Ten on Tuesday Can we allow “childhood” to go up to about age 14 for this purpose? OK, I vote yes. Some are older than I am and I saw them on TV (with commercials, in the pre-cable days). And this list is not ranked in order – it’s just 10 I remember well from that time period. The Wizard of Oz The Music Man Oklahoma! Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Star Wars (now […]
We made the pilgrimage on July 4. We’ll be going back next weekend after the kids get back from another week at Grandma’s. I took pictures of things all over the store, including the pink-frosted donuts, the Geezer Freezer, and various signs, but these are a few of the ones we e-mailed to some friends and family. We’ve arrived! We were there around 9:30 in the morning; we heard there were lines all over the […]
It turns out that a pretty good way to spend a blistering hot Fourth of July is in a movie theater, watching Bruce Willis attempting to foil a cyber-attack on the US during the Fourth of July weekend. Live Free or Die Hard is actually the first of the (now) four movies in this series that I’ve seen in the theater, and it was pretty much worth it. The plot involves tech wizards and computer […]
We’re having quite a movie-going summer, but I think the one that’s generating the most excitement around our house is the one that’s been 18 years in the making, and just might be the Best. Movie. Ever. One of the promotions for the movie – as if it needs it – is the conversion of 11 7-Eleven stores to Kwik-E-Marts. We’ve actually got two of them in our neck of the woods – one in […]
When TallGuy and I were first getting to know each other via e-mails, the “favorite movies” question came up early on. He’s more of a movie maven than I am, and his favorite movies tend to depend on his mood, but at the time he had The Incredibles pretty high on his list, and we both agreed – and still agree – that Pixar totally rules. If you ask us, Cars was robbed of the […]
