- When asked “What are your plans for the weekend?”, do not answer “Taking all the Christmas stuff, piling it up in the front yard, setting it on fire, and dancing around it drunk and naked.” Your spouse will probably not be amused.
- Another trip to the doctor due to lingering issues from last week. Apparently, some bacteria or another has decided that my lungs make a good place for a winter holiday and have taken up residence. In related news, writing a story outline when you’re on cold medicine is a lot of fun.
- The doctor who saw me today said that some strains of this year’s flu don’t present a high fever, and that they’re seeing more cases of pneumonia than normal. I wonder if that’s because people don’t go to the doctor or take their kids in until they present a fever, and that opens sick people up to more secondary infections?
- I was watching a documentary about Neanderthals tonight, and they made the case that there is at least a little of their DNA in the modern human genome. I thought about that for a moment, and decided that anyone who has met my brothers and me should not be surprised by that.
Musings
Posted by daddybear71 on January 2, 2015
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Today’s Earworm
Posted by daddybear71 on January 1, 2015
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What Did I Miss?
OK, 365 days of movie quotes are done. Now it’s your turn.
Leaving out movies that have been done and overdone (Caddyshack, Ghostbusters, etc, ad infinitum, ad nauseum), what movie quotes do you like that I didn’t cover?
Posted by daddybear71 on January 1, 2015
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Today’s Earworm
Now all the winter bells are ringing
Hear them Echo through the Snow
And the children’s voices singing
on the street so far below
This is a Time to be Together
And the Truth is somewhere here
Within our love of People
At the Closing of the Year.
I wish all of you a happy New Year, and many more to come.
Posted by daddybear71 on December 31, 2014
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Musings
- Note to self – remember to take the lighter out of the fireplace before you notice that the fire is hot enough to melt said lighter.
- Make the fire cheery enough, and Irish Woman will rotate in front of it like she was on a vertical rotisserie.
- I was watching a documentary about Prohibition today, and it occurred to me that one of the things that ought to be in every prepper’s larder is a good supply of malt extract. 1001 uses.
- How to mess up domestic tranquility – Buy an exotic piece of fruit at the store, do not note the name of it, and then get irritated with your spouse when he/she cannot figure out the internet search to tell you how to cut it up and eat it.
- When making chocolate chip cookies, make sure you have chocolate chips first.
- When you don’t have chocolate chips, a half bag each of white chocolate chips and toffee bits will suffice, if you don’t mind an incredibly sweet cookie.
Posted by daddybear71 on December 31, 2014
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Movie Quotes – Day 365
It is now twelve, midnight and this is station KRGR, leaving the air. — A Nightmare on Elm Street
All good things come to an end. If it’s possible, it’s better to go out on your own terms, rather than let things degrade to the point that nobody enjoys your efforts. Once something you enjoy starts being a job, or a job starts becoming just a paycheck, it’s time to go.
Posted by daddybear71 on December 31, 2014
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Musings
- I got my first royalty payment from Amazon the other day.
- Hello, super value meal menu!
- Cue Jefferson’s theme.
- Note to self – before moving appliances and cleaning up the basement, you need more in your stomach than a glass of cranberry juice and two cups of coffee.
- Derby, the little black dog, makes the same sound when she is dreaming as someone trying to start a Fiat with a weak battery. It’s kind of weird to hear that coming through the house at 3 AM.
- I got a late Christmas present the other day. Irish Woman handed me a box of 12 gauge slugs and apologized for not putting them in my stocking.
- When shipping a copy of your book to someone for a review, it would behoove you to triple check the address to which you are shipping it.
- I’m going to start research on time travel so I can go back a couple of months and stop Irish Woman from purchasing Boo a fart gun for Christmas.
Posted by daddybear71 on December 30, 2014
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Movie Quotes – Day 364
Mufasa’s death was a terrible tragedy; but to lose Simba, who had barely begun to live… For me it is a deep personal loss. So it is with a heavy heart that I assume the throne. Yet, out of the ashes of this tragedy, we shall rise to greet the dawning of a new era… in which lion and hyena come together, in a great and glorious future! — The Lion King
One of the more despicable thing I see people do, in politics and in other parts of life, is to use a crisis to convince people to do things that they would normally resist. Preying on the weaknesses and fears of others is an old tactic, but it sure isn’t a worn out page in the playbook. “They’re coming for your children” or “If we don’t, we risk catastrophe” seem to be the way that things get done anymore.
Posted by daddybear71 on December 30, 2014
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Movie Quotes – Day 363
There are two dilemmas… that rattle the human skull. How do you hold onto someone who won’t stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won’t go? — War of the Roses
The calculus of knowing when to end a relationship is rarely simple, at least to the people on the inside of it. A third party may look at it and see abuse, neglect, infidelity, or worse. But to those who are entangled in it, they can still remember the good times, the first glances across a room, the first kiss, the birth of children. The bruises, both visible, and invisible, are easy to overlook when you can still taste the first meal she made for you, or his smile the first time you danced. The problem was, to me, that those good times were all that I had to go on, and eventually we both became indifferent to the present because we were lost in the past. Things finally fell apart when one of us woke up from that dream and realized how nightmarish things had become.
Posted by daddybear71 on December 29, 2014
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Coming Soon
Here are the movies that were previewed before the feature tonight:
- The Wedding Ringer – A cool dude makes his living standing in as best man for guys who don’t have a friend to do it for them. He keeps it professional, that is until he meets the loser who touches his heart. Failure to Launch meets The Wedding Singer. Pass.
- Furious 7 – Vin Diesel tries to beat this particular dead horse just one more time, complete with Jason Statham playing Jason Statham. Pass.
- Insurgent – A sequel to a movie that I didn’t see, but if a plucky teenage insurgency can work for Jennifer Lawrence, why not try it again? Girlie Bear might like this one.
- Danny Collins – A washed-up rocker, who is now on his (n+1)th retirement tour, gets a letter that John Lennon wrote to him 30+ years ago, and decides to write another song or three. While he’s at it, he tries to reconnect with his long-lost son and try to
seducewin the heart of the manager of his hotel. I’m sure there’s a final act of forgiveness brought on by the heart-felt music that gushes out of his newly found connection to the real world. Pass. - Focus – Will Smith plays a con-man who takes on an apprentice, who happens to be a curvaceous woman. Together, they seem to get themselves into a bit of a pickle by messing with those with whom one should not mess, but I’m sure everything works itself out in the end, and they ride off into the sunset together. Pass.
- Jupiter Ascending – The Wachowski Brothers make their homage to 1980’s Flash Gordon, in that a heretofore unknown universal empire is going to destroy the world, but a plucky Earthling and her allies do their best to thwart it. I didn’t hear any Freddie Mercury vocals in the preview, but this might be watchable. The effects and cinematography look beautiful. I might give this one a matinee. One word to the Wachowski’s, though: I know at least 75% of your plot from the trailer. That other 25% better be awesome, or I’m going to be disappointed.
Posted by daddybear71 on December 29, 2014
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