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Twice in the last week I’ve seen Law and Order episodes where the stash is found in an appliance.  The tell-tale sign that there is money or drugs in the toaster (and whatever the other thing was) is that it is unplugged.

I keep my toaster in a cabinet above the stove.  This gives us more counter space the rest of the day, when the toaster is not in use.  Of course, it is unplugged.

Now every time I unplug the toaster, I think about Law and Order and how if anybody I know ever dies suspiciously, all of my small appliances will be destroyed by the law.

Right.

Tags: law and order episodes, small appliances.

Apparently, comedian Denis Leary has published a book that offends the autism community.  The idea that Leary might publish anything that doesn’t offend somebody is funny to me.  Isn’t that what Leary does - mock people?

McCarthy calls Leary ‘obviously stupid’ - Access Hollywood - msnbc.com

Autism activist Jenny McCarthy has a few words for Denis Leary’s recent categorization that those diagnosed with autism are, “… stupid. Or lazy. Or both” in his new book, “Why We Suck: A Feel-Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid.”

Attacking the health concerns of small children is never a good plan.  But Leary says his intent was actually to make fun of grown men who imagine they have autism and use it to explain away their stupidity.  I haven’t read the book.  But of course, now I must read it.

Denis Leary

My favorite Christmas movie, The Ref, stars Denis Leary and Kevin Spacey.  Yes, that is my favorite Christmas movie.  It’s sarcastic and filled with dark humor.  I love it.  I get to  put in a dvd and go to somebody else’s dysfunctional Christmas celebration for ninety minutes.

My very favorite part is when Kevin Spacey’s character says “Mother, I know what I’ll get you for Christmas next year, a big wooden cross.  So whenever you feel underappreciated, you can climb up there and nail yourself to it.”

Oh yeah.  That’s a Christmas that could have been had with my family.

A close second favorite is Denis Leary saying, “I’ve hijacked my fucking parents.”

Bizarrely, I thought that the VHS version of the movie was a gift from my first ex-husband.  I have only two fond memories of him, I think.  And that is one.  The other is when he called my brother couch-boy.  Anyway, the VHS version wore out.  I threw it and the VHS away and got a dvd player and backordered The Ref, and waited and waited for it to come out on dvd.

Now that I’ve linked to The Ref on IMDB I see the movie dated 1994, which means it probably could not be a gift from first ex-husband.  Excellent.  I have no idea where I got that original VHS.  It’s a mystery.

Tags: autism community, Denis Leary, Jenny McCarthy, Kevin Spacey, The Ref, why we suck.

I’m not mentioning the episode title because that will spoil a part of the episode that I don’t even want to talk about.

Now, spoiler alert.

Houses case raises an interesting social question:  Does it damage us to hide our identity, origin or ethnicity?

The person he and the team attempt to cure turn out to have an illness unique to certain races.  So that would lead the viewer to believe that if they had correctly identified themselves, they might have escaped some of the medical testing that they endured to reach a diagnosis.

I am not suggesting that a television program holds the answer to what ails humanity with a subtle social message.  I just find it a very interesting approach to the topic.  Could hiding ones true self be life or death?

I leave you with a much lighter House quote.

House - Fox Network

HOUSE-ISMS
“World’s full of teenage boys riding bareback.”

Tags: case, diagnosis, episode, ethnicity, fox network, House, social message, spoiler, television program.

Have I mentioned that I love mindless action flics?  I love them.  I am sure that I’m the only (heterosexual) woman watching movies for guys who like movies - whatever channel that is.  I’m kind of a freak.  I will watch the Godfather on one channel and Terminator on another.  I’m an equally big fan of Platoon and Scarface.

Imagine my happiness now:

Must Watch: Officially Badass JCVD Trailer « FirstShowing.net

Must Watch: Officially Badass JCVD Trailer

Tags: action, Badass, Entertainment, JCVD, mindless action, Movie, Trailer, van damme.

We’re still enjoying the vegetables. Though I goofed and forgot to take one vegetable this week, and shorted myself. Not good.

DD ate all of the corn on Saturday again. This time there were six cobs. But four of them were wormy, so ended up being more like halves.

We had a very pretty looking, elongated, squash that was green and white. I don’t remember the name of it. But it was good.

On the way home we listened to Vegetable Town on the Barenaked Ladies Snack Time cd. I forgive them for being Canadian.

Tags: Entertainment, food.

I did not know. But it was not in the spell checker. I was not surprised. The spell checker doesn’t have every word. So I looked it up.

What I find most amusing is that it is in league with the word bodacious, a word that I associate with An Officer and a Gentlemen, as in bodacious tatas.

Hellatious: adjective Slang.
1.remarkable; astonishing: They’re raising a hellacious amount of money in taxes.
2.formidably difficult: We had a hellacious time getting here in the blizzard.

Also, hel·la·ceous.[Origin: hell + -acious (extracted from audacious, sagacious, vivacious, etc.), perh. with intensive or aug. force; cf. bodacious, splendacious]

Tags: Entertainment, humor, languages.

In the world according to Walt Disney fairy tales and sappy romance novels, love everlasting is based on whirlwind romances and that funny feeling.

I have decided that in real life it is about finding somebody who can put up with your crap. And whose crap you can tolerate in return. Somebody who you can be just so over and like again tomorrow.

If I had figured that out when I was twelve it would have positively driven my mother over the edge. As it was, she was introducing me as her daughter Christine, age twelve, going on thirty. That kind of early onset cynicism would have been way too much. Better for my mother that I kept a copy of The Twelve Dancing Princesses under my bed.

I later graduated to Top Gun who I dated and A Few Good Men who I married. (Think Kiefer Sutherland, not Tom Cruise.) And divorced.

Twice.

I can be a slow learner.

I blame it on Disney. And my mother.

Tags: Entertainment, humor, romance.

I am reading Broken, the autobiography of William Cope Moyers, a drug addict. It begins very slowly and seems like a second-hand account, setting the scene with a lovely childhood. But it gets interesting once he begins talking about his addiction.

I haven’t finished the book yet. Oddly enough, I heard a dj on a morning show talking about William Cope Moyers, a CNN anchor who suddenly went missing, because it turned out he had a bad drug habit nobody knew about. Then later in the week I noticed the autobiography in the discount bin at the book store.

Tags: books, Entertainment.

I heard this for the first time today. It’s great.

BLUE OCTOBER LYRICS - Calling You

BLUE OCTOBER LYRICS

“Calling You”

There’s something that I can’t quite explain
I’m so in love with you
You’ll never take that away
And if I’ve said it a hundred times before
Expect a thousand more
You’ll never take that away

Tags: Entertainment.

I watched this last night, the rest of it. Looong movie. DD repeated whatever the Hughes character got OCD about. So she was sitting on the floor with a puzzle saying, milk in the left hand, over and over.

I’m fascinated by Leonardo DiCaprio since I saw the Departed. Several years ago I got interested in Dennis Miller when he had his HBO show. But I’m over him now.

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