Frosted Nixon Flakes

It can be a little dangerous to organize your life around what you think would make for interesting blogging fodder. For instance, last night, the beautiful KMD & I were planning on what movie to take in this off Friday. We jointly decided upon Frost/Nixon because: 1) Dolberry thought it would be fun to have "Frosted Nixon Flakes" as a blog title, and 2) tbKMD didn't have any say in the matter because she's still serving her 7 movie suspension for picking out M**** M**.

So, while twinkling w/ excitement over the idea of being the #1 google search for "frosted nixon flakes" AND "apathetic coffee drinking Nirvana slackers", I checked out Fandango.com and got the time and location for our movie.

Unfortunately, in my giddiness ... I didn't realize that I was looking at the Thursday listings and not the Friday ones. So when we get to the theatre today we see that we're an hour early for Frost/Nixon and we won't be able to watch it and pick up APD on time. Normally, Dolberry would have advocated just being late, but we were also driving home some of his schoolmates, so that was less of an option.

The only two movies showing at the time we were there were: New in Town and Last Chance Harvey. We saw the preview for NiT and that looked predictable and lousy, so we went w/ LCH. It wasn't very good. Emma Thompson was good, but in at least half of the Dustin Hoffman scenes I think they just had a Hoffman mannequin. I think he was playing the role as the protagonist of this much better film, 42 years later. Unfortunately, I think the rest of the people associated w/ the picture were doing something else altogether.

Anyway, it was a mess of a film, and given our attendance was credited to my ineptitude, I was given a 5 movie suspension from the board ... leaving me a frosted Nixon flake.

Movie "Review": Bedtime Stories

The whole D'Berry clan took in a post-Christmas movie this past weekend. We narrowed it down to Desperaux and Bedtime Stories and let a coin make the final decision. It was fine. A little Adam Sandler goes a long way. I had a really nice ICEE though, so all was good.

Our water heater appears to have failed. I grumbled to tbKMD ... didn't we just get that installed 3 years ago. Turns out it was 9 years ago. Time files.

My White Elephant Gift @ Work

A Blockbuster video of the movie "Millions". I told the recipient it was due back on Thursday.

(actually, we lost it, then had to buy it, then found it, ugh)

Book review and a movie review

First, APD made Principal's List again in the 2nd quarter. Yay for him.

Movie Review: Charlie Wilson's War. I liked it.

Book Review: Water for Elephants. I liked it also. Thanks Mom!

Was this just an excuse to post to get my ugly mug a little lower down on the page. Yes.

Have a great Thursday everyone!