I found this a couple of weeks ago.
It’s a list of the top 15 American landmarks that every kid should have a chance to see. Some of the things on the list, I have yet to see. Some I’m not sure I agree with, but it’s interesting.com.
Here’s the list.
Kahn's really gone this time.
I haven’t made a post in quite some time, so in this one I’ll run down a few things I would have commented on.
The Golden Globes
This was a cool night for me.
First, Bruce Springsteen won the Golden Globe for best original song from a movie for his theme from “The Wrestler.”
Then, in his acceptance speech for best actor in a musical or comedy for “In Bruges,” Collin Farrell made the statement that, “Love is the nemesis of ignorance.”
I’ve never heard it said that way before, but I think that’s dead on and it’s beautiful, especially coming from someone many people consider one of the “bad boys.”
Finally, there was Mickey Rourke. The longshot underdog won for best actor for his role in “The Wrestler” (Watch the trailer here). I was so happy for him, he’s come a long way back.
I couldn’t help but be shook up when in his acceptance speech, he thanked his dogs. Sometimes, when a man is really alone, all he has are his dogs, he said.
If you needed proof he was probably pretty low, I think that fits the bill.
Khaaaaaaaaaan!
Ricardo Montalban died Jan. 15. (See obit here)
While he will always be remembered as the suave Mr. Rourke from Fantasy Island, to me he is Khan, the exile from an original episode of the show in 1967.
He lived and returned in “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” to see revenge on his nemesis, Captain Kirk, of course.
He was also in a couple of Planet of the Apes movies as well — “Escape from …” and “Conquest of …” — meaning he obviously knew cinematic genius when he saw it.
God bless his soul.
R.I.P. Commissioner Gordon
Pat Hingle, the actor that played Commissioner Gordon in several of the Batman movies of the 1990s, as well as the judge in Clint Eastwood’s classic “Hang ’em High,” died.
I know it’s not the same incarnation of Batman, but we just lost Catwoman (Eartha Kitt) last month. Bad time to be tied to the Dark Knight.
Maybe Heath Ledger will change that with an Oscar next month.
Controlling the minds of women
Um, I really don’t know how to explain this link.
But basically, if you believe what you read, there’s a theory that just by having sex with a man, women increase the ability of men to control their minds, thanks to the mind-control properties of semen.
Ummm … Check it out.
More?
I’ll probably reserve any comments on the inauguration, etc., and the plethora of Springsteen news for a few more days.
Yesterday, New Year’s Eve, before Brooke went to work in the morning, she told me there were four pork chops in the refrigerator thawing.
“Cook them anyway you want to,” she said, “and eat one for lunch. You can take another to work for dinner and leave two for us.”
So, after feeding Ella lunch, I took my pork chops, which I had lovingly marinated in Italian dressing, outside to toss them on the grill.
I reached down to crank on the gas … and there was none. I mean none as in someone had stolen the entire tank right off my grill that sits right next to my house.
I think I was a little too shocked to even be angry. I was just flabergasted.
Brooke was more surprised than me when I told her about it. I grilled on Christlas Eve, so someone took the tank in the last week.
I’d like to think someone needed it really badly. For heat. Or money. Or because they had no electricity and needed to cook. But I doubt it. Likely some no good loser (like maybe my neighbor’s adult slacker son … can I say that?) who wants to save the money of buying his or her own tank.
So I guess we’ll refrain from grilling for a while, untile we get a new tank.
By the way, the pork chops were excellent baked.
Thank you, Mr. Pell
Former Democratic Rhode Island senator Claiborne Pell died New Year’s Day at the age of 90 after a long bout with Parkinson’s Disease.
Among Pell’s accomplishments was the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant program, which passed in 1972 and provided direct aid to college students … better known to you and I as Pell Grants.
Millions of low- and middle-income Americans (including this one) were assisted in attending college because of Pell’s grants.
I, for one, would like to say thanks to Mr. Pell and say a prayer for him and his family.
Sharing gas (and other bodily functions) with the ones you love
I came across this story today about how different couples/families are open … or not so open … with each other when it comes to normally private bodily functions.
Enjoy.
“You and me, babe, how about it?”
The radio station I got hooked on this past summer in Reno, Nev., — KTHX 100.1 FM, The X — just played the Indigo Girls’ version of Dire Straits’ “Romeo and Juliet.”
That never happens.
Never.
First time I’ve ever heard it on the radio anywhere.
Remember they said it
MSNBC.com has put together a wrap-up of the five dumbest things said about the economy in the past two years by political and financial leaders.
Interesting.
Unbeknownst to many young boys, a silent killer lurks in many homes.
It’s pretty funny.
Then again, it’s really not.
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