13 Thursday: Strange Brew
1. My friend Jamie Reynolds married Elisha Seigle and changed his name to Jamie Reygle. Recently I received and email from him and noticed he’s now calling himself Jamie Hussein Reygle.
2. My commentary “Does Size Matter: A Vote for Smart Government” appeared with others in a spread of excerpted commentaries in the Sunday Horizon of The Roanoke Times. The collection of election essays, in which 12 out of 13 are pro-Obama, are published in their entirety online HERE.
3. First Colin Powell and now Fonzie, Richie, Andy Griffith, and Opie have all come out to endorse Obama HERE.
4. Things that make me go YIKES posted by Alice Audrey HERE.
5. After more than three years, I feel like my blog is like an overgrown dinosaur and it's only a matter of time before the poles shift and it falls off the face of the earth, becoming extinct.
6. When it comes to the computer, I have to confess to being a hoarder who has emails back into 2006 and hates to delete anything. My disc space is nearly full on both my PC and my laptop, so Joe just gave me a lesson on kilobytes, megabytes, and gigabytes. I’ve started to make some efforts in turning that blue pie back to pink.
7. Is it all in our heads? Why do we think a bowl of noodles looks delicious but a bowl of worms doesn’t?
8. I can see the witch from Snow White (above) standing with her hands on her hips in the pattern on my bedroom rug. I can also see the Queen of hearts (to the right) holding cheerleading pom poms in her hands. 
9. Last night Joe and I watched the movie Star*dust.The man who wrote the fairytale the film is based on said when he visited the movie set he felt guilty that something he made up in his head for fun and that took up a paragraph of words (like the pirate ship that sails in the sky collecting lightening) took 100’s of people and millions of dollars to build and bring to life.
10. Which made me feel creepy about all the money and resources that are spent for our mega entertainment and made me wish they’d only make a handful of movies each year and the rest of the time we’d tell stories, watch local plays, and read books.
11. I have a real friend named Steven Strange.
12. Isn’t it ironic that election season comes around the same time as Halloween, with all those creepy Republican campaign ads on TV scaring your kids and pets?
13. Simon says: Click HERE for the Strange Brew soundtrack.
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Comments
I LOVED that Opie/Fonzie Video....It was kind of great the way Ron Howard put on the "wig" for Opie and then the other wig for "Happy Days. And it was great seeing Andy Griffith, too!
That THINGS THAT MAKE ME GO YIKE.....OY VEY!
Maybe you should just get more "memory" for your computer...Then, you wouldn't have to delete anything....
As ALWAYS, a very RICH TT!
Posted by: OldOldLady Of The Hills | October 30, 2008 12:39 AM
LOL. I got yah, eh? Ah, that was nothing. :)
Posted by: Alice Audrey | October 30, 2008 12:43 AM
I hope your blog doesn't disappear!
I have emails in my "to answer folder" going back to 2003. Every so often I respond to one of them, more out of mischief making than anything else!
Posted by: Nicholas | October 30, 2008 1:17 AM
thursdays here are always fun, but maybe not quite as interesting as jamie hussein reynolds has to be! :)
Posted by: sky | October 30, 2008 3:27 AM
I start to believe that Halloween and American elections are the same event ! lol !
Good luck with Giga, Mega and other bites !
Posted by: Gattina | October 30, 2008 5:21 AM
I see patterns and pictures in my rugs, too.
I am glad Fonzie has caught up with Mr. Powell.
Posted by: SandyCarlson | October 30, 2008 5:58 AM
Ha! I never put the two together about elections and halloween. Sarah Palin scares the you-know-what out of me. :)
Posted by: carmen | October 30, 2008 7:40 AM
Your commentary was fabulous! I'm passing on the link.
And I loved Stardust. Both the book and the movie. Neil Gaiman is one of my idols.
Posted by: Darla | October 30, 2008 8:36 AM
I saw the witch too in the rug.
I can't get over the hairdo's in Strange Brew. The guy looks like he has a bubble.
Posted by: Sherry | October 30, 2008 8:53 AM
The lead singer's hair was a riot, probably a perm.
I did get more RAM space a year or so ago. I found out that the video clips I was saving was taking up a lot of space so I have had to start downloading them to youtube or deleting them.
I would have emails back to 2001 if I could but my hard drive crashed once and I lost them. I still miss the ones from my brothers Jim and Dan who died in 2001. That's the reason I have a hard time deleting emails now.
Posted by: colleen | October 30, 2008 9:22 AM
Why not save all those things to disc? Then you can read them any time you want, just a thought. Great list. Happy Halloween!
Posted by: Adelle Laudan | October 30, 2008 9:31 AM
I tried to download one folder of photos to a disc and it turned out to not have enough room. Also, putting things on discs is, for me, like putting them in a drawer, out of sight out of mind. I usually never see it again. We're thinking of getting an external hard drive or a flash drive that can hold many gigabytes. Also, I really have to begin to hit the delete button more often.
Posted by: colleen | October 30, 2008 9:48 AM
re: #7 - because, unlike Gollum, we don't like to see our food wriggling ;-)
How did you like Star*dust? Did DeNiro make you laugh?
You made ME laugh at #12 ;-)
Here's a video for you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6KL_gGdPIY
Posted by: Janet | October 30, 2008 10:11 AM
Ha! I was expecting to see Howard Dean! I loved Stardust and yes, DeNiro was a wonderful. I said to Joe when he first came on the screen, DeNiro's not going to do an English accent for anybody. And then he did, in a tutu!
Posted by: colleen | October 30, 2008 10:22 AM
Great list. I love the Fonzie and Opie commercial.
Posted by: Journeywoman | October 30, 2008 11:10 AM
Some of those were funny, some of those were not. But, I love the random stuff.
Happy TT!
Posted by: Denise | October 30, 2008 11:39 AM
You know what's funny? The last picture I took was on an oriental rug, too...I just noticed!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fondofelves/2984567073/
the one on the right.
Posted by: Janet | October 30, 2008 11:51 AM
I have a witch on a oriental rug and you have a crushed skull! What a great line-up!
Posted by: colleen | October 30, 2008 1:51 PM
Hey Colleen! I miss responding to your blogs, but I've been checking in daily!
In your rug, I see what you see...but, I also see a rabbit, wearing a pair of sun glasses and he has long wild ears and a little beard. His ears are the witches arms. I've always found pictures in designs! ;)
Posted by: Tammy B. | October 30, 2008 3:18 PM
Oh I see the rabbit too! I think I should post the queen of hearts holding pom poms on the front. xo
Posted by: colleen | October 30, 2008 3:21 PM
I wonder if your friend's middle name was Steve. I do love these random TTs.
You're a gift!
Posted by: On a limb with Claudia | October 30, 2008 6:35 PM
I love looking for pictures in rugs!! It's just as much fun as looking for shapes in clouds.
Posted by: teahouseblossom | October 30, 2008 8:38 PM
Yippee to #3...great post and Happy TT...here's mine:
http://www.apooobooks.com/thursday-thirteen-favorite-halloween-costumes/
Posted by: yasmin | October 30, 2008 9:38 PM
I recently was forced to watch The Love Guru and I spent the entire time lamenting the colossal waste of time, talent, money, and resources that represent entertainment these days. If a fraction of that money went to fight world hunger I bet we could wipe it out.
That said I like Stardust, both movie and book.
Posted by: wesleyjeanne (mountain mama) | October 31, 2008 9:00 AM
How about a portable hard drive? You can get one and put everything on it and then wipe your computer almost completely clean. Just put the hard drive up until you need to reference something. They cost under $100.
Posted by: CountryDew | October 31, 2008 10:15 AM
5. yes, after a certain while, people must be reading archives as if they are the present when I don't even remember what's back there. It's a lot of words but hope you keep adding more too just the same.
6. me too. I have email archives from the last 3 computers on my hard drive.
7. A lot is in our way of thinking. Why do people think shrimp great and grasshoppers not so much?
Posted by: Pearl | October 31, 2008 11:42 AM
I couldn't agree more with #10. It's just staggering the amount of resources and energy that we basically just throw away. Not that you or I are responsible for Hollywood, but yes, it's nice to thing "what if" sometimes.
Posted by: Smiler | November 2, 2008 1:50 AM