(THE) SCORPION KING

The week is almost over -- yippee!

LAST OF THE RED HOT LOVERS

James Coco. Straight from Broadway. Never saw it.

Hey, Net - the correct title is "Who Framed Roger Rabbit". I think you need to find another R___T movie...

Spooky story about the White Lady. My son Andy, when he was two or three, saw "blue ghosts" in our old house in Detroit. They didn't scare him, and they were around all the time. We did some research, and found out the first owner died there. His wife sold it and moved out, but may have died by the time Andy said he saw them (she sold in '79, we bought in '83, Andy turned 2 in '86). He tried to point out the ghosts to Kim, but she couldn't see them. We sold the house in '87.

YENTL


In my boyscouting days, Angelicum School let us conduct our camping at the soccer field. Then rumor started spreading amongs the troops that the field and the whole school used to be a cemetary and that the elementary building was believed to be haunted by a "White Lady". Some of us decided to investigate this phenomena so that evening we crawled out of our tents taking care that non of the ScoutMasters saw us and sneaked up to the third floor of the Elementary building. We shined our flashlights to get our bearings. It was a full moon that night so we could see shadows. Then all of a sudden it got really cold. All ten of us felt it. I looked at my friend in the eye and as I turned back towards my peers we all saw the "White Lady" floating and moving away from us. We all screamed and ran down the stairs and back to our camp site. Obviously, we awakened the ScoutMasters and they were not happy about the situation. For punishment, we were told to squat in a line up for a half hour. It made my legs cramp up but it was better that being with the white lady. We never fessed up about what we saw but for me it felt real.

More to come...
NET

FREEWAY

A Reese Whitherspoon B-movie.. Yes, she had some of those too! I love her anyway!

BTW Vince, I fixed the Twister fiasco.. See below.

Oh and did you notice that I added "A NetzLog" to the links on the right? I bet you didn't!

THE RIGHT STUFF

Ching, I already poster TWISTER on the 4th of September. Caught! =)

BTW thats a VERY big JPG.. is that actual size? Dot would love it. One thing, I have been told about digital cameras is the megapixels. The higher the megapixel, the better the picture quality. Does it come in any other color besides baby blue? The new MAC Workstations arrived in my store today. I was so eager to set it up today. Customers loved the sleek grey color. Its too bad it doesnt come with a burner and a fire wire cable. I wanted to convert the dv movies from Dot's video camera into avi's. Gotta add that to my wish list this christmas.

More to come...
NET

THUNDER (1983)

Alright! Alright! This might have been straight to video.. Here's the synopsis: A native America named Thunder returns home only to find that his ancestral cemetary is being destroyed by construction workers. He trys to put a stop to it, but the law is not only not on his side, but he is banished from town, beaten up, and left for dead. Now he wants his revenge...

The TAGBOARD actually has several purposes.. First, if you're feeling lazy and don't feel like logging into Blogger but would like to share your thoughts, you can just tag the board. Second, if you're not a member of Golden Sushi, you can still post messages on the tagboard! Third, it works like a guestbook!



I'm really craving a digital camera that can go underwater with me!

ROGER RABBIT


Whats the tag board for? Isnt that why we blog? Anyway, havent been online lately. Work has made me a SLAVE and the MASTER been pay'n sum muni. I thinks meez gonna get me sum sleep. Im tired BOSS... Dog Tired.... (from Green Mile) Any members got scary stories to tell? This is the week for it....

more to come
NET

Hello all. I know that I have not been here in a long time, so I thought I would peek in and give a heart-felt hello! Well thats all the time I have for today, I'm off to work. By the way baby. I LOVE YOU!!!

(THE) TRANSPORTER

Hey, you guys have to go the Golden Sushi website and try out our new TAGBOARD quick!  Yes, I know..   I am officially a sellout!

Hi Jen - You're supposed to post with a movie name that begins with the last letter of the movie from the previous post - I covered for ya this time.

I AM TRYING TO BREAK YOUR HEART

Excellent documentary about the band Wilco. I, of course, identified with the keyboard player, not just 'cos he played keys (like me), but also his name was Jay (like me) and he talked too much (like me). Then they fired him midway through the movie. I've been thrown out of a lot of bands, too. Great movie, though - check it out if you get a chance. Great band, too - I've got their latest CD, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, on heavy rotation.

Thx to Ching & Brian for the Hallowe'en pics - we couldn't get a sitter for Grandma and had to skip the one we were invited to, so we lived vicariously through yours...

THE NEVER ENDING STORY - I think I missed out on how this movie thing started or what it's for but there's a good one for y'alls. Also a theme for my list of current crushes. *wink*wink*

The halloween party was a blast. Ching and I got the "hot sisters" compliment a couple of times. Woohoo!

I got acrylic nails put on for the occasion, and I still haven't cut 'em yet. To be honest, I really actually like them. It makes it really hard to hit the right keys on the keyboard though. Ugh! I wonder how I'll be able to work tomorrow. Hmmm...

KING AND I - Opppss again??! I can't keep up with you guys.


Besides I always want to use a movie I am familiar with.

DANTE'S PEAK

Ching I got the pictures from that Halloween party that you attended. You and Jenny looked really cute. BTW, where was Brian? Was he the one wearing the Burger King Drive Thru costume? I thought that was hilarioius and original :) Anyhow, you're mom is so hilarious. She's obviously into watching Sex and the City. I never really got into watching the show for the very same reason that she had talked about. Those women were clueless! BTW, thanks for posting Hobbie and Felix's pictures. They are both adorable!

P.S. Remind me not to eat any cookies given by Brian. :)

LEGEND

No.. Not writing anymore.. I wish I could write.. Just watch movies mostly..

BTW, YOU'VE GOT MAIL has already been used mom. Just got back from a costume party..

YOU'VE GOT MAIL - he he guess this one's a no brainer.


Advance HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Ching!!!! We are planning a custume party -so I guess anyone can be who ever they want to be. I have been pre advised Ching's gonna be a cat, Jenni working on a cleopatra custume as for me I will have my zebra woman outfit (courtesy of Walmart).


I was catching up on my sex on the city ( I have the DVD versions of it), I watch it for the fashion side, considering these ladies live in New York. Not just that they live in New York but that they can afford to be fashionable.


But all these girls can use a Dr. Phil (of the Oprah fame). They ask so many questions - I swear even I could give it straight to them. Like this Carrie character, who goes out with a Mr. Big, everything good from her point of view but all you have to do is turn it the other way because if you look at this from his vantage point, he is not even interested in introducing her to his mother, after 2 years of going out. Fast forward and he ends up marrying a very pretty tall woman he met in Paris (young 25) because take note these ladies from New are 30 something. They think they are so smart (I say naive). Fast forward some more (7 months after his marriage) he calls her, (drunk) says he is not happy, bumps into her (by accident) says leaving his wife (drunk??) and she tortures herself, finds herself in bed with him again.


Tells him "we should not be doing this", he asks why??? girl unable to answer. I answered for her. Because it makes her feel like shit!!!!
On the other hand, as Mr Big the answer would be -but it makes me feel good and powerful.


And why would you Miss Carrie make a Mr Big feel that way when you have equal power to find a man who can make you feel as a woman good and powerful yourself... Yada, yada yada


Thanks to my husband Ric for giving me the DVD"s (first, second and third season). I enjoy them immensely.....

SLEEPING BEAUTY

Classic Disney - gorgeous heroes and heroines, scary ugly evil villains. Every home should have this one.

Her stories were great, Pia - that was how I met her. That and the rolling group novel (I stayed outta that one - way over my prosaic head). Still writing, Ching?

GHOSTBUSTERS

I know what you mean Daf. Ching is such a talented webpage designer as well as a terrific writer. She used to have an old webpage where she posted a couple of her writings. She's awesome. Ching I thought I'd give you some props! :) BTW, it was nice chatting with you and Eli last night. Whatever happened to chatting with Brian? I wasn't able to see any of the messages he posted.

KING KONG

Thank's Daf! Anybody been to see WHITE OLEANDER yet? It's actually pretty good. Below: the much awaited cat pictures!

EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SEX, BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK

Wildly funny Woody Allen movie (remember when he made funny movies? It's been a very long time...) based on the popular factoid book of the 60's. Best scenes: Tony Randall as a sperm, and Gene Wilder as a lover of sheep. I went to a Hallowe'en party once, dressed as his character (after the fall) - a bum with a bottle of Woolite.

checked out Ching's new site - really nice. WTG, Ching! I hope, someday, I'm artistic and web-literate enough to do that.

UP IN SMOKE

Monumentally stupid. A True Classic.

Ching, it's just the St. Cecilia blog, but I can host multiple blogs there. Don't know if I can transfer BBSM (that sounds bad, doesn't it?) or not, but I don't do anything fancy with that one anyhow. Anyhow, I haven't read up on the multiple blog thing yet. Should have time today - there is NOTHING happening at work.

SOMEONE LIKE YOU

How do you like blogspot plus? Are you able to use it for both your blogs or do you have to sign up for each one?

LEAVING LAS VEGAS

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO KIM AND DAF !!!

EATING RAOUL
Low budget, gross, but funny as hell. Even Kim, perpetually squeamish, thought this one was funny.

I just upgraded to blogspot plus - wanna see if I can crosspost images, so here's one of:

Kim!!!

It's our 24th anniversary today. Please go down the page and reread the song I wrote for her last week. It's as close as I can get with words. She is my whole world.

ROMEO MUST DIE

Got a new blog.. http://ching.jentleness.net.. Come look!

SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER

High psychodrama with Liz, Katherine, and Monty (I think) - and the absolute squirmiest subject matter imaginable. Ecch. Very well done, though, and daring for its time (late 50's?). Still, ecch.

The outpouring of support for Andy and Sarah was really moving - we probably got 20 or 25 notes from friends on the internet. That sense of community is maybe the best thing about the 'net.

Speaking of the 'net, looks like Garry Trudeau's set his sights on Bloggers this week:



I'm sure he doesn't mean US. [g]

Our deepest sympathy to you and your family Daf. You'll be in our prayers.

Skipping the movie thing for a moment...

We got a call from Andy (our 18 y/o son) last night - his wife of four months, Sarah, miscarried twins. She's okay physically, but they're heartbroken. So are we.



Please pray for Andy and Sarah and their lost babies.

TOM JONES

One of the sexiest movies of all time. Especially the oyster scene...

Here's a song for Kim:

It's our 24th anniversary coming up - this one gets a little bit, um, descriptive, but it's from the heart. And there aren't enough songs out there about married love (though OUR song is Wynonna's "She Is His Only Need", fat chance this'll replace THAT one).

Beautiful Still

1) Her warm wide smile, left lines where there were none,
But still gets me undone, like watching the sun or the wind.
And she won't sing for me, but she sings for her babies,
Sings of Christmas, and fairies, of cherries, and sin.

And she is beautiful still
She unlocks my secret places,
Makes me cross and cry and crazy,
Then heals me with her graces.
She is beautiful,
Still:
She raises up my valleys,
She levels my hills.
She is beautiful still.
She is beautiful.
Still.

2) Her breasts, soft like peaches, with cotton candy gumdrop nipples,
Jump at the touch of my finger, the wet of my tongue.
Her alabaster belly, stretched by my children,
And the treasure it neighbors, they are calling me down.

And she is beautiful still
She unlocks my secret places,
Makes me whole and hot and hazy,
Then heals me with her graces.
She is beautiful,
Still:
She raises up my valleys,
She levels my hills.
She is beautiful still.
She is beautiful.
Still.


3) Her emerald eyes sparkle, and flash, and brim over
With tears for her children, her mother, tears for her losses,
Her back, wracked by accidents, still lovely and freckled,
She smiles through the wreckage, no matter the cost.

And she is beautiful still
She unlocks my secret places,
Makes me warm and weird and weary,
Then heals me with her graces.
She is beautiful,
Still:
She raises up my valleys,
She levels my hills.
She is beautiful still.
She is beautiful.
Still.

4) And when we have been there for twoscore and ten years
Her side by my side, through lean years and feast years, and more,
Our time-ravaged bodies will still stand together,
Through whatever, whenever, we'll weather every storm.

And she'll be beautiful still
Unlock my secret places,
Make me fear and fierce and foolish,
Then heal me with her graces.
She will be beautiful,
Still:
She will raise up my valleys,
She'll level my hills.
She will be beautiful still.
She'll be beautiful.
Still.

copyright Jay Ricketts, 2002. All rights reserved.

DRAGNET

Kinda funny, kinda stupid. Dan Aykroyd does his dead-on Jack Webb impression throughout, but it's kind of incongruous with his looks. Tom Hanks was still in his Bosom Buddies persona back then - wacky-irreverent-mr-nice-guy, just like in Splash, Bachelor Party, Big... can't remember exactly when he grew out of that. Glad he did, though.

So where's April? Glee? Jen? This is kinda fun with 5 of us, but 8 would be so much better!

WESTWORLD
Went to a wedding this weekend. It's the wedding of Dorothy's cousin Kim Yan. He married Sheldeen Yambao. Yes, its a Chinese-Filipino wedding. They had a full mass at this church in Lindenhurst, NY. A quaint small town in the south shore of Long Island. Dot put me in charge of taping with her video cam. I also played a role in church by doing the second reading. Sheldeen arrived 20 minutes late and the wedding party walked up the aisle kind of fast. The funny parts I think happened when they placed Sheldeen's train on top of the chair. It looked like someone was under her train. Luckily, one of the bridesmaids noticed and fixed it. Right around the offertory service, the Video guy tripped on one of the flowers. That was a laugh riot but unfortunate for me I didnt have my video cam on. Dot asked me: "Did you get that?". I acted like Homer and said: "Doh!"


The reception was held at Chatteau La Mer. Its a catering hall at docks in Babylon,NY. It overlooks the bay right before Jones beach. It has a breath taking view, thank goodness the sun decided to show after the Church ceremony. Kim and Sheldeen had some time for picture taking. There was lots of food at the reception. Instead of just finger foods, they served real food too! They had stuffed shells, muscles, crab cakes, lechon, pasta. Man I was so stuffed after that. Some of the guests didnt know about the dinner afterwards and ate till they could not eat anymore.


Kim invited a lot of guests! Most of his co-workers from the airport were there. Some even came from out of town like Kim's old manager who flew in from Chicago. Another coworker flew in from Florida. Kim even invited his ex-girlfriend who drove from New Jersey with her husband. She was so emotional, and had a tear in her eye. Not for Kim though. Dot told me that Edna was very close to her family. Edna hasnt seen the whole family together in a long time.


The band was great! Island Magic played a lot of dance music mostly from the 70's and early 80's. They did play a medley of songs from the 60's which was cool. Everyone got up from their seats everytime they played. A few still had to be pryed from their seats but the best man got them up to dance.

I must say that the wedding was great. Dot and I danced more in this wedding than any other. She even let me teach her other cousins to boggie, swing and merengue. I was so tired, that I was amazed that I could still drive home. Didnt drink that much. All I had was a Seabreeze and one beer.

One of these days I will work on editing the video we took and compress it for internet use.

More to come.
~NET

SCARECROW
Gene Hackman and (Dustin Hoffman? Al Pacino? I always get them mixed up. I think it's Pacino) are brilliant in this early 70's masterpiece of the "gritty realism" psychodrama genre. Some icky moments, especially a prison-attempted-rape-scene, but worth it. Don't think I've seen it since its theater release 30 years ago, though - I'll have to remedy that.

Watched Monsters, Inc. on DVD this weekend - much better than its reviews. Captivating story, and very good job of creating a fantasy universe that explains our own "observed" interactions with monsters (kids' closets, Loch Ness sightings), without being too grownup about it.

DANGEROUS LIASONS

No mom.. Greek Wedding is still playing in theaters!

NEVER BEEN KISSED

So on Mondays I go out bowling and I thought that was enough to break the routine of baby sitting Logan everyday of the week. Though I enjoy Logan a lot, like our trips to the park -the way he throws his arms around my back and giggles and our library time together where he gets to be around other 2 year olds. After Logan leaves for the day in my head I hear him baby talking, which is so cute mind you, it sounds like this Dhatt one, Dhiss one, Nhooo. Mommma??? Uh hoo? Dhatt way!! this is when he realizes you are back to your own street and he does not want to return to home base yet. It's not enough that I repeat all this things to Ric on the phone (to get it out of my system) who by the way never tires of hearing them, although I know I repeat myself a lot
( i do realize that, after the fact). So Friday comes and in the desire for adult conversation, goes to the west side, plays mahjong with my favorite pals, Francis, Lenni, Merci -finishes by early morning -not to worry I don't babysit Logan on week ends. The group plans to be at Tommy's tonight for some dancing--I'll see if I still am up for it tonight, got some housekeeping to do.

Enjoy your week end guys

And Ching My Big Fat... is it out on dvd yet????

SAVING SILVERMAN

I finally got a chance to see My Big Fat Greek Wedding! It's really good. Thanks for the recommendation, Daf!

SPACEBALLS

Speaking of dumb humor..

Mom, THE EVENING STAR has already been used --- no recycling!

Brian's website is back up! VIRTUAL DUMPSTER

ROBIN HOOD: MEN IN TIGHTS

Dumb humor is the best humor. Hey nonny nonny nonny...

The latest shooting happened by our old townhouse - we lived outside Manassas from '87 to '89. You're probably right, Josephine, the hype is most likely puffing up the killer. Maybe the police are hoping to lure him out. Glad we don't live there anymore.

And it sounds like you and I are at just about the same place! I'll be 50 in 2 1/2 years, and Kim and I will have been married 26 years then (if she can put up with me that much longer...). Happy birthday.

EVENING STAR (Shirley MacLaine /Jack Nicholson)

The shootings in Maryland and Virginia, is kind of creepy. In the movies, they try not to at least leak out that all now 8 shootings are connected. If they do have evidence they are connected, try to keep it secret, so that it is not magnified in the media and feed the culprits' ego. Like when they said on camera that school should go on as usual, there is no indication that schools are targeted and them boom, a school kid got hit on the way to school.

Thanks Ching and Pia for the birthday greetings. In 2 years I will be 50 and married 25 years. That means I would have been 50% single and 50% married all my life. So that eventually my married life will outnumber my single life so I am determined to make my married life fun, fullfilling and exciting ..........and that means Ric has to leave me alone from time to time.

SEX, LIES, AND VIDEOTAPE

Kinda creepy, kinda exciting. Can never look at Laura San Giacomo the same way, ever again.

Who sends the best emails?
Ching and Brian do. I swiped one and posted it on my own blog right there. Hope you don't mind, Ching. Did I mention it was brilliant?

SIXTEEN CANDLES

I love 80's movies! Anyhow, Tita Jo I'm glad you and Tito Ric were able to figure out how to cook Pinakbet. Ching told me you had a little gathering Saturday and you all cooked Filipino food. It sounded great! I hope Ching took some pointers so she can cook more Filipino dishes for Brian. :) BTW, Happy Birthday Tita! How young are you? :)

TRUE LIES

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOMMY!!!

YOUNG AT HEART (Frank Sinatra)

Thanks, Pia. I guess I always have the two confused. You see I grew up where recipes have to make do with what you have in your pantry or refrigerator. Anyways your Tito Ric cooked the pinakbet, and I guess he was the one with the right idea. But now I know better.

OCTOPUSSY

Tita Jo, I know how to cook both the pinakbet and the bulanglang. Preparing for both dishes are somewhat the same except for a few things. Pinakbet has fish bagoong and tomatoes. Bulanglang has shrimp bagoong and no tomatoes. Anyhow, I hope I answered your question. I apologize for the people I confused with this blog. You'll only get it if you eat filipino dishes. :)

YOJIMBO

Reputedly excellent Kurosawa movie, 1961 - I haven't seen it, but I love his other work...

Hey - 'saright w/me if you wanna join the FlipBlogs webring, counting me, we're, like 85% Filipino/a, right? Unless you count Brian, too, but he hasn't posted...

Big movie weekend for Kim & me, saw The Tuxedo (eh...), and I Am Trying to Break Your Heart, a documentary about the making of Wilco's last album - I loved it (the movie), Kim was bored. Went out and bought the new CD after, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, really liked that...

Also bought The Exorcist and The Graduate, haven't watched yet. Believe it or don't, I never saw The Exorcist, though I read the book (before the movie came out - am I old or what?). They're way cheap at Sam's Club this week. VHS, anyhow, didn't look for DVD.