at Storytime.

(Vanessa, thank you for stopping by. I’m now addicted to your novel. :)

Meep

Apr29


Oops, that last post was supposed to be published 5 hours ago but I forgotted to press “Publish”. *snort*

If I say “I beakered him” or “I beakered it” do you know what I mean? Hay did not, so apparently I’ve been hiding that from him for 9 years. Hmm. Something new between us! Cool.

PS – The verb beaker has nothing to do with Beaker. Or “meep”.

Le moo. vies.

Apr29

Living Juicy shares the funnest memes.

Rules: Stick an asterisk (*) next to the movies you’ve seen.

    * 2001: A Space Odyssey
    The 400 Blows
    8 1/2
    Aguirre, the Wrath of God
    * Alien
    All About Eve
    * Annie Hall
    * Apocalypse Now
    * Bambi
    The Battleship Potemkin
    The Best Years of Our Lives
    The Big Red One
    The Bicycle Thief
    The Big Sleep
    * Blade Runner
    Blowup
    Blue Velvet
    * Bonnie and Clyde
    Breathless
    Bringing Up Baby
    * Carrie
    * Casablanca
    Un Chien Andalou
    Children of Paradise / Les Enfants du Paradis
    Chinatown
    Citizen Kane
    * A Clockwork Orange
    * The Crying Game
    The Day the Earth Stood Still
    Days of Heaven
    * Dirty Harry
    The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
    Do the Right Thing
    La Dolce Vita
    Double Indemnity
    * Dr. Strangelove
    Duck Soup
    * E.T. — The Extra-Terrestrial
    * Easy Rider
    * The Empire Strikes Back
    * The Exorcist
    * Fargo
    * Fight Club
    * Frankenstein
    The General
    * The Godfather, The Godfather, Part II
    Gone With the Wind
    * GoodFellas
    * The Graduate
    * Halloween
    A Hard Day’s Night
    Intolerance
    It’s a Gift
    * It’s a Wonderful Life
    * Jaws
    The Lady Eve
    Lawrence of Arabia
    M
    * Mad Max 2 / The Road Warrior
    The Maltese Falcon
    * The Manchurian Candidate
    * Metropolis
    Modern Times
    * Monty Python and the Holy Grail
    Nashville
    The Night of the Hunter
    * Night of the Living Dead
    North by Northwest
    Nosferatu
    On the Waterfront
    Once Upon a Time in the West
    Out of the Past
    Persona
    Pink Flamingos
    * Psycho
    * Pulp Fiction
    Rashomon
    * Rear Window
    * Rebel Without a Cause
    Red River
    Repulsion
    The Rules of the Game
    * Scarface
    The Scarlet Empress
    * Schindler’s List
    The Searchers
    The Seven Samurai
    * Singin’ in the Rain
    Some Like It Hot
    A Star Is Born
    A Streetcar Named Desire
    Sunset Boulevard
    Taxi Driver
    The Third Man
    Tokyo Story
    Touch of Evil
    The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
    Trouble in Paradise
    * Vertigo
    * West Side Story
    The Wild Bunch
    * The Wizard of Oz

Looks like I have a lot of movie watching to do. I think the choices for what are great movies are weird. Where’s Driving Miss Daisy?! Fried Green Tomatoes?! Close Encounters of the Third Kind?!?! Tootsie? Scrooged C’mon, at least Stripes or Caddyshack! National Lampoon’s Vacation? The Color Purple!!!! ???? Animal House. The Birds. Fahrenheit 541?!?!?! Logan’s Run. Back to the Future? The Dark Crystal. The Neverending Story. Aww, I give up.

Busy bee

Apr28

Best In Show is such an incredible movie. But, I digress.

Happy weekend, Internets! This weekend started at mid-day today when I did a bit of light shopping and a bit of double garlic pizza consuming. Then, I came home. And the real work began. Mowing the lawn, planting huuuuuge flowerbeds with tons and tons of seed packets, feeding the wildlife, setting free our Blue Spruces from their protective plastic, then cleaning up to go inside to make dinner. Truly a whirlwind day today. Tomorrow is even moreso, which means it’s bedtime for this mama.

I hope you all have a fantastic weekend and that you see at least one shooting star, rainbow, Leprechaun, or scary movie by Sunday at 11:59pm. (Yah, I know, that’s random.)

A list of names I don’t like being called at age 31-and-three-quarters*:

Apr28

    Young lady
    Girl
    Chick
    Hun
    Kid
    Sweetie
    Bitch

(Does this make me a Republican?)

It’s a relatively short list for now, but I’m quite certain it will grow in length as I grow older. Anyone else got ageist names they want to throw out?

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*Unless you know me, then that’s okay. It’s just when strangers do it that I get annoyed-slash-offended-slash-pissy-slash-etc.