Bonus pop culture trivia about Omen II:
Jonathan Scott-Taylor, who played the 12-year-old Son of Satan, once played Jesus on stage.
Even funnier: he now lives in Australia, making his living as…………..a web consultant.
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So imagine you’re William Holden of “Damien: Omen II.” Just about every person who’s come into contact with your nephew has either ended up hanged, thrown out a hospital window or decapitated. Your own brother was shot by police in a church as he tried to kill the child with ceremonial daggers, after revealing the 666 birthmark in Damien’s scalp.
Don’t you think you would have some reservations about raising the little dickens?
farewell to Blogger!
I’m back. It’s been an interesting and fun few days. It feels great to have all my weblog data in my own database, so I can do with it what I please. I’ve been wanting to do this at least since June.
There are a couple of changes around here:
-a tweak of the design. Hope you like it.
-when you click on the “talk back” link, you now go to a full page with the original post at the top, and all the comments below. I changed this because I like seeing the context of the comments on the same page, and I think a full page (rather than a pop-up window) gives the words room to breathe. But I can change this back if people don’t like it this way.
-permalinks now go to a separate page, rather than an anchor on an archive page. I think this is cleaner and better.
-rather than a separate “links” page, I set up a little database table with my favorite links in it. You’ll get one for each refresh. It’s a stopgap measure until I get my weblog directory system worked out.
I also changed the words mean things directory, as you have found. There will always be a redirect from the original page to this one, but you might want to update your bookmarks.
Let me know what you think, and bring on 2002!
Just now clicked onto MSNBC and from the corner of my eye saw the headline “President resigns.” And for a microsecond there my heart leapt. But it was not to be.
My friend Paul likes to say that I’m too narrow in my movie choices, that I stick too closely to my usual stuff. What this really means is that I’m not usually willing to sit through the English drawing room comedies and 14-part miniseries about French royalty that he seems to favor. So the other night he was in charge of renting a movie and bringing it back to my place, where I have a decent TV. He brought several movies, but the one he really wanted to see was called “Kind Hearts and Coronets,” starring a very young Alec Guinness.
I think you’re beginning to see where this story is going.
As the black-and-white credits of this movie started unspooling, with photos of the cast surrounded with cameos trimmed in lace, I unfortunately audibly groaned. It was a small groan, but not silent. I soon found out that the film was unfortunately misfiled in the “Comedy” section of the video store. But I sat through it, and I’m glad I did – it gave me enough movie ammunition for several months. Now when I want him to watch something produced in the modern era, he’ll be less able to fight with me about it.
I love it when I’m right.
I have a sense of optimism about the new year. Why this is, I couldn’t tell you. I’m not a big fan of New Year’s celebrations anyway, preferring to be a grumpy old man and boycott the whole enterprise. But as for the prospects for 2002, for some reason I have high hopes. It’s going to be a good year.
Movie sound bite grab bag:
“How’s that working out for you?” – famous WMT tagline
“No, unless round is funny” – one of many hilarious exchanges
“The penis is evil!” – can you identify this movie?
I was rooting through my MP3 collection and found these gems. Thought you would find them as entertaining as I do.
Couldn’t agree more. We humans do interesting things to fool ourselves.
A Christmas Story
My mother set out some small candy dishes on Christmas Eve, containing those red and green M&Ms they sell this time of year. I took a couple of them and they tasted sort of chalky. I told my mother about this, and she said, “Well, maybe it’s because they were in the freezer.”
“In the freezer?” I said. “Why did you put them in the freezer? They have a candy shell, after all.”
“Well, they’re from two years ago,” she said, with a straight face.
So my mother had purchased this $3 bag of holiday M&Ms in 1999 (!) and stretched them out for the following three (!) Christmases. She probably spent more on electricity to keep them frozen than she would have if she had bought a fresh bag. Live and learn.
As this year comes to a close, I just wanted to take a minute to thank all the fantastic, intelligent, funny, cool people who come to my little corner of the web on a regular basis. There were times this year, like many other webloggers, when I thought about just packing it all in. I’m so glad I didn’t. The people I’ve met through this site have changed my life in ways I could have never imagined, and I’m so grateful for that. All of you mean more to me than I can express. Thanks again, and I hope we continue to entertain, educate and irritate each other for many years to come.
Happy Holidays.