Continue reading »]]> No resolutions this year. I know what needs to be done, I know what I want to do and making a list won’t help me accomplish anything other than making yet another list to add to the plethora of lists I’ve made every year for decades.

Plethora. I’ve always liked that word, although I have never personally had a plethora of piñatas.

Anyway, so instead of a resolution list, I’m going to make a list of things I’ve learned over the past year. Yes, I will still be adding to my abundance of lists but at least this one is different. Some items will make sense only to me, some will be depressing and I have no doubt that most of them will be pop-culture related.

So, let’s get on with it.

1. I have learned that the following are cool: Bow-ties, Fezzes and Stetson hats
2. I have learned that people will believe any lie put before them if it affirms their fears
3. I have learned that the only Tea Party worth paying attention to occurs in Wonderland
4. I have learned that gold is not a good skin tone for Peter Cushing
5. I have learned that Star Trek: Enterprise got a lot better after it’s first season
6. I have learned that Pecan Pie is good for the soul
7. I have learned that the Harry Potter books stay good, no matter how many times I read them
8. I have learned that putting your faith in others’ intelligence and reasoning will only lead to great disappointment
9. I have learned that Wil Wheaton is a very funny individual and that his pets are freakin’ hilarious
10. I have learned that none of my family reads my blog
11. I have learned that the first Doctor was awesome and that Ian and Barbara are now in my top five favorite companions, third to Donna Noble and Ace
12. I have learned that Amy Pond is my least favorite companion and I sincerely hope she’s gone before Matt Smith finishes his run as the Doctor
13. I have learned that despite it’s rather weak last episode, Lost was still one of the best shows ever produced
14. I have learned that Danny Kaye was a pain in the ass to work with but that I still love watching and listening to him
15. I have learned that when it comes to growing flowers, my gardening skills are sorely lacking
16. I have learned that I like Hydrangeas quite a bit
17. I have learned that putting a bird bath in the middle of your garden will cut down on the number of nasty bugs on your plants
18. I have learned that Craig Ferguson is the coolest late night talk show host ever
19. I have learned that Timothy Dalton as Mr. Pricklepants equals true genius
20. I have learned that Spider and Scorpion does not update often enough
21. I have learned that watching a meteor shower with my husband is now one of my favorite things to do
22. I have learned that I still do not like Jonah Hill and don’t understand why Apatow (or anyone else, for that matter) continues to cast him in movies
23. I have learned that I can lose hours of a day playing Roller Coaster Tycoon
24. I have learned that J.J. Abrams relies on lens flares WAY too much
25. I have learned that you apparently never stop missing your favorite Kitty
26. I have learned that no one but my husband gets my Eurotrip references
27. I have learned that no one but my husband gets me, which is why I love him so much
28. I have learned that my tolerance for people is at an all-time low
29. I have learned that I find physics difficult to learn
30. I have learned that my grasp of World Geography is shaky at best
31. I have learned that some movies/mini-series are MUCH better than the books upon which they’re based (North and South trilogy)

I’m sure there are things missing from this list – I certainly hope so, anyway – but that’s all I could think of for now. My memory isn’t what it used to be…which is another thing I learned this year.

Continue reading »]]> This is a few weeks old but I wanted to post it anyway.

Craig Ferguson recently had Matt Smith, the current Doctor of BBC’s Doctor Who, as a guest on his nightly late-night talk show. (The only one I even bother trying to watch). Ferguson likes to do little musical and puppet-show intros for his cold open and that night they did a number to the theme song of Doctor Who. Because of some music rights issues it wasn’t aired but was eventually leaked to the internet.

I think Ferguson sums up the show perfectly: The triumph of intellect and romance (not lovey-dovey romance, but the other meaning of romance) over brute force and cynicism.

Continue reading »]]> I’ve been following Wil Wheaton on Twitter for a while now and he’s turned into one of my favorite – what do you call them, Tweeters?

Anyway – his transcripts of conversations with his pets should be made into a book. I also read his blog and today it made me laugh out loud. You’ll need to be a gamer (role-playing, not video) to get this, but here’s the best line:

“Yeah! It’s totally my bag of dice!” I paused for a moment, and added, “but he’s not opening it. Because if he opens it, and touches my dice, I will fucking kill that monkey.”

Go read the whole thing for a good laugh.

Continue reading »]]> I just checked my stats for my website – I haven’t done it in a long time – and found that for the past few months my hits have been up substantially. One reason was that Lost post I made (tip: If you want people to read your blog, just type the world Lost. Lost Lost Lost Lost) but another was the fact that there are STILL idiots out there who don’t realize or don’t care that hotlinking is just not kosher.

I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised. There were two main culprits, one being a message board. I didn’t read the thread too closely but it seemed to be about The Big Lebowski but it was also bashing women and stating that they shouldn’t be anywhere near a computer. Seems to me that it should be bandwidth and image stealing assholes who shouldn’t be allowed near a computer.

Learn to right-click, idiots. Hot linking is for thieves and losers.

Continue reading »]]> A few weeks ago a friend on a dog message board I visit pointed all of us to this site call lolcats. The site is a compilation of photos of cats (and a few dogs, birds, rabbits, otters and ferrets, but mostly cats) with captions.

The ‘cats’ have their own language and several running gags and, I hate to admit it, they’re freakin’ hilarious.

I prefer the blog version of the site: I can haz cheeseburger

The blog breaks it down into categories so that you can skip to your own favorite running gag.

Here are a few of my favorites:

Continue reading »]]> I’m not a big fan of Hugh Grant (I thought Four Weddings and a Funeral was one of the most over-rated films of the 90′s) and while I don’t avoid him, I certainly don’t go out of my way to see his films.

I may have to seek out his latest, though. Romantic comedies that include Drew Barrymore usually have a little something special about them and that is usually Drew herself. She, like Reese Witherspoon, can take a run-of-the-mill character that would be dull and lifeless in most actresses’ hands and turn them into someone one can respect and even like.

Her latest movie, with Hugh Grant, is another romantic comedy titlted ‘Music and Lyrics.’ Not a real high-concept story idea, but the fact that it starts off with a dead-on recreation of an 80′s-style music video makes me even more interested in seeing it. We’ll probably wait for the DVD release but I know it’s something we’ll see eventually and probably enjoy.

Here’s the music video: