“War is not healthy for children and other living things.”
– Arlene, Dick
Tags: Quote of the Day, Dick, War
From the 1999 movie Dick:
Nixon (on a bank of televisions): Throughout the long and difficult period of Watergate…l have felt it was my duty to persevere…to make every possible effort to complete the term of office…to which you elected me. But as President…l must put the interest of America first. Therefore…l shall resign the Presidency…effective at noon tomorrow. Vice President Ford will be sworn in at that hour…
Arlene: It’s gonna be different now.
Betsy: They’ll never lie to us again.
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History has shown us, that strength may be useless when faced with terrorism.
– Captain Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation, “The Higher Ground”
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I watched the first two discs of Firefly again over the weekend. I forgot Tags: discombobulated, Firefly, vitaminwater
Over the weekend a friend of mine asked me what she should do with the piles of books she’s finished reading. Apparently selling them on eBay and Amazon hasn’t turned out to be all of that profitable or rewarding for her and I’ve apparently become the expert on what to do with your stuff when you want to get rid of it since I’m no longer the reigning packrat.
So, here’s my recommendations:
I just don’t know why they’re shooting at us. All we want to do is bring them democracy and white bread. Transplant the American dream. Freedom. Achievement. Hyperacidity. Affluence. Flatulence. Technology. Tension. The inalienable right to an early coronary sitting at your desk while plotting to stab your boss in the back.
– Hawkeye, M*A*S*H
Tags: Quote of the Day, Democracy, M*A*S*H
So, I’m sure you’re dying to know what was playing on my iPod while I was wandering around magical Edinburg or trying to sleep on the airplane over the Atlantic. What haunted my spirit as I peered at the Stone of Destiny or searched for 221b Baker Street?
Tags: iPod, iTunes, playlist, UK, vacation, Edinburgh, music
Coincidentally peskyapostrophe is planning an international vacation of her own this year and she happened to post today about what she takes with her on the airplane. She had some things on her list I hadn’t thought about taking with me.
The idea of a flight kit is to put in not just what you are going to need like any medicines you might need to take during the journey but also what things you are going to need to keep you sane on the journey. For example, I can’t make it through a flight without music and
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O.K. You would not know that I got a gazillion things done plus was feeling like I was dying plus had a sick puppy over the weekend with all the movies I watched. Plus, I put the new theme in…and when I use my entertainment system, it mucks up my wireless internet so I couldn’t work on the theme while I was doing that so there. 
Anyway, here goes my movie reviews for this weekend.
The Graduate - Yes, I know it’s an oldie. I’d Tags: movies
I think I just might be a little more in love with John Cusack…
CHICAGO John Cusack’s motivation for his latest film grew out of something he did not see — flag-draped caskets returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Pentagon policy bans media coverage of America’s war dead as their remains are returned. The administration of U.S. President George Bush has strongly enforced the ban, something Cusack describes as “one of the most shameful, disgraceful, cowardly political acts that I’ve seen in my lifetime.”
So the actor started looking for a project that would
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So, I watched probably way too many movies over the weekend…and you get the benefit of my opinions on the subject. I put the DVDs in my 5 disc-changer in no particular order and basically pressed play, so there was no rhyme or reason to the order of how I watched what except the last which I watched on the We channel last night. 
Tags: movies, Audrey Hepburn, Diane Keaton, Netflix
Peter: “Forget them, Wendy. Forget them all. Come with me where you’ll never, never have to worry about grown up things again.”
Wendy: “Never is an awfully long time.”
I’ve had a subscription to Netflix since August of 2004 and practically since I’ve been a member, I’ve been trying to get a copy of the 2003 version of Peter Pan to view ever since. It’s been out of stock or something up until last week. Anyway, it was well worth the wait.
Once again I
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I ordered a lime green pet carrier from PetEdge.com for Pugly that looks like a purse. We are going to be so styling going around town now. 
I hope it arrives today because tomorrow he’s going with me to visit the gals at the beauty parlor/spa while I get my hair done and I know he doesn’t like his regular carrier. (I also ordered him an exercise pen for outside since I don’t have a yard.)Tags: discombobulated, movies, the puppy, Wordpress
My friend, who’s parents named him and his sister after characters on the 1960’s supernatural soap opera Dark Shadows, became a first-time father yesterday. His darling daughter is named after a character on two WB 1990’s supernatural soap opera-y type series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.
It kind of makes me wonder what supernatural soap opera will be the cult hit 30 years from now.
Anyway, congrats, 2Cool!
Tags: Dark Shadows, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, WB
If you even occassionally skim these entries you know I’m addicted to TLCs home invasion shows. You know the ones where they invade someone’s house and redo a room or two. I have huge crushes on Evan Farmer and that blonde carpenter Eric on Clean Sweep.
I was thinking this weeking while I was watching TLC since I’m experiencing my own home invasion of a personal organizer that you never see anyone on those shows accidently discover anything “untoward” or something the owners’ parents would be horrified to see on national t.v. You certainly never see them sorting
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Tags: personal organizer, TLC, Clean Sweep, Evan Farmer, Trading Spaces, While You Were Out
So, the good news for Dan Brown and Random House is that the judge in London’s High Court has ruled that Brown did not breach the copyright of Holy Blood and Holy Grail in his blockbuster The Da Vinci Code. Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, authors of the original nonfiction work must now pay Random House 85% of their almost £1.3m court costs.
the judge, Mr Justice Peter Smith, said The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail did not have a central theme.
“It was an artificial creation for the purposes of the litigation working back from the Da Vinci Code,”
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So, I went to visit Pugly today and I spent over 20 minutes lost going and over an 1 hour lost coming back. I never did find the route I was looking for and ended up taking a different way back. Could have saved myself an hour and a quarter tank of gas if I’d just gone that way to begin with. *sigh*
Anyway, so I decided not to limit this week’s playlist to the last 25 songs. You get to see what I listened to there and back again.
Well, I know some of you are going to say I’m not a really real geek because I didn’t go see the whole Lord of the Rings trillogy in the movie theater, but I had my reasons which I’m really not going to explain here because in part they’re kind of childish. So there.
Tags: Lord of the Rings
I’ve mostly been listening to talk radio — the news in particular — and watching TLC or Lord of the Rings all weekend. The last time I acually listened to my iPod was when I went to see Pugly on Tuesday and I was in a country kind of mood, so here’s this week’s list of the last 25 songs I played…
The Naked Truth
& Other
Discombobulated Thoughts
of a displaced Southerner in New England -- from just daily annoyances to conspiracy theories to political views.
The Dark Side of Christian History by Helen Ellerbe
The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir
Marley and Me by John Grogan
The Digital Photography Book by Scott Kelby
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