My first guest writer

hi yo uncle chip-great picture of jackie ay!!that is what my sister said kala she's said about me.hi i am james' 9 year old niece jackie. my sister kala is 12 years old.we live in RI. and uncle chip lives in Maine.we oleny see him when we see Nana [his MOM].me and my family are now are going home to R.I. now and uncle chip is sleeping and i am going to wak himup. biy, ...from,....Jackie.[HEEEEEEEE.]

<---from breakfast this morning which I am still full from as I had korean scrambled eggs, french toast, homefries and some hash).

Grimmay!

It looks like the powerball winner was from Nebraska. Now you promised I could be a part of your entourage when you won! You were in Nebraska recently right? I could even be your salsa caddy!
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The ticket holder has the option of taking the money in one lump sum or installments over 30 years. The cash option is $177.8 million, or $124.46 million after taxes. On the installment plan, the first payment would be $6,507,986 after taxes.
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Lets do some quick math here. Parking the 177 million in a treasury would give you 8.5 million a year if you kept it to short term. That's over 23,000 a day you could spend just using the interest.

Things you could buy:

1. Diamond tipped darts and the ability to win a trophy every night.
2. Bribing my fantasy baseball players to have bad years
3. High priced lawyers for your ex-roommate
4. Robotic Tea maker that follows you around and shouts "No Lemons!"
5. Hire the female US curling team for a day
6. A giant floating stereo system that floats over Iraq and plays classic rock to get them back for all that music you had to listen to during the first Gulf War.
7. A "salad pal" robot that picks all the onions out of your salads and takes everyone else's unwanted olives and tomatoes. When the waitress comes by and asks if everything is ok he yells "fine"
8. Clone Tubby and find out where his ex owners live. Every time they opened their door at least one Tubby would get in.
9. Your own personal oregano garden.
10. Specialized sports remote that just has sports and includes the inevitable poker channel.
11. Custom designed all weather boat shoes that yell "Don't fall on the ice!"
12. A nice piece of property on Munjoy Hill that you can build into a lifesize Patrick cocoanut House so that that every time you drive by you can giggle.

30 second bunny movies and Star Wars Outakes

Star Wars Outakes, some really rare ones. Check out Luke's hat!
This is worth watching although very long.

I've posted these before but there are some new movies.

Cookies no matter what

I thought I was better after two days of hell. Coming back from the parents this morning I stopped at the gas station and they had hot cookies right out of the oven.
Now the normal sane person who had spent an afternoon in the emergency room and another day sick with the nasty flu going around(emergency room was full of people with the same thing) would probably not start the day with cookies.
The lady at the counter said I could get three for a dollar so I just had to, and added a sausage/egg sandwich just for fun. The day I pass up warm cookies out of the oven is the day I am either recovering from a heart attack or find out I have diabetes. Basically I'm telling my body to toughen up, eat the cookies and like them. I followed that up with a six hour nap.

Anyways, there's a flu bad enough to make me miss my first day of work in six years and put me in the hospital. I spent Sunday in the emergency room with a sick relative during that nasty snowstorm so its pretty evident where I picked it up.

I also missed my cousin's playoff game which was too bad. I see she made the class A all star team as a sophomore. Congrats!

Battlestar no 1

Just back from darts. We lost but in our hearts we were winners and that's what really counts.
I took some pictures on my cell phone but I'm definately too lazy to figure out how to transfer those to my computer. Anyways........I'm hopefully done with all the silly Chuck Norris things. I may purchase one of those nice Chuck Norris T shirts and then I'll stop talking about it.

Battlestar had a nice write up in Rolling Stone and won best show of 2005 from Time magazine.
Its cool to see a little Sci-Fi show get the credit it deserves and more importantly get past the fact that its pure Science fiction. At its heart this is a show about human weakness.
The Office was number 2. The second season of the American Office is much better than season one and better than the original which is saying a lot. You still can't touch the original actor however. That will be a character that will be remembered for years to come.

More Chuck Norris

Chuck picked his personal favorites at this site:

When the Boogeyman goes to sleep every night, he checks his closet for Chuck Norris.
Chuck Norris doesn't read books. He stares them down until he gets the information he wants.
There is no theory of evolution. Just a list of creatures Chuck Norris has allowed to live.
Outer space exists because it's afraid to be on the same planet with Chuck Norris.
Chuck Norris does not sleep. He waits.
Chuck Norris is currently suing NBC, claiming Law and Order are trademarked names for his left and right legs.
Chuck Norris is the reason why Waldo is hiding.
Chuck Norris counted to infinity - twice.
There is no chin behind Chuck Norris’ beard. There is only another fist.
When Chuck Norris does a pushup, he isn’t lifting himself up, he’s pushing the Earth down.
Chuck Norris is so fast, he can run around the world and punch himself in the back of the head.
Chuck Norris’ hand is the only hand that can beat a Royal Flush.
There is no such thing as global warming. Chuck Norris was cold, so he turned the sun up.
Chuck Norris can lead a horse to water AND make it drink.
Chuck Norris doesn’t wear a watch, HE decides what time it is.
Chuck Norris gave Mona Lisa that smile.
Chuck Norris can slam a revolving door.
Chuck Norris does not get frostbite. Chuck Norris bites frost
Remember the Soviet Union? They decided to quit after watching a DeltaForce marathon on Satellite TV.
Contrary to popular belief, America is not a democracy, it is a Chucktatorship.

Stewie Time!

Oh Stewie, always making fun of poor Brian. The getting ready for the big date.

Here we have William Shatner in 1978 performing Rocketman then Stewie making fun of him.

---here is an episode "playing a little dress up?" This show is still really offensive, funny but it may cross the line sometimes. The Simpsons is a much better show as it doesn't need shock value for many of its good jokes.

Rebel Without a Cause

Rebel Without a Cause is still one of my favorite films. This is a film that dealt with many issues but did not cram these down your throat and managed to entertain. Rebel Without a Cause had a major impact on popular and youth culture for decades. Entertainment Weekly had an article about this movie this week that resparked my interest in the film. They say, and seem to have proof, that Natalie Wood slept with the director, James Dean, and Dennis Hopper(why most of his lines were cut). She was only 16.
If you haven't seen this film I'd recommend you take a look. The movie embodies the passion, confusion and heartbreak of youth. Three huge Hollywood icons died too young. James Dean died a month before the movie was released. This lead to the "Rebel Curse" when Wood and Mineo died.
Dean and Mineo were originally going to have an onscreen kiss. The film is already way ahead of its time in this subject matter. The studio cut this and realistically probably had no choice. Mineo later in life admits to his real life love of James Dean and is proud and surpised with what the film was able to show. The sexual preferences of Dean will always be a mystery.

I loved the father son relationship this film had. I think this is the heart of the film.

Before he became famous, Dr. Seuss wrote a script for the film. Many of his ideas were kept including the idea of having the events of the film unfold in one day.

Dean loved method acting. The fight scenes used real knives and he was really stabbed. He threw, really threw his father across the stage to get a good reaction. His Mother's screems are genuine. I think he would have really gotten into some serious trouble if he hadn't passed away so young. He's soo similar to Brando in the good and bad ways.

Oddly rebel was the only film of the three he did that he was not nominated for best actor. This was probably because he was already nominated that year(after he died).

The entertainment article was based on a new book: Live Fast, Die Young: The Wild Ride of Making Rebel Without a Cause.

Nacho libre

This looks like a funny movie:

Nacho Libre



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The Superbowl is tonight. I'm not much of a football fan myself but did read an interesting article just now:

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Americans will embark on a waistband busting orgy of snack attacks during Sunday's Super Bowl showdown, pounding down 27 billion calories and 1.8 billion grams of fat.
On the menu: 11.2 million pounds (five million kilograms) of potato chips (crisps), 8.2 million pounds (3.7 million kilograms) of tortilla chips and 4.3 million pounds (2.9 million kilograms) of pretzels.
Add to that: 3.8 million pounds (1.7 million kilograms) of tasty popcorn, and 2.5 million pounds (1.1 million kilograms) of nuts, according to research by the Calorie Control Council and the Snack Food Association.
The average armchair quarterback will munch down 1,200 calories, and 50 grams of fat from snacks alone -- without taking into account any meals or the millions of bottles of beer and cans of soda fans will guzzle.
Super Bowl aficionados are being told to get off the couch and kill off the extra bulk.
"To burn off those 1,200 calories ... it would take three hours of walking around a football field, or one hour and 45 minutes of running," said Beth Hubrich, a dietician with the Calorie Control Council, a non-political trade association.
The Council is advising fans to pick fat free potato chips and dips made from salsa, which is fat free, and reduced fat sour cream and non-fat yogurt.
Sunday's game, between the Seattle Seahawks and the Pittsburgh Steelers, is expected to draw at least 90 million viewers at home, and tens of millions more in bars, restaurants and at parties.
Super Bowl Sunday, always in late January or early February, is notorious as the day when many well meant New Year's Eve resolutions to diet hit the skids.
With that in mind, the inventors of the famed South Beach diet urged their followers Thursday to try their Cilantro Pesto Dip.
"This dip tastes so good, your guests will never believe it's also healthy," South Beach told registered users in an email, saying the delicacy could be used on grilled fish or chicken, or to compliment crudites or chips at a party.
Talking of parties, Sunday's big game could be the biggest revenue generating opportunity of the year for American pizza firms, who expect to deliver multiple orders to tens of thousands of Super Bowl celebrations.
The Wall Street Journal this week ran a tongue-in-cheek front page story about how firms like Pizza Hut and Domino's Pizza had put their delivery teams into training for the big day.
"Super Bowl XL will, of course, be a make-or-break opportunity for the Pittsburgh Steelers and Seattle Seahawks -- but also for pizza-delivery people around the country," the paper quipped.

More on Grizzly Man

The more I think about this movie, the more the main character interests me. This guy is soo over the top and quite funny. His action shots that he kept re-shooting, the scene where he is holding up his tent with his tripod, or the scene he almost falls off the cliff. This guy is funny and the movie could have a comedy type film if of course he didn't get eaten by the bears. If you want to see a film about a a very complex man, Grizzly Man is the perfect choice.

The foreshadowing was a bit ominous. When he finds the baby bear paws from bears eating their own cubs as a result of starvation that was probably the best time for him to get out of the woods.

Cookies and Bears and Parrots and Grimmays!

I forget how handy cookies are until I accidentally erase them. Those odd tasty sounding computer things make surfing the net that much easier. Now I have to track down my frequent flier number, remember my old passwords, etc. etc. I miss my cookies.

I just started a dart league, well playing in a league. This will hopefully be the pinnacle of my athletic achievement. I dunno though, dodgeball and darts now. This is some pretty serious stuff. If only there was a ping pong league.

I'm loving A Great and Terrible Beauty. I'm a bit surprised I like it but it's a good book. The reader does an excellent job adding a number of very original and distinct voices. I'll have to start the sequel soon which currently carries a perfect Amazon rating. Lynn has had some good book choices, way to go!
I'm also into 1776, Cell, and Team Of Rivals and just finished Eragon. Cell has another Mainer wearing a Red Sox hat as the hero. I thought Steven King retired but I guess not. I do enjoy his Entertainment Weekly articles. I'm not actually reading these but listening to them. I have no time to read as my copy of The Historian keeps getting further and further under my bed.

I have been waiting for Grizzly Man to be available on my Netflix Que for a week or so. I just watched it on the Discovery Channel. I'm surprised they got the movie that quickly. The film was good but can it hold up to March of the Penguins, The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, or Murderball? What a year for documentaries. These are some great films.

Battlestar was great yet again. Lost is getting better but it just can't compete.

If anyone has tomorrow night free Grimmay has a spare Staind ticket.
I am helping my Aunt move out of the riverhouse so I'll be a no show.
What are your thought on breakfast on Sunday?