test audiences demand a new ending

The Pope's visit to the US was alot like watching The Fight Club or the Sixth Sense. A hitoric visit and a story so completely fascinating and absorbing, interesting and unique.. until... the VERY END of this tale when things go horribly wrong.
The Pope started off his east coast tour by inspiring us with very simple sentences and statements- mostly about how to treat one another and how we must care for the most very vulnerable. His words were so simple, basic and true, and yet so profound at the same time.. much like the finale of Bill and Ted's excellent adventure filled with quotes such as "be excellent to each other, and party on dudes"...or "we are all just dust in the wind" (yes from another source of course)... he really got us thinking and feeling....but then.... OH the horrible ending.. the Pope meets with Kim Davis... test audiences everywhere are revolting and demanding a new ending. this is unacceptable! I demand a re-write.

Bean there, done that

Feeling so OLD now that Frances Bean Cobain is grown up and married.. how did this happen? how is John Stamos playing a grandfather on TV? how did I get to be so old?

5 possible explanations for today's style choices of Joe Davis, the husband of Kim Davis, at her rally with Mike Huckabee:

There is certain fascination with the husband of Kim Davis, Joe Davis, who showed up in his overalls today to rally with Republican nominee Mike Huckabee. Besides questioning their intentions, one cannot help but just say wow that is some presentation. How did he show up like that and consciously choose to wear such an interesting outfit?

Thinking it over, here are some possible explanations:

1. He is in a Dexy's Midnight Runners tribute band called “Midnight Run” and he got the call that Kim was getting out of jail when he was at a dress rehearsal, so he put on a long sleeve shirt and kept the overalls, and got there as fast as he possibly could.
2. Like most men, he has trouble coordinating outfits without his wife's help... and with her in jail.. well his style really fell through the cracks. Normally she has him in indigo denim and black Armani t-shirts.
3. He is in an amateur theater production of Of Mice and Men and he came straight from rehearsal. He is of course portraying Lennie Small.
4. Along the same lines as above, he is possibly in a local dinner theater production of Oaklahoma! as villian Jud Fry.
5. He is working with Annie Lebowitz on a depression era/dustbowl black and white artistic coffee table book, reinacting the plight of displaced farmers during the dust bowl migration of the 1930's.

Rethinking Bond

James Bond series Writer Anthony Horowitz (not to be confused with consumer advocate David Horowitz) is trying to apologize for comments made about disliking the idea of actor Idris Elba portraying James Bond. Much like trying to unfry an egg or clean up a massive oil spill, it's not really happening. He probably just wants Bond to remain white, although I am sure audiences would love dashing Idris Elba as Bond.

This story brings up another related topic.. how did Sean Connery ever get to play bond? He is WAYYY too street to be the suave, sophisticated lady killer in a tuxedo /and then quick change into a diving suit- storied hero. This scrappy kid growing up in Edinburgh working as a milkman and then joining the navy, getting tatoos when it was sort of a daring thing to do... well how could he play Bond? OH YEAH, these are actors portraying characters!! something that needs some reminding perhaps?????

And what about Elba's cool collected and classy response to ill conceived comments? Totally and completely in the style of 007 of course!

The REAL reason why Anna Duggar stayed with Josh...

Would you rather have your man indulging in Ashley Madison or Dolly Madison? The answer may surprise you. 93% of women surveyed chose Ashley over Dolly. It's really quite simple, relationships can be saved by Ashley Madison accounts, just like Anna and Josh Duggar, who are in hiding together after his “cheating scandal”.

To backtrack a bit, the Duggars (and the Kardashians and the real housewives) are usually not deserving of any writings or thoughts or jokes or discussion. Much like a toddler having yet another tantrum or that drunk inappropriate relative at Thanksgiving dinner, or that coworker who talks in detail about her surgery, they must be ignored AND taught that their behavior is unacceptable. Giving negative attention to their antics only encourages them to do more and more of the same.. but here is the exception:

A quick discussion will be had about Anna and Josh Duggar. There is a very explosive and awe inspiring reason behind why Anna Duggar is sticking it out with disdained and scorned husband Josh Duggar. Basically, thanks to his Ashley Madison account, their relationships is totally renewed and “born again” Why? How? Very simple.

Josh was simply getting tired of his lady, they had been together too long- sort of like a worn out recording of his favorite hymm. So while she was sleeping he got his ipad in bed and accessed Ashley Madison's website and here is the posting he read:

"If you like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain
If you're not into yoga, if you have half a brain
If you like rough sex with a porn star, in the dunes of the cape
I'm the love that you've looked for, PM me, and escape"
So as you can imagine, he couldn't believe what he was reading..someone who liked the same stuff he did..so he answered and they planned to meet...and while he was waiting to meet this mystery lady in person for their little tryst,
with high hopes of course.. she walked in the place-
Josh knew her smile in an instant and he knew the curve of her face
It was his own lovely lady (Anna Duggar!) and she said, "Oh, it's you"
And they laughed for a moment, and they said, "I never knew".



That is why Anna is still with Josh!!! Let's hope these two kids make it work- I think they will!

Previewing and unpeeling the Unauthorized Full House Movie and various reflections of infinity..

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Never has an entertainment event brought more anticipation and excitement than the Unauthorized Full House Movie.. more than the Unauthorized Saved by the Bell Movie, The William and Kate movie of 2011, or any prequel or sequel to Sex and the City, or even unsubstantiated rumors about a Breakfast Club reunion.. this IS it.. the ultimate Superbowl of made for TV movies...

Viewing on you tube, the scarce crumbs of footage available to the public, one cannot wait to delve entirely and completely into the rich material. Scenes where the unknown actors personify archetypal characters Uncle Jesse, patriarch Danny Tanner, and sidekick Joey Gladstone are so bad... and yet so good at the same time.

Let's begin with the setting: the set itself is extraordinary...an exact replica of the original EXCEPT for juxtaposition of the stairs...they are of course on the wrong side of the living room. WHY?

And next: the characters: These actors do not even really closely resemble the real actors/ TV characters much at all. How is this possible with so many tens of thousands of out of work actors in Hollywood, waiting tables, doing odd jobs, and willing to do just about anything to get noticed? There had to be better casting choices than the ones we see here. That is a superficial but valid observation. They don't really look like them, but yet still personify them wholly and completely. The seemingly bad casting was in fact, intentional.

Upon deep analysis and shot by shot examination of the available footage, one can only conclude that this WAS planned so very carefully and intricately.. They are like them, but they are NOT like them. They are not like them at all, but yet they ARE like them.

This leads to a controversial and unorthodox proposal and theory...the Full House Unauthorized movie is a blatant tribute to Dutch artist Escher's masterpiece, Relativity. This iconic work, appreciated disproportionately by mathematicians and scientists, has an often overlooked intrinsic philosophical value. The three gravitational pulls depicted in this work- are clearly personified by Danny Tanner, Joey Gladstone and Uncle Jessie. They are individuated yet fully integrated into the whole. The chaos depicted in actuality possesses grave order. (chaotic family life with three misfit dads and 3 sassy kids- who are in fact being raised with solid values and deep unqualified attachment).

The structure depicted in Escher's work is a version of Utopia, but the human figures are doing ordinary daily tasks. . As normal physical laws are defied, so we see stairways leading to alternate realities. Reflections and mirror images abound which support the intentional and focal misplaced staircase in our made for TV movie. The movie itself a mere reflection of the original TV show and the show is a reflection of an alternate reality... and again this leads to yet another reflection and so on... and to infinity itself.

Such ponderings are best concluded with the wisdom of William Wordsworth:

Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.

William Wordsworth

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

William Wordsworth

10 reasons why these never ending internet articles involving lists of random information cause major annoyance:

1. Nothing new has been written, this is regurgitation of old territory/information put into a predictable format for the hopes of publishing on the web and nothing more.
2. Many items included are not really accurate and don't really fit these stories. There is a tendency to stretch the truth in order to cram the material into a list- for the sole purpose of creating a list...such as..."10 celebrities and their children who look exactly like them"... Well, maybe one or two look exactly like them- like Reese Witherspoon and her daughter, and the rest ? They do look related but that's about it.
3. This format is getting old and boring, like mad libs after a long car trip.
4. Too many ads to endure in between listings... so getting through the mediocre list is long, drawn out and tedious.
5. David Letterman's top 10, once a fun and orginal experience, has been forever ruined.
6. The format is so dumbed down that it makes any other on-line article seem sophisticated and legitimate, no matter the content. This is much like how Donald Trump makes all other Republican candidates seem dignified by comparison.
7. All of these “articles”/lists start to look the same after a while. It's like going immediately from a Lowes to a Home Depot- it feels like the same place but something is ever so slightly different.
8. These stories are everywhere in the media and won't go away, kind of like Ben Affleck's nanny.
9. Nobody learns anything from these lists, we are no better off after viewing than we were before.  The same feeling one gets after leaving a Thomas Kincaide exhibit.
10. They intend to educate us... but they just end up annoying us... anyone? Anyone?