February 26, 2008

NASCAR Oscar 2008

A couple of years ago, I did a blog post called “Nascar Oscar” and it was a lot of fun, so I decided to do one for this year. Enjoy!

MIKE THE NASCAR ANNOUNCER: We’re here at the 80th annual Academy Awards. We missed last year, on account of Jeff here havin’ an unfortunate “incident” at Daytona in 2007.

JEFF THE NASCAR ANNOUNCER: {{shudders at memory of the college student who offered him some “E” which he misheard as “tea” and cheerfully popped into his mouth with a hearty, “Thanks buddy! I usually drink Luzianne but I’ll try your concentrate!”}}

MIKE THE NASCAR ANNOUNCER: ((spots Regis Philbin approaching}} Hey lookie, Jeff! It’s the Lucky Charms Leprechaun!

JEFF THE NASCAR ANNOUNCER: ((has momentary flashback of hallucinations from 2007, then spots Marion Cotillard and quakes in terror}} Oh gawd, Mike! Is that an albino mermaid?

Marion Cotillard Albino Oscar Dress

MIKE THE NASCAR ANNOUNCER: Calm down Jeff. Hey, there’s Mickey Rooney - I thought he was dead!

JEFF THE NASCAR ANNOUNCER: Ain’t he still on Sixty Minutes?

MIKE THE NASCAR ANNOUNCER: And there’s Jack Nicholson!

JEFF THE NASCAR ANNOUNCER: Aww, poor fella, wearin’ them big ol’ sunglasses. I didn’t realize he’d gone blind. I guess they wouldn’t let his seein’ eye dog in with him.

MIKE THE NASCAR ANNOUNCER: It’s great to see John Wayne and Bob Hope again, wonder what they been up to?

JEFF THE NASCAR ANNOUNCER: Ack! A bee! {{begins swatting wildly at the air}}

MIKE THE NASCAR ANNOUNCER: {{Sees clip of Jarvier Bardem, in No Country for Old Men}} Day-um, that’s the ugliest woman I’ve ever seen.

JEFF THE NASCAR ANNOUNCER: {{Sees Tilda Swinton}} That poor red-haired gal musta got mugged on the way over here, somebody done stole the sleeve right off her dress.
Tilda Swinton

MIKE THE NASCAR ANNOUNCER: There’s that cute little gal that works at the Pie Hole.


JEFF THE NASCAR ANNOUNCER: They keep sayin’ “There Will Be No Old Men” Is that a jab at John McCain?

MIKE THE NASCAR ANNOUNCER: I dunno, Jeff, I think the commies are takin’ over everything! There ain’t no Americans winnin nothin’!

JEFF THE NASCAR ANNOUNCER: Hell yeah! They even got Indiana Jones wearin’ earrings! What is the world comin’ to?

MIKE THE NASCAR ANNOUNCER: {{Sees the Coen Brothers going onstage for third time}} Wasn’t them fellers just there?

JEFF THE NASCAR ANNOUNCER: {{Shudders again at thought of flashbacks}} I don’t feel so good, Mike, can we go home?

MIKE THE NASCAR ANNOUNCER: Yeah Jeff, let’s get outta here. Folks keep sayin’ “Juno” and I keep tellin’ ‘em, “No, I DON’T know, now leave me alone”.

Categories: Humor, Movies

August 9, 2006

Wordless Wednesday 9

Queen Klutz - The Misadventures of a Very Clumsy Woman
Queen Klutz - The Misadventures of a Very Clumsy Woman

Happy Wordless Wednesday from the book hooker - check it out! Thanks!

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Categories: Wordless-Wednesday, Writing, Movies

May 1, 2006

Movie Monday

Rained all weekend here, ending the much-anticipated Grass Mowing and Weed Pulling Festival (crowd moans regret, carnival game-vendors pack and leave in a huff).

Decided to rent movies instead, reviews herein:

Ron White: You Can’t Fix Stupid
Want a quickie? LOL This one runs less than an hour…
Good ol’ boy Ron White, known as part of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, and comedy bit, “They Call Me Tater Salad” had me laughing so hard I was sitting in a wet spot. No, that was from forgetting to close the window when it stormed and the couch got rain-soaked. But he was still damn funny. Not as redneck as you might think (or fear, depending on your degree of Yankee-ness LOL)

Capote
(Spoiler - the bad guys get hanged at the end LOL) Well-acted but l-o-n-g and frankly, kinda dreary (like duh - story of a man who devoted years of his life to writing about murderers and got so twisted by it he never finished another book).

Shopgirl
Coming from Steve Martin, the wild and cra-a-a-azy guy, this movie is very subtle. Like put-Husband-to-sleep subtle LOL Well, not quite that bad, but while there are moments that are laugh-out-loud funny, overall the movie is quiet to the point of feeling almost hollow. It left me feeling melancholy and in need of liquor LOL

Two For the Money
Can you put together Al Pacino, Mathew McConaughey, and Rene Russo and make a bad movie? Well…maybe not bad but not great either.
Mathew “Voted Sexiest Man” McConaughey plays a young man (Brandon) who has a knack for picking football game winners. He gets recruited by Al “Not Voted Sexiest Man but I Still Love Him” Pacino, whose business is betting advice. (This from Amazon description - a man building a media empire on sports tips, even though he himself can only resist his own gambling addiction thanks to the fierce devotion of his wife, Toni (Russo). Brandon swiftly becomes Walter’s protege and transforms into an aggressive, high-risk salesman, even going so far as to change his name to create a new self. But when Brandon starts to think of his knack as magic, everything Walter has built around his golden boy starts to teeter.)
Also featuring Jeremy Piven from Entourage on HBO, and I have already mentally typecast him as the smarmy show biz agent I guess, ‘cause this character seemed an awful lot the same. Again, I felt kind of empty and in need of strong drink when it was over. If you’re lookin’ for a good excuse to get plastered (LOL) this movie is for you.

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On a brighter note - we have new kittens! Out here on the farm, we have lots of outside cats. They live in the barn, keep the mouse population down, and grace us each Spring with a new litter-of-love LOL

Here they are, only a few hours after Daughter discovered them outside, and mama and babies were brought indoors, to protect them from the weather and hawks (if you’ve ever seen a hawk carry an infant kitty away, you know what I mean).

OK, on three…one, two….”awwwww”
Kittens born April 30, 2006

LOL

And if you like laughing at anything that can even remotely make fun of Tom Cruise:
Mission Impossible Three Ad Stunt Goes Horribly Wrong

Happy May Day to all!

Categories: Family, Cats, Movies

March 6, 2006

Nascar Oscar

MIKE THE NASCAR ANNOUNCER: Here we are at the 78th annual Academy Awards. How’s the field looking, Jeff?
JEFF THE NASCAR ANNOUNCER: Mike, we’re hearin’ a lot of good things about this here “Brokeback Mountain” movie. From what I can tell, it’s a western.

MIKE THE NASCAR ANNOUNCER: I like westerns. Go Brokeback Mountain!
(Nearby group of set designers remove earbuds of their Ipods, all of which are playing “It’s Raining Men” smile appreciatively, and shout back “You GO girl!”)
JEFF THE NASCAR ANNOUNCER: (Looks around) Uh, they must be talkin’ to them gals behind us.

MIKE THE NASCAR ANNOUNCER: The host tonight is Jon Stewart.
JEFF THE NASCAR ANNOUNCER: Is he related to Tony Stewart?
I got his autograph back when he picked up the Nextel Cup.

MIKE THE NASCAR ANNOUNCER: Here’s the first award - George Clooney.
JEFF THE NASCAR ANNOUNCER: He ain’t no Rosemary, damn that woman could sing.

MIKE THE NASCAR ANNOUNCER: Aw hail, now we’re at the middle of the pack. I’m gonna go have me a chaw.
JEFF THE NASCAR ANNOUNCER: You got some chewin’ tabacky?

MIKE THE NASCAR ANNOUNCER: Well, I was backstage and I heard this fella a-snufflin’, like he had a bad cold. I was gonna give him my handkerchief, but when I walked over to him, he said, “Want some coke?” I told him I’m more of a Pepsi man. He laughed real hard, and tossed me this here tin. (Opens container.) It’s all white and powdery. Maybe they gots the tabacky mold out here. Lemme put a pinch ‘tween my cheek and gum…..
JEFF THE NASCAR ANNOUNCER: Gimme some o’ that too.

MIKE THE NASCAR ANNOUNCER: (Upon seeing Ben Stiller) Who the hail is that feller in the green long-johns?
JEFF THE NASCAR ANNOUNCER: Got me, Mike. Is it gettin’ warm in here?

MIKE THE NASCAR ANNOUNCER: There’s Dolly! Damn that is one F-I-N-E piece o’ womanhood. Look at them headlights!
JEFF THE NASCAR ANNOUNCER: Whoa, Mike, we saw Jennifer Garner slide a bit on the straightaway there.

MIKE THE NASCAR ANNOUNCER: But lookie! Them cute little penguin birds won! And they’re all walkin’ up on the stage! There must be hundreds of ‘em…no, I think I’m just seein’ double…damn that moldy tabacky packs a punch, huh?
JEFF THE NASCAR ANNOUNCER: Aw right June Carter won! (Loosens collar, sweating profusely)

MIKE THE NASCAR ANNOUNCER: There’s Colonel Sanders from Kentucky Fried Chicken!
JEFF THE NASCAR ANNOUNCER: Naw, that’s Robert Altman. He must be dyin’, they’s givin’ him the lifetime award.

MIKE THE NASCAR ANNOUNCER:Woo-hoo! It’s Crash!!
JEFF THE NASCAR ANNOUNCER: That’s what they come for, Mike, that’s what they come for. Where’d them fellers we seen outside go? I feel like dancin’!

Categories: Humor, Movies

January 11, 2006

Tag Time

I’ve been hit!

Ahhhugh!

(Imagine melodramatic clutching of chest followed by much groaning and slow-motion falling to floor, with big finish of raising hand shakily before that last dying gasp)

LOL

Ribbiticus over at Pond Perspective has tagged me with a meme.
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The rules/procedures are as follows:
The first player of this game starts with the topic “five weird habits of yourself,” and people who get tagged need to write an entry about their five weird habits as well as state this rule clearly.

In the end, you need to choose the next five people to be tagged and link to their web journals.

Don’t forget to leave a comment in their blog or journal that says, “You are tagged” (assuming they take comments) and tell them to read yours.
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Here are mine:
1. I use ungodly amounts of sugar in my coffee. I have a giant cup, and I put (gasp) EIGHT spoonfuls of sugar in it. No cream though - LOL

2. I make all the dollar bills in my wallet face the same way LOL If I get change from someplace, I will not make the people in line behind me wait, but when I get to the car, I will pull all of the paper money out, arrange them all facing the same way (and upright, with their heads not upside down LOL) and in incremental order, smallest denominations at the front.

3. I don’t like clowns - they creep me out - LOL

4. I don’t like squishy vegetables. Peas disgust me and they haven’t printed enough money to get me to eat a lima bean - LOL

5. I adore the Sunday paper. I read almost every section. I only read a paper once a week, so I make the most of it - LOL

OK. Yeah, I know, kinda crazy. (Crowd murmurs, “kinda???”) LOL
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My choices to pass this on to are:

1. Booklvr = Books and Random Thoughts
2. Sudiegirl = Musings of a Chick
3. Michael = It Occurred to Me
4. Rocky = Rocky Road Scholar
5. Colleen =Musings From the Edge

Best wishes to all!

Categories: Blogging, Movies