9/25/2011 Foggy

Dear Spudguns:

Well, as I just posted on the year long blog project, which is needing a massive boost; as I just posted on there, I am finally getting to get away for a few days.
Yes, having spent all my time trekking to my mother's everyday,  eating dinners together for months, has allowed me to save some money and am able to get out of the city for a few days. 

Yay! 
Okay, so it's just a few cities away but it's the first trip I've been able to take in over 4 years.   And I'm doing this with just a pen and notebook.   No internet.    Can you believe that?  Me going for nearly a full week without my computer or internet. 
I leave tomorrow and get back Friday.  My goal is just to get a bit of a break from my life and kick start my writing again.  Which is why I decided to go without anything that would distract me like my computer or internet.

I miss being able to travel.  At some point I would love to get to Ireland.  I've never really been outside of Canada.  Unless you count going down to the States {America}  but those were trips I made when I was a kid with my parents; I don't remember anything from them other then the one time I got lost when I was in Milwaukee... I was 4. 
Actually, last time I stepped foot in the U.S.; I was 14-15 years old so it's been 22-23 years since my last trip to even Duluth. 

And this is the part where I say I really really envy my beloved X-Division.  You lot get to travel on a daily basis. The places you get to see, the people you get to come in contact with, the food you get to try...

Anyways, small trip but long overdue.

See you all on Friday. 
Love Ardeth Blood

The final Episode

It was the last episode of the 41 year old soap opera  All My Children today.    I cried. Well, I cried yesterday actually when they brought back the actor David Canary who played a duel role of Adam and Stewart Chandler for most of the show's history.
If you missed it today, they had a cliffhanger.   If you saw it then you know that when I say "balls!"  you know why.  Damn it!

Rumours are flying that they will be turning to the internet as an online soap come the new year.  And I say rumours with a half seriousness, as Cameron Mathison made a comment on The View's AMC special saying he signed on the online version.

When I hit the Soapnet.com  site after the finale episode of AMC, there were tons of comments from fans with mixed feelings on both the cliffhanger and the idea of them going online. 
I have to admit, I thought it was a horrible way to wrap up 41 years of the show, and really not too keen on the idea of it being online in the future.

What I honestly thought they were going to do was a movie to extend/wrap up some storylines; as they have been talking for the last few weeks on the show as part of Erica Kane's character plot.   I honestly could see a two hour film version because it just seemed like it was too detailed for them not to be teasing at it.    Seems I am mistaken and it was just a big tease on the writer's part.  Damn it!

It's just so weird not to have AMC on every weekday.  Not to hear my Uncle going on about the actress Susan Lucci all the time. {Uncle's one and only celebrity crush}

Weird 9/21/2011

Dear Spudguns:

The energy around here today has been odd.   Could be because today is the Fall Equinox.  Could be because a few planets are shifting and turning direct this week after months of being in a retrograde motion.
No clue.

So my sister and brother-in-law finally bought a house.  Ironically, it's one block from where we grew up.  Like literally parallel to our house just one block.  Freaky no?
It's like no matter how hard either of us try, we can't seem to break out of the 10 block radius from where we grew up.

So, I got to see the movie "I don't know how she does it?"   on the weekend, and have to say what a massive disappointment that was.  I know it was based on a novel, so I picked up a copy of the book like an hour before I went to the cinema and the book is now on my never-ending TO READ pile. Hopefully, it will be better then the film was.

And now to the soap... I can't believe that All My Children only has 2 episodes left!   Holy Anne Rice Novels Batman!   That's like 40 years worth of characters.  And this past few weeks, the storyline has been amazing.  Why on earth weren't the writers doing this for the last two years?  Today was the cameo by Sarah Michelle Gellar, and I could not stop laughing cause of the Buffy the Vampire stuff they wrote in.  Loved it!

Speaking of vampires... just saw the trailer for Underworld 4  which comes out in the new year.   Not sure how I feel on that.  Always had mixed emotions on that series.
And found out yesterday that there is going to be a 10th anniversary DVD for Elvira's Haunted Hills.  Dude!  this film is a collectors piece I'll tell you that. 

Love Ardeth Blood

9/18/2011 Night

As you have guessed by now, I'm not a big Twitter user.  I have two accounts, an old one that was connected to my old blog, and the one on the sidebar.  So I rarely check in on there.  But this morning, I got a message from my buddy Gerry in Toronto, informing me that someone had gotten into my old account and sent out massive spam to everyone on my twitter list.
Dude, so not cool.
I had to deal with it.   Which put me back a bit with my entire schedule for the day.
But I did find the time to make a quick episode of my Creeping Screams! 

So I got this dvd

Which I will be uploading a video review for ... most likely tomorrow...
I've been wanting to get back to doing dvd reviews.

And for anyone who read my thoughts on that particular ppv back on July 10th  {yes I just realized all these years I have forgotten to point out links in my posts because I'm me} Then you know I stated I believed at that point in time, that Alex Shelley had not won an Ultimate X match at all.  It has been pointed out, that Alex Shelley has indeed won 3 previous Ultimate X matches via tag team rules.  {so the question remains, did he get the X or did his tag partner Chris Sabin ?}

Low Front

And it's why I look like the wicked witch this morning.  All bundled up in my ICP hoodie and my winter pajamas. 

Yes, finally, we've broken that damned heatwave that we've had for the last few weeks.  Thunder Bay actually went to -4c overnight last night.  There is frost on things outside.  FROST.   The good kind, the weather kind that makes pretty little sparkly designs on the windows and such;  not the evil kind of frost{ing} that people put on cakes that are too sweet to eat.

I am much happier when the weather is cooler. Much happier. 

So I am seeing all over the internet about Triple H's latest movie.  People calling it his second.  They are forgetting that he worked in Blade 3- Trinity as  vampire Jarko along with Callum Keith Rennie who played the vampire Ash {yes I realize Triple H has actually acted more then that but the vampire movie is the only one I want to care about so deal} And since when are ppvs considered "tv movies" ?  I'd like to know - IMDb huh?

Speaking of vampires at 8:40am... well, that's just me isn't it... speaking of vampires at all times really.
To quote Anne Rice once again  "winter is the season of the vampire"   - which I believe was in Memnoch the Devil. Been nearly twenty years since I read the book, the quote might even be from Tale of the Body Thief     which was book 4 in her Chronicles. 

9/15/2011 Thursday

am I the only person on the planet who just didn't care for the whole  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory  thing?  I don't know man, it just never did it for me.

I'm watching  Top Chef Just Deserts, and their challenge is to create the candyland from the film.

I was always one of those kids that just didn't see how people fell in love with that film, or Wizard of OZ either. Just never really grabbed me. 

Maybe I'm cold wired.