Remember how I told you April Winchell is God and how easily distracted I am? I’m sure you hadn’t noticed…
As part of that “distracted” post, I wrote that I saw on Paul Winchell’s site where he claims to have invented the artificial heart. I never did find the truth of the matter. However, if you put stuff like this out on the internet, then be prepared for it to be found, friends. I got an e-mail from Stacy Winchell (April’s brother) about it!
Here’s something to turn all you Lemony Snicket fans green. My wife’s boss (who is a dear friend) had dinner with “the man” himself. Ooooh. Aaaah. Yes, I am jealous. Shut up.
She was at a big book seller’s convention and got to take the place at the table of some bigwig that didn’t show up. She got to sit right next to M. Snicket and have a lovely discussion with him, including his top secret impressions of the upcoming film! (Which are: “Dunno. Couldn’t stand to sit around the boring movie set long enough.”).
The sad part of it all was that she was the only one at the table who knew who he was!
I went and saw Hero last week (the U.S. release of 2002’s Ying Xiong). The short review: Movie good. Me like.
If you liked Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, you’ll love this. In fact, if you liked Lord of the Rings or Akira Kurosawa films, you’ll love it. It has a mythical quality to it, and it is filled with magical fight scenes that are the focus of much of the story yet don’t overwhelm it or turn it into a “kung fu” movie.
Jet Li is awesome as the lead character, a guy with no name, who gets an audience with the King after killing three notorious assassins. Even better are Daoming Chen as the King and the two main assassins–Tony Leung Chiu Wai (Broken Sword) and Maggie Cheung (Flying Snow).
While you’re in a giving mood, why don’t you hop on over to SoapBoxBlog and buy one of her 2004 Hurricane Tour T-Shirts?
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Garden of Angels is an organization formed by Debi Faris to give some dignity to newborns abandoned in dumpsters and on the side of the road. They claim these babies, name them, and give them a proper, legal burial.
More than that, they have worked to get states to pass laws like California’s “Safe Arms for Newborns,” where a young mother has the right to leave her baby at any hospital emergency room or other designated spot without fear of prosecution. The baby will be properly cared for and placed in a foster home, and the mother has 14-days to change her mind.
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Man, this is my kind of Christmas story. There’s nothing like a great holiday book filled with mistletoe, Santa Claus, zombies, angels, parties and good cheer.
Take one murdered Santa, mix in a misguided angel who loves barbecue and pinochle, stir in a pot-smoking town constable and his wife, a retired B-movie actress who still thinks she’s Kendra, Warrior Babe of the Outland, and you’ve got (some of) the new book by Christopher Moore. It’s called The Stupidest Angel (A Heartwarming Tale of Chirstmas Terror). Oh, and did I mention the zombies?
Somehow, I missed seeing this story until Friday at lunch when Grump said, “Hey, did you see where a Cleveland player got shot?”
Thinking that this was one of those “so a Cleveland player gets shot…” jokes, I replied: “What? Huh? No way…” But it’s true. He was on the team bus in Kansas City when a stray bullet came in and hit him in the leg.
Thank God, he was saved by his go-go boots…
Apparently, the Indians rookies have to dress up as cheerleaders as part of their initiation. He was wearing big, white cheerleader boots that stopped the bullet. Looks like we don’t need body armor for the troops after all. We need pom-poms! Stat!
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month and the gang is back with the third annual Blogger Boobiethon. Go and make a donation. However, if you happen to keep your browser on the picture pages for more than 4 straight hours, it is considered ogling. Or so I’m told.
Been crazy busy at work and on the home front (most roofers have a waiting list in the thousands at this point!). So, I have a little backlog of links to post this weekend. I’ve got a review of the movie Hero, a piece on another Forgotten Famous Person, a couple of silly news stories and a review of The Stupidest Angel. (I actually read a book. Don’t faint.)
In the meantime, here are my Week 4 football picks. I still have not gotten my buttocks handed to me by the pick gods. I’m now 34-12. Once more into the breach, dear friends!
