Weekend Box Office: 09/24/2018

Now Playing (Box Office) 

1. The House with a Clock in Its Walls $26.9M 
2. A Simple Favor $10.4M 
3. The Nun $10.3M 
4. The Predator $8.7M 
5. Crazy Rich Asians $6.5M 

Kinda seems like no one has interest in movies these days. Hell, I care so little that I haven't even bothered with this column in a long time. But it looks like the kiddy movie beat out everything, as would be expected. 

Look forward to Denise!

 

Denise Milani

    

      

   

Find the full set at her site

http://denisemilani.com/

Hottie of the day!

Monday, September 24, 2018

heliotrope \HEE-lee-uh-trohp\, noun:

1. A light tint of purple; reddish lavender.

2. Any hairy plant belonging to the genus Heliotropium, of the borage family, as H. arborescens, cultivated for its small, fragrant purple flowers.

3. Any of various other plants, as the valerian or the winter heliotrope.

4. Any plant that turns toward the sun.

5. Surveying. An arrangement of mirrors for reflecting sunlight from a distant point to an observation station.

6. Bloodstone.

Heliotrope literally meant "turn towards the sun" in Greek. Flowers that turned towards the sun became associated with this word.

 

drive it like you stole it

• Drive fast; drive as if you stole the car and the police are after you.

If you are not here in ten minutes, I'm leaving without you. So put the pedal to the metal and drive it like you stole it.

confident turtle

• When one sticks their neck out so far as to avoid double chins and exude the confidence of a turtle that comes out of its shell.

She used the confident turtle to replace duck face in photos.

History

• Black Friday: Wall Street panicked as speculators tried to corner the gold market, causing a collapse (1869)
• USS Enterprise: first nuclear aircraft carrier was launched, in Newport News, Virginia (1960)
• 60 Minutes: investigative TV news-magazine debuted on CBS (1968)

Birthdays 

• John Marshall 1755
• F. Scott Fitzgerald 1896
• Don Porter 1912
• Larry Gates 1915
• Jim McKay 1921
• Sheila MacRae 1924
• Anthony Newley 1931
• Jim Henson 1936
• Barbara Allbut (The Angels) 1940
• Linda McCartney 1941 - Musician (Wings), wife of Paul McCartney (Beatles)
• Phyllis "Jiggs" Allbut (The Angels) 1942
• Gerry Marsden (Gerry and the Pacemakers) 1942
• "Mean" Joe Green (NFL) 1946
• Phil Hartman 1948
• Gordon Clapp 1948

• Kevin Sorbo 1958
• Nia Vardalos 1962
• Cedric Dent (Take 6) 1962
• Rafael Palmeiro 1964
• Lisa Matthews (born Lisa Reich) 1969 (PB Playmate Apr 1990)
• Marty Mitchell (Ricochet) 1969
• Megan Ward 1969
• Marty Cintron (No Mercy) 1971
• Kyle Sullivan 1988

 

Get over it

Sunday, September 23, 2018

spleenful \SPLEEN-fuhl\, adjective:

1. Ill-humored; irritable or peevish; spiteful; splenetic.

2. Full of or displaying spleen.

The spleen was regarded as the seat of morose feelings and bad tempers in Medieval physiology. The adjective spleenful arose from this association in the late 1500s.

 

Penis Game 

• This is a game that needs a minimum of 2 players. it can be played anywhere from the workplace to school. It starts when one player says penis! the other player must say penis! but louder than the first person. it goes on until one player quits or can't get louder than the other.

Tom yelled Penis! and i instantly knew he was playing the penis game.

History 

• "I have not yet begun to fight": defiant statement was reportedly proclaimed by American commander John Paul Jones, just before winning a naval battle with the British (1779)
• Lewis and Clark: explorers arrived back in St. Louis after a three-year journey through the US Pacific Northwest (1806)
• Neptune: the eighth planet from the sun was discovered (1846)
• Checkers speech: as a vice-presidential candidate, Richard M. Nixon denied having received improper contributions, except perhaps for his daughter's dog, Checkers (1952)

Birthdays

• Caesar Augustus 63 B.C.
• William McGuffy 1800
• Victoria Chaflin Woodhull 1838
• Walter Lippmann 1889
• Walter Pidgeon 1897
• Louis Nevelson 1900
• Mickey Rooney (Joe Yule, Jr.) 1920
• Gail Russell 1924
• John Coltrane 1926
• Ray Charles 1930
• Colin Blakely 1930
• Pay (Chiyoko) Suzuki 1931
• Les McCann 1935
• Romy Schneider 1938
• Ben E. King (The Drifters) 1938
• Roy Buchanan 1939
• T3h Bax0jayz Father 1939
  
• Julio Iglesias 1943
• Steve Boone (The Lovin' Spoonful) 1943
• Paul Petersen 1945
• Ronald Bushy (Iron Butterfly) 1945
• Don Grolnick 1947
• Mary Kay Place 1947
• Neal Smith (Alice Cooper, Bouchard, Dunaway & Smith (BSD))
• Bruce Springsteen 1949 
• Jason Alexander 1959
• Elizabeth Pena 1961
• Don Herron (BR5-49) 1962
• Ani DiFranco 1970
• Lucia Cifarelli 1971 (KMFDM)
• Sarah Bettens (K's Choice) 1972
• Mike Felumiee (Smoking Popes) 1974

Joke of the day: 09/22/2018

An Arabian guy at the aeroport:

- Name?
- Ahmed al-Rhazib.
- Sex?
- Three to five times a week.
- No, no… I mean male or female?
- Male, female, sometimes camel.
- Holy cow!
- Yes, cow, sheep, animals in general.
- But isn’t that hostile?
- Horse style, doggy style, any style!
- Oh dear!
- No, no! Deer run too fast.

Saturday, September 22, 2018

coetaneous \koh-i-TEY-nee-uhs\, adjective:

• Of the same age or duration.

Coetaneous stems from the Latin roots co- meaning "with, together with," ætat- meaning "age," and the suffix -aneus (which is an adjectival suffix meaning "resembling"). 

Canasian 

• An Asian who lives in Canada

Wow, look at that canasian there!

Holiday

• Autumnal Equinox

History

• Nathan Hale: the American Revolutionary War hero was hung by the British as a spy, saying "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country" (1776)
• Shaka: Zulu kingdom founder was assassinated by his half-brothers (1828)
• long-count fight: Gene Tunney successfully defended his heavyweight boxing title against Jack Dempsey (1927)
• Fiddler on the Roof: musical set in the shtetl opened on Broadway; it ran for 3,242 shows (1964)
• Iran-Iraq War: eight-year Persian Gulf conflict began (1980)

Birthdays

• Michael Faraday 1791
• Paul Muni 1895
• Allan 'Rocky' Lane 1901
• John Houseman 1902
• Martha Scott 1914
• Tommy Lasorda 1927
• Eugene Roche 1928
• Joni James (Joan Carmello Babbo) 1930
• Harriet King 1935
• Ray Norton 1937
• Paul LeMat 1945
• King Sunny Ade 1946
• Mark Phillips 1948
• Harold Carmichael 1949
• David Coverdale (Deep Purple, Whitesnake) 1951
• Shari Belafonte-Harper 1954
• Debby Boone 1956
• June Forester (The Forester Sisters) 1956
• Johnette Napolitano (Concrete Blond) 1957
• Lynn Herring 1958
• Joan Jett 1960
• Rob Stone 1962
• Scott Baio 1961
• Bonnie Hunt 1964
• Big Rube (Society of Soul) 1971
• Laura Vandervoort 1984

 

Rock out for Lucia's berfday (this weekend)

KMFDM

Professional Killer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6mlLsxhrIE

 

 Conquer your world
Study you quietly
Count the ways
I'll do anything you say
There will be no holding back
Legions of me

So cruel
Longing eternally
Bitter sweet possibilities
A tiger on the attack
Ready to bleed

Tragically yours
Obey and submit to me
I will find you
Wherever you hide
Got a thrill for the hunt
A skilled criminal mind

So calm
Tracking your every move
Unrelenting my conscious clear
Beyond a shadow of doubt
A force to be feared

Wretched and pure
Tricky and dangerous
Do not question
Or challenge your fate
A promise written in blood
Take life for pay

Yours is not to ask why
Yours is to do and die
Professional killer

Friday, September 21, 2018

quail \kweyl\, verb:

• To lose heart or courage in difficulty or danger; shrink with fear.

The verb quail is not related to the more common noun. It comes from the Middle Dutch word quelen meaning "to suffer, be ill." This sense of "to cower" was rare until the late 1800s.

 

grass ceiling

• The barrier to further promotion in a business defined by a person's inability to play golf.

because i'm rubbish at golf, i've reached the grass ceiling and so will never make it to assistant manager

History

• French National Convention: voted to abolish the monarchy (1792)
• Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus: editorial in the New York Sun addressed an eight-year-old's doubts (1897)
• The Hobbit: J.R.R. Tolkien's classic Middle-earth novel was published (1937)
• independence: Malta (1964) and Belize (1981) become independent of the United Kingdom and the People's Republic of China was proclaimed (1949)
• NFL Monday Night Football: debuted on ABC, with color commentators Howard Cosell and Don Meredith (1970)

Birthdays

• H.G. Wells 1866
  
• Chuck Jones 1912
• Rand Brooks 1918
• Larry Hagman 1931
• Leonard Cohen 1934
• Henry Gibson 1935
• James Woolsey 1941
• Dickey Lee (Patches) 1941
• Sam McDowell 1942
• Fannie Flagg 1944
• Richard Childress 1945
• Stephen King 1947
• Reggie Rucker 1947
• Don Felder (The Eagles) 1947
• Marsha Norman 1948
• Bill Murray 1950
• Kenny Starr 1953
• Arie Luyendyk 1953
• Philthy Animal (Motorhead) 1954
• Mark Levin 1957
  
• Ethan Coen 1958
• Mark Reed Levin 1958
• Dave Coulier 1959
• David James Elliot 1960
• Nancy Travis 1961
• Catherine Oxenberg 1961
• Rob Morrow 1962
• Faith Hill 1967
• Tyler Stewart (Barenaked Ladies) 1967
• Ricki Lake 1968
• Trugoy the Dove (De La Soul) 1968
• Alfonso Ribeiro 1971
• Liam Gallagher (Oasis) 1972
• Joseph Mazzello 1983
• Maggie Grace 1983 - Actress ("Lost")

Turtle Thursday: From Vegas 2012

A sculpture of a turtle at the airport in Las Vegas

pic taken on the samsung phone crap cam

Thursday, September 20, 2018

manifold \MAN-uh-fohld\, adjective:

1. Of many kinds; numerous and varied: manifold duties.
2. Having numerous different parts, elements, features, forms, etc.: a manifold program for social reform.

noun:

1. Something having many different parts or features.
2. A copy or facsimile, as of something written, such as is made by manifolding

verb:

1. To make copies of, as with carbon paper.

Manifold comes from the Old English word monigfald meaning "varied in appearance." The English suffix -fold originally meant "of so many parts."

 
political schadenfreude

• The pleasure experienced when a member of an opposed political party is experiencing embarassment or disfunction.

The Lewinsky affair generated much political schadenfreude within the G.O.P.

History

• Ferdinand Magellan: explorer set sail from southern Spain to circumnavigate the globe (1519)
• Victor Emmanuel II: seized the Papal States from the French; later he became the first king of modern Italy (1870)
• civil rights: Mississippi governor Ross Barnett personally blocked the entrance of African-American James Meredith to the University of Mississippi; Meredith did end up attending (1962)
• Battle of the Sexes tennis match: Billie Jean King won against Bobby Riggs, who had said women couldn't stand the pressure of the game; 30,000 attended and millions watched on TV (1973)

Birthdays

• Upton Sinclair 1878
  
• Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton 1890
• Chuck Dressen 1898
• Elliot Nugent 1899
• Peg Phillips 1918
• Gogi Grant 1924
• James Galanos 1924
• Rachel Roberts 1927
• Johnny Dankworth 1927
• Donald A. Hall 1928
• Dr. Joyce Brothers 1928
• Anne Meara 1929
• Peter Palmer 1931
• Sophia Loren 1934
• John (Chuck) Panozzo (Styx) 1947
• Guy LaFleur 1951
• Charlene Elizabeth Brinkeman (aka Brinke Stevens) 1954
• Peter White 1954
• Betsy Brantley 1955
• Gary Cole 1957
• Alannah Currie (Thompson Twins) 1957
• Crispin Glover 1964
• Kristen Johnston 1965
• Gunnar Nelson 1967
• Matthew Nelson 1967
• Ben Shepherd (Soundgarden) 1968