The Big Three

Earthquake!
The epicenter of the earthquake was in Virginia. We only felt a few tremors in the NJ/NYC area. It was my 2nd quake of the year. Both times, it felt like a subway train was rumbling beneath me. We suffered no damage, but for a few minutes those cheesy disaster movies set in NY didn’t look so preposterous.


Best line: Cicely Tyson buried beneath the ruins of a church–and fighting for her life!
(Bonus points if you spot Ray J.)

Mom’s Visit!
*We walked from Columbus Circle to 33rd street so she could take it all in–the theaters, the mega stores, the people… She took pictures of everything.
*Went to see Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark.
*She watched all of the episodes of True Blood on HBO on demand–twice. I had never seen an episode; supernatural soap operas aren’t really my thing. Mom tried to explain the vampire, witch, were-leopard, fairy thing but it didn’t help. Tara is cute though.

Hurricane Irene!
The storm turned my mother’s 4 day visit into a 7 day visit. (Amtrak and flood waters don’t mix.)
Our condo association called and said, “Don’t worry, you aren’t in a flood zone, you won’t have to evacuate”. I checked the surge map from the National Weather Service–it too showed that our area was safe. Thankfully, M was not convinced and insisted we make plans to evacuate just in case. Saturday afternoon the mayor issued a mandatory evacuation for our area.

Did our area flood? Nope.
Goodnight Irene

Random Bits

*A plastic bag and Saran Wrap are great for keeping a cast dry

*What would possess a man to have the faces of the 3 Stooges tattooed on his back? Then again, maybe it was a tattoo of the Pep Boys.

*Why is it that vampires foolishly leave wooden stakes is strategic spots around the castles/caves.

*If blogs/media are to be believed, black straight women want to but can’t get married and the black gay people who can get married don’t care about marriage. This is the perfect opportunity for an anti-marriage, black gay man to write a book to/for his black straight sisters: Marriage IS for White Gay People–I don’t need a husband and neither do you!

*Why is  Maybelline using the theme from Magnum PI in one of it’s commercial? I like the music–still don’t want the make-up.

*A new Hellraiser movie without the original Pin Head is like a chocolate chip cookie without the chocolate chips.

*NaNoWriMo is coming. I should start an outline. Wouldn’t hurt if I finished editing the project from last year…

Doppleganger (1993)

So, you are watching a murder mystery where Drew Barrymore plays a young woman who appears to be at the center of a string of murders. Our main character is mentally fragile–has she finally gone Norman Bates? Is someone else trying to push her over the edge?

You get to the denouement, the killer is revealed…and the mystery movie suddenly turns into a horror film.

(The clip below shows the killer, so don’t watch if you don’t want to be spoiled.)

There may have been a 1 or 2 sentence attempt to explain the how/why/what, but I don’t remember it.

It’s just really, really weird.

And I like it. 🙂