Posts from — November 2007

  I love Christmas so I have put together my top 17 favorite Christmas Movies of all time. Tell me your favorites:

•    A Christmas Story:  I have so many memories with this movie.  Meeting my wife  and having her order it for me when she worked at the video store, going to see it in the movies and watching on TBS every year for 24 hours.  I  love everything about it.  If you have not seen it you do not know what your missing!

• National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation:  This is a tradition in my house.  Every year we put our tree up this is the movie we need to watch.  Gets me in the Christmas Spirit!  Sparky reminds me of me!

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Try you think of something that cannot be described by means of language. If you think of something, regardless of what it be, and you can describe it in words, then, you must move on to something else!Is it a difficult task?Surely, the English language (and any other, for that matter) cannot be efficient enough to properly describe, portray, and communicate all of existence, can it?

 “The limits of my language are the limits of my world.”
- Ludwig Wittgenstein [Read more →]

Just like background music is the soundtrack to our day, movie quotes have the ability to stir up memories of days gone by while usually adding a smirk and a giggle to any humdrum day. For this reason, I have decided to compile a list of favorite movie quotes stemming from the golden age of Hollywood to the present times. Please note that not all of these are of the typical sort that you might find on your average list, but those spoken in different context and utilized in today’s society to mean much more than their original use, usually vocalized with the appropriate accent and followed by a chuckle. Lots of research went into this one, so I truly hope you enjoy it, all the while sparking some memories of your own.

#17- “You can’t handle the truth!”

— Col. Nathan Jessep (Jack Nicholson) screams this line after he takes the stand in court in the 1992 flick “A Few Good Men”. Tom Cruise (Lt. Daniel Kaffee) is chosen to be the defendants’ attorney after a long history of settling cases out of court. After he decides to give this case his all, the two defendant marines are tried and convicted of killing a fellow combatian, even after Jessep ordered the “Code Red”. Don’t worry, Jack Nicholson was hauled out of court, too!

#16- “I feel the need — the need for speed!”

— Lt. Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise) and Lt. Nick “Goose” Bradshaw (Anthony Edwards), from “Top Gun”. (1986) And just who didn’t want to join the military after seeing this movie for the hundredth time! Believe it or not, there are still some former children of the eighties that haven’t viewed this classic, but for the rest of us, Goose went on to a somewhat successful career of a doctor on NBC’s ER before dying on that show, too.

#15- “I’ll have what she’s having.”

— Customer from the infamous resturant scene in When Harry Met Sally… (1989) Anyone who lived through this year has got to know what I’m talking about. Meg Ryan? Billy Crystal? Bringing back any memories for ya? [Read more →]

I have to say I am an expert in cartoons!  I grew up waiting for that Friday night special before the new season of Saturday morning cartoons.  The people who know what I mean will agree with me. For you youngins  just read the top 17 greatest cartoons of all time:

1.  The Flintstones:  The greatest cartoon ever made!  Not to mention I look like him.  He is a mans man.  He is a leader and a great father.  Funny and always a great lesson to learn.  His wife is always right.  You can still see reruns over the 40 year run. I do look like him. I used to hang around with a short blond guy to.  I like food.  My wife is hot.  So is Wilma.
2.  The Simpsons:  It has been said it is the greatest tv show of all time.  This show is awesome with the diverse characters, movie, and story-lines.  Hope it never ends.
3.   Family guy:  Holy cow this is some funny stuff.  I am from Rhode Island so I get all the inside jokes.  I always wondered if people get some of those.  Like Buddy Cianci school etc….  This soon will be the greatest in my book.
4.  Wait Till You Father Gets Home: Before there was the Simpson’s or the Family Guy there was this classic.  You need to watch it to see the comparisons.  The father wasn’t stupid but the daughter was ugly and musically inclined. Sounds familiar?

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A Compound Butter is  a butter mixed with more ingredients.  These ingredients are added by either chopping, pureed or mixed to change the color and or flavors of butter.  To make a compound butter you need to first soften the butter by whipping it and then ingredients need to be added and whipped into it.  A favorite of mine is to create 4 or 5 different compound butters and serve them with different breads as a great appetizer.  I usually taste the butter as I add in the extra ingredient till I get the desired flavor I want.  Here are a list of easy to make compound butters: [Read more →]

One thing about cooking is knowing what ingredients to use and what each is capable of doing to your creation. Cooking and flavoring with oils is highly used throughout the cooking industry. It can be used from sauteing to salad oils and everywhere in between. Here is a list of oils used in the culinary field and what their uses are: [Read more →]

Me being adept in the skillful art of procrastinating, am faced with several papers and tests due in a few days, so, this will not be an in depth essay as much as it will be a few, perhaps abstract points:

- The purpose of evolution, from what I’ve known, is for one organism to be more efficient in its way of survival. A bird’s beak is too short to reach far enough into a certain flower, so said bird’s offspring is born with longer beaks (to give a simplified example).

If this were the case, would it not be most efficient for, instead of us (apparently, through billions of years) evolving into such separate, distinct and complex lifeforms – for everything to simply be one large, ever-expanding, blob of gel? I’d have to say that being a blob, resistant to many forms of weather, disease and the like, which feeds off of everything around it, constantly grows, has no predators (for there would only be one form of life), etc. is a much more efficient form of survival – and ensures living far more than what we have now. [Read more →]

I know you’ve done it. We’ve all done it. A song comes on the radio…you’re listening desperately to try and figure out the words. Suddenly, “what did he just say?” is the initial reaction that comes out of your mouth! Did they really just say that? Couldn’t they have thought of something else?

When I first began my quest to create this list, my initial reaction was to simply state: “Every song lyric ever written by Nickelback.” These boys drive me absolutely insane. I cannot tolerate them on the radio for more than a quick second before a deathly scowl comes across my face, a look that I’m sure resembles the same one as when I drive to the “transfer station” in town to unload my recycleables and household waste.

But the question on most of our minds is, quite simply put, “WHY?” Why on earth did someone write this lyric? Are your creative impulses as such a lull that you really couldn’t find anything else? Did you call someone for assistance? Even “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” has lifelines; maybe you should have a few stockpiled for reference as well.

So here we go! After months of research and lending a heartfelt ear to the music industry, this is THE list of “The 17 Worst Song Lyrics Ever Performed”: [Read more →]