OK, a couple of questions:
What are you reading right now?
What's your favorite book ever? (or a favorite)
What is your favorite movie? (or one of them)
What was the last movie you went to, not rented?
Pat
The Power and the Glory is what I'm reading
One of my favorites is Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
One of my favorite movies is Donnie Darko.
The last movie I saw in a theater was Children of Men.
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Reading now: Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman.
Favorite read ever: The Great Gatsby
Favorite Movie: The Hunt For Red October is the one movie I can watch over and over. I've probably watched it nearly 300 times.
Last seen in theaters: Notes on a Scandal. Judy Dench is creepy. Good show.
I really want to see Children of Men. My old boss wrote a book with the same concept called The Last Generation. I think Children of Men came first though. That means my old boss is a cheater and a liar.
Reading now: Hannibal Rising
Favorite read: Dunno. Really, enjoyed A Million Little Pieces...before I found out it was untruthful. :-(
Favorite movie: My favorite memory of seeing a movie was The Towering Inferno. I was young and my folks, brother and sister were gonna go without me. I cried and they let me go. It was awesome. :-)
Last seen: Night at the Museum
Gone With The Wind and Moby Dick.
Reading now: 1776 by David McCullough
Favorite read ever: Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
I like authors named David I guess.
Favorite Movie: The Big Lebowski.
Last seen in theaters: Little Miss Sunshine I think.
So that is like my list man.
Right now I'm reading From Jesus to Christianity by L. Michael White. I've also been reading a bad detective book that's at Mom and Dad's for about the last five years. I'm up to page 87. Don't anyone take it. It's a paperback in the nice bedroom with a guy on the cover with a gun.
My favorite book ever (sorry to be such a cliche) is To Kill a Mockingbird. So atmospheric. I re-read it about every 5 years.
Favorite movie: Raising Arizona. On TV: To Have and Have Not
Last movie seen at theater: Night at the Museum.
Reading now: North Of Nowhere by Steve Hamilton.
Favorite book: Dunno, I guess The Stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore. weird and funny. that or Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams...
Favorite Movie is hard... if I have to pick i'm going with Lebowski.
Last seen in theatre was Children of Men. this weekend i'm going to see Smokin Aces, anyone want to go?
It's hard to beat "Starship Troopers". The movie's better than the book. Plenty of action but they're killing bugs so no racism problems (speciesism, maybe), nice social commentary, pretty girls,
Favorite Book-"Penrod"- a re-read every 2-3 years.
No matter how many times I see Ace Ventura - Pet Detective I get sucked in every time. I can't even stand Jim Carrey.
I might have to switch to Lebowski. Definitely in my top 10.
Rading Now: Issac's Storm by Erik Larson...reading this minute: Essential Biology
Favorite Book: The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Favorite Movie: MASH maybe? PCU?
Last Movie in Theatres: How to Eat Fried Worms (ghhh, I need to see more, I only ever go with Catherine and Mia)
the devil in the white city is a great book....
Stevo and I went shopping yesterday to ppick up a couple things for our trip. I plunged into the 90% off clearance racks (lotsa weird stuff in there) and came up with 3 pairs of capris for $1.97 each. Then I splurged on some silly canvas slipons with palm trees painted on them. Stevo bought 2 pairs of shoes - literally his first shoe purchase since his dad died 10 years ago and Stevo inherited all his shoes. Wait, no, he got sneaks once for about $7. But he was so thrilled, I'm afraid it's the first crack in the dam. There will be shoes spilling out of his closet and tumbling down the stairs. He's already talking about some nice black dress shoes and sandals.
JENA, Germany - Scientists in the eastern German city of Jena said Wednesday they have finally given up after three years of failed attempts to entice a sloth into budging as part of an experiment in animal movement.
The sloth, named Mats, was consigned to a zoo after consistently refusing to climb up and then back down a pole as part of an experiment conducted by scientists at the University of Jena's Institute of Systematic Zoology and Evolutionary Biology.
Mats was not even tempted by cucumbers or plates of homemade spaghetti.
"Mats obviously wanted absolutely nothing to do with furthering science," said Axel Burchardt, a university spokesman.
Mats' new home is the zoo in the northwestern city of Duisburg where, according to reports, he is very comfortable.
He was bouncing around this morning wearing tasseled loafers and sweats. He thinks he might need to pick up some huaraches in Nassau or something.
I was talking about Stevo, not Mats.
The sloth or Stevo?
Also, Under the Banner of Heaven is AWESOME. Read it. It's the history of Mormon Fundamentalism, and includes murder and stuff.
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Reading now: Human Anatomy text and various Humanities assignments. Just read a play titled "Art" by Yasmine Reza. It sucked. I could condense the whole play into three sentences.
Favorite book: gosh, I haven't had time to read recreationally for 3 years. I'm lucky to scan the Sunday paper.
Favorite movie: I loved the Lord of the Rings movies becuse they were so true to the books, and had great effects. The Ents! Also any Pixar movie.
Last seen in theaters: Apocolypto
Mom, get some Airborne to take on the cruise. I worked at two schools with over 35 kids absent due to flu. Took Airborne. Still healthy - also, it killed my migraine the other night. Lemon-lime is not too horrible.
Pat, I forgot to tell you before that Catherine was reading Despereaux in school so she took in the signed copy that you got me. Her teacher was very impressed. But the point is that Catherine's class (or at least part of it) was reading that book!
I love watching sloths. Once at Henry Doorly, it took a group of them an hour to climb down their tree, over some rocks and towards the island with birds to get their new food. They only made it half way across the water, then turned around and went back up the tree. I think they forgot what they were doing.
Heres a good questions:
What's a book you've read that you hated? (besides text and informational books)
Recently I read Aiden's Way and Marley and Me. I didn't like either of them, they really bugged me. But I also didn't like Tuesdays w/ Morrie, so I think I just don't like listening to men talk about their feelings. I guess I'm old fashion.
Grace, we saw "Art" performed in Chicago with Kevin Dobson and two other guys and loved it. Joe and Ellen saw it too. It was funny. Just shows you what a difference reading a script and seeing it brought to life by good actors and staging can make. Also it's translated from French I think, so the words don't flow.
The Christmas Box. Saw it all coming from the start. Too sentimental.
Also the detective book I'm reading at Mom and Dad's is really, but entertainingly, bad.
Favorite Book: To Kill a Mockingbird
Also: it's not too bad to think that Gregory Peck is the perfect Atticus in To Kill a Mockingbird.
Favorite Movie: Probably Raising Arizona or Three Men and A Baby (which Mary and Emma call Three Men Who Don't Know Anything About Babies) or some others... couldn't tell ya.
Last movie seen in a theatre: Something Disney that we took the girls to, oh it was Cars.
What am I reading? Are you crazy? Who gets to read anymore? I'm even in a book club and I am completely ambivialant (I can't spell!) about the books that are picked.
That's my life.
Here's what a genius I am.
I dropped an aluminum bottle cap down the dryer lint trap hole (It went through the wash in someone's pocket. I tried to clean the lint trap while still holding it, it slipped out). So, I creatively tied one of Zane's magnetix pieces to a shoe string to lower it down the hole and get the bottle cap (hoping the aluminum would be attracted to the magnet). It didn't work, though, because the magnetix just stuck to the (duh) dryer and wouldn't go down. (Me, cussing under my breath as I try to get it through the opening - thud - swear word - thud - swear word - thud) Polish ingenuity.
I can't wait to start the dryer because wet clothes are in it and our water is shut off all day while guys work on a giant hole in the street at the foot of our driveway. Then we'll be under a boil order for 2 days. There was water shooting up like a fountain out of a crack in our street.
I don't want the clothes to sit and get smelly.
Any takers on Creighton/Drake? Feb. 3rd - the day before the Super Bowl.
Dr. Tom Davis? Nate Funk? I know you want to see it.
Book I've read and hated: To Kill a Mockingbird
Just kidding! I love that book, too. While I was reading "Art" I kept trying to picture it acted, but the two feuding guys were so... took themselves too seriously. Boring. I hated a book I read about a psycho serial killer who had an almost-victim trapped in his R.V., then his house, and she eventually saved his young girl victim and escaped. I think they made a movie out of it. It started with an "I". Intensity, or something. Cold Mountain is an excellent book, very austere imagery. I'm glad I read it before I saw the movie. Renee Zelwegger was good, Nicole Kidman less so. Who was the guy in that movie? Jude Law? Forgettable.
Book I'm reading now: Running with Scissors It's OK. Not as good as David Sedaris.
Favorite book: Can't choose one. I enjoy teaching the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. It was also interesting teaching THe Crucible - which is about the Salem witch trial, but is a metaphor for McCarthyism, to students of a former communist country. They thought is was so funny that when I was grwoing up all the bad guys in the movies were commies.I also like teaching the book Night by Elie Wiesel- the students really like learning about the Holocaust. Last year I taught A Catcher in the Rye for the first time. 90% of the kids really liked it. The two students who didn't like it were AMericans and said the book had no merit and they found the language offensive. What's wrong with these puritanical goody goodies? But for myself, a much better J.D. Salinger novel is Franny and Zoey and Seymour: An Introduction. When I'm feeling really sappy, My Antonia by Willa Cather is great. A great book I recently read is called The Bookseller of Kabul which is about a guy in Kabul who is trying to preserve all the Afghan Lit the Taliban is trying to destroy. A noble cause, but the guy has no other redeeming values. IT's a true story written by a Norwegian journalist.
Last movie: The Departed
Favorite movie: Amadeus or Rushmore or The Royal Tennenbaums or Ground Hog Day. I'm sure there are others. Lebowski is good. I think I'll call Jude "The Dude."
Favorite movie...Princess Bride...also like Braveheart alot.
Reading right now?? finished Glass Castle, it's good, now I'm reading InStyle magazine!
In theatre last "Little Miss Sunshine" Really good, you can now rent it.
Last night we rented "The Illusionist" VERY GOOD..if you like Ed Norton you must rent it.
Gonna go see "Last King of Scotland" It's finally here.
I just watched a movie called "Little Otik" about a couple who can't have a baby and the huband makes a baby out of a tree stump and gives it to the wife and the wife goes crazy and starts to act that it (the tree stump baby) is real and the the tree stump baby actually DOES come to life and they take the tree stump baby home and start feeding it and it can never get enough to eat and it finally eats the Mailman when the parents are out buying food so the man and wife lock it in a box in the apartment building basement and a little neighbor girl finds it and starts to feed Little Otik and SHE can't feed him enough either and so she lures people down to the basement for Little Otik to eat, but she still can't find enough for him to eat and so he (Little Otik) breaks the window in he basement and reaches out and steals cabbbages from the garden outside and the old lady who grew the cabbages finds out and goes into the basemement and kills Little Otik with a hoe.
Hope I didn't ruin the movie for you, but I didn't think it was on anybody's agenda.
The last movie Tom saw in the theatre was A Night in the Museum. :-)
Ed! I saw that movie too!!! So weird. I wanted to name my cat Otik after watching that.
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great, thanks Ed. guess that's one i can drop out of the netflix queue. just kidding. never heard of it. i gotta see it now.
How come Tom is the only wone who responded to my survey regarding nose hair?
I pluck this one nose hair that grows fast and curls around the little part between the nostrils. OUCH.
Grace, you need a telescoping thingy with a little picker-upper at the end of it. Dad has one. Also a tiny telescoping magnet and a tiny telescoping mirror. Also a little flashlight you can strap to your forehead. I got Joe one of those last year because they're funny.
Mary, your list looks alot like mine. except you forgot Castaway, Its a wonderful life and Grease.
Little Miss Sunshine, loved it, didn't want it to end.
For reading... manual: on intercom, appliances, etc. Its good sleeping material.
Erin
I CUT (not pluck out with my fingers while driving down Hwy 18...like Tom) any hair that dares to wonder near its opening. Of course, I've never had to do it...but, I would if I did.
Hi Erin! You guys have your internet hooked up...hooray...how are the kids doing at the new school?
I'm also gonna mention movies I watch over and over, so I must REALLY like them:
Ferris Bueller
Breakfast Club
Godfather 1
Wizard of Oz!!!!
Little Mermaid
Erin, You didn't mention Kill Bill!
Speaking of plucking hairs. I have a beauty mark (yah, shut up that's what I'm calling it) above my lip. Now, suppose I had a wild hair that grew out of it...I would cut it to ensure there wasn't a cancerous reaction. I asked a dermatolgist, once, and they told me that it was okay to pluck...if I had one, but of course I didn't. :-)
My license which expired, almost, 14 months ago has been replaced. Thank God because if it hadn't been replaced by Sunday...I would have had to take the dreaded, "behind the wheel." I did have to take the written test and I received four wrong...which torked me off 'cuz Tom took the test, recently, and only had three wrong. Damn. Lastly, our tabs which expired in October and December '06 have been replaced with '07 tabs. Thank you baby Jesus. Our neighbor, Officer Tracey Teague, wasn't the wiser...go figure.
I have never seen Little Mermaid, read the book. Am I missing somethng?
Erin
Pat - I like the idea of you naming your cat "Little Otik". I am gonna name my plant that since Littel Otik really was a tree.
Worst book-the one by Robert Waller that Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep starred in when it was make into a movie. I know Mom loved it. Sorry Mom. I'm not romantic in the least. One I'm reading now Sweetwater Creek. Fairly mindless but good to read while watching basketball and wrestling(Sean is in wrestling-it grosses me out) practice. It's about a girl whose mother left,brother commited suicide and she trains hunting dogs. I just started it. Favorite movie, I don't know I usually fall asleep before they are finished. ost recent one I saw was the new Rocky one with the boys. Can't say I enjoyed it that much. I also saw Caisino Royale. I did like that.
Monica
there was a movie on Cinemax the other night called Bikini Aliens. they must have been a silicon based life form.
Hi, Mom and I just got home from seeing Letters From Iwo Jima, which was directed by Clint Eastwood. We both liked it although it would have been better if the subtitles had been in English instead of Japanese. Isn't English the official language? Dad
What is this Aldi store you guys are talking about? And has the price of groceries gone up significantly in the last two years? I can't believe how much we spen on groceries. In Macedonia groceries weren't that cheap, but the produce was very cheap. You could walk out of the green market with two plastic bags full of fresh, local produce and have only spent 4-5 dollars. The bad thing is that since they use no chemicals, everything goes bad in like two days, so you end up throwing a lot away. Grace, how do you feed five on $100 every two weeks? I think I'm spending $100 or more every week for three of us. I buy store brand stuff. Maybe I just didn't pay attention before because we weren't as tight on cash when I was working and before Jude.
Aldi is a funny place. Right next to a mysterious box of canned French cut style green beans, you might find a combination VCR/television.
Aldi probably isn't as bad everywhere else as it is in Chicago. Their shopping bags are the preferred luggage for all homeless people who travel beyond their two block area.
Bum advertising for Aldi.
Not including the occasional food item(s) Tom brings home from Sarah's and the occasional take-out we pick up...we spend, about, $600/month at Hy-Vee. Hy-Vee has awesome store brands...sometimes better than the name brand.
I have seen those Aldi stores but the fact that I never thought that I would want anything inside a store that looks like that combined with the fact that I was a little bit afraid has made it so that I have never gone in.
Not even for cheap wine.
My friend, Teresa, came over last weekend and brought a bottle of cheap red wine called The Red Shed (I think). It has a picture of a red tractor on the front of it (I think). It was, surprisingly good and I don't, usually, like red wine. I'm not sure where she got it...I don't think it was Aldi though. ;-)
Last night, I made my husband Hy-Vee Chicken Partner. :-) Yummy.
Yes, Aldis' vary widely by location. I went into one recently and it was, as Desi says, food and appliances all mixed up. Em, it kind of reminded us of stores in Skopje. Food items laying on tables and who knows what they'll have in that spot next time. However, in rural areas, Aldis don't seem that different from Fareway.
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When Andy and I went to get some winking owl last weekend, there was also a sign for some $1.97 a bottle wine. SOmething fruity, which I don't usually like. It was all gone, though.
If you don't feel brave enough to venture into Aldi, Ed, make sure you bring 25 cents to rent a shopping cart.
I meant if you DO feel brave enough
Noooooooooo don't call Slime Time. Tom's just joking! :-<>
Yahhhhhhhhhhhhh.
they just built an Aldi over by where i work. maybe i'll pop in one of these days. funny thing is, it's next to a Bennett's which is an upscale yuppy fruit and cheese and wine place...
I think ALDI is the new yuppy store...cause I go there. Just this morning Mike said he was going to the bank to get cash (they only take cash) to go ALDI shopping, and I said he couldn't go without me...it's fun!
My other new fav. place, the food aisle at the Dollar Store...but read the labels carefully! Best salsa ever..One dollar! Boston Clam Chowder 2/$1!!!
So, I grocery shop at ALDI...Dollar Store...and Whole Foods (for produce)!
Nance...sorry, but I called KLGA before I scrolled down to see that we shouldn't! I had to leave a nam, so I said Nancy Pelosi, and they didn't believe me, so I got nervous and blurted out Nance Straub...I hope you're not mad!
I can call back and say something else...maybe Marilyn McCall.
Dad and Mom...I think Clint E. released Iwo Jima at the same time as Flags of Our Fathers...Iwo Jima is from the Japanese point of view, and Flags...is the American point of view...I haven't seen either, they're both winning awards!
Okay, so I just Googled the words Martha Hoover on Desperate Houswives. I was thikin' that was the name of the narrator on the show. Oh, how wrong I was. I pulled up four pages of the filthiest and most unusual porn site OPTIONS. No, I did not click on any of them! Scary, man...very scary. :-<>
Mary Ellan~ PLEASE, tell me that your're joking...PLEASE.
I am!
Don't google hoover!
Oh, thank God! :-) I, instantly, felt like I was gonna puke! :-<> :-)
I think I'm just gonna throw a couple of frozen entrees into my crack pot, so I can come home to the aroma and continue my marathon.
I like Aldi's. The 19cents-a-pound chicken leg quarters in a 10 pound bag make me a little nervous but they've never hurt us. I bought turkeys there for our November Generations of Faith - got 5 25-lb turkeys forsome ridiculously cheap price and they turned out great. I bought candles there once that dripped and sputtered and one went up in flames. Because I go there on the spur of the moment, I always forget to bring my own bags.
In our Aldi's you can use the shopping carts for free.
Sorry - I was thinking of Alps, kind of a no-name Aldi's, if you can imagine. But they do take credit cards.
Any good suggestions for reading on a beach, poolside or deck? I want easdy reads, not great literature.
People
Us
Star
In Touch
anything by john sanford for a good cheesy mystery.
"Left Them Frigid"
"Meet You at the Beach..oh, Sorry"
"Poolside for Drinks...Bring Your Own Ice"
Those are all good choices.
If you haven't read A Million Little Pieces and if you aren't bothered by the fabrication...it really is an interesting and fast read.
Killing yourself to Live by Chuck Klosterman. It is an account of someone driving across america to visit the death sights of famous musicians and it has a part about a White Snake concert in Cedar Rapids. It's good.
Under the Banner of Heaven. It reads like a novel though it's nonfiction.
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Mary and Mike - are you going to start getting your gas at this gas station that claims to be terror free:
http://www.ketv.com/automotive/10815377/detail.html
Team Rodent by Carl Hiassen. all about the dark side of Disney.
I was actually thinking more along the lines of something with robots on the cover, or cowboys or detectives or spies or a half-undressed girl defiantly holding a sword pointed at the large open-shirted chest of a pirate. Or something that makes me laugh till my Bahama Mama comes snorting out of my nose.
I just read a book about a family where the parents have another girl to be a tissue and marrow donor for her sister. Gratuitously tragic but pretty good. I want mental McDonald's.
pick up a bunch of old raymond chandler detective novels, the Marlowe books that the movies were based on. i love those books.
Cathy~ Your post about the people who had a child for tissue donor purposes...is one I know. An aquaintance of mine had three children. Her eldest child had leukemia at age 6. She got pregnant, one more time, in an effort to find a donor...not sure what for. The child was not a, "match." However, the daughter recovered and the baby was a beloved addition to the family. ;-)
The book I read was fiction, but the parents in it did multiple embryonic tests to choose which one to implant and bring to term. The book is about how this girl's whole existence was based on her ability to keep her sister alive (even though the parents did love her) and how that affected her. It's called "My Sister's Keeper" or something like that.
That sounds familiar. I, also, thought it was true. Hmm.
cathy and nance: there was a CSI episode about the whole have a new baby for a doner thing. i'm addicted to that show.
Cathy you should bring some David Sedaris books. They will make any drink come through your nose.
I am thawing some salmon. What should I do with it?
Tom, I'm with you in the dishwasher thing.
Miami, New York or LasVegas? or CSI Madison? or CSI Algona?
I hate....the way that guy...in CSI Miami talks. I always want to put a pie in his face.
I think CSI Council Bluffs would be a good comedy.
No suggestions for my salmon?
the one in Vegas. i haven't watched any of the others, but when i get done with my run the original (Vegas) is on so i watch that every day almost.
and yeah, the acting isn't all that good. but it is addictive.
Wrap your salmon in tin foil after rubbing it with appropriate seasonings, seal it in a ziplock bag, and poach it in your dishwasher.
Crap! Don't use soap.
My life really WOULD be easier with a dishwasher. It's the first appliance I'll look for when we move. Dishes pile up so quickly.
David Sedaris is a great choice.
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Okay, $50/week supplemented by takeout once a week and those few name brand things you have to get at the other store - like Hidden Valley Ranch salad dressing and Campbell's soups. My Aldi's takes debit cards, but not credit cards. I buy all kinds of meat and fresh produce at my Aldi's except for beef. And they have huge bags of chicken wings and drumsticks for giant killer hotwings on gamedays!
My life ten years ago: Crap! I have to find a clean shirt in this pile of clothes to go out with Ryan tonight!
My life now: Crap! I have to clean the kitchen and get all the laundry off the couch before the babysitter (10 calls to find one) gets here so I can pay her $25 to watch the kids so I can go out with Ryan for the first time in 3 months tonight!
10 years ago
Crap! I gotta give half my check to papa-san so he'll do my laundry!
Now
Crap! I gotta give all of my paycheck to Grace. I hope she does my laundry.
(Papa-san is the little Japanese guy who did everyone's laundry in the barracks who wanted to pay him)
10 years ago
Crap! How do I get Lcpl Jayjack to notice me?
Now
Crap! How can I get Grace to notice me?
My life 10 years ago: Crap! I have to get these Christmas decorations put away!
My life now: Crap! I have to get these Christmas decorations put away before I go on my cruise so my cleaning ladies won't make fun of us while we're gone!
Now is better.
I really like the CSI Miami guy...he has style! While he's solving crime!
David Sedaris books are not allowed in carry-on luggage...are you checking your bags, Cathy?
Why, you asked?...The guy is so damn funny, that while reading, tears flow down the face and mix with layers of moisturizer and foundation, and when bottled, it is very dangerous! Didn't you learn that in terror watch class?
Well, me Boyos and Girlos, I'm off to hoist a few in the sunny Caribbean. I will bravely be watching our most tropical borders for signs of terrorism and Red Stripe or whatever they have in the Bahamas, and I will not rest until naptime.
I can't believe this: we are CHECKING 4 pieces of luggage and carrying on two. We have to edit. Who needs 3 pairs of shoes in the Caribbean? Me and Stevo, that's who.
Also maritime watch. I will be on maritime terrorist watch.
Are the Bahamas in the Caribbean or the Atlantic?
Take photos! I'll post on the web.
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In about 3 hours we will be leaving to go to the airport to pick up Cathy and Stevo..We are looking forward to a fun weekend. We'll be eating at the Heidelberg tonight, the Cobblestone tomorrow and McCarthy's on Monday. The Cobblestone is a place owned by the chef and his wife, just like Tom and Nance. She had a baby girl on Feb. 18, 2005 and named her Mia. McCarthy's has entertainment every Monday, a guy named Noel Kingston who sings continuously for 3 hours, mostly old favorites, Irish and Irish-American songs. Mom and Dad
You are going to spoil them!!
I think you took us to the Heidelberg and McCarhty's ...but the Cobblestone you discovered last year...we will raise a pint and toast your good times this weekend!
Cathy and Steve got out just in time, a frigid cold front came through last night!
Tom and Nance...I just read in the Algona news that Dick Dale moved back to Algona...you should see if he would play in the bar, I bet he would get a kick out of it and you would have a huge crowd...even young people like the saxaphone!
Do you know where he lives?
Tom, while you were drinking with terror suspects, the other ones were down the road...according to the Algona police report, someone stole the "wet floor sign from McDonald's"...the terror watch intensifies!
Has anyone seen "Pan's Labyrinth"
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I haven't seen Pan's Labyrinth but I'm watching Terminal Velocity as we speak. Charlie Sheen is a daredevil skydiver who uncovers an international espionage ring. I'm turning it off any minute now.
How did it end?
we just had a fun night!
huh. tell me more. you intrigue me with your description.
You're intrigued by Terminal Velocity. Here's how it ended, if you must know. Charlie Sheen jumped out of a Russian Cargo plane to chase a red Cadillac convertible that had Nastassja Kinski locked in the trunk. I can't remember how he got the keys (as the car belonged to one of the bad Russian spies), but he unlocked the trunk of the car in mid air and rescued Nastassja (the good Russian spy). The film was resolved by Charlie flying to Russia to recieve a medal of honor that had never been given to a foreigner. And I'm sure he and Nastassja got married. Or at least made out. But they didn't show any of that.
One of our alums spent the last year in Darfur trying to establish some infrastructure. I was having him write a column about that for our newsletter. I knew he had a son and asked about him. Look at what he replied:
Nice to ask about my kid. He is 20, at the U. Unfortunately, he joined the Marines out of High School in 2004, was treated the way prisoners Abu Gharaib were since he is half-Lebanese and got a medical discharge (with broken ribs, broken bones in his face and a punctured lung - all from Drill Instructor beatings). He was a mess for 6 months, the second half of 2004, and then he recovered. I wanted to sue the Marines, but he does not want me to. Maybe in the future.
Do you think it happened the way his son told him it did, and nothing has been done about it? This is horrifying if true. I certianly trust this guy, that he believes this is what happened.
That is toally astounding, horrifying but I also believe it. Sean's best friend,Anthony, is Lebanese and is frequently ridiculed. It disgust me. His parents grew up in Beruit and are now far more patriotic than 90% of Americans are. They have true first hand knowledge of what life with no freedom is like.
On a much lighter note I remembered what one of my very favorite movies is. OH Brother,
Where Art Thou.
I think it could easily be true and it's very sad.
Speaking of ..."Where Art Thou" - a couple of posts ago, some one wrote "Wherefore art thou?" asking where someone was. Well the English teacher in me must explain that when Juliet utters those famous words on the balcony, she is not asking where Romeo is, she is asking WHY must Romeo be a Montague. Wherefore means why, not where.
And, whadup...means, "what's going on?" And, hoodat?...means, "who is that?" Ha, ha. I think I'm funny. Okay, I'll stop. :-)
Pat...I have Lebanese friends....so this guy's son was abused by his marine comander, for what reason, because he is of Lebanese descent? He needs to press charges, if this is the case!
Emily...rent the "Illusionist" I won't tell Scott.
Oh, about our fun night last night... Mike did not jump out of a cargo plane, but we had wine at our friends, the Sammut's (their Son is interning on the Ellen DeGeneres Show!) then to dinner at a cool place and then to a dance club! We danced....it was fun.
m.e.:
I swiped your chicken curry recipe. I added a slug or red wine to it. tasty stuff.
Mary~ Could you ask your friends, the Sammut's, to tell their son that I email Ellen a few months ago! The show had an interest in our Cheeto back in the day. I emailed her and asked if she would like to come to our annual food pantry fund-raise and be a contestant in our Cheeto 2007 Princess contest. She hasn't resonded. Hmm.
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Sorry, it's early. :-)
that was my curry recipe. not mary's.
Just finished the book, Hannibal Rising. Bought it before I realized it was coming out in the theatre. It was an okay read. I suspect that it will be better as a movie...usually the opposite is true. I think.
We are beginning to think about creating a Sister Sarah's St. Patty's Day Party tee. Not sure if we will have one for sure or not. We are looking for a Celtic design to inprint on it. Does anyone have a design they can email? If so, please send it to:
tomandnance@netamumail.com
Ryan's dad was discharged from the marines after a Drill Instructor accidently killed one of his platoon mates. They were offered discharges because, they were told, civilians can't sue the military. However, that was over thirty years ago. Stuff happens in boot camp, but I never witnessed anything quite as extreme as Full Metal Jacket. Close. Unfortunately, sometimes recruits get their asses kicked, either by the D.I.'s or by other recruits while D.I.'s look the other way. There are investigations when this stuff happens, but just like every place else, some marines have a lot of integrity and some are redneck bastards who look the other way. By far, the largest percentage (of marines I served with, during peace time - although many were vets of the 1st gulf war) would not have beat up a guy because of his ethnicity. It would have been more common for a guy to get knocked around because he wasn't pulling his weight. However, stuff happens, and in the military the culture is unimaginable to someone who's never been there. I'm not at all surprised the kid doesn't want to press charges. That'd be breaking the unwritten code of the Band of Brothers. That kind of stuff pisses me off and is not a reflection of the character of most Marine Corps D.I.'s.
celtic design:
http://images.google.com/images?q=celtic+designs&hl=en&sa=X&oi=images&ct=title
That post was me
The marine one, not the celtic one
Thanks Anonymous. We'll give it a look-see!
If you do a St. Paddy's Day party t does that mean you aren't doing a t for the 20th anniversary?
Huh?
I think they're synonymous. :-)
Cool website. Almost too cool as there are many designs to choose from. Daunting. ;-)
Has anyone read "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou? I haven't actually read it, but we had an assignment about censorship and this book intrigued me. It's one of the most challenged books in high schools, along with, can you believe it, Judy Blume books. And Huck Finn. I love the way Dr. Angelou strings words together, it's so musical. I'm going to check out "Caged Bird" at the library. That is, if it's not banned!
Oh yeah, and Uncle Tom's Cabin. And Harry Potter. Yikes.
Nance...I did mention the cheeto to our friends, I think if you can
get a copy of the Jimmy Kimmell show and the info about the 2007 event....I will get Iian's address, and voila! Maybe she'll want to do it...right now she's gearing up to host the Academy Awards, so I think he should get it to her the week after. He's new, so he only says hi to her in the hallway, but in a month it may be different! She likes to get items, so also send a t-shirt with the video.
Good idea...thanks!!!!! :-) Yah, I sent an informative and funny email hoping someone would forward it along to her. My sister, Ann, who watches her show says that she talks about Cheeto's often. I think it's a favorite snack food of hers. She's had monolgues about how to avoid cheesy/orange fingers when you eat 'em and such. Hmm. :-) Keep in mind, that they contacted us back when the Cheeto was new. Actually, it was about 5 months after the inital hoopla and we were at Gull Lake...nothing came out of it, unfortunately.
Little Richard does not appear to have aged a bit since I've known who he was, 35-plus years ago. He looks like he would have a completely perverse personal life.
I love Little Richard in the commercial...you know the one.
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