The Friday Five: Five Favorites for Friday
Posted on Friday, June 26, 2009 Did you survive the week? Yea? Well that's good. You beat the odds as all the celebrities around us seemed to be dropping like flies. Well ... it's Friday, and that means it's time for my occasionally regular feature, the FRIDAY FIVE! Here's my list of the five great things for the week...
5. I have felt oddly connected to Eric Hutchinson, ever since I saw him perform at Puck in Doylestown, PA a couple years ago. Back then he was a goofy opening act, but after Perez Hilton randomly plugged his album a while back, his popularity exploded. This week he performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live ... check it out:
4. Celebrity Death Rumors. With this week's high death count, Twitter and other social networks were overflowing with celebrity death rumors. On Thursday, Jeff Goldblum fell off cliff in New Zealand, Harrison Ford died when his yacht sunk after he was lost at sea, and I heard a report that even Fred Savage died. Yes my friends, this was a great week for false celebrity deaths.
3. Inappropriate Michael Jackson jokes. He died, and lots of people are sad. But I'm cruel and heartless, and I don't really care. But when I hear jokes like this, I can't help but laugh: "Farrah Fawcett arrived at the pearly gates and god asked her what he could do for her having led such an honest life. Farrah asked god to simply make sure the children of the world were safe. Five minutes later, Michael Jackson died." (thanks Mike H.)
2. MMMMMM Pizza. And in the pizza department, Jules Thin Crust Pizza in Doylestown, PA gets an A+. It's hard to find vegan pizza at a restaurant, but Jules' sauce and pizza crust are vegan! Further, all of their packing is recycled and recyclable and their ingredients are happy, organic and environmentally friendly. This week I was in the mood for unusual vegetable toppings so I ordered a pie with asparagus and artichoke hearts ... and it was fantastic! 1. Away We Go, starring John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph. It's a sweet, funny, heartbreaking, geeky, quirky, love story full of weird eccentric characters. Burt (JK) and Verona (MR) are pregnant and searching the continent for their place in this world. Along the way they travel to Arizona, Wisconsin, Florida and Canada and meet a host of odd friends and family. Personally I would have stopped in Montreal, and adopted my own beautiful house full of beautiful adopted children, but that's just me... A great movie, worth the hike to your local indie theater!
So there we have it. Are you still alive? Are you sure? Check your pulse. Well that's good, you've survived another Friday Five.
Stuff that sucks, Edition #1
Posted on Monday, June 22, 2009
1. Weather. I hate weather. I don't want to hear predictions, I don't want to hear about your thoughts on it, and I don't want to talk about it. Weather is the one thing on Earth that EVERYONE has in common. Strangers love to talk about the weather. "Nice day we're having today!" "Oh, it's sooo hot outside, isn't it?" "Brrr, it's a cold one out there!" SHUT UP. No one cares about how you feel about the weather. I don't care about how you feel about the weather. We're all experiencing the same damn weather, so find something better to talk about.
2. That said, for just a moment, I will suspend my moratorium on weather-speak. Rain. WTF is with all of the rain?? When did New Jersey become Seattle? This is just ridiculous. I'm fairly certain that it has rained every day for the last month. ... Moratorium reinstated.
3.Year One. I'm guessing that this movie will go down as the worst of the summer. Jack Black is usually manically funny, and Michael Cera is always (or at least, i thought 'always') good for a chuckle. Couple them with Harold Ramis, and you're sure to have a hit. Right? WRONG. This movie was just awful. I sat waiting and waiting and waiting to laugh. But it never came. Year One is annoyingly NOT funny.
COULD CHARLIE RETURN FROM THE GRAVE???
Posted on Saturday, June 06, 2009
Maybe? Hey, anything is possible on Lost, especially since the future could have been rest by a Jughead explosion. Why else would ABC be using him in their promos?? (via tvsquad)
"Actually, I was."
UPDATE: Ack! According to EW's Ausiello, Dominic Monaghan is actually joining the cast of another ABC show next season. :(
