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Monday, December 6, 2010

You're Still You

You're Still You is one of my favorite songs by Josh Groban. I remember him singing this song on an episode of Ally McBeal. I really liked Ally McBeal which was a quirky comedy/drama from David E. Kelley. Every season is on DVD.

Here's Josh Groban singing the beautiful song You're Still You -

Sunday, December 5, 2010

Stephen King's Best Movies of 2010

Here are author Stephen King's picks for the best films this year -

http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20446799,00.html?xid=email-top25-today-Stephen+King%3A+Top+10+films+of+%2710

I have to admit I haven't seen any of these yet. The Town and The Social Network are the two at the top of my list.

Quote of the Day

"The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope."

— Barack Obama

Men of a Certain Age

Tomorrow, December 6th is the second season premier of the TNT comedy-drama Men of a Certain Age. The show stars Ray Romano, Andre Braugher and Scott Bakula as three best friends approaching age 50. The three life-long friends, Joe, Owen and Terry deal with their own challenges. Joe (Ray Romano) is separated with two kids who wanted to be a pro golfer but now owns a party supply store and has a gambling problem. Owen (Andre Braugher) is a married father of three dealing with diabetes who works for his father at a car dealership. Terry (Scott Bakula) is a single, struggling actor working temp jobs and dating much younger women.

Men of a Certain Age is unique in dealing with the problems of men friends of this age group. I enjoyed the first season last year and I'm glad it's coming back again. The show follows The Closer, the award winning crime drama set in Los Angeles starring Kyra Sedgwick which is a great show. It's one of the shows Jackson and I always watch together.

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Quote of the Day

Today's quote from Robert Browning is a favorite of mine -

The year's at the spring,
And day's at the morn;
Morning's at seven;
The hill-sides dew-pearled;
The lark's on the wing;
The snail's on the thorn;
God's in his Heaven;
All's right with the world!

More Puns

The fattest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Comference.
He acquired his size from too much pi.

I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian.

She was only a whiskey maker, but he loved her still.

A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class, because it was a weapon of math disruption.

No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery.

A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering.

A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.

Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.

A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it.

Two hats were hanging on a hat rack in the hallway. One hat said to the other: 'You stay here; I'll go on a head.'

I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then it hit me.

A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab centre said: 'Keep off the Grass.'

The midget fortune-teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.

A vulture boards an airplane, carrying two dead raccoons. The stewardess looks at him and says, 'I'm sorry, sir, only one carrion allowed per passenger.'

Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly, so they lit a fire in the craft. Unsurprisingly it sank, proving once again that you can't have your kayak and heat it too.

Did you hear about the Buddhist who refused Novocain during a root canal? His goal: transcend dental medication.