Those Crazy Animals

If we don't have an animal, we usually like them from afar and they can provide lots of laughs and creative opportunities as evidenced by these pictures.

Have a chuckle or two and have a good weekend....OH, and the cats in the last picture are NOT MINE!!

Have a little fun everyday!

I'm back to the "Laughter - The Best Medicine"... Like we all do, I get some very funny things from friends and family via email and thought I'd share this one that I received from my Dad!....




"The other day my wife and I went into town and went into a shop. We were only in there for about 5 minutes.



When we came out, there was a cop writing out a parking ticket.

We went up to him and said, 'Come on man, how about giving a senior citizen a break?' He ignored us and continued writing the ticket. I called him a Nazi turd. He glared at me and started writing another ticket for the car because of worn tires.

So my wife called him a shit-head. He finished the second ticket and put it on the windshield with the first. Then he started writing a third ticket. This went on for about 20 minutes. The more we abused him, the more tickets he wrote.

Personally, we didn't care. We came into town by bus."







Have fun today and every day!

MOVIES!

The summer brings an onslaught of movies and I love to going to the movies! No matter the setting - art house or mall metro-plex- I love sitting in the theater with a bag of freshly popped corn and a soda, watching the previews and willing the lights to go down and the movie to come up on the screen.

Another thing I like about going to the movies: audience empathy. You’re sitting there watching a drama and there seems to always be one person who sobs out loud and breaks the tension or you’re watching a comedy and one person laughs so loud their friends pass them a handful of napkins to shove in their mouth. You can’t get that from NetFlix or Blockbuster or from sitting on your couch - no matter the size of the television or roll-down screen.

What am I going to try to see out of this summers movie onslaught? I’ll give them to you below. Reader beware, summer is heavy on the action movies, so don’t expect too many dramas here.



The onslaught started in May with the action movies: Star Trek, Wolverine (saw it, loved it – I have a huge crush on Hugh Jackman - someone had to take the place of Paul Newman in my life) and Terminator (no thank you). These were followed up by Angels & Demons (I’ll see it just to see Tom Hanks in a Speedo, that has to be entertaining or scary), UP (animated, from Pixar, do I need to say more) and EARTH (documentary on life around our marvelous planet).

June will be just as action packed with the release of Taking of Pelham 1,2,3 (Travolta and Denzel, enuf said), Transformers 2 (cars that talk and turn into fighting machines, COOL!) and Land of the Lost (with nutty Will Farrell). Look for the limited releases Food, Inc (a documentary about the food we eat and might not ever again) or MOON (about a man who mines the precious gas that holds the key to reversing the Earth's energy crisis). For the lighter side, there will be The Proposal, Away We Go


or The Hangover (bachelor party in Vegas, I probably will see this on DVD).

July brings the warm weather (good for sitting in a cold theater) and the movies Funny People (comedy), Public Enemies (Johnny Depp as Dillinger)


Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (if you haven’t read the books, you won’t get it), and another limited release, The Girl from Monaco (it might be sub-titled, so beware).

August follows with Julie & Julia (Meryl Streep as Julia Child),


The Time Travelers Wife (haven’t read the book, but it sounds good) and Brad Pitts Inglorious Basterds (they can’t spell, but what the hell).

Anyway, maybe this will inspire you to get off the couch and out to see a movie!

What I've done in May...

Since I've not been blogging lately due to circumstances beyond my control, like working when I'm at work...I decided to do a May recap to catch up...

I started the month with a trip to Grand Junction, Colorado to surprise my mom for Mother's Day. Where is Grand Junction, you say? Here's a map... can you find it?

Was she surprised? Boy, was she. I arrived at the same time flowers from my brother David arrived and she was speechless - at both my beauty and the flowers! Dad, he liked the flowers too...

Upon returning to San Francisco, the following weekend I got out for a ride with my two biking cohorts, Richard and John...this was Richard's "post shoulder surgery" inaugural road ride, he's the one on the right...


That same weekend, I spent a delightful two hours attending "A Conversation with Barbara Hale"......Barbara Hale,hmmmm, to those of us of a certain age, that name is familiar....who is Barbara Hale??? If you said, "Oh, yeah, didn't she play Della Street, Perry Mason's secretary? - you would be RIGHT! She was still a lovely lady at 84 years young.



During the week that followed I commuted to work and on the Friday before Memorial Day commuted to work on my own "private" yacht, the HMS Golden Gate Ferry




I started the weekend with a cleaning session of my house and during the rest of the weekend, between BBQ's, I had fellow vampire-lover, my neighbor Denise over to view my DVD's of Season 1 of "True Blood". At the moment it's my favorite, campy HBO series. I've made Denise a fan, maybe I'll make one of you too! Enjoy the opening credits below. It's so Louisiana!



That's about it for May...thanks for reading!