Watching The House Bunny with my afterschool class. Yeah, HENCE! This movie is hilarious - I really have to hand it to my sister Anna Ferris. Dahling can carry any movie, must be the good looks!
I bet the house that falls on you is a SEXY house!
Manner of the Day:
Cell Phone Use: In the Bible it says whenever two or more people are gathered together in worship, it can be considered a church. In my Manners Bible, I say that wherever two or more people are gathered together, a cell phone is inappropriate. Whether you are texting or calling, in a meeting or at lunch, do NOT use your cell phone. Put your phone on "vibrate" or "silent". If you are expecting an important phone call, tell the other members of your group beforehand and apologize ("I apologize for checking my phone so often, I am expecting a call from my mother about my grandmother's surgery results"). If you receive a phone call or text that you feel you need to respond to, politely ask permission from the group or other person and apologize before doing so. If you sit there texting the whole time, or accepting phone calls, it sends the message that you would rather be elsewhere or talking to someone else - even though you probably don't feel that way. So don't do it. Ever.
Quote of the Day:
Shelley from House Bunny: "Kindness is just love with its work boots on."
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Lost: What happens when Faraday comes clean about the island?
I am obsessed with Lost.
That said, I need to air some grievances. Lost has become a drug that used to get me high but now I am just stuck in a downward spiral because I can't stop using but the high is no longer coming, and now I shoot up for the fix, to feel normal, so I slowly have to use more and more (going to Lost forums, etc.) to get that same feeling, and eventually I will overdose and die (of boredom and lameness). Unless they kill Kate. That's the drug-use metaphorical equivalent of going to rehab, finding Jesus, and writing a best-selling memoir.
But, you say, they're answering all of our questions about the island. Finally, you protest, we're getting real action and suspense. Most importantly, you continue, Penny and Desmond have a child named Charlie (squee!!).
You doth protest too much. They are answering "questions", kind of, in a way that is not necessarily...there. It feels like they are answering questions we never asked by stringing together past plots and revelations haphazardly - where's the continuity? Where's the "oh we had this in mind fom the beginning"? You didn't. We know it. Give it up and give us an ending we can be satisfied with.
"Real action" and "real suspense" is finally here, since, for once, something is actually happening. Of course, we are sacrificing character development for this action - which means we have "freighters" who have been with us for two seasons who still have little-to-no revealed purpose on the show, and newcrashies who have no backstory and are easily shot, placed in charge, or used to solve some continuity error at any moment.
Penny and Desmond are wonderful and happy and should sail off into the sunset (or into....Iceland...that seems to be the furthest from any of the Losties). And yet the powers that be have even tried to kill them (!!).
I like where the show has begun heading. I say "begun" because I think it is fairly obvious that the show was originally about Purgatory, despite what the creators say, and they changed course when everyone figured that out after three episodes. The Egyptian influences, the Smoke Monster, potential Dharma vengeance, all exciting. But week after week, we have to watch characters we don't know (or Kate....ugh...) strap on their water skis and jump over the shark. It's depressing, and it isn't doing justice to the show that would have been the greatest show in television history.
I hope in 2030-ish, someone "Battlestars" Lost into a complete, focused, and consistent series. Maybe I will, as I will be...45...perfect age for television producing!
Manner(s) of the Day:
Always hold the door for someone. Even if you have to wait a few seconds. Especially hold doors if you are exiting and the others are entering. Acknowledge people as they walk through, especially if they say "thank you". Always at least mutter a quick "thank you" if a door is held open for you.
TwitterQuote of the Day:
PerezHiltonBad joke alert: "How do you wake up Lady GaGa? You poke her face!"about 19 hours ago from web
That said, I need to air some grievances. Lost has become a drug that used to get me high but now I am just stuck in a downward spiral because I can't stop using but the high is no longer coming, and now I shoot up for the fix, to feel normal, so I slowly have to use more and more (going to Lost forums, etc.) to get that same feeling, and eventually I will overdose and die (of boredom and lameness). Unless they kill Kate. That's the drug-use metaphorical equivalent of going to rehab, finding Jesus, and writing a best-selling memoir.
But, you say, they're answering all of our questions about the island. Finally, you protest, we're getting real action and suspense. Most importantly, you continue, Penny and Desmond have a child named Charlie (squee!!).
You doth protest too much. They are answering "questions", kind of, in a way that is not necessarily...there. It feels like they are answering questions we never asked by stringing together past plots and revelations haphazardly - where's the continuity? Where's the "oh we had this in mind fom the beginning"? You didn't. We know it. Give it up and give us an ending we can be satisfied with.
"Real action" and "real suspense" is finally here, since, for once, something is actually happening. Of course, we are sacrificing character development for this action - which means we have "freighters" who have been with us for two seasons who still have little-to-no revealed purpose on the show, and newcrashies who have no backstory and are easily shot, placed in charge, or used to solve some continuity error at any moment.
Penny and Desmond are wonderful and happy and should sail off into the sunset (or into....Iceland...that seems to be the furthest from any of the Losties). And yet the powers that be have even tried to kill them (!!).
I like where the show has begun heading. I say "begun" because I think it is fairly obvious that the show was originally about Purgatory, despite what the creators say, and they changed course when everyone figured that out after three episodes. The Egyptian influences, the Smoke Monster, potential Dharma vengeance, all exciting. But week after week, we have to watch characters we don't know (or Kate....ugh...) strap on their water skis and jump over the shark. It's depressing, and it isn't doing justice to the show that would have been the greatest show in television history.
I hope in 2030-ish, someone "Battlestars" Lost into a complete, focused, and consistent series. Maybe I will, as I will be...45...perfect age for television producing!
Manner(s) of the Day:
Always hold the door for someone. Even if you have to wait a few seconds. Especially hold doors if you are exiting and the others are entering. Acknowledge people as they walk through, especially if they say "thank you". Always at least mutter a quick "thank you" if a door is held open for you.
TwitterQuote of the Day:
PerezHiltonBad joke alert: "How do you wake up Lady GaGa? You poke her face!"about 19 hours ago from web
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Why I am moving to Arizona...
1) California is a horrible place, increasingly reminiscient of a Dickensian, classist, poverty-stricken wasteland. By that I mean the population is increasingly either very rich or very poor, which leaves the middle class stuck in with the "very poor" of society, since we cannot fit with the very wealthy.
2) Arizona is nice. I like the desert. I LIKE the heat. I know you don't. Why do you have to be so negative? When you tell me you are pregnant, I don't say, "wow, childbirth really hurts. Like, a LOT. You don't even understand.You should decide not to do it."
3) The school I will be working at is very nice. I will quite enjoy the staff, students, and facilities there. It will be a great opportunity for me to reinvent myself and love my job.
4) The Phoenix area is clean, middle- to upper-class, and safe to live in. It also has a thriving city atmosphere so I will have lots to do.
5) It is cheaper to live in Phoenix.
6) Stephenie Meyer is from Phoenix, so maybe there is something in the water there that helps mediocre writers become millionaires.
Manner(s) of the Day:
It is always rude to ask a woman if, or assume that, she is pregnant. No matter what. No matter if she weighs 100 pounds and is in her third trimester, carrying twins. The only time you can ask a woman if she is pregnant is if her water breaks on your shoes.
Along these lines, is it always rude to ask if someone has lost his or her job. This has happened recently many times, because CA budget cuts have highly publicized the laying off of teachers. Never ask someone if he or she has lost a job, no matter what you may have heard. If he wants to tell you, he will. If you hear that such-and-such place laid off 99% of their workers, assume that your friend is the 1% until you are told otherwise. Asking someone if they've been laid off is tantamount to asking someone who is married if his or her spouse has left them yet (just because you know that 60% of marriages fail, doesn't make it OK to ask that, right?).
TwitterQuote of the Day:
SenJohnMcCainAir Force One flight over NYC, how much $ did it cost the taxpayers? Stay tuned...
2) Arizona is nice. I like the desert. I LIKE the heat. I know you don't. Why do you have to be so negative? When you tell me you are pregnant, I don't say, "wow, childbirth really hurts. Like, a LOT. You don't even understand.You should decide not to do it."
3) The school I will be working at is very nice. I will quite enjoy the staff, students, and facilities there. It will be a great opportunity for me to reinvent myself and love my job.
4) The Phoenix area is clean, middle- to upper-class, and safe to live in. It also has a thriving city atmosphere so I will have lots to do.
5) It is cheaper to live in Phoenix.
6) Stephenie Meyer is from Phoenix, so maybe there is something in the water there that helps mediocre writers become millionaires.
Manner(s) of the Day:
It is always rude to ask a woman if, or assume that, she is pregnant. No matter what. No matter if she weighs 100 pounds and is in her third trimester, carrying twins. The only time you can ask a woman if she is pregnant is if her water breaks on your shoes.
Along these lines, is it always rude to ask if someone has lost his or her job. This has happened recently many times, because CA budget cuts have highly publicized the laying off of teachers. Never ask someone if he or she has lost a job, no matter what you may have heard. If he wants to tell you, he will. If you hear that such-and-such place laid off 99% of their workers, assume that your friend is the 1% until you are told otherwise. Asking someone if they've been laid off is tantamount to asking someone who is married if his or her spouse has left them yet (just because you know that 60% of marriages fail, doesn't make it OK to ask that, right?).
TwitterQuote of the Day:
SenJohnMcCainAir Force One flight over NYC, how much $ did it cost the taxpayers? Stay tuned...
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