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Venice Jim
January 24th, 2010
12:21 am
not to be confused with GENE Simmons…
jeffrey d
January 24th, 2010
12:21 am
Did nolie already flee to Mexico?
The Grinch
January 24th, 2010
12:21 am
As you get to know me, my man, you’ll see I rarely post without sarcasm or irony. Except in my last one about Ashley.
Cracked.com recently described Gene Simmons as looking like a cross between a Jewish “Lurch” and a leather shovel. I guess they meant he isn’t aging well.
BossLady
January 24th, 2010
12:23 am
From an Old School lady, in history looking back to the late 70s and 80s when people were worried about computers and electronics in general it has contributed to baseball attendance.
As in our household there are at least 10-15 people at our house to watch the games.
If you take the $65 each tickets for us along with the driving 37-40 miles and parking we are down $150 already. Any refreshments and cocktails that we enjoy with the souvenirs and some food we drop $200+ at Turner Field. When we think about the cost of our huge wall flat screen tv it is quite silly to go through the inconvenience of trekking to the TED.
We have friends and family that cannot afford the tickets or the parking. It is only nice or generous to just sponsor nights for everyone to come, eat and enjoy. Sports parties in the home and several sports bars are taking over.
Where we live it is not only smart but reasonable for people to just stay in the area and enjoy the game.
So, all in all the television, computer, gas saving, alcohol price, food consideration is important. It is quite funny too, when people start walking in our door. It’s like where did they come from?, did you invite them? Did they call? No. No. No. but they come. It is like a big charity or as we call it “GIVING BACK”
nolie
January 24th, 2010
12:25 am
you’ll see I rarely post without sarcasm or irony. Grinch
and even then it is probably facetious
nolie
January 24th, 2010
12:27 am
Did nolie already flee to Mexico? jeffrey
nope still here. I checked and they cannot prosecute me for inciting to infringe. And I would never ever never actually copy anything.
Heath
January 24th, 2010
12:28 am
Grinch -
As a Kentucky guy…. just LOVE Ashely Judd.
MZ
January 24th, 2010
12:29 am
going to New Orleans tomorrow for the NFC title game … how bout the national anthem is being performed by none other than Kris freakin’ Allen … get real
jeffrey d
January 24th, 2010
12:30 am
I asked because of the upside down ?
Darlington
January 24th, 2010
12:31 am
Up in the Air’s one of the best movies I’ve seen in a long time. Really, really good…
The Grinch
January 24th, 2010
12:32 am
But I’m never, ever, EVER capricious. I simply refuse to be.
BossLady, I hear you. It’s amazing how many new “friends” I’ve made since I installed a 50″ plasma in Grinch Den. I still make an effort to go to at least 5-10 games a season though, and I save money by drinking grain alcohol in the parking lot beforehand.
David O'Brien
January 24th, 2010
12:32 am
Glove51: yes, bunch of us discussed Up in the Air after seeing it a few weeks back. One of my favorite movies of the year, no doubt. The Hurt Locker’s probably the only one I thought was better this past year, although Crazy Heart, District 9 and a few others were also outstanding.
Speaking of outstanding, Saturday Night Live is not anymore. But that’s not news to anyone, I’m sure. I’m watching this rerun from a late-December show that I didn’t see, and at the halfway point there have been only three skits that were funny, along with a good Weekend Update. But I will say, that Rihanna can sing. And she’s easy on the eyes.
Tomahawkin
January 24th, 2010
12:34 am
Grinch
I agree
Now that the Bandwagon Jets fans are coming out of the closet here in the “A” (Atlanta)
Peyton’s Place is gonna be nasty tomorrow as the Colts wipe the floor over the NY Jokes!
David O'Brien
January 24th, 2010
12:35 am
I told my Clemson friend I couldn’t take much more Vitale. She responded “Is he the one who sounds like he’s dying?” — jeffrey d
That made me laugh. Tell her she just gave one of the best descriptions I’ve ever heard of Vitale. Tell her that’s nothing — imagine if Duke had lost….
nolie
January 24th, 2010
12:36 am
He’s facetious,
but not capricious
nope, he’s just not that kinda guy
he’s ironic
but not laconic
and he always has a twinkle in his eye
The Grinch
January 24th, 2010
12:42 am
Heath, you ain’t gotta be from Kentucky. You just gotta like hot women.
Excellent, nolie! Now turn it into a haiku.
His irony is
Undisputed. could the twink-
-le be Sirius?
(get it? dog star? This isn’t part of the haiku)
David O'Brien
January 24th, 2010
12:43 am
Anybody see the movie Extract? (It’s directed by Mike Judge, who did Office Space, Beavis and Butt-Head, etc.). Extract is not great, but worth renting. Has some funny lines. Anyway, only mention it because Gene Simmons was brought up while ago. He’s in the movie, believe it or not. Plays an ambulance-chasing slimeball attorney. And actually plays it pretty well, albeit in a sort of strange manner.
nolie
January 24th, 2010
12:48 am
Anybody see the movie Extract? DOB
I thought it was kinda vanilla
richbrave
January 24th, 2010
12:49 am
The Grinch
January 24th, 2010
12:32 am
But I’m never, ever, EVER capricious. I simply refuse to be.
BossLady, I hear you. It’s amazing how many new “friends” I’ve made since I installed a 50″ plasma in Grinch Den. I still make an effort to go to at least 5-10 games a season though, and I save money by drinking grain alcohol in the parking lot beforehand.
Grape and grain. The drink of the truely ruthless.
Venice Jim
January 24th, 2010
12:50 am
Speaking of Gene Simmons, in the most recent Playboy he names his favorite playmate – shockingly enough, he picks his wife…
richbrave
January 24th, 2010
12:51 am
nolie
January 24th, 2010
12:36 am
He’s facetious,
but not capricious
nope, he’s just not that kinda guy
he’s ironic
but not laconic
and he always has a twinkle in his eye
Nice turn of the word nolie. How about lugubrious? Twist away friend.
AtTheMike
January 24th, 2010
12:51 am
Cold Stove- I’ve cooled down with a few beers the last few hours and I appologize for being so crude towards you. Silly and childish on my part.
Call me silly, but I get fanatical about my teams with the braves my favorite of all time. I just want them to put the best possible team as they can and feel strongly about them adding one more bat. Very emotional with the whole thing, I guess.
Anyways, have a great night Cold Stove and the rest of my fellow braves fans! I might drop by at any time with some more “entertainment” at any time, so be ready! LOL
nolie
January 24th, 2010
12:54 am
you just read the articles, right VJ?
nolie
January 24th, 2010
12:54 am
How about lugubrious? rich
I’m afraid I’d end up lugubrious if I even tried, rich
The Grinch
January 24th, 2010
12:54 am
Yikes! Zing to nolie. Alexander Pope said “He who would pun would pick a pocket.” I’m glad you share this most useless and degenerate trait with me, my man.
richbrave, you apparently saw me in the Ted upon the reappearance of both Glavine and Smoltz whilst under the spell (enhancement?) of Early Times and Nehi.
richbrave
January 24th, 2010
12:54 am
VJ:
Whaddup dog?
AtTheMike
January 24th, 2010
12:57 am
Back to the Future and Jaws in the same night? To me, there’s no better way to spend a saturday night/sunday morning. Maybe I’ll pop in The Shining after BTTF to top off a great night.
Poor Michael J. Fox…. He and Kevin Bacon are two of my all time favorite actors. Bacon is so underrated. Fox’s P.D. has kept a ton of younger people from seeing true acting
nolie
January 24th, 2010
12:58 am
He who would pun would pick a pocket. Grinch
amongst many other dastardly deeds
The Grinch
January 24th, 2010
1:00 am
Lugubrious? #%$^ that. I’m too drunk. However, I see a green tree that needs to be burned to make the rest of the forest healthier…BRB
richbrave
January 24th, 2010
1:01 am
DAVID O’BRIEN:
I always hoped FURMAN BISHER would write an article comparing EDDIE MATHEWS and CHIPPER JONES. But he never did. Has anyone who has been a sports writer who lasted through both men’s careers and to date done a comparative that you’re aware of?
Venice Jim
January 24th, 2010
1:02 am
nolie – no – it’s part of a 40 year study…
nolie
January 24th, 2010
1:02 am
sponsored by Trojan?
Venice Jim
January 24th, 2010
1:04 am
richbrave – rough week for he Tribe – crushed by VCU on Wednesday, lose a heartbreaker to ODU tonight…
The Grinch
January 24th, 2010
1:05 am
Much better. Venice Jim, I can hardly blame old Gene; I’ve wasted much of my genetic code on Shannon (from a distance) myself over the years.
Nolie, what does USC have to do with it?
Venice Jim
January 24th, 2010
1:05 am
wow – just got a “posting too quickly” warning – I apologize to all those whose posts I am pre-empting by my selfishness
AtTheMike
January 24th, 2010
1:05 am
ANYTHING with Jennifer Aniston I’ll watch. Her little snobby attitude is such a turn on. Love that chick. Yes, Penelope Cruz is a little hottie herself, I agree with O’Brien. Here’s a name you haven’t heard in a while…. Elizabeth Shue. Mercy! What a beautiful woman!
richbrave
January 24th, 2010
1:06 am
The GRINCH:
Call me rich, GRINCH, and if there’s anything you can do to enhance the reality of that handle, I’ll be anything but lugubrious.
nolie
January 24th, 2010
1:06 am
take your time Jim, read another article
richbrave
January 24th, 2010
1:07 am
Elizabeth Shue. Mercy! What a beautiful woman!
She’s a SAINT!!!!
richbrave
January 24th, 2010
1:09 am
Time to finish my CROWN ROYAL VAT 16 MANHATTEN, and slither off to slumber. Nytol!!!!
Venice Jim
January 24th, 2010
1:09 am
nolie – I am currently watching “War Is a Science” from Pippin on YouTube – finished the articles a few days ago… (someone else here just headed off to attempt to sleep)…
nolie
January 24th, 2010
1:10 am
I gotta admit that I coulda been arrested for my thoughts while watching her in Adventures in Babysitting. she was cute as a button.
Razorback Red
January 24th, 2010
1:10 am
Nascar fan or not this is a great story. This happened at my old stompin’ grounds in my home-town. Enjoy.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/blog/index?entryID=4850413&name=newton_david
Heath
January 24th, 2010
1:10 am
Easy to think of Elizabeth when you’re watching Back to the Future
nolie
January 24th, 2010
1:11 am
always easy to think on Elisabeth
–
The Grinch
January 24th, 2010
1:12 am
My handle or yours, Rich? I enhance mine every Christmas. If you want a cut, I suppose it would serve both purposes. It’s the Who’s who are lugubrious; I always smoke their hash. Don’t know why they keep it in cans.
The resulting munchies make the roast beast that much tastier.
Tomahawkin
January 24th, 2010
1:14 am
Grinch…
“I’m Too Drunk”…
LOL that’s the old Grinch we all know and love I miss those day in 2006 blogging with you on here while I was F’f up after a college party, lol
Venice Jim
January 24th, 2010
1:14 am
Heath – made an excellent steak tonight, and saw the Devils win (saw may be an overstatement – I was competing with tennis and skating for TV time), so the evening improved after the earlier loss…
AtTheMike
January 24th, 2010
1:16 am
Heath- E.Shue isn’t in this one, she’s in part 2, but the girl in the original is pretty easy on the eyes too.
nolie- Adventures in Babysitting…. LOL! Yeah, she was even hot in The Karate Kid, especially the beach scene.
Moe Berg
January 24th, 2010
1:16 am
Didn’t Elisabeth Shue marry a Guggenheim?
uga-brave
January 24th, 2010
1:16 am
dob. after a great georgia win over tenn. the wife and me went to the tara and saw crazy heart.
great movie. pretty sure bridges hoist’s the oscar.
much like mickey rouke in the “wrestler”
bridges deserves it. great film.
The Grinch
January 24th, 2010
1:20 am
Moe, hot people we think about when…well, they don’t marry ANYONE. EVER. Leave the door open, man.
Damn, T; has it been that long? Oh, no; here goes the doorbell. BBE
Moe Berg
January 24th, 2010
1:21 am
The Grinch–Too late. Already got married. I guess my life is over…huh?
richbrave
January 24th, 2010
1:21 am
Moe Berg
January 24th, 2010
1:16 am
Didn’t Elisabeth Shue marry a Guggenheim?
That fox married a museum? Damn.
haggard 1
January 24th, 2010
1:22 am
AtTheMike- How ’bout Michael J. Fox in Doc Hollywood and Kevin Bacon in the movie of the Willie Morris book MY Dog Skip ?
AtTheMike
January 24th, 2010
1:24 am
Only film I wouldn’t watch that features Elizabeth Shue is Cocktail. Even she couldn’t save that monumental disaster.
I mentioned Kevin Bacon and here’s something you may not have known about him… his second feature film was the original Friday the 13th. He gets an arrow rammed through his throat my Ms.Voorhies. His 1st major film was Animal House.
Heath
January 24th, 2010
1:24 am
AtTheMike -
Funny….I was actually thinking Karate Kid…
nolie
January 24th, 2010
1:26 am
She and Woody Harrelson made a movie just a few miles up the road from here in 1998 called PALMETTO. Kind of a noirish mystery thriller. Anyhoo my buddy and I both tried out for parts and he got cast in a no-dialogue scene that lasted about 20 seconds. I was totally jealous.
The best part was hanging around the set and leaving drool trails all over the place since Gina Gershon was in it too.
I hadn’t realized that Lisa-what they called her- was so short, she’s not but an inch or two over 5′ . she was a tad bit heavier in that movie too. didn’t bother us any though. Gershon is hot in an all together different way. Loved her in BOUND
Moe Berg
January 24th, 2010
1:27 am
richbrave–that or the progeny of a museum…not sure which is worse.
nolie
January 24th, 2010
1:29 am
I’m pretty sure she was from a well to do family Moe
AtTheMike
January 24th, 2010
1:30 am
Haggard- Doc Hollywood is an ok movie, but as usual, Fox turns in a great performance. Never saw My Dog Skip, but I’m sure Bacon goes unnoticed in that as well.
Gotta another “did you know”:
Fox first started having symptoms of P.D. during the filming of Doc Hollywood.
uga-brave
January 24th, 2010
1:30 am
well liz shue always looked hot in “leaving las vegas”
Moe Berg
January 24th, 2010
1:32 am
nolie, no doubt. she was working on her undergrad degree at harvard, when she left to pursue her career.
uga-brave
January 24th, 2010
1:32 am
nolie,
back to westerns.
the “outlaw josie wales” was pretty darn good.
Moe Berg
January 24th, 2010
1:34 am
“well liz shue always looked hot in “leaving las vegas””
I just looked back and realized that this was 15 years ago. God, I feel old. Well, I think I’ll head off to bed rather than reminisce about a long time ago.
uga-brave
January 24th, 2010
1:36 am
big jake? rooster cogburn?
and on current always loved “toombstone”
val kilmer as doc holliday. great stuff.
David O'Brien
January 24th, 2010
1:36 am
Gina Gershon … oh, yes.
And in the movie Bound, with Jennifer Tilly. Good call, Nolie. Smoldering scenes. I might have to rent that one again, haven’t seen it in quite a while.
Elisabeth Shue = smokin’. She was never better than in Leaving Las Vegas, which I thought was also one of Nic Cage’s finest performances. Pleasant surprise when the lovely Ms. Shue showed up this past season in a couple of episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
uga-brave
January 24th, 2010
1:39 am
dob, i love curb your enthusiasm. like the office always a couple of moments that makes you uncomfortable.
nolie
January 24th, 2010
1:39 am
Senator The war’s over. Our side won the war. Now we must busy ourselves winning the peace. And Fletcher, there’s an old saying: To the victors belong the spoils
Fletcher There’s another old saying, Senator: Don’t piss down my back and tell me it’s raining
OJW is pretty damn good. one of my favorites of his movies.
Heath
January 24th, 2010
1:40 am
uga-brave -
I just watched tombstone a couple of months ago (though, not for the first time)…good movie
uga-brave
January 24th, 2010
1:41 am
nic cages best movie. adapation.
Heath
January 24th, 2010
1:42 am
Nic Cage = Under-rated actor.
Moe Berg
January 24th, 2010
1:43 am
Does anyone here know Meena Kumari? I am watching her now. Absolutely sublime. One of the foremost sublime and forlorn female actors ever. Drank herself to death in her 30s. Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful.
nolie
January 24th, 2010
1:43 am
you mean Adaptation I think Uga. It was very good, but I’m not sure it would be my favorite.
Guilty admission…I’m kinduva THE ROCK junkie.
AtTheMike
January 24th, 2010
1:45 am
I think I’ve created an Elizabeth Shue craze around here. If you all wake up and realize you had a dream of Elizabeth giving you a massage on the beach in a tight bikini, you can all thank yours truely. LOL
David O'Brien
January 24th, 2010
1:49 am
Couldn’t agree more about Kevin Bacon being one of the underrated great actors of the past few decades. A few years after Animal House, he was great in Diner, which one of my favorite movies, and to me the best of Barry Levinson’s great Baltimore movies. Talk about a cast of rising stars, it had young Mickey Rourke, Kevin Bacon, Ellen Barkin, Steve Guttenberg, Paul Reiser….
nolie
January 24th, 2010
1:50 am
Meena Kumari, you know there is another one acting now I believe Moe. Not all that sure as I’m not into those films
AtTheMike
January 24th, 2010
1:50 am
Or is it “truly”. Some damn words are just invented to confuse you I think. MAN…. I think I had one to many beers this evening, but whatever!
haggard 1
January 24th, 2010
1:53 am
AtTheMike
Did know about the Doc Hollywood time frame and Parkinsons. Apparently, he and Woody Harrelson partied pretty hard during filming and, the mornings after, Fox thought the initial trembling was due to alcohol. That was 1991 or 1992.
A few years ago I was knocking around below Gainesville, Fl., found Micanopi–the small town where Hollywood was filmed–and talked to a local fireman about the filming. He had good things to say about how Fox and wife Tracy treated the locals.
My Dog Skip is a good little film. Diane Lane is Bacon’s wife, Frankie Muniz is their only son, and Luke Wilson–the guy in the new AT&T ads–plays a local football hero who returns home frrom the war,(WWII) labeled a coward.
AtTheMike
January 24th, 2010
1:58 am
O’Brien or whoever– name one bad Kevin Bacon performance? Granted, I haven’t seen every one of his films, but the ones I have seen he just steals the movie(Friday the 13th not included,LOL). He always plays the best villian’s in movies, but can play any damn part he wanted, for sure.
Heath- Nic Cage isn’t what I would call ‘underrated’. I guarantee he has gotten more publicity than a Kevin Bacon. Cage is a good actor though.
David O'Brien
January 24th, 2010
1:59 am
uga-brave: While Adaptation was a great movie, no doubt, I don’t know about it being Nic Cage’s best part. The other stars in that movie were as good or better than him, weren’t they? I just remember coming away thinking, why isn’t this Chris Cooper a star (I think he was pretty much a character actor at the time, but he’s had some starring roles since then).
I’ll take Cage in Raising Arizona. And in Moonstruck. And over-the-top Cage in Wild At Heart was also great stuff. And Cage in Matchstick Men, and last year’s remake of Bad Lieutenant… So many good parts. And do you remember how good he was in Birdy? He’s been in so many cool movies, but about the only thing that a whole generation knows him for are his blockbuster action films.
Heath
January 24th, 2010
1:59 am
DOB -
Liked Cage in Guarding Tess too.
Heath
January 24th, 2010
2:03 am
While we’re at it…we’ll get a double-whammy for ya… Captain Correlli’s Mandolin
Moe Berg
January 24th, 2010
2:03 am
When I saw people starting to discuss Cage, I thought of Wild at Heart and Raising Arizona. He is wonderful when he holds nothing back, when he’s not afraid of going over the top, just letting it go. Once he started on his action film trajectory, he was never the same.
haggard 1
January 24th, 2010
2:03 am
Early Nicholas Cage- Peggy Sue Got Married
nolie
January 24th, 2010
2:03 am
Liked Bacon in Murder In The First. Some guilty Bacon- Wild Things,The River Wild,Tremors
AtTheMike
January 24th, 2010
2:03 am
Haggard- I’ll have to check out that movie. Seriously, we’re going to the video store tomorrow and I’ll rent it.
David O'Brien
January 24th, 2010
2:03 am
AtTheMike: No, Cage certainly isn’t “underrated.”
.
N8
January 24th, 2010
2:04 am
On the Gene Simmons topic, being the KISS fan that I am, my wife snagged me all 3 seasons of Family Jewels (had only caught a few episodes of it before that), they were only 10 bucks each at Walmart, so what the hell.
I’m not a huge reality TV fan, and realize that it’s probably more staged than reality, but damn is his son Nick funny. Just kills me how much he mocks him and rolls his eyes at every BS statement Gene makes. And he makes a lot of them. I’m pleasently surprised at how entertaining it is for how schlocky it is.
As for Kevin Bacon? Couldn’t agree more. He’s made a nice career for himself. With the recently “on hold” production of the remake of Footloose, a buddy of mine and myself were talking just the other day, that for as bad of a show as Footloose was (for the life of me can’t understand why somebody would want to remake that flick), that had a pretty strong cast as well. Bacon of course, John Lithgow, Sarah Jessica Parker and the late Chris Penn.
Just goes to show that good actors can be in some pretty poor flix when they are starting out.
Heath
January 24th, 2010
2:04 am
AtTheMike -
What I meant by Cage being underrated is what DOB said…everyone remembers ConAir and Gone in 60 seconds, etc….but he is a very diverse actor that plays a lot different types of roles very well.
nolie
January 24th, 2010
2:06 am
Loved Guarding tess, did not care much for Captain Correlli
David O'Brien
January 24th, 2010
2:06 am
Bacon will take risky roles, too, and roles in small films that he knows aren’t going to do much box office. If you’re a fan of his and haven’t seen The Woodsman from a few years ago, you really should rent it. Dark subject matter, and he’s remarkable in the starring role.
N8
January 24th, 2010
2:07 am
nolie, I agree about Murder in the First. What’s cool about that show is that Slater was given the option of which charcter to play. I’m sure it would have been just as good. But hard to imagine that movie with the roles reversed for Bacon and Slater.
Also agree on River Wild. Cheesy show. But entertaining the first time you see it. Talk about another cheesy movie (and guilty Bacon pleasure, along with another stellar cast)… Flatliners.
Keifer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Bacon, Oliver Platt. Always liked that show. Not sure why.
N8
January 24th, 2010
2:08 am
Favorite Cage movie? I love Snake Eyes. Just a neat style of doing the movie from many different characters perspective. Not a great storyline, but one of my favs.
Didn’t Cage have a small role in Fast Times?
nolie
January 24th, 2010
2:09 am
Kevin’s wife was in The Woodsman too. Love THE CLOSER.
nolie
January 24th, 2010
2:10 am
Slater. now there’s a guy who got hot fairly quick and got un-hot pretty quick too. Heathers and True Romance shine IMO
Heath
January 24th, 2010
2:10 am
…though I must say…this blog is probably better prepared to talk movies and music than the average person… and sometimes baseball
N8
January 24th, 2010
2:12 am
nolie, the same freind and I were just talking about Walken’s scene with Dennis Hopper in True Romance. GREAT scene.
nolie
January 24th, 2010
2:12 am
baseball? what is that thing you call baseball, Heath?
nolie
January 24th, 2010
2:13 am
N8, yeah he did, as Nicolas Coppola