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Monday, August 17, 2009

500 Days of Summer

500 Days of Summer is about Jason Gordon Levitt, (made famous from the half hour side spankin' comedy, Third Rock from the Sun) falling for a girl who is not looking for a partner or boyfriend or anything 'commint-menty'. The movie shows their ways of thinking thru their relationship, the way each sees the other. I guess I'm making it sound boring huh? It's not.

If you've seen the trailer for this movie you may or may not depending on the trailer think this is a lovey dovey romance. In some part it is, many scenes portray a sweet, 'first love' type relationship. During the movie you think you know where it's going, you think you've got some characters figured out, but the best I can describe it is a ," fresh", or" real" type ending.

The movie has some very funny lines/scenes and on the whole and on the end, you feel nice having watched the movie. I must say I disagreed with a cousin who thought Zoey Deschanel's character was 'selfish and mean'. I mean nobody can fortell who they fall for. You can't stay with people based on pity or because they break your heart with puppy dog eyes.

P.S After you've watched the movie (which you might not because my review is pretty lame in comparison to the actual movie), what the hell is up with Autumn?? Blah, snore snore, you could've picked better!

Friday, July 17, 2009

Transformers II


I saw THE movie of the summer, and Lordy Lord was it GOD awesome!!!!! Transformers Revenge of the Fallen, was filled with action BUT it was filled with just enough 'human' parts as well. Sam Witwicky (Shia Labeouf) and his parents created all the human/comedy elements needed. Megan Fox (aka there for eye candy, also did fine in her role. All the Fox haters I suppose went out of their way to scare potential moviewatchers about how horrid her acting is-- it's not. It was an action film people and not "A Beautiful Mind", they did'nt even give the actors lines that would wrench you heart and bring tears to your face. (....my heart wrenched a little when Opti fake died) They did fine with what they got (which was quite good), and conveyed their characters very well.

I was UNHAPPY with the role of Isabel Lucas. The Transformer who can transform into a GIRL??!! WTF??!! Originally I had thought, okay they are uptaking the eye candy quotient, until you see Isabel Lucas turn into a Deceptacon(!!!!) and you exclaim WTF really loudly in the movie theatre. Except nobody notices you because they are all exclaiming the SAME THING!!! Arg. How can a 500 ton (don't quote me on that), robot transform into a skinny little anorexic girl??!! And why didn't she crush Shia Labeouf into mushy paper when she was trying to fake mate with him?? Okay so if we nitpick every little detail in an action flick you will never enjoy it. But Isabel Lucas was just plain gratuitous.

Er, I'm not really going into the storyline here, I mean really how can you not know? Bad robots fight good robots who side with humanoids and fight epic battles filled with beautiful cars, that make your heart ache and think you have a faulty heart. And don't get me started on the freaking pyramids!!!!!!!!!! Okay to Late!!

I have always been into Egypt, the beautiful pyramids the mysteries, the burials, it all makes my heart ache to think I shall never be able to see or feel it. And the dumb snotty actors and actresses of Transformers (whose hearts don't ache just thinking about touching a beautiful pyramid) got inside access to places tourists will never see. As if they don't have fame, fortune, and a grand old time enough making crazy beautiful films like Transformers, they must take/squeeze/throttle the daydream/wishes/deepest desires of commonfolk daydreamers of the pyramids. Yarg. Rant OVER.

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Chive Farfalle with Roasted Mushrooms


Okay, so it was either chives blended into a yummy sauce OR grass with lots of lemon. It's not my fault-- my garden beds are weedy. (Okay, so THAT would be my fault, lazy bum). Anyway, this is how I made it.

Roasting mushrooms (first time and not the last). Cut into halved, sprayed with oil, salt and pepper and roasted in the oven for 5 minutes or so at 450 F.

Blended half a cup of chopped chives, salt, oil (the nice fruity green stuff--olive), and pepper (crushed or black). If you don't have enough chives (like me), you can add some basil & a BIT of oregano (both freshy fresh). Add lemon juice to taste, and blend until creamy. I also wanted to use less oil so I added some water as an alternate, still good.

Poured it over Farfalle, added a bit of Asiago cheese and roasted mushrooms on the side. YUMMO (to take a word from Rachel Ray). This recipe is obviously not mine, got it from a mag and messed it up a bit! :)

The Proposal


I recently saw Sandra Bullocks and Ryan Reynolds (Two guys a Girl and A Pizza Place!) much anticipated movie, The Proposal. All the hype, the high box office generating numbers--- hogwash. This movie I would rate "C-", and for a couple of reasons.

Where is the romance? (For that matter where was the comedy?). Ryan and Sandra Bullock barely seem to have scenes together, and when they do it feels they are like two magnets--on their opposing ends, repelling each other off the screen. I honestly felt like Ryan Reynolds had more onscreen chemistry with his 'high school sweetheart', who had a screen time of 5 minutes. I felt they would end up together! There were no scenes in which the two leads would feel closer to each other or even connect. (The 'naked' scene doesn't count-gratuitous nudity, and the two minute 'I like a geeky band and have a tattoo' bit to give Sandy some humanity was like oooo-kay what-ever).

Remember "While he was Sleeping"? You will! This movie had the same 1920's wedding dress bit, the same "I miss what it's like having a family" speech, and the same confession at the alter scene. Oh and the same "Grammy will have a heart attack if she finds out" crap. Geez.

Seriously, it seems like Sandra Bullock has lost her onscreen presence, her mojo, she looked like a spiritless dummy doll walking around the movie, doing totally random scenes devoid of anything to give the movie oomph.

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Gay Monkeys.....and birds.....and dolphins and.....


Apparently, monkeys are gay! Or so they can be, a bit. Which means obviuosly that they can be bisexual. I just read an article that says male Bonobo monkeys will actually copulate with each other to calm disagreements. Monkeys will show signs of pleasure (as opposed to all those Wild America programs that show copulating animals that look almost bored with the deed).

There is also a story about penguins. Apparently, 2 male penguins seemed to be getting cozy and trying to raise a 'stone' baby! The zookeepers finnally gave up (after introducing females to them that were ignored) and gave them a rejected egg from another couple. The two male penguins raised a cute little penguin baby.

Sunday, May 10, 2009

Star Trek..........The Movie

When I first took my sneak peaks at leaked online trailers, and heard the ominous, "This is not your fathers Trek" type lines, I was mad. I wanted to choke Quinto, Pine, and Abram. Then I went to see the film (well, duh I HAD to see how badly it sucked did I not??) although after Thai food and a glass of wine, so with a grain of salt my freinds. It was good!

I must say though that as soon as the fake Spock (Quinto or Sylar from Heroes) came on I wanted to bum rush the screen and choke the living daylights out of him (my my violent are we not?). He showed way to much emotion for a Vulcan, not to think of the fact he was portraying THE Vulcan. Though he did get better as time went by, I forgave him, and enjoyed the rest of the movie.

Chris Pine as Shatner (hehe, imagine him doing the next gen Priceline ads--can't be done), was fine, he can act, and had charisma and enough skills to pull off the comedy bits. Thumbs up.

The movie itself, the storyline was good. Not overly complex and not dumbed down for the dumb kids of today.

Is it me or is every beautiful 80's cartoon or show being DUMBED down so todays brainless kids can drool their spittle into a tub of mega-corn and laugh like retards? Hey the grownups of the world (as grown up as we sci-fi geeks can be), can dole out money for tickets to movies too. Although, many geekazoids do illegally dload. Is that why everything is dumbed down with Jar Jar Binks and the Will Ferrells (Land of the Lost) of the world?

Monday, April 13, 2009

Monsters Vs. Aliens-----boo

So this weekend I took my young niece and nephew to watch this movie. Based on the commercials I thought it should be fun. WRONG. Nothing wrong with me being an 'adult' and not 'getting' a kids movie--this movie was so boring my neice and nephew were squirming around in their seats, peering into their popcorn bags and grabbing each others sodas.

The movie which is super hyped up due to Reece Witherspoon, is about a 50 foot tall woman and her freak monster friends who battle evil aliens. The 'comraderie' and friendship they try to tie in, falls flat. The humor, well wait, what humor? 3-D? Only in a limited number of places. Basically, a waster of time. And the only thing they really enjoyed was the previews!!!!!

Monday, April 6, 2009

Transformers would make it ANY way..........

Transformers did not make 700 billion dollars because of its storyline, I mean come on seriously? And no, it was not because of the "superb" acting abilities of Shia Lebeouf and Megan Fox. It made $700 billion because it is TRANSFORMERS, and it is cool cars becoming R-O-B-O-T-S, seriously people, ROBOTS. I mean is that not every freaking person in this world's dream? What more could u ask of god? A robot for everyone, I shall wish it for us all. No need to pray for world peace if you have a robot, it will keep it for you.......ahhhhh(takes a deep sigh). It will mow your lawn, walk your dog, and be the bestest freind you've ever had. No need for 'real' friends, no need for those pesky humanoid friends (which are useless and hard to come by anyway).

Errrr......my point WAS.........Transformers would have been watched by ANYONE and EVERYONE, just by reading the title, I mean who hasn't wished for another Optimus Prime based storyline? (I remember when he died, it was a traumatic and confusing experience as a child, and freaking stupid of the writers to think they could kill him off and the world would twirl merrily away).

Let's just hope Transformers II, is not a buttload of action sequences and product placement ads strewn together haphazardly. The autobots had heart.

Saturday, April 4, 2009

I can't make jello

I'm guessing jello is the dessert that even people who cannot cook bring to dinner parties and family reunions, just so they feel like they brought something. Something so easy they have nothing to do but boil water and stir. Put it into a mold to look like a pretty gem, something, anything to take away from the fact that you made jello while your sister in law made a croquembouche.

I made a fruit jello, the EASIEST recipe out there. I mixed a can of pineapple bits with a pack of jello, just like the recipe instructed to all the little kindergarten cooks out there. I proudly flipped over my mold, in the presence of my sister, exclaiming how "yummy" it was going to taste. I heard this little 'glip' and the entire 'jello' poured out like melted jam. Life sucks.

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Rocks n Minerals

I've collected rocks ever since I could use my brainwaves in such a thoughtful effort. My early efforts were oft thwarted by my mother who considered her rock collecting child a retard and threw away her preciouses. But the retard prevailed and today clutches her measly collection to her chest each night.


Have you ever seen a rock? I mean each one is different, just in your backyard alone you can find so many different ones, striped, glowy, granite, quartz. Here in NJ, I can find a good mix, and when I let the rain wash them for about a year, you can really see the colors pop. I've collected samples from.....Pennsylvania, which seemed to have granites (and others I need to ID). South Carolina had lots of Quartz. And these below, pics I took from the Carnegie Museum, are some freaking mindblowing minerals that good mother earth has spat up.

































Monday, March 30, 2009

Back from Ridgway PA, never heard of it?


Well neither had I. Apparently, it is the most famous, unfamous place I'd never heard of. Ridgway, is home of the world chainsaw carving competitions. And THAT is exactly what it sounds like, giant logs of wood being carved into pretty pieces of art using giant buzzy chainsaws. Ridgway, and the towns around there are also home to Elk. At first I thought they were just big deer with antlers, okay they are. But, they are a lot bigger, and so when you stand next to one (okay so a STUFFED one at the Carnegie Museum, real ones are hard to come by), they are quite impressive.

Talking about things stuffed, Walruses, are HUGE. The tv sci shows don't do them justice. Either that or the sneaky Carnegie Museum peeps found the biggest, baddest walrus shot it, stuffed it, and plopped it behind a pane of glass. Just so you know, for your knowledge, if anyone reads this, mountain goats too are huge-arific.

Carnegie also has a giant collection of minerals. You would not believe the type of things earth has the ability to spew out. I shall add pictures of my outing. Up next, a soliloquy on rocks. I LOVE them! I collect them! I admire and kiss them and tuck them in at night. Each one different than the next, all colors, shapes, and sounds......ahhhh.

Saturday, February 21, 2009

Villette by Bronte

I am trying to be more educated, sophisticated, superior seeming, all to naught. I cannot for the life of me get past one page of the famous Charlotte Bronte's Villette (I had never even heard of it it to begin with, before spotting it on my sisters dresser). Each pretentious page opens up a snorefest one after the other, so many of her lines are actually written in French! There are no translations when certain characters speak it, how can you possibly read this type of book?

The main character is Lucy, whose view of things I must put up with as this is a first person driven story. And geez, is this girl so boring; she is a teacher in a girls school, and is of the rigid composture. But look at me, I am still trying to ploddle my way thru it, every morn, I try to pick my way thru at least 2 pages. Then I sleep for the next two hours. An hour a page.

Maybe some of it will go into my brain! And I shall be considered erudite, and sophisicated! WooHoo!

UPDATE!!:: Apparently, if you can make it past page 180 (yeah, there's like 540 somethingish pgs) the story is actually there, and not quite as bad as first thought. My perserverance paid off, my tugging myself thru 180 pages of doo dah came soon enough into storyland. Lucy Snowe, most amazingly not only developed a personality BUT I was finding myself quite empathetic to her. The story is pretty heart tugging, I did find myself skipping paragraphs of haphazard poetic descriptions though. Lucy is quiet, but not shy, itelligent but NOT 'smart', meaning she troubles her way thru things like math, she is stronger than the other women in most aspects but she is also wont to the feminine 'emotions' sometimes as well. Confusing?

I guess I empathized with her because she was heartwrenched at having no friends. It made her weak to be alone, people she admired did not look at her in any way other than 'something on the side'. When she did find a friend, that too was wrenched from her, it ends sadly, her with a happy outlook for the rest of her life, and it cruely smashed and ended. All the bad natured people around her happy and content, she left smashed.So wrong. Charlotte Brontes father asked her to write a happy ending for her story, she having wanted her 'ending' from the very beggining of writing the book, created a 'poetic' paragraph at the end. Telling readers to take whatever they wanted from it--though when you read it, it is quite, quite, obvious. I wished it was happy after all the heartache.........ah well!

Friday, February 20, 2009

Women get beat for drinking....

A few weeks ago (I just found out) some Shri Ram Sena members ran into a Pub in India and tried to beat any girls there, just for being there.

Shri Ram Sena, means God's army. Or at least one gods, as the Hinduism belief system comprises of many. These guys have decided to be the deliverers of moral justice, whose moral justice? Why whatever they think is right or wrong. And apparently they think girls belong behind a stove, behind walls. They should not be drinking or even be seen outdoors with boys.


I really wonder how many of these 'army' guys go to Bollywood, (yeah, India named their movie industry Bollywood, urg) movies where women cavort in skimpy skimpy 'clothes'. I really think more than the 'outrage' these caveboys feel, it's the fact that they feel like they are doing something with their lives, that they belong in some group that does something, takes action. Whereas before they joined they were doing nothing but watching movies, Bollywood movies, with skimpy skimpy clothing.

On the other hand, of course there are those guys that feel the antiquated way to live would be the best and happiest. They are served on, by, well servants, who would'nt want that? Maybe the girls should have figured that out sooner, get together and whip them boys into the kitchen, for back massages, and whatever else they want....

I think I understand what some of them think, they feel that our society would be less degraded if people went back to the 'gentlemenly & womenly' ways of old. Morals, politeness, no girls giving themselves to easily, no boys trying to make them. But the thing is, why then do the women have to do all the 'work'? Why can't the men just stay inside and out of temptations path? Why not get the Ram Sena people targeting guys and getting them to stop their 'amoral' ways, why target the WOMEN only?!

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Cauliflower Soup.....really


So I tried to make a creamy soup out of Cauliflower, who knew it to be possible, most certainly not I. I came upon this recipe in a food blog, 101 cookbooks, I think it was. Of course being me, described as a donkey by my father (I've been told I do things opposite of what I've been told, supposedly like donkey??), I can't follow recipes. It makes me cringe to go 'by the book', makes me feel rigid like some uptight school marm in neck high, black dresses with 50psi corsets. MAybe it is my brain, I think I can do things better---I can't. But I keep trying! Again like a donkey. Whatever.

Cauliflower soup --didn't taste bad actually, bit thick I made it though.

Splashes of olive oil, with minced garlic cloves (5), dried rosemary, crushed pepper, 1/2 ts cumin, and a spike of Chinese hot garlic/pepper sauce, kept over a warm stove for 10 min while I....

Chopped 1/2 cauliflower, 1 small potato, 2 stalks of celery, 1/2 onion, 1/2 cup bell peppers red and green.


I added the onions, let sautee for 10 minutes, then added everything else.

Added 1 veggie boulean cube with 2 cups water, let cook till soft. Cool, and blended. Then as needed kosher salt+lemon salt+black pepper.

People add cheddar and etc cheeses as well. I did'nt, but some cheddar mightv'e been good.

Nice spicy, healthy soup. Added coriander leaves as garnish. People add milk, but it was quite creamy in itself. I think I could have added the whole onion, and double the celery for more flavor. Keeping the salt at the end helped me not oversalt it.

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

LOTR Geekaziods Rejoice!

There is a new (actually old, since Tolkien died in 1973) Tolkien fantasy book. WooHoo!! Wait Wait. "The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun", is not actually written by Tolkien but, as I intereprete the news story, more of a reworking, translation type thing. But it does give you more access to Norse Mythologies. I think I've read somewhere that Lord of the Rings was also based on these stories, it didn't all just pop out of Tolkiens head, at least the idea for some of the characters. He did write LOTR, unlike Sigurd and Gudrun. So therefore, its all still good. The book will also have an intro written by Tolkien, and some notes from his son (but who cares about Tolkien Jr, really, no offense).

Monday, February 16, 2009

Shows going Stale...

As I was watching my latest sc-fi show, it occured to me that most shows seem to go 'stale' for me. There are quite few that after the first season or two excite me enough to run to the tv at the correct time and groan in real physical pain if I missed the first 30 seconds.

X-Files kept me stuck to the television until the final season with Mulder and Scully in it together. Unforatunatly, they kept the show going with Mr. Evil Terminator and Miss. So Gay (forum fans know that one...) even after Mulder departed for non-hollywood. As a personal point of ARGGGHHHH, hair pulling, after years of a cool sister arc including being cloned to just mention ONE, they dump it into the lap of a child abductor??!! No really??? What a stinkin pile of Dren.

If you have never watched EVERWOOD, the most wonderful show ever, you can thank some dumb bimbo at WB for shutting the show down in favor of some dumb bimbo show that got cancelled afer like 3 episodes anyway. Everwood had a different storyline every episode that didn't bore you, it dealt with 'reality' based storylines. If you watch WB shows, where every spoiled little teeny bopper female sleeps with /seduces every other teen bopper hearthrob boy, it gets old fast. Everwood may not have had hearthrobs, fashion trends, and party tips but it did have a feeling of comfort..... Holy Frell, am I like getting old? Ew.

Lost is a show that really keeps me on my toes, things just keep happening on that show. Even the main characters are game for something happening to them, dying etc........ It really manages to rope in sci-fi and fantasy but at such a small quiet level, that you mostly just consider the show to be drama or action. The storylines blend perfectly together to create wide story arcs and yet each individual ep has it's own action. Really must watch.

Sunday, February 15, 2009

obama gives Wonder a concert??

President Obama is supposedly going to give Stevie Wonder a concert to honor him. Just wondering but this concert will come out of President Obamas pocket and not mine right? Cause it's not like anyone asked me? And really, is it the presidents job to honor singers and such or is his job something else? Just wondering....

Obama will be presenting Wonder with a Library of Congress award. These awards are for lifetime achievement in many different fields. Stevie Wonder certainly deserves an award for his musical contributions to the world, and just the fact that being blind and being able to do all this is amazing, I look for excuses not to do anything at all.

But the concert part just gave me a bit of 'um' since the nations deficit and money problems are the only thing people talk about, every penny DOES count. Think about it, if all these 'minor' expendatures were added together per year, they'd add up.

Saturday, February 14, 2009

Chris Brown should NOT be forgiven

Chris Browns father has come out saying that his son is very remorsful, and very concerned about Rihanna, suuure, of course he is NOW. Now that he has been caught and put into public scrutiny, now that his multimillion dollar deals and contracts may be in jeapardy.

Chris Browns father apparently doesn't want the public to be unforgiving, he thinks 'we all trip, we all have our shortcomings'........wtf?? How is punching a girl with your fists and biting her like a rabid dog, a shortcoming?!!!

The dad went on and on about how Chris Brown loves people (yeah, they pay for his bling-bling), and how he will 'continue to be a good person' , wait, so he WAS a good person when he attacked a defenseless girl?? Violence against women should not be tolerated and not forgiven so quickly so that poor little Chrissy can get back into the studio and pump out more crap.

COMMUNITY SERVICE!!!!

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Thundercats......HO!.........

I just saw a trailer for our most beloved of all cartoons, Thundercats. The trailer is a fake but boy is it a beaut! Brad Pitt, Chiana, and Mr. Wolverine himself spliced and painted to look like a real Hollywood trailer.....mmmmmmmm.

Can't wait for Hollywood to wake up and make the movie that will give me sweet sweet dreams for many months afterwards. Come On! Who doesn't dream themselves into Thundera? Become one of the Thundercats and fight the evil Mumra, SO awesome.

Okay, if you don't know what Thundercats is, it is an 80's cartoon about humanoid cats from another planet :) landing on third earth and fighting the evil Mumra and his henchmen. Lion-o, is the head, I'm not telling you guys which guys are which cats (duhrrrr), Cheetarah, Panthero (makes tech), Tigra, and wilykit and wilykat (no idea onto which cats they are based. Or for that matter they have a pet called Snarf, his kind does not exist on our Earth. Very kool cartoon, lots of storyline, much better than ALL of the idiot child retard cartoons they come up with these days...........remember HE-Man and She-ra? Sigh.

Fake trailer link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb50GMmY5nk&eurl=http://justjared.buzznet.com/2008/12/22/thundercats-the-movie-trailer/

Monday, February 9, 2009

My fav anime's....

Ever since I was introduced to anime with Escaflowne, I was in love. I had never before seen "cartoons" with such great graphics, scenery, and deep, powerful, and interesting storylines. Escaflowne has both a movie and show out, the latter is what I speak about. If you are not into reading subtitled stuff, worry not. Escaflowne was in English, it actually aired on Fox, every Saturday morning. It is a complex storyline, surprising, and SHOCKING (sister, wtf?!? for those of you who get it), and funny.

I once thought I could never watch anything with subs, I was wrong. The first 5 minutes of an anime would annoy me, then before I knew it, I did'nt even realize the voices were foreign. Just got into the flow of reading. Same with Pans Labyrinth, talk about it below, somewhere, not anime, but beautiful movie.

Howls Moving Castle, is another great anime movie, based on a book by Diana Jones, only anime-fied. Sophie, a hat girl is cursed into a 90 year old woman and helps out a wizard in his moving castle with his majickal friends. Great one.

Akira, really good movie, bit old. From what I remember (saw it a while ago), about a boy with vast mental abilities, corrupt governement scientists, psychics, bike gangs, deep storyline. Good one.

Inuyasha the series is really good, though after a while the episodes started to get 'clone-y', meaning it seemed like they always discovered a monster, fought it, and went on their way. I still recomend watching it, at least till you personally get bored if at all. Amazing scenery, monsters, story ideas, I loved it. About a girl who meets a half demon half boy and must collect pieces of a crystal before the evil Naraku does. Lots of characters to enjoy.

Princess Mononoke, really good movie. It was actually one of the highest grossing films in Japan until Titanic came along, and pushed it down. movie is older, and about the fight between basically, nature and industrialization/forest killing. Good movie.

Spirited Away, is about a girl whose parents are turned into pigs by a witch, the girl goes to a fantasy land to get her parents back, makes friends, and help others. Good movie and I just found out, it BEAT yes BEAT Titanic in Japan. Won an Academy too.

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

GhostTown

I recently came upon a movie called Ghost Town, I had never heard of it before but decided to try it. Guess what? "What, What?" you ask. I actually liked it. It seemed to have a small indi movie feel to it, the stories pace was not what you would find in a 'regular' theatre though.

The story was about a dentist, an ornery one at that who 'dies' for like 2 minutes, wakes up and can see ghosts. Ghosts that won't leave him alone and chase him around the city, funny. This movie was not slapstick funny but rather 'good lines' funny. Things get interesting for him when he falls for one of the ghosts wives, then...... a totally unexpected ending. Seriously, you actually have to rewind the movie and watch it over again....

P.S The only character I recognized was Tea Leoni, wife of David Duchovny (Mulder!!!), and if you don't know who Mulder is, seriously, were you born on this planet??

Choco-late cows! Woo Hoo!!

So everybody probably knows by now how cow farts help the destabilization of our atmosphere--no really. Cow farts have methane in them which helps the rise of greehouse gases, which in turn contributes to our current world problem of global warming. For those of you nonbelievers (I know right, how can you NOT see the glaciers melting) just do some looky-looing online.

The amazing part, get ready.........here it comes...........scientists are developing green cows!!!
"That is SO cool" you say
"Yeah, it would be even cooler if they were really green" I reply
"Say, Wha--?" stammers a confused you.

Apparently the cows will be an eco 'green', meaning they will produce less methane than the real cows god/nature created. You will also be soon getting your skim milk from fake cows. Scientists have found a gene that can make lower fat milk squirt out of cows. Kewl.

One scientist in Mountebank, WI is on the verge of developing.........wait for it........chocolate COWS!!! MMMMMMM. These cows will be squirting what I consider to be the real liquid gold, chocolate milk of course! Apparently, this guy has found some gene that converts the butterfat of cows with cocoa bean supplement tabs fed to the cows, into choco-milk!! WooHOO! Hershey's is in talks with this guy......I wonder if they'll do strawberry or bananas?



moun⋅te⋅bank 
 /ˈmaʊntəˌbæŋk/ –noun
1.a person who sells quack medicines, as from a platform in public places, attracting and influencing an audience by tricks, storytelling, etc.
2.any charlatan or quack.–verb (used without object)

Better late than never.....Pans Labyrinth

I just saw Pan's Labyrinth!! And yes those exclamation points are there for a reason.....it was a beautiful movie!! At first I was a bit trepidacious, it is a foreign film with subs after all. I'm not usually into those. But this film is a played out sortof like a fairy tale, but also sortof with lots of reality thrown in, hard to explain for me it is. It is quite bloody in parts, torture scenes, and a bit--just the oh so tiny bit goose bumpy. But in the end all I could say to describe it was...beautiful! It had made me want to find more movies from the guy who made this one. Not for kids, it's not a fairy tale (for kids), it is more about a young girl who is caught up in that type of magical world.

If Stephen King says so....

Apparently even Stephen King is not into Stephenie Meyers 'Twilight' books. In an interview he claimed that even though both J.K. Rowling and Stephenie write for kids, Meyers writing is just plain bad. I personally thought the same thing, I watched the movie which I like, and thought to try the book series since it so popular. I was amazed that someone even published it! It was so fragmented and baby-ish.

There are so many wonderful vampire books out there, "Interview with a Vampire" series for example. Now that series is some thought provoking reading, deep, and beautiful. Well I guess she just got lucky--her book passed thru whatever standards they have for publishing scripts, and then actually became popular. Although we all know why, puh-lease, perfectly sculptured vamps biting young girls? What teenage girl would'nt go gaga over that? Seems like if someone had beat Meyer to writing a teenage vamp story, it would have claimed the popularity she has. She just got popular because she did it first.....

P.S I did think it a tad bit mean, for a celebrity status guy like Stephen King to publicly ridicule Meyer. Should a famous guy keep his opinions to himself, because they can be spread so fast/far and turn the object into a public humiliation symbol? OR, is it unfair for them not to be able to give out their own opinions like other people? Hmmm.

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

I suggest.......

I suggest if you have a shred of dignity left within yourselves, you shall forgoe your $4 Starbucks Latte Frappiato, and fork over that money to the next donation box you see.

Sure. Fine. Whatever. If you don't want to donate to help save the rainforest, fine.
BUT
Geez, put down those $30 pair of shoes (you have 10 just like them in your closet), and fork over that money to a hungry child whose BONES you can see sticking out of his chest.

Hmm, shoes. hugry kid. Hmm. Shoes. Hungry Kid. SO HARD! Can't think!!

OKAY. FINE. For you Scrooges out there..............

(Trumpets Blow) You....yes you(!), can actually donate WITHOUT SPENDING A DIME!!!!
"No Way Dude!" you say.
"Yes. Yes. Dude!" I say.

"There are sites out there where you just click a link, and the websites advertisers donate money for you. No signing up, no giving your info. Just click the link.....and you're done."

Some hungry kid gets some food, and you did'nt even have to .......well you'll have to lift a finger.

Obviously if you can forgo the latte frappiato for ONE hour, you'll feed a kid for a day. Just send the money to the many many donation sites out there.

Or do the click a link thingy. Donate By Just Clicking

Michael Phelps.....does NOT need to apologize

Why did Michael Phelps feel the need to apologize for inhaling thru a bong?? Please, 80% of the US population has tried this stuff at some point in their lives. Second, why apologize to the public, the public, who is comprised of druggies, two-timers, rapists, drunks, liers, cheaters, etc?? Really, should'nt we all be apologizing to each other then? Why does a guy who has worked so hard to get where he is have to apologize for having some fun, it IS HIS LIFE still isn't it? Or has he become the publics whore?

AVATAR the MOVIE!!!!

Okay, so we fans of Avatar had a near miss with at least one casting call. Zuko was supposed to be played by Jesse McCartney?! Remember 'Summerland', or actually, do you really want the nightmares to start again? The boy acted as if he were on a Disney Channel show. I literally had gag fests when tht show came on.

His replacment for Zuko is apparently 'Slumdog Millionaire" boy Dev Patel. No comment on that one, I have yet to watch the movie. Crossing fingers, hope he can act. Zuko is a MAJOR role. MAJOR. MAJOR.

The director will be M. Night Shyamalan, let's hope he has at least watched some of the series. I hate when directors take what they like to call 'artistic license' with a beloved show/series, and ruin the very essense of what made it beloved in the first place.

The movie version of Hannah Montana will likely have Miley Cyrus holding an ak47, a couple of grenades, and an oozie, while she saves the President of the United States. No really it will.

Batman Strikes again....

So apparently, Christain Bale DOES have an anger problem. While on the set of Terminator Salvation, he cursed for four whole minutes at some poor Director of Photography guy for accidentally walking where he's not supposed to -- on set.

EVERYONE makes mistakes, what I didn't get was that not one person stood up to the grand and almighty Christan Bale to tell him he was out of line for yelling at a man as if he were a five year old kid! One guy tried to calm hime down, then backed off, why were they ALL scared of him??

Seriously, Christain Bale has already ruined Batman, now he is going for my other alltime favorite of Terminator. If the man can't keep his temper like the ungod human he is..................

P.S I did enjoy the last 2 Batman movies----BUT for the story, the scenes, and the other actors who made the movies what they were.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Hello World.

Odd. To start a blog and blankness of mind, once again it has initiated the self-destruct sequence. Adieu world.