Wow, now I’m at a dozen weeks of this summarizing stuff.  Should I summarize the summaries?  In Sumeria?  Or some Mary should do it for me?  or maybe some marryin’ fool?

LOLcats Summary

Really, these are the best of the week.  Go visit them yourself!

Movies seen

• Kickin It Old Skool – Even I will admit, pretty cheesy.  But I loved watching it.  Story is about a 12-yr old breakdancer that hits his head during a routine, goes into a coma and wakes up 20 years later looking to revive his Funky Fresh Boys to get his girlfriend back and best his old rival.  It actually had a few tie-ins to Breakin’, one of my all-time favorite 80′s movies.  For one, it had Christopher McDonald in it – you may remember Chris from Breakin’ as Special K’s talent agent.  Secondly, the choreography for the movie was done by none other than Adolfo “Shabba-Doo” Quinones – he was Ozone from Breakin’ as you might recall.  Lastly, Jamie Kennedy (the lead guy who got in a coma), during his “retraining” tries to do this thing with a broomstick that’s right out of Breakin’, major props to Michael “Boogaloo Shrimp” Chambers.
• The Contract – decent movie, worth the time.  I would probably say that about any movie that Morgan Freeman is in.
• The Secret of NIMH - I absolutely cannot believe I haven’t seen this movie.  I’ve known about it forever and just assumed I’d seen it.  I feel Don Bluth animation is second nature to me – from loving Rock-a-Doodle to spending all my allowance playing Dragon’s Lair (and Space Ace, of course although not so much), to the animation sequence in my all-time favorite movie Xanadu, and of course several of my other favorites such as Pete’s Dragon and The Rescuers.  I feel better now that I’ve seen it and now I can answer the trivia question of “what does NIMH stand for?” if I’m ever asked.

Story

We’re driving on the vacation and our daughter comments that she has to use the bathroom.  Jaden, 5, ever the curious one, asks “do you have to go poop?”  We all laugh a little and she says “no.”.  Then he probes a little deeper and asks “do you have to go pee-pee?”  More snickers from the car and she answers “yes, Jaden, I have to go pee-pee.”  A few seconds later the brilliant Jaden notes, “but you don’t *have* a pee-pee.”  The car erupts.

I meant to post this yesterday, as this series is a Sunday thing.  But oops, I forgot.  So here it is as a Monday thing! 

Death By Powerpoint

This little “advice powerpoint” that Alexei Kapterev put together is great.  If you do presentations, ever, be sure to go through his a couple times and refine your own presentation.

Proof of Desperate Students

There’s absolute proof that desperate students exist, and then there’s the proof that the desperate students create. This series emailed to me recently happens to be both

Movies

Saw a few movies over this last week, a couple of which are worth mentioning.  The Last Time with Michael Keaton and Brendan Fraser was great (have to watch it all the way through to think so).  Hot Fuzz was also above expectations… I liked Shaun of the Dead well enough, and Hot Fuzz was laugh-out-loud funny in places.  We watched Number 23 on OnDemand and while I’m sure a lot of people complain about it or whatever, I still liked it.

I’m pretty sure I’d be a horrible critic, in that I like just about everything.  I’m glad for my lack of pickiness for movies – I’d hate to be critiquing everything here and there, picking apart the movie for this problem with the plot, or bad acting, etc.  I just enjoy it all.  And I think I’m happier for it.

And in unrelated news, I finally figured out how to put a real honest-to-goodness line break after my little manual headers on these “don’t want to MISC” series. TinyMCE is very cool for the most part, but it’s bugs drive me crazy!

WHALLcats – Nitro’s love for the camera

Definitely worth seeing. All the four (4) kids we brought liked it, as did the adults.

Also, side note: this was the first movie theatre (Silverado 16 on 1604/Bandera in San Antonio) I’ve ever been to that served pizza. Well, not counting Alamo Drafthouse. And the pizza wasn’t bad at all.

Brevity strikes.

I liked The Prestige.