New career

Apparently I’m looking at totally the wrong line of work. It seems that the money is in Barbie outfits.
Clothing creators for Mattel usually make around $62,610 a year, according to CNN. And get this, producing Barbie outfits makes Mattel one of the biggest clothing manufacturers in the world!

Dang!

By the way, I did a Google [...]

Comic Con Movies

Comic Con was last weekend and a whole slew of movies were discussed and previewed. Click the links for some excellently snarky comments, and reports from the Con floor. Here’s a few that caught my eye…

Tron 2. With a TERRIBLE title, though the reviews from the trailer were all very good.

Red Sonja – Seriously, we [...]

Happy Hump Day With Even More Kenny Loggins

I have been listening to the Top Gun soundtrack so today’s flashback returns to the theme “Oh God oh God please don’t make a sequel to Top Gun.” Also, I have an interview today with a company that’s kind of a dude company – not totally thrilled about the job but if they offer a [...]

Interesting fact about John Wayne

Was reading thru some of my news feeds and blogs and ran across this interesting fact about John Wayne, who died of lung cancer:
Turns out, much of the filming for “The Conqueror” was done in Utah’s Snow Canyon, about 150 miles downwind from a U.S. nuclear testing facility.
Wayne, along with director Dick Powell, costars [...]

Holy statistics Batman!

CNN is reporting that Americans are driving less because of the increase in gas prices. And by less I mean, holy heck that’s a big number!
Americans drove 9.6 billion fewer miles in May compared with a year earlier, according to a report Monday from the Federal Highway Administration.

I helped! See, unemployment IS good for SOMETHING!

Also [...]

End of the weekend is always so sad

I had a really nice weekend with my husband. On Saturday we walked a bunch of miles to our local shopping/dining/theatre area. We hit the art house and saw Mongol, which was pretty good. Then lunch at The Counter – a build your own burger place that is most excellent. I hate sweet potatoes but [...]

I put my foot down at this 80s sequel!

There are rumors of a Top Gun sequel. I Watch Stuff’s source says:
A script outline has been written, but the sequel depends on Cruise, 46, saying yes.
An insider said: “The idea is Maverick is at the Top Gun school as an instructor — and this time it is he who has to deal with a [...]

Happy Hump Day – Madonna style

This weekend on the way back from Martinez I was letting the iPhone shuffle up music in the car and every other song was an old Madonna tune. Which isn’t a bad thing in my book. More amazing was the fact that I learned that my husband knew a lot of the words to old [...]

Evil Dead: The Musical

On Saturday night my husband and I went to Martinez, California to see something I’ve been wanting to see for years – Evil Dead: The Musical. I’ve been a big Sam Raimi/Evil Dead fan for quite a few years now. If you’ve not seen the Evil Dead trilogy, it’s a campy horror cult classic [...]

Outer Space is awesome

I stumbled across an article this weekend about a conference going on in the UK. The conference is addressing Global Catastrophic Risks. They started with Things That Can Kill Us From Space. Seriously. They’re discussing catastrophic asteroid strikes, gamma rays, and other killer space phenomenon. It’s interesting stuff, check it out.

Then I learned that [...]