Its been a long time since I’ve been on here and I’m not sure who still reads it, but I for some, slightly nostalgic reason, have not only missed this, but what to start blogging again.
71 years ago today.
Today marks the 71st anniversary of The Wizard of Oz. The initial release might have only broughtin a whopping $3mil,(which might be a lot for the time, but minimal when the production cost was at $2,777,000)but the film has gone down as cult classic and a must see.
I can’t say I remember where I was the first time I watched The Wizard of Oz, but I can remember where I was the first time I tried to pair it up with Dark Side of The Moon.
So, Happy Aniversary. And here’s some interesting facts about the movie, 71 Facts for the 71st Aniversary. http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/aug/12/the-wizard-of-oz-google-doodle
Amongst the list of shows the my girlfriend has since labeled, “My soap operas,” is one that is now running into it’s 3rd season, and one that I have come quite intrigued in. Leverage is a show about a group of ex-thieves led by an ex insurance agency investigator that now take on unorthodox cases to help people who otherwise would not be able to get assistance through the proper channels of government aid, and they solve theses cases in a very successful, and unorthodox way. They take from the people who are taking advantage, and giving to those who are being taken advantage of by using different ways of leverage. But the plot of the show is not what drive my choice for the song of the day.
On of the actors in the show plays the strong arm, cool guy bit. He’s the the one that gets the team through the door, and out if that may be the case. But in one of the last episodes he had to pretend that he was an up and coming country artist in order to scheme a record label giant to admit his villainous ways. In the act he had to go on stage and sing a song that was, in the show, said to have been written by the client, who was a country artist being taken advantage of by the, so-called, record giant. Any way, in looking into the the actor and the song, it turns out that he, Christian Kane, is, in fact, a country singer/songwriter by trade. Something I never would have guessed, simply judging by his character at least.
What I think is great about Christian Kane is that he grew up in Texas and then moved to Oklahoma to attend the University of Oklahoma, a school in which he would not finish. Kane randomly decided he wanted to act, having no acting experience, and moved to LA to pursue that dream. While preparing for a show that he was originally casted as a comedian, the producer heard him sing, and immediately changed the script to make him a singer instead of a comedian.
This song here is the song he sang in the episode of leverage, and is called, Thinking of You.
I admire this because it shows that if there is something that you really feel in your heart that you want to do, even if it is a far stride from the current path you are walking, then just do it. There is nothing standing in your way other than your own road blocks. If you tear down your ideas of the existence of only one path, and see that there are in fact many ways you can go, then you open up the possible horizons of your future, and after that, anything is possible. So do what you want to do, be who you want to be, and live the life that you want to live.
In honor of the start of Shark Week tomorrow afternoon. For 51 weeks out of the year we all endure the filler shows that Discovery Channel uses to pass time between the only event they’re really around for, and that, is Shark Week. And Shark Week kicks off tomorrow at 9am with Prowling Sharks in the Mediterranean. During the day it shows a variety of shows that revolve around Sharks, such as the MythBusters: Jaws special. But the real shows to catch are at 9pm and 10pm of each day of the week, thats One WHOLE week of Sharks. This is the true week to look forward to each year.
The line up of shows for the week are at Discovery Channels web site. Check it out.
It’s all new to me
So this post stems from the fact that I was re-blogged today. I think it was my first time, I am no longer virgin to the re-blogging. Anyway, as it turns out when someone is not following you, a little blue box appears that states that you have been re-blogged, someone likes a blog of yours, or what ever else the big blue box of information is out to convey. But I didn’t get the Blue Box of Love, so I didn’t know, and in my fault, if I had read through my dashboard I would have noticed, while pursing through my fellow bloggers posts, that one looked quite familiar. But I didn’t, so I didn’t know that I was re-blogged until my girlfriend informed me that for the first time, I have been RE_BLOGGED.
So thanks for reading, I can now honestly add one new friend to my list of readers.
- Jack Handey, “Deep Thoughts”
Quote of the day
The Sudafed Hit List
Where does all your information go after the lady behind the counter trades you a box of Sudafed for it. I think the only bit of information you don’t hand over is you mothers maiden, but then again they don’t really need that to track you down these days anyway. Soon they’ll start asking for a finger print and retina scan.
I guess with all the Sudafed I buy they put my name into a system somewhere so when Meth sales go up in my neighborhood, and they’re looking for meth lab, the cops can come knocking on, well, i guess more like knocking down, my door. Just to find out that I’m nothing more than a simple man with simple sinus problems.
Whats the next wonder drug that’ll be hard to buy?
Getting old and being treated young.
I just found myself congratulating an elderly patient for going to the bathroom. And next to me was a nurse talking to her in the nurses baby voice. And while all this is going on it occurs to me that all of the elderly patients we have, mainly the ones that slipping into an altered mental status, are always treated in the way that you would treat a small child, “Did you just go to the bathroom? Good job.” I think we’re one step away from giving them a lollipop when we pick them up from the Doctors office. But my question is, do they know, and if so, why do they not say anything, why do they just smile at us and act as though they also are reverting back to their child like state of mind? I guess I’ll never really know. Well, I might know, but by then I’m not sure I’ll know to care.
Why can’t I just cheat?
So while reading over my Girlfriends blog I had a revelation, why not just reblog everything that my girlfriend blogs. I mean, if i want to share with my other couple readers what i spend my off time doing, then what better way then to just let you read what she puts down. It far easier for me, and shes much better with words than I am. Along with punctuation, spelling, and grammar, and all those other things that are involved in writing.
Say NO! to Horizon dairy products
Every time I indulge in the luxury that is shopping for dinner at Union Market, I am shocked to see that the Slope’s model for organic, locavore living sells butter made by Horizon. I thought the company had received sufficient publicity for its horrendous treatment of cows to lose its slot in such hallowed grocers’ bins.
If you prefer organic dairy products — or even if you buy them by default because they’re more widely available in your yup-tastic hood — check out The Cornucopia Institute’s scorecard of American organic dairy producers. The Institute has surveyed producers nationwide and ranked them according to the way they treat their livestock. If you live in Brooklyn, you’re safe with Organic Valley and Amish Country Farms, both of which receive four-cow (excellent) ratings.
You are not safe buying from Horizon.
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