Review Tuesday: AVENGERS: ENDGAME

AVENGERS

ENDGAME

Five years after the events of The Infinity War, the team gets back together in a desperate attempt to undo the work of Thanos.

It's not often that I bother seeing a movie opening weekend, but when I get to see a blockbuster at the NYC Premier I can't say no especially when it's AVENGERS: ENDGAME.

In case you live under a or have been in a coma for over a decade, this movie is the funnel that over twenty Marvel Cinematic Universe Films flow down into. After a decade of development across the various Marvel franchises this film was the ultimate goal. 

I won't post anything in here that might be considered a spoiler. However I will say this up front:

THERE ARE NO EASTER EGGS IN THE FINAL CREDITS. GO TO THE BATHROOM. YOUR KIDNEYS WILL THANK YOU!

That out of the way, I can commence my proper review. 

The movie starts off immediately after the events of INFINITY WAR. Within the first fifteen minutes our heroes strike back at Thanos but fail in their goal of restoration of the universe. The movie picks up five years later when an odd series of events allows the Avengers to attempt a desperate plan. 

The story is excellent. Plenty of humor. Lots of battles and things going BOOM. Tons of action. All the stuff you go to a super hero movie is in here. It better, it's some THREE HOURS long! But it wasn't filler, it was all needed for the grand scheme of the film. 

I definitely would call this final installment in this phase of the MCU quite good and well worth your time to see!

IMDB

Tuesday, April 30, 2019

cornice \KAWR-nis\, noun:

1. a mass of snow, ice, etc., projecting over a mountain ridge.
2. Architecture. a. any prominent, continuous, horizontally projecting feature surmounting a wall or other construction, or dividing it horizontally for compositional purposes. b. the uppermost member of a classical entablature, consisting of a bed molding, a corona, and a cymatium, with rows of dentils, modillions, etc., often placed between the bed molding and the corona.
3. any of various other ornamental horizontal moldings or bands, as for concealing hooks or rods from which curtains are hung or for supporting picture hooks.

verb:

1. to furnish or finish with a cornice.

Cornice came to English from the Middle French corniche or from the Italian, largely popularized by the writings of Dante. The noun form entered the language two hundred years before the verb form in the mid-1500s.

Fantabulous

• Sort of like "fabulous" but much more fabulous than the word "fabulous" can convey. Like supercalifragilisticexpialidocius but shorter and easier to spell.

While on a free trip to Italy I won a free titanium frame bicycle and the customs agent let me bring it on the plane for free. What a Fantabulous trip!

History

• George Washington: took the oath of office to become the first POTUS (1789)
  
• Louisiana Purchase: France agreed to sell the Louisiana Territory to the United States for $15 million, thereby doubling the size of the US (1803); eight years later on the same date, Louisiana became the 18th state
• A Tale of Two Cities: Charles Dickens' novel was first published as a serial in a literary magazine (1859)
• Suicide: Nazi leader ADOLF HITLER killed himself before Allied and Russian forces could capture him (1945)
• Vietnam War: officially ended when Saigon (now called Ho Chi Minh City) fell and South Vietnam surrendered (1975)

Birthdays 

• Cornelius Vanderbilt 1898
• Ellis Wilson 1899
• George R. Stibitz 1904
• Queen Juliana (Netherlands) 1909
• Al Lewis 1910
• Eve Arden 1912
• Robert Shaw 1916
• Percy Heath 1923
• John (Johnny) Horton 1925
• Cloris Leachman 1926 - Actress ("The Mary Tyler Moore Show," "Phyllis")
• Willie Nelson 1933 - Musican
• Gary Collins 1938 - Talk show host
• Burt Young 1940 - Actor
• Johnny Farina 1941 - Musician (Santo & Johnny)
• Bobby Vee (Velline) 1943 - Singer
• Jill Clayburgh 1944 - Actress
• Richard Schoff (The Sandpipers) 1944
• Don Schollander 1946
• Perry King 1948
• Wayne Kramer 1948 - Musician (MC5)
• Merril Osmond 1953 - Singer (The Osmonds)
• Jane Campion 1954 - Director
• Paul Gross 1959
• Isiah Thomas 1961 - Basketball player
• Robert Reynolds (The Mavericks) 1962
• Barrington Levy 1964 - Dancer
• Adrian Pasdar 1965 - Actor ("Heroes")
• Turbo B 1967 - Rapper (Snap)
• Clark Vogeler 1969 - Musician (Toadies)
• Chris "Choc" Dalyrimple 1971 - Musician (Soul for Real)
• J.R. Richards 1972 - Musician (Dishwalla)
• Jeff Timmons 1973 - Musician (98 Degrees)
• Akron 1973 - Singer
• Johnny Galecki 1975 - Actor ("The Big Bang Theory")
• Kirsten Dunst 1982 - Actress ("Spider-Man")
• Gal Gadot 1985 - Actress ("Wonder Woman")
• Ashley Dupré 1985 former high-class hooker who took down the NYS Gov Eliot Spitzer, NY Post Columnist
• Dianna Agron 1986 - Actress ("Glee")
• Sami "Misa Lynn"  - cosplayer

Look forward to XENIA!

  Xenia Deli

Hanky Panky Lingerie

         

Max Italia - January 2013

     

 

Hotty of the day!!!

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Weekend Box Office: 04/29/2019

Now Playing (Box Office) 

1. Avengers: Endgame $350.0M
2. Captain Marvel $8.1M
3. The Curse of La Llorona $7.5M
4. Breakthrough $6.3M
5. Shazam! $5.5M

No Surprises here. AVENGERS ENDGAME completely dominated the box office while breaking every known record while doing so. My review will be up tomorrow since I happened to be at the NYC premier last week! The arrival of AVENGERS also gave CAPTAIN MARVEL a boost back into the #2 spot.

 

 

      

Monday, April 29, 2019

decamp \dih-KAMP\, verb:

1. to depart quickly, secretly, or unceremoniously: The band of thieves decamped in the night.
2. to depart from a camp; to pack up equipment and leave a camping ground: We decamped before the rain began.

From the French descamper, decamp emerged in English in the late 1600s. It is a combination of Latin roots dis + campus, literally meaning "away from open field."

cucuy

• "El cucuy" is about the equivelant to the boogie man, but is much scarier. Contrary to what people believe its not just the MEXICAN boogieman, many different Spanish speaking countries tell stories about the Cucuy. Some say that the Cucuy lives in the closet.

"Te va a comer el Cucuy"

"The Cucuy is gonna eat you"

Trivia

A towering bronze likeness of what entertainer stands at the entrance to the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York City?

• Comedian Jackie Gleason. The statue depicts Gleason carrying a lunchbox and dressed as Ralph Kramden, the blustering bus driver he portrayed on the TV sitcom The Honeymooners.

History

• Joan of Arc: led her army into Orléans in victory over the English (1429)
• Dachau: concentration camp was liberated by US soldiers (1945)
• Naomi Uemura: became the first person to reach the North Pole alone; he traveled by sled dog (1978)
• Los Angeles race riots: began after the acquittal of police officers accused of beating Rodney King (1992)
• space walk: astronaut Jerry Linenger and cosmonaut Vasily Tsibliyev stepped out together on first joint US-Russian walk in space (1997)
• Rent: Rock musical opened on Broadway; the Manhattan-set retelling of La bohème went on to win several Tonys, a Pulitzer and many other awards (1996)

Birthdays

• Alexander II (Alexander the Liberator) 1745 - Czar of the Russian Empire from 1855 to 1881
• William Randolph Hearst 1863 - American newspaper magnate, newspaper publisher,
• Sir Thomas Beecham 1879 - British conductor
• Duke Ellington (Edward Kennedy) 1899 - Composer, pianist, big band leader
• Hirohito (Emperor Showa) 1901 - 124th Japanese emperor, emperor from 1926 to 1989
• Tom Ewell 1909 - Actor ("The Girl Can't Help It," "The Tom Ewell Show," "Baretta")
• Richard Carlson 1912 - Actor, director, screenwriter
• Donald Mills 1915 - Musician (The Mills Brothers)
• Celeste Holm 1919 - Actress
• Danny Davis 1925 - Musician (The Nashville Brass)
• Carl Gardner 1928 - Musician (The Coasters)
• Lonnie Donegan 1931 - Musician
• Rod McKuen 1933 - Poet
• Keith Baxter 1933 - Actor
• Otis Rush 1934 - Musician
• Luis Aparicio 1934 - Baseball player
• Lane Smith 1936 - Actor ("Red Dawn," "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman")
• April Stevens 1936 - Singer
• Zubin Mehta 1936 - Conductor
• Duane Allen 1943 - Singer (The Oak Ridge Boys)
• Richard Kline 1944 - Actor ("Three's Company")
• Tammi Terrell 1945 - Singer
• Tommy James 1947 - Musician (The Shondells)
• Francis Rossi 1949 - Musician (Status Quo)
• Dale Earnhardt 1951 - Father of race car driver Dale Earnhardt Jr.
• Kate Mulgrew 1955 - Actress ("Star Trek: Voyager")
• Jerry Seinfeld 1955 - Comedian, actor ("Seinfeld")
• Daniel Day-Lewis 1957 - Actor
• Michelle Pfeiffer 1957 - Actress
  

  
• Eve Plumb 1958 - Actress ("The Brady Bunch")
• Mark Kendall 1958 - Musician (Great White)
• Stephanie Bentley 1963 - Country musician
• Carnie Wilson 1968 - Singer (Wilson Phillips)
• Michael Timmins 1969 - Musician (Cowboy Junkies)
• Master P (Percy Miller) 1970 - Rapper
• Uma Thurman 1970 - Actress ("Pulp Fiction")
• Andre Agassi 1970 - Tennis player
• James Bonamy 1972 - Country Musician
• Mike Hogan 1973 - Musician (Cranberries)
• Tommie Harris 1983 - Football player
• Zane Carney 1985 - Actor 
  Katherine Langford 1996 - actress

Are you a beautiful friend?

There comes a point in your life when you realize:

Who matters,
Who never did,
Who won't anymore...
And who always will.
So, don't worry about people from your past,
There's a reason why they didn't make it to your future. 

From my email

Sunday, April 28, 2019

bandbox \BAND-boks\, noun:

1. an area or structure that is smaller in dimensions or size than the standard: It's easy to hit home runs out of this bandbox.
2. a lightweight box of pasteboard, thin wood, etc., for holding a hat, clerical collars, or other articles of apparel.

The portmanteau bandbox entered English in the 1600s. It originally described a physical box where ruffs or collars, also called "bands" at that time, were stored, though it is currently used in a metaphorical sense.

Fapulous

1. Orgasmic, amazing, awesome.
2. Really, really hot.

"Did you see dat ass?" 
'Yeah. It was Fapulous!"

History

• mutiny on the Bounty: mutineers led by Fletcher Christian took over the HMS Bounty and set Capt. William Bligh and other sailors adrift (1789)
• Benito Mussolini: Italy's Fascist dictator was executed (1945)
• Kon-Tiki: Thor Heyerdahl and 5 others set sail from Peru across the Pacific on a raft to prove that pre-Columbian South Americans could have settled Polynesia (1947)
• Muhammad Ali: refused induction into the US army; his heavyweight title was stripped and he was later convicted of draft dodging (1967)
• food pyramid: suggested eating plan was adopted by the US Department of Agriculture (1992); it has since been modified
• Aldrich Ames: CIA officer pleaded guilty to spying for the Soviet Union (1994)

Birthdays

• James Monroe 1758 - 5th U.S. President, nickname: The Last Cocked Hat
• Charles Stuart 1795
• Mifflin Gibbs 1828
• Louise Homer 1871 - Opera singer
• Sidney Toler 1874 - Actor ("Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum", "The Jade Mask")
• Lionel Barrymore 1878 - Actor ("Captains Courageous", "It’s a Wonderful Life")
• Red (Charles Frederick) Lucas 1902 - Baseball player, "The Nashvilled Narcissus"
• Odette Hallowes 1912
  
• Robert Anderson 1917 - Playwright ("Tea and Sympathy", "The Nun’s Story")
• Rowland Evans 1921
• (Nelle) Harper Lee 1926 - Author ("To Kill A Mockingbird")
• Blossom Dearie 1926 - Musician (Blue Stars)
• Carolyn Jones 1933
• Jackie (John George) Brandt 1934 - Baseball player
• Saddam Hussein 1937 - Iraqi leader
• Madge Sinclair 1938 - Actress ("Trapper John M.D.", "Coming to America")
• Ann-Margret (Olsson) 1941 - Singer, actress ("Viva Las Vegas", "Grumpy Old Men")
• John Walters 1945 - Musician (Dr. Hook)
• Marcia Strassman 1948 - Actress ("Welcome Back Kotter", "Another Stakeout"), singer
• Pablo (Arnoldo) Torrealba 1948 - Baseball player
• Bruno Kirby 1949 - Actor ("The Basketball Diaries", "When Harry Met Sally")
• Paul Guilfoyle 1955 - Actor ("CSI: Crime Scene Investigation")
• Jay Leno 1950 - Hack-Comedian, television talk show host ("The Tonight Show")
• Jim Wiley 1950 - Hockey player
• Mary McDonnell 1953 - Actress
• Tony Peters 1953 - Football player
• Kim Gordon 1953 - Musician (Sonic Youth)
• Barry Larkin 1964 - Baseball player
• Too Short 1966 - Rapper
• Chris Young 1971 - Actor ("Falcon Crest", "The Great Outdoors")
• Simba Khali 1971 - Actress
• Big Gipp 1973 - Rapper
• Elisabeth Rohm 1973 - Actress
• Jorge Garcia 1973 - Actor ("Becker", "Lost")
• Penelope Cruz 1974 - Actress
• Nate Richert 1978 - Actor
• Jessica Alba 1981 - Actress ("Dark Angel")