What The….???

So a week ago, I had my computer set to wake me up with some easy-listening via the internet. I had the pleasure of waking up to Rocket Man by Elton John, which has been stuck in my head ever since. Of course that begs the question:
What the hell is that song about anyways?
Will have [...]

Popping My Brokeback Cherry

So I got a copy of Brokeback Mountain tonight on a trip to Wally World. I guess I'll watch it this morning, even though I wanted to wait and see it with TGCpartner.
BTW, Wasn't there a kerfuffle (there you go, James) the other day because Wal Mart wasn't selling it?
SPOILERS AHEAD!
I thought it was a [...]

AAARGH, AAARGH, AAARGH!

 
Just found a cool game I want for my Xbox. Blazing Angels by Ubisoft.
Evidently, you can play RAF, USAAF, Luftwaffe, & JAF over London, Paris, Dunkirk, Midway, Pearl Harbor, Berlin, Rabaul and Normandy.
I love WWII planes and get choked up seeing them and watching them fly. Remember the scene in Empire of the Sun  when [...]

Doctor Who?

 

O.k. I’m not a huge Sci-Fi fan, but I do enjoy some Sci-Fi stuff if it catches my eye.
Case in point, I never got into Star Trek TNG or Deep Space 9 until after the shows were over and in syndication. No, I’m not a Trekkie.
At any rate, I recently saw that the first two [...]

And Another…

Prolific actor Darren McGavin dies at 83
GREG RISLING
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES – Darren McGavin, the husky, tough-talking actor who starred in the TV series “Mike Hammer,” played a grouchy dad in the holiday classic “A Christmas Story” and had other strong roles in such films as “The Man with the Golden Arm” and “The Natural,” died [...]

Go With God, Mr. Knotts

  
Actor Don Knotts Dies At 81
(AP) LOS ANGELES Don Knotts, the skinny, lovable nerd who kept generations of television audiences laughing as bumbling Deputy Barney Fife on “The Andy Griffith Show,” has died. He was 81.
Knotts died Friday night of pulmonary and respiratory complications at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Hills, said Paul Ward, a [...]