The first episode of the new season in online!

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How come no one told me that Elvis and Charles Bronson starred in a movie together? How could I have been unaware of this factoid? The movie was Kid Galahad. Elvis plays a boxer and Charles Bronson portrays a vigilante, bareknuckle street fighter errrrr, I mean trainer. I only caught the end but I gotta see this movie now! Although I do fear for my own safety, I mean I honestly could just combust watching my two favorite actors on screen together!

Cincinatti Kid is starting up now. I wish Steve McQueen had left us with more movies in his lifetime of achievement DVD boxset. I loved Bullitt and The Thomas Crowne Affair. The problem is no other movies of his seem to have a similar quality to these two movies. If I am wrong, please tell me. It’s a shame movies nowadays suck because I really could see this new James Bond, Danny Craig following in Steve McQueen’s footsteps. He would be just great as a grizzled San Francisco police detective who drives a green mustang, determined to find the underworld kingpin who shot his witness.

New Specials
“Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh,” Nickelodeon, Dec. 5, 8 p.m.
“A Miser Brothers’ Christmas,” ABC Family, Dec. 13, 8 p.m. Repeating Dec. 24, 7 p.m.
“A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa” NBC, Dec. 17, 8 p.m. A new Muppets special
“Greatest Holiday Moments: Hilarious Home Video Countdown” NBC, Dec. 22, 8 p.m. From submitted home movies.

Perennial Specials
“Shrek the Halls,” ABC, Dec. 1 , 8 p.m. The youngest of the perennials. Also playing Dec. 22 at 8 p.m.
“How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” ABC, Dec. 1, 8:30 p.m. The 1966 cartoon. Repeating Dec. 21.
“Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” Dec. 3, 8 p.m. Burl Ives narrates the 1964 special, now nrely remastered.
“Grandma Got Runover by a Reindeer,” The CW Dec. 5, 8 p.m.
“Frosty’s Winter Wonderland,” ABC Family, Dec. 5, 7 p.m.
“A Charlie Brown Christmas, ABC, Dec. 8, 8 p.m. Also showing Dec. 16, 8 p.m.
“Twas the Night Before Christmas” ABC, Dec. 8, 7 p.m.
“A Garfield Christmas,” ABC Family, Dec. 9, 7 p.m.
“Mickey’s Christmas Carol,” ABC Family, Dec. 10, 7 p.m.
“Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town,” ABC Family, Dec. 10, 8 p.m.
“Rudolph’s Shiny New Year,” ABC Family, Dec. 10, 9 p.m. Repeating Dec. 11 at 7 p.m.
“I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown” ABC, Dec. 15, 8 p.m. Repeating Dec. 20.

New Movies
“Christmas on Mars,” the Flaming Lips sci-fi production. Sundance, Dec. 24, midnight.

Recurring Movies
“The Polar Express” ABC Family, Dec. 2, 6 and 8:30 p.m. With Tom Hanks in every computerized role. Replaying Dec. 22 at 6 and 8:30 p.m.
“A Christmas Story” TNT, Dec. 3, 8 and 10 p.m. But also in its annual 24 hour marathon on TBS, starting Dec. 24 at 8 p.m.
“The Santa Clause,” TBS, Dec. 4, 8 p.m.
“Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” ABC, Dec. 5, 9 p.m., with Jim Carrey as the green one.
“Prancer,” AMC, Dec. 7, 8 p.m.
“A Christmas Carol,” AMC, Dec. 7, 10:30 p.m.
“Jack Frost,” ABC Family, Dec. 10, 10 p.m.
“Surviving Christmas” ABC, Dec. 13, 9 p.m.
“Elf,” USA, Dec. 10, 10 p.m. Repeating Dec. 14 at 3 p.m.
“It’s a Wonderful Life” NBC, Dec. 13, 8 p.m. Repeating Dec. 24, 8 p.m.

Music Specials
“Christmas in Rockefelelr Center,” NBC, Dec. 3, 8 p.m. They flick a switch, yes, but otherwise there are musical performances from Beyonce, Tony Bennett, Miley Cyrus Neil Boyd, the Jonas Brothers, Harry Connick Jr., David Cook, Rosie O’Donnell and the Broadway Kids, Rascal Flats and Solange Knowles. Al Roker and Jane Krakowski co-host. And Miss Piggy, Kermit the Frog and Stephen Colbert drop by.
“Christmas in Washington,” TNT, Dec. 17, 8 p.m. Kristin Chenoweth, Julianne Hough, Darius Rucker are among the performers in the annual concert hosted by Dr. Phil and Robin McGraw.
“The 10th Annual A Home for the Holidays,” CBS, Dec. 23, 8 p.m. with Faith Hill

Found here: Courant

I keep hearing people talk about our black president, Barack Obama. Each time I hear it, I cringe and think of Asian Reporter, Tricia Takanawa on Family Guy:

And coming soon, I will be answering Martin’s question, “Donna you seem like such a nice person, why are you an evil Republican?” A question for the ages, really.

I LOVED the Highlander TV Show. Watched it when I was in college and I totally miss it now. Hulu has the old episodes and every now and then I will catch an ep. Today I found posted on Hulu a mini-reunion episode! Oddly enough, it looks like it was made on home video. Duncan isn’t in it but Methos, Amanda and Joe are there. Despite the extremely low production value, it’s not bad. Although I don’t think anyone but a Highlander fan would enjoy it. Here it is regardless:

Yma Sumac has gone to the great beyond.

Slumming around Rhapsody this morning I stumbled upon a song by Sweet that I honestly thought was a (relatively) new Joan Jett song! The song is A.C.D.C and the Joan Jett video featured Carmen Electra. It was right around when this video came out I posted an entry admitting I had no idea Joan Jett was gay and I was oddly surprised. Listening to the Sweet song, I noticed the lyrics were changed just slightly for Joan. Women became Fellah. I guess they had to do that to keep the whole AC/DC vibe going. Otherwise it would be AC/AC or maybe DC/DC? Is alternating current male or is that direct current? I have no clue! At any rate, it got me thinking of another Joan Jett song, Crimson and Clover. That was originally an old Tommy James and the Shondells song. (Is Joan the world’s best cover artist?) Joan didn’t change the words for that one. She sang, “I don’t hardly know her, but I think I could love her…” I remember, years ago, sitting in the car with Audra and Lisa and this song came on the radio and I said, “I wonder why they didn’t change the lyrics?”
“What would you change them to?” asked Lisa.
“Well, she could sing, I don’t hardly know HIM, but I think I could love HIM.”
And then Audra said, “Yeah but then the next line would have to be, Crimson and Clovem, Ovem and Ovem.” I don’t know why but I still get a kick out of that and whenever I hear the song I can’t help but sing it as, Crimson and Clovem, Ovem and Ovem. 🙂

Sweet:

Joan:

It’s funny what I don’t mind as long as it has a good beat and I can dance to it.

I am so tired. I DO NOT want to go to work today. I am POOPED! And here’s the thing. I’ve been pooped ALL WEEK! On Tuesday I thought to myself, “How can it only be Tuesday!?!” The next morning I woke up and thought, “Wow, tomorrow is Thursday!” It’s amazing the power of a Wednesday to transform the beginning of the week to the end of the week.

Last night I watched Ghost Adventures. It was the episode in which they locked themselves into the Goldfield Hotel. TOTALLY FREAKED ME OUT! The only proof they gave that I thought was credible was the brick that flew across the basement room! Holy Ghostbusters, Batman! I’d love to know if they toyed with that or if it really happened. And if it really did happen why did that wimpy jerk have to run away? He should have stayed and filmed! Obviously he wasn’t keeping his eyes on the prize.

Remember to install:

Stellarium – Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.

AlwaySync – This helps keep my external hard drive in sync with my laptop

Picassa – Photo Organizer

Mozilla Firefox – My browser of choice

Google Toolbar – Such a great search tool that I don’t mind they are spying on me

SpySweeper – What keeps the spyware at bay. Hopefully

CCleaner – Crap Cleaner

Microsoft Office PowerPoint Viewer – So I can view the PowerPoint presentations people send me

OpenOffice – Because MSOffice makes me cry.

EyeFi – I don’t even know if my eyefi card still works but if it does– gotta load this baby.

Microsoft Money – I recently bought a copy although I’ve done nothing with it.

Rhapsody – I usually just go online anymore so it might not even make sense to download the actual software.

Norton 360 – Bastards automatically renewed my subscription so I might as well load it up and use it. I hate Norton! It’s supposed to guard against viruses but I swear it sucks all my system resources like a leach. I think it’s a virus.

AcrossLite – So I can do the NYT Crossword puzzles.

TomTom – The only way I find my way around… anywhere

GIMP – Because PhotoShop is too expensive

Netflix Movie Viewer – So one day I can sit and watch a movie on my computer, although that hasn’t happened yet.

Snipping Tool – Tom loaded this Snipping Tool icon onto my taskbar, I have no clue how he did it but I do love it and I suppose if I can’t figure it out, I can always invite him and Joan over for dinner and have him install it again.

DVDShrink – I used to use this program but it doesn’t seem to function correctly in Vista– so probably not worth the bother of loading.

Sunday, October 12, 2008 was a record setting day for Donnaville.com! It’s the most visits ever! 348 people dropped on by! People weren’t stopping in to hear the vocal stylings of Cindy and Bert— no, Mr. Charles “Dustbury” Hill directed them here. They were in search of the startlingly six footer-ish lady he met back on one of his famous world tours! Here I am!!! It’s true I did meet Mr. Charles “Dustbury” Hill. I shall always fondly remember that night. He was a true gentleman. But getting back to web page traffic, the only traffic I get comes from Charles. Don’t believe me? Check this out:

What’s wrong with this picture?!? Charles gets me– why not anyone else!?! Helloooooo?

I’m just teasing, I just get a kick seeing one referrer and wanted to share it.