Angelika

Bravotv: Reality Shows

noreply@blogger.com (Angelika) — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:09:00 +0000

kay, I had been planning to do individual posts for each of the reality TV shows that I watch. But then I realized that the seasons might be over before I actually get to it, so I'm just going to tell you the ones I watch regularly by network (and remember at this particular moment).

Flipping Out is about house flipper Jeff Lewis and his employees. Lewis is seriously OCD. He also has a very dry sense of humor. His humor is so dry that you might get the impression that he has no sense of humor. But you just have to pay attention! Lewis himself has said that you either love him or you hate him, there is no middle ground.

So if you, like me, enjoy watching crazy people so that you can say to yourself "At least I'm not that bad." then you should definitely watch this show. :-)

I probably started watching Shear Genius last season because nothing else was on. I probably still watch it for the same reason.... I do not recommend this show with the same enthusiasm with which I recommend Flipping Out. Watch it if it's on and you have nothing else to do.

I LOVE My Life on the D List! I have watched every season. I watch all of her specials. I enjoy Kathy Griffin's sense of humor. She's trying to become the "White Oprah". In the last episode she "fixed up" a library at a middle school in Mexico and named it "Kathy Griffin's Leadership Academy". I don't think she's as D list as she says, but she will never be the "White Oprah". Bless her heart & THANK THE LORD. I'd have to start hating her then, on principle. ;-)

I started watching Project Runway in the 2nd season, I think. I probably started watching it because everyone else was talking about it and I wanted to be "in the loop". I watch it now because, frankly, I enjoy hating on the designs. I enjoy yelling at the judges (in my head) for picking people who are talentless in my opinion. (I don't know from fashion, and I don't care.) I love Tim Gunn. He's hilarious. By the end of the season, I've usually picked a favorite, but I don't remember if any of my favorites have ever won. I'm not invested in their futures. I don't even know why I still watch it, LOL. I know I loved the season that Santino Rice was on, even though I hated his designs.

I guess I watch to see the people cry. Because I'm evil like that. I got it from my mama.

That is all because my back is hurting!

High Five Friday - 7/18/08

noreply@blogger.com (Angelika) — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:27:00 +0000

ere are this week's High Fives, in no particular order.

Regretful Morning for the "Blame it on the Dog" post. I don't know if it's true, but it amused me! :-)

Cracked.com for their "13 Things You won't Believe are Against the Law Somewhere" post.

Skirmisher for their Funny Signs in Third World Countries post.

Amy Oops for her funny Signs post & her Look Alikes post.

Lofty Matters for this Informative Post.

Becky for this post. I love the girl, but she's slightly insane. ;-)

Caption This for this post.

That is all!

Thank you, Craig!

noreply@blogger.com (Angelika) — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:18:00 +0000

o any of you watch The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson?

Well, he was in reruns for 2 weeks. When he came back on Monday, he had a mustache.

I sent him an e-mail. Which he did not read on air (I think he hates me). When he was reading the e-mails on Tuesday, he said "That one's rude." Evan thinks that was mine...

All I said was

"Dear Craig,
Thank you for growing a mustache. Now my 12 year old thinks he's a man because he has more hair on his upper lip than you do."

That wasn't rude, was it?

Anyway, last night he came back on and he'd SHAVED IT OFF!!!!

Thank you so much, Craigypoo. You really looked like a Spanish Porn Star with that 'stache.

I tried to find some pictures of him with the thing that looked like he'd drunk some chocolate milk & forgotten to wipe his lip, but there were none. There are, however, several youtube clips of him with the quasi 'stache.

I'm so glad it's gone!

Cary Grant

noreply@blogger.com (Angelika) — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:48:00 +0000

ast week I watched Suspicion, an Alfred Hitchcock movie with Cary Grant. I didn't like that movie, so I wondered if I'd like Grant in something else. I had seen "Operation Petticoat" listed on TCM's schedule, but it's a comedy and comedies aren't usually my cup of tea. So I had to wait for a drama or suspense to see if I'd like him. I know I like looking at him, but I mean if I liked his acting, LOL.

BTW, I found The Ultimate Cary Grant Pages. Go there for hundreds of photos, a bio, etc. if you're really a fan. After watching Suspicion & North by Northwest, I couldn't help but wonder if Grant was a closet homosexual. I mean, the way he moves his hands & whatnot is very effeminate, IMO. Not that it matters. He's dead. And even if he were still alive, he'd be too old & too famous & too far away for me. I still wanted to know. Diane Cannon says he's not. She's slept with him & borne a child with/for him... I still have my doubts.

Anyway.

North by Northwest is another Hitchcock movie.

Grant plays Roger Thornhill, an advertising executive in Manhattan. He's mistaken for an FBI (or CIA) agent by some bad guys and is kidnapped. They repeatedly try to kill him, in various ways. Thornhill alternately runs from the police and to the police because he's accused of a murder that he didn't commit. When the bad guys are near, he willingly gets arrested just to get away from them.

So...there are some unbelievable things in this movie. Like Thornhill is forced to drink an entire bottle of bourbon (or something) and is still able to drive. Not well, mind you, but well enough not to drive off a cliff and kill himself.

Thornhill meets a woman named Eve Kendall (Eva Marie Saint) when he boards a train with no ticket and 1) she helps him hide from the police 2) she lets him spend the night in her room & makes out with him.

This movie was released in 1959. I didn't think they had such open sexuality back then. There was one line that Miss Saint had to dub. I tried to mute it and read her lips to see what she had really said, but no success. Something about having sex with a full stomach.

Anyway, there were some funny bits. There were some lines that made me say "Damn!" and "Oooh, burn!".

Overall, I liked the movie. I'd watch it again. But the ending, once again, was a letdown. I guess after 160 minutes, Hitchcock decided just to wrap it up even if the ending was a little too neat & cutesy.

My major question has been answered, though. I like Cary Grant. Even though he has an odd accent. It's not British, and it's not the kind of "Almost British" accent that a lot of actors had in the black & white movie days.

Whatever.

I'm writing this yesterday & my back is hurting so I'm out!

Watch it if you want to. Or don't.

:-)

I'd comment on your blog, but...

noreply@blogger.com (Angelika) — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:45:00 +0000

don't know if you are a member of Entrecard, but if you are, you've probably heard about their new partnership with SezWho.

SezWho basically encourages people to add quality comments about your posts. They (the comments) are rated by other SezWho users and you get credits from Entrecard for "quality comments".

...

So, my initial reaction was to sign up, of course. I love comments! I comment a lot on other blogs. I give lots of link love (IMO). So why not, right?

But after I thought about it for a minute, I began to feel some "comment pressure". Like I can't just say "OMG! That literally made me LOL!" because is that really quality? Will people be like "I hate this bitch, that was a waste of space." and give me low ratings & thus drag my SezWho rating down?

Probably.

But I've decided that I don't care.

If something actually makes me laugh, I'm going to let the blog author know.

I am NOT going to search out SezWho enabled blogs on which to comment.

I refuse to feel pressured to write brilliant & informative posts/comments just to please a bunch of random strangers.

So, just keep up your current commenting behavior on this blog (if that includes actually making comments) because I appreciate them! Even if it's just "LOL"! Comments give me joy & I don't give a flying fart if everyone else thinks it's useless or qualitless (Like that? I just made it up. Feel free to use it.)

Just don't spam me!

:-)

The Family that Preys

noreply@blogger.com (Angelika) — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:57:00 +0000

yler Perry has a new movie opening on September 12. It's called "The Family that Preys". I just WATCHED THE TRAILER. It looks interesting!

Kathy Bates, Alfre Woodard, Sanaa Latham, KaDee Strickland,Robin Givens, and Rockmond Dunbar (to name a few) are in it!

This looks completely different from the other stuff he's done. I don't expect a recycling of old jokes in this. It looks like a DRAMA! (Yay!!!)

I'm so excited for this. :-) Go Tyler!

The Cleaner

noreply@blogger.com (Angelika) — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:52:00 +0000

just finished watching "The Cleaner", a new TV show on the A&E network. (Tuesdays at 10 pm EST)

I only heard about it last week or something when Benjamin Bratt was on The View. He's a beautiful man, so I watched the interview, LOL.

Bratt plays William Banks. Banks was a heroin addict. When his youngest child was being born, he was in the hospital shooting up. He made a bargain with God that if he could live through the night, he would become God's "Avenging Angel" and help other addicts to get clean. He is still living with his wife and 2 children, although he sleeps in a separate bedroom. His family realize that he's doing important work, but they still haven't forgiven him for all the times he was in jail or rehab.

Gil Bellows (One of the dudes from Ally McBeal) does a guest appearance as one of Banks' team members. He ends up killing himself at the end of the episode because his wife won't take him back, even though he's been clean for quite a while. Sorry for blowing the secret. But I thought it was odd that Bellows was not listed as a cast member when he was all up in the premier episode...

Other cast members include:

Grace Park as Akani Cuesta. She's the daughter of a wealthy businessman. She has slept with Banks at some point. She's very sexual (I don't know if that's the right word.) Stereotypical "Bad Girl", IMO. I'm sure we'll find out more about why she doesn't want her father's money in later episodes.

Kevin Michael Richardson as Darnell McDowell. We don't know much about him except that he works as a car salesman and he wants to work for Banks. By the end of the episode (after Bellows kills himself) he gets the job.

Esteban Powell as Arnie Swenton. His character still seems like he might be using, LOL. All I know is that he got arrested by a new police officer in the first episode, made some crack about Banks sleeping with Cuesta, got fired & got re-hired by the end of the episode.

The show is okay... It's no Saving Grace. But it was only the first episode. They had to introduce all of the characters and give a little hint about the back story. I think it should have at least been a 2 hour premier. Maybe it would have gotten more in depth with the characters?

Anyway, I'll give it a few more episodes. Well, at least one, to see if it gets any better. Benjamin Bratt is cute. But not cute enough for me to take up space on my DVR just to look at him for 45 minutes... (The show is an hour, but minus commercials it's about 40-45 minutes.)

I wouldn't re-arrange my DVR schedule to record it at this point.

We shall see. *shrugs*

It's official. Evan thinks I'm an IDIOT.

noreply@blogger.com (Angelika) — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:36:00 +0000

es. Yes he does.

Last night, he told me that he was going to put his mattress on the floor and sleep on it. I said "No, you're not." I also told him that I would be waking him up bright and early this morning. I can't remember why.

So this morning, whenever I woke up, I went to open his door to wake him up & go back downstairs, just to get on his nerves.

The door was locked.

Did I ever tell you about the time when Evan was 6 or 7 years old and locked me out of his room? I took the door knob OFF. I told him that this is MY house and if I want to get into a room, I will get into the room. Locks cannot keep me out! (After that little incident, I put on a doorknob that has a lock & key. I keep the only key.)

Anyway, I started knocking on the door.

Not the way you would knock on the door if you went to visit someone. But a really irritating constant knock that was echoing through the entire upstairs.

Evan - WHAT?!?!
Me - *knock knock knock knock* (I didn't feel like going downstairs to get the key.)

After 5 minutes (I heard some scrambling around, you'd think he was hiding his porn collection) he opened the door.

Me - Why did you lock the door?
Evan - To keep you from bugging me.
Me -

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! HA HA HA HA HA!

Evan - Yeah. It didn't work.
Me - *still laughing* Ok. Bye!

So after I had gone to the bathroom for the 4th time (trots...again), I opened his door and just looked at the room.

All of his Sigma 6s are gone (up off of the floor, in other words). His chair is folded up in the corner. There's a clean space that's mattress sized where all of his stuff (toys & whatnot) usually is.

So yeah. He put the mattress on the floor after I told him not to.

And he thought that taking 5 minutes to open the door & having a "clean" floor would not arouse suspicion.

Because he thinks I'm an idiot.

Teenagehood has begun...

I'm trying to stay awake

noreply@blogger.com (Angelika) — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:50:00 +0000

o that I can pick Evan up from band in an hour.

So I'll post on my blog.

Yesterday, Prince Evan & Queen Nana went out for Chinese food. I did not want to go.

I had to wake him up at 10 am to take a shower & whatnot. He'd probably gotten to sleep at 6 am or something. So when he got back, he was sleepy. I said "No, stay up so that you can get to bed at a normal time tonight!"

I made him stay downstairs to watch the "Run's House" marathon with me. I finally got tired of poking him and yelling "Did you see that? Wasn't that funny?!" I think he got about an hour nap.

Then he went out to play with his cousin.

Without him there to bug me, I fell asleep. When I woke up, it was 7:30 pm!!!

OMG.

Screw it.

I'm going to lay down for 45 minutes.

:-)

Song of the Week - 7/14/08

noreply@blogger.com (Angelika) — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:55:00 +0000

his week's song is "I know" by Dionne Farris. She used to be in Arrested Development. Remember them?

Anyway, there's no special significance to the song. I just like it. :-)

This is a live version of the song because the person who uploaded the actual video disabled embedding... But this isn't bad. She's much better live than a lot of people (Mary J. Blige).

This one time, at band camp...

noreply@blogger.com (Angelika) — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:12:00 +0000

e went to Wal-Mart this evening.

We saw Evan's band teacher. He told her he couldn't wait for band next year.

She informed us that they are doing something tomorrow from 8-10 am (Yay!) and then next week begins 2 weeks of Band Camp.

...

She said she put it in the paper (I don't get the frigging paper!!!) and that she tried to tell all the principals before the end of school so that all the band kids would know about Band Camp.

Plus he's marching this year.

I thought this shit didn't start until 9th grade!!!!!

OMG.

*sigh*

Pray that I get some sleep tonight or I'll be pissed the eff off tomorrow morning and possibly cuss his band teacher OUT. ;-)

Chowder

noreply@blogger.com (Angelika) — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:51:00 +0000

nother cartoon that Evan talked about incessantly until I decided to watch just to shut him up was Chowder on the Cartoon Network.

The show is pretty simple. Every character is named after a food. Chowder is an apprentice to the main chef, Mung Daal. Shnitzel also works for Mung. Shnitzel only ever says "Rada rada", but if you watch it long enough you get to learn what that particular "Rada" means, LOL. (How sad is it that I'm watching effing cartoons???)

Anyway, Chowder regularly gets into trouble and that's where the funny comes in. For example, this week Mung bought a pair of legs to stomp on his pizza crusts (or whatever) and Chowder cranked it up to 100 and broke the legs. So he was given the money to buy a new pair of legs and on his way to the store he forgot what he was doing. So he threw all of the money into a Wishing Well to remember why he was out. Then he didn't have the money to buy the new legs.

So he painted himself silver (with help from a gold painted statue) and stood on the street panhandling.

He got the money, but when he went back to the store, the owner was all out of the legs. Chowder saw the man who had bought the last pair of legs, snatched them from him & threw down the money and ran off.

I don't feel like getting into all the funny stuff that happened in that particular episode. Just know that it's not just for kids, IMO.

I tape the new episodes now. (Thursdays at 8 pm EST) Go watch a video from when Shnitzel quits because he isn't being appreciated for all the work he does! :-)

WHAT am I eating???

noreply@blogger.com (Angelika) — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:41:00 +0000

h Em Gee. For the past 2 days I've had the back door trots. Sorry. You weren't eating, were you?

So.

My head hurts. My back hurts. My stomach hurts. My knee hurts (not even the 'special' knee either, my other knee). The song "Jenny/867-5309"'s chorus keeps running through my head... Just the chorus. ??? I have seriously been contemplating who or what is called Macaroni. The horse or the feather? And WHY Macaroni?

Anyway, I have run out of Pepto for my stomach. *cries*

The only good thing is that my back isn't hurting *knock wood* and I'm pretty sure I've lost a few lbs because I don't feel like eating anything.

How the hell can I keep going to the bathroom when all I'm doing is drinking????

On the positive side, I've been on my new double dose of Anti-depressant for a week and I already feel much better. Even with Aunt Flo's ass here.

Sorry guys.

Heh.

Not really.

You came here. You should KNOW by now that I am liable to say anything...

Even when I have nothing to say. :-)

It has been bothering me that I posted July 4th Part 1 and never got back to post part 2. Not bothering me enough to do anything about it, but it's on my mind.

I have officially had "Lisey's Story" by Stephen King from the library for 4 weeks and 3 days. Still haven't gotten past page 25. The writing is so small. Yeah. That's it! The font is too small. I blame the printer for my lack of interest in the story. ;-)

Is it odd that as I'm reading the story and see that "Lisey" is supposed to rhyme with "CeeCee" that I have a mental argument with Stephen King about how stupid that is and refuse to pronounce it that way...in my head? But I can't let it go. I can't just say Lizzie in my head and move on. WTF???

My neck hurts.

What else?

I watched that show "Black Gold" on TruTV. It was interesting. I think the same guy that produces "Ice Road Truckers" does this one. Sounds like the same voice. And the narrator for IRT is the producer too.

Now I have heartburn??? I haven't ingested anything other than bottled water!

*sigh*

I'm going to go sit on Evan's bed and kiss him until he GETS UP! He ignored me all day yesterday because he looked up some cheats for Super Smash Bros. and got new characters. He was playing with THEM instead of ME!

TTYL :-)

High Five Friday - 7/11/08

noreply@blogger.com (Angelika) — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:20:00 +0000

his week's High Fives list is longer than usual because I didn't do it last week.

First and foremost, I must show some love to Relax Max at Way Harsh. It's an extremely funny satirical blog and he happened to show me a lot of love yesterday. How could I not High Five someone who recognizes genius when he sees it. ;-p

Seriously, I stop by his blog practically every day and it's nice to know he likes my blog too. Even though he never comments...

I also want to show some love to Rene at Cheaper by the Half Dozen. She just got the "mock up"? (I don't know, I'm not in the biz...) of her book cover. The book will be released in the fall, but I think it's cool that an actual writer reads my blog! I want an autographed copy! How cool would that be? :-)

The Why File for this post. ??? I cannot believe the crap that some people do. Actually, I can. That's what's so effing frustrating!

Your Fun Family Blog for this post. I might actually do this one day. Assuming I ever get off the computer. ;-)

Sabra (I guess) at Super Sabra for this post. I sent her an Entrecard message asking her how she got different Digg numbers for each of her posts. I was wondering if there was an easier way than publishing the post & then editing the Digg junk to reflect the individual URL instead of the entire blog's url. Anyway, I think she had answered me within the hour and then put up the post to help other bloggers who might have questions about the same thing. I LOVE IT when bloggers help each other out instead of totally ignoring questions or answering months later!

Hooter's Two for the Price of One for this funny picture & quote about road signs.

Deb at Artistic Flair. She does Fused Glass Etsy and I found the Indiana Jones Pendant that she created. I think it's so cute! :-)

Spinach N Peace because her Upcycled Envelopes are so creative! It's people like this that I admire. I would never have thought of that! It looks like a fun rainy day project. :-)

Giveaway City for this amusing picture. Sometimes I see things that make me laugh and I don't comment because I think people who don't know me would see my "Ha!" comment as spam or something. (Maybe that's why Relax Max never comments? He has nothing to add other than "LOL!"? Maybe he'll comment why he never comments and I'll know??? *hint hint*)

Elle at Maxwell the Tattooed Boy. Because she made Black Bean Brownies... She did that so I don't have to. ;-)

Skirmisher for "How to know if your boyfriend is a Wuss". OMG. This guy's scream is higher in pitch than Evan's when he was a toddler! LMFAO!

Henson Ray at Henson Hell for this Oprah post. *giggle*

Usedtobeme at Why Are You Stalking Me for this post. It made me laugh out loud.

Jokes @ jDonuts for this post. I was breathless with laughter reading this, LOL. :-)

Slap & Tickle for this post. Some people think anything is art!

I'm Not Angry for the Asshole Mario post. I am just hard headed enough to decided that I am going to beat the effing game and spend the next three months giving myself carpal tunnel by playing it over and over, LOL.

That's all. Now, go ~~harass~~ ask Max why he never comments on my blog.

Thanks. :-)

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Listening to: Mr. Cheeks - Lights,Camera,Action
via FoxyTunes

Appleseed Exmachina

noreply@blogger.com (Angelika) — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:01:00 +0000

aybe tomorrow (maybe not) I will actually review this movie. It's really pretty good for an animated movie. John Woo is one of the producers and you can tell in the action sequences. I tried to get Evan to talk about it. You can hear for yourself how successful that was...

Wordless Wednesday - 7/9/08

noreply@blogger.com (Angelika) — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:47:00 +0000

How much does gravity weigh?

noreply@blogger.com (Angelika) — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:27:00 +0000

his is the question Evan asked me while we were watching a new (to us) show on The History Channel titled "The Universe". The first episode we saw was about Gravity.

Evan - What I want to know is, how much does gravity weigh?
Me - *surprised stare*
Evan - Well?
Me - I don't know. I guess it's different for everyone and every thing. If you weigh 100 lbs, there has to be 100 lbs of force pulling you down in the opposite direction to keep you on earth...
Evan - Oh.
Me - But I don't know. I've never really thought about it. You are so weird! WHO thinks of stuff like that? OMG. I'm sure that some of the scientists interviewed for this show have the answer. Google it, if you really want to know.

That's not the exact conversation. It's been a few days. But I do know that I was really surprised by his question. He's a budding ~~nerd~~ scientist...

Anyway, after that show, we watched one about The Biggest Things in Space. We learned that there is a Texas sized asteroid in space. It's round. It has it's own gravity. Ceres, is what it's called. (I just looked it up.) There's a special name for things that have their own gravity but aren't big enough to even be called a dwarf planet (planetoid ). It's defined, if I remember correctly, by being able to go from a big jagged object to a round object by pulling other space rocks to it to shape it into a sphere. Or something. I'm not a scientist. Just trying to explain this crap is giving me wrinkles.

So whatever.

We record the series now because it was very interesting. Lots of beautiful images of space and definitions of what makes a black hole and what super stars are. Did you know that there is (or are) stars bigger than the sun? I forget the specific name for them too, but they burn quite intensely & die quickly (relative to our sun). Scientists are even figuring out how to knock the earth out of the sun's orbit when it finally burns out and becomes a black hole...or something.

*cries*

Whatever!

Just watch the show! (Tuesdays @ 8pm/7C)

Don't ask me!

I finished school decades ago and I'm not taking any tests on this stuff. It's just interesting to watch, LOL.

BTW, I googled it. Gravity is weightless...

Suspicion

noreply@blogger.com (Angelika) — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:51:00 +0000

ast night I decided to record "Suspicion" by Alfred Hitchcock. It had 3 stars (or maybe 3½?). It starred Cary Grant & Joan Fontaine. I don't think I've ever seen Cary Grant in a movie before and I'd never heard of Fontaine. But it was Alfred Hitchcock. I've enjoyed several of his movies including Rear Window, The Birds, Psycho.

I have to say that this was the longest 90 minutes (approximately) of my life. It felt like 3 hours.

It starts with Lina McLaidlaw (Fontaine) on a train. She looks like a librarian. Enter the dashing Johnnie Aysgarth. When the conductor comes around, we find that he has a Third Class ticket but he's sitting in First Class with Lina. He doesn't have the money to pay for the upgrade, but he "borrows" it from Lina.

Then he sees her in town while walking to church with 2 other women and they stop by her house to invite her. When they all get to the church, Johnnie takes Lina off for a walk.

Lina is a very bookish woman. Her parents think that she'll die an old maid. So the attention from this gorgeous man sweeps her off of her feet.

Within one week they are professing their love to each other and he asks her to marry him. They elope and she is taken on a whirlwind honeymoon around the world. Paris, Italy, Monte Carlo, etc.

When they get home from the honeymoon, Johnnie brings her to the house that he's rented and had furnished for her. It's a very grand house.

As soon as they get home, however, Lina finds out that Johnnie is broke. He says something like "Why shouldn't we live in style? When your parents die we will." Not that crass, obviously, but it sows the first seeds of doubt in Lina.

Throughout the movie, people tell Lina about Johnnie's gambling habit. They tell her that he's a "playa". Her father tells her that he's been kicked out of a country club for cheating at cards or something scandalous. Johnnie sells the 2 antique chairs that her father had given to her as a wedding present. They had been in her family for several generations. She also learns that he borrows money that he can't pay back and that he'd been fired from his job for stealing £2000. The only reason he wasn't prosecuted is because he was working for his cousin.

At some point, Johnnie's good friend Beaky (Nigel Bruce) stops by for a visit. I believe he was the first person to tell Lina about Johnnie's gambling. On another visit from Beaky, he drinks some brandy even though it's dangerous for him. Johnnie tells Lina not to call a doctor when Beaky starts coughing and looking like he might have a heart attack. He says "He'll either be all right or it will kill him. One of these days it will."

Johnnie comes up with a scheme to buy some land, sell half of it, and develop the other half (with Beaky's money). Finally, Johnnie decides that the deal is no good, so he makes Beaky go with him on a trip to see the land. Lina worries the entire time that Johnnie will kill Beaky. But when they both come back alive, she learns that Johnnie had actually saved Beaky's life by stopping him from backing over a cliff.

One of Johnnie's friends is a Mystery writer. Her brother is a coroner (it was interesting that they were talking about forensics in 1941. I don't know if they had DNA, but one of the characters said that even a single hair could be traced back to its owner...)

So anyway, Beaky has to go to France to cancel the land deal. He asks Johnnie to go with him, but Johnnie only goes as far as London so that he can look for work.

While Johnnie is still away, the police (Inspectors in Britain) stop by and show her a news article about Beaky dying. Apparently, he'd bet the man he was with that he could drink a large snifter of brandy. The waiter, who didn't speak good English, said that Beaky's companion was someone named Allbeam or Ollbeam. Beaky always referred to Johnnie as "Old Bean".

Now Lina thinks Johnnie killed Beaky.

When they have dinner with his writer friend & her coroner brother, they get into a discussion about poisons. Johnnie is very interested in the only untraceable poison that the Dr. mentions in passing.

Lina starts to fear that Johnnie will kill her because she'd found a letter from the insurance company stating that the £5000 loan that he had requested couldn't be given unless his wife died. So when he brings her a glass of milk one night, she refuses to drink it and decides that she needs to go stay with her mother "for a while".

I'm done.

My xanax is kicking in.

The only good thing about this movie, IMO, was looking at Cary Grant. He was a good looking man. I might check TCM for some more of his movies and see if I like those better? I don't know.

For a Hitchcock movie that won an Oscar and had 3 stars, I was disappointed. It felt longer than The Aviator with Lionardo DiCaprio. But that movie was at least interesting.

Suspicion was a whole lot of buildup for a crappy, sappy, ridiculous ending. No payoff at all.

If you've seen it, I'd be interested to hear what you thought. I don't ever need to see it again. I would not recommend you rent it or even waste space on your DVR recording it. :-(

All photos are from IMDb.com

Now I can see what my readers see!

noreply@blogger.com (Angelika) — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:45:00 +0000

his may be old news to some of you, but I didn't find out about this until this weekend when I was dropping cards.

Technically Easy had an article about using Browsershots to view your template design and make sure that it's compatible with different browsers & operating systems.

It's really easy. Just go to the site and enter your url. I entered mine, went to the bathroom & when I came back, this was waiting for me:

From this EXTREMELY EASY TO USE site I learned that:

1. I have another reason to hate Internet Explorer. I don't like the way my site shows up there. No idea why it doesn't display correctly, either. And it's not just 6.0 that shows it that way. It's any and all Internet Explorers & Windows combination (that I tried, anyway.)

2. Konqueror 3.5 Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (WHAT? Never heard of it.) doesn't show my site at all.

3. Dillo (I first thought it said Dildo & wondered why anyone would name a browser after a sex toy...) is farked up! That's another browser I've never heard of.

But, for the post part, everyone is seeing what I see in the colors & whatnot that I chose. :-)

I'm really happy about that because I can't begin to imagine trying to make my blog compatible with all web browsers & operating systems. Even the people who don't see exactly what I see are seeing it almost the way I want it.

This is just one of those times when I have to breathe and 'let go'. I can't control everything, as much as I might want to.

For those of you using IE, let me encourage you to download Firefox or Opera (I've never used Opera, but it looks like my blog shows up well on it. And that's what this is all about, after all.)

For those of you using Conqueror or Dillo...I don't know what to tell you. So soddy.

Song of the Week - 7/7/08

noreply@blogger.com (Angelika) — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:32:00 +0000

his week's song is "Let the bodies hit the floor" by Drowning Pool.

Because I'm PMSing. (Read: Pissed the EFF OFF about everything.)

I have decided that since I can't afford the Anti-depressant that I really LOVE and the one that I'm on still has me feeling like I'm in a constant state of pissosity (even before the PMS) that I will call the Dr and get it doubled.

I've had a stronger dose before. So it shouldn't be a problem.

*sigh*

Fucking hormones.

God is definitely a man. And He hates women. Or he would have made MEN bleed from their penis every month for 5 days. And feel bloated. And have lower back pain.

*cries*