Angela Law - animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook

movies

bubba ho-tep

November 4, 2006, 4:22 pm January 13, 2020

Brian’s boss is always lending him movies. They guy has eclectic tastes, to say the least. Because I’m too lazy to summarize the plot, here’s an excerpt from the back of the DVD, “When mysterious deaths plague the Shady Rest retirement home, it’s up to an aging, cantankerous “Elvis” and a decrepit–and black–“JFK” to defeat a 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy with a penchant for sucking human souls!”

Need I say more? Brian actually liked the movie. In case you haven’t figured it out, I did not. I will say that it was better than An American Haunting, though.

miscellany

the human camera

November 4, 2006, 3:59 am January 13, 2020

You have to check this guy out. “He’s an autistic man who accurately draws entire cities from memory after a single 45-minute helicopter ride — right down to the correct number of windows in each building.”

health & wellness

bird flu

November 4, 2006, 3:45 am January 13, 2020

It’s that time of the year again. I scanned through a really interesting online book about the bird flu the other day. It’s mostly a discussion of past pandemics and how the current bird flu is brewing.

And, I stumbled upon this great preparedness guide today. The password is ‘fluwikie‘. Get it while it’s hot.

And while we’re on the subject of the flu, why is it that I can’t seem to find a flu shot anywhere? Well, ok, there are some flu clinics going on at various drugstores and grocery stores, but who wants to wait in line for an hour for that? Supposedly, there were more flu shots available this year than people who would want to get them. But, I read something about a distribution problem and that certainly seems to be the case. Um, how about if someone gets in a truck and delivers this stuff? If I get the flu this year because I missed my shot, I’m going to be really pissed.

movies

an american haunting

November 2, 2006, 9:38 pm January 13, 2020

This was a movie about a witch– The Bell Witch. By all accounts, I think John Bell may have died of bordedom. What an awful movie. And, it wasn’t awful in a good way that you could laugh at, it was just terribly not interesting.

Two thumbs down.

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