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I am a sucker for infomercials. Oh, not at first. I’ll roll my eyes with the best of them, but after the hundredth time hearing/watching them I usually convinced. It’s really bad when you fall asleep on the couch at night and doze through an infomercial. You’re programmed in your sleep to want to buy the item.
Anyway, Stinky Lulu linked to this video: Ellen Degeneres Versus the Hawaii Chair:
Oh man, I would’ve bought that after a long night of dozing during the infomercial.
All right, I’m almost caught up with posting my reviews. Though I doubt many folks are interested in this film. Eddie Murphy just has this bad habit of making bad movies. Here’s my review of Meet Dave.
Well it happened. After years of taunts and laughter from my co-workers, I finally fell victim to the peer pressure. Yes, I gave up the PC and am now using a Mac. Oh, the horror.
It actually comes in handy for work. The Mac is set up with both a Mac and Windows operating system, so I can use both. I can even have them running at the same time when using Parallels, but that’s mighty confusing, I have to admit. I’ll have to see how the next few days at work go as I familiarize myself with this new way of working.
One benefit of the Mac laptop* is that I can pick it up and attend meetings. Another benefit is that I got a huge extra monitor to go with it. I have lots of screen space on my two monitors. It’s very, very nice.
*Dawn, it was yours. Yes, it took one of our team leaving to go off to school in Minneapolis for me to get the”new” computer.
Another review to post. Still not caught up, but I’m getting there. Be Kind Rewind never showed up at our one 11-screen cinema. I have to catch these movies on DVD. This one was entertaining, but not as fun as I had hoped. Anyway, here’s my review.
Well, I’m watching Tremors and having a good time. Let’s see if I can catch up on posting some of my older reviews. Here’s one for a movie I loved. Pixar just knows how to make an entertaining film. WALL-E just made me smile. Here’s my review.
I don’t know why I have such an antipathy to posting here. I wonder if it’s due to finishing my degree? I could always use a blog post as a delaying tactic for homework. Now there’s no homework, so no posting.
I have a few more movie reviews to post. I’ll do that later tonight when zoning out in front of the TV. Last night it was George of the Jungle (hey, it makes me laugh); tonight will be either more season 1 of Avatar: The Last Airbender or Tremors (hey, like George of the Jungle, it makes me laugh). Yeah, so much for the last disc of the HBO John Adams series I’ve had checked out for two weeks from Netflix. Please don’t make me think!
All right, back to getting some things done before watching a movie and writing another blog post.
Yes, it’s Saturday! And this morning has started lovely. Lounging in my bed for a few hours while reading, then making and eating a leisurely breakfast, and now just surfing the web for a bit before heading off to do some errands, and then later it’s off to see a movie — in this case, the new X-Files flick.
I like these kinds of Saturdays. Some lazing; some activity. It works for me.
Yes, this movie isn’t around anymore either. Or is it? In Flagstaff we only have 11 screens so movies don’t stick around very long. Sex and the City surprised me. I couldn’t hate it with a high-minded attitude. No, it’s one of the rare films that gives us women supporting and caring for one another. How could I not like it? Here’s my review.
Not keeping up with posting my reviews is making some of them way out of date. This movie has come and gone, but should be out on dvd in a few months. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (whew, what a mouthful) had its moments, but it wasn’t a special day at the theater. Here’s my review.
My, we must have had a lot of water dumped on my neighborhood in today’s storms. Puddles dot the landscape and the humidity is high. I’m sitting here feeling quite soaked.
I found this very well done. Those Disney villainesses are NOT nice ladies.
Hat tip to Film Experience Blog for broadening my movie horizons.
I am sooooo behind on posting my film reviews. I promise to catch up this week. Vacation and Netroots Nation is over, life is getting back to normal, and shoot, those are easy posts to do.
So let me start with a delightful movie I rented and ended up buying. It’s just too lovely to not watch again. Read my review of Lars and the Real Girl. A wonderful movie.
That man is Howard Dean. He was one of the keynote speakers at Netroots Nation. I do love him so and it was great watching him talk.
If you want to catch some of the events going on at Netroots Nation, uStream provides a lovely stream of various panel discussions. Check it out.
Now it’s bedtime. It’s an early start in the morning. Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, will conduct a Q&A at 7:00 AM my time. That’s in the morning. Coffee will need to be made.
Does that title make sense? Well, it’s Netroots Nation in Second Life, but that’s one long title, so let me shorten it. I can shorten it even more by just using NNSL. Yes, the lazy person’s way of blogging — use acronyms of few letters.
Well, tonight is the kick off event for Netroots Nation and we’re streaming the video of Howard Dean and Wesley Clark into Second Life. There’s a Second Life panel discussion, dancing, and movie-going. I’m ready for it. Here’s today’s schedule as listed at the NNSL web site:
… All times are Second Life Time, also known as Pacific Daylight Time:
1:00 PM — An SL/NN Meetup! Here’s a chance to do some comingling with the Austin crowd at Netroots Nation. Yes, Austin and Second Life will meet. Head for the Netroots Arena.
5:30-6:30 PM — Austin Keynote Address: Gov Howard Dean and (ret) Gen Wes Clark. This will stream into Netroots Arena.6:30-7:30 PM — “What They Said” Commentary by Joan McCarter (McJoan), Jimbo Hoyer, GenJCChristian Homewood and Cliff Schecter. This is a Second Life panel held at Netroots Arena.
7:30-10:00 PM — SL Opening Party. We’ll be chatting and dancing at the same time – very easy to do in Second Life – at the Netroots Island Ballroom.
9:00-whenever – “The Corporation.” It’s a special Netroots Nation screening of “The Corporation” at the Marxist/Lennonist Party Headquarters (this will open up the SLURL for the location, which is not on Netroots Nation Island ).
It’s fun meeting new people to Second Life, plus the SL old-timers who are showing up for their first political event in SL. Why don’t you join us!
I just survived a visit from my great-niece, Catherine. A very smart nine-year old, Catherine sure knows how to enjoy herself. We survived a torrential downpour. There is nothing like going to a movie and taking off your very wet shoes and socks, which we did. We survived any passing of wind (I tell you, fart jokes can really get a nine-year old giggling). I survived the rigors of keeping Catherine entertained and managed adequately. Though I do have to say that I’m pooped. She slept much better than I.
I also survived the trip back from Phoenix today. Talking about torrential downpours, try to imagine standing water on an incline — that’s how fast and hard the rain was coming down. So, a 75 mile an hour zone becomes 40. It does cause accidents. On one of the rainy sections, a car had flipped. The worst part of the trip was up near the rim. That’s where you could see water filling the road, even though we were going uphill. It’s amazing.
So, I survived all of that. Now I have to get ready for Netroots Nation. If you decide to join us, I’ll be the one in the corner, napping. It’s my survival technique.
