Having dinner at Bollywood on the Lawrence/N Andover line.

Isn't my sweetie a sweetie?

The Muppets are owning youtube these days. Here’s another new video.

Carol of the Bells

Some friends and I have for many years been big fans of the movie Highlander. The original movie. The sequels have been horrid piles of steaming garbage. The television shows were okay until they run so long that the premise of a few abnormal (no spoilers here) people hiding amongst the throngs of normal people gets silly, as the few becomes a couple dozen a year.

But the original movie… for all it’s nearly countless flaws… is a huge ton of fun. It’s near the point where Larry and Mike and I can carry on whole conversations using nothing but quotes from the movie. Yeah, we’re that bad.

One of the best parts about this film… which really is a terrible film I have to admit, but I love it anyway… is the bad guy. Kurgan. He’s a psychotic killing machine who’s been throwing off catchy slogans whilst offing those weaker than he for hundreds of years. How can you not love it. Top it off, he likes playing chicken on New York streets. Perfect!

As is often the case with cultish movies with a cast made up of actors of questionable talents, it is not surprising that the actors you enjoyed watching don’t show up in too many other notable films. The guy who played Kurgan, Clancy Brown, is one of those. I’ve seen him in a few low budget b-movie type rolls, but I can’t think of anything major you might have seen him in. The one exception is that he played the drill sergeant in the movie Super Troopers.

I forget what I was looking at the other day… what was it… I think it was the internet movie database page on the remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street when I saw his name in the cast. I clicked on the link to see what other work he’s done. I thought maybe there was a movie I’d heard of but never seen that might be a good netflix/rental choice.

Turns out Mr Brown has done quite a bit of television voice over work. One item that caught my eye was the voice of Lex Luthor in recent Superman cartoons. Excellent!

Then I saw it…

The big one…

Something I’ve actually seen many, many times…

Clancy Brown… The Kurgan… the guy who got to say the killer catch phrase from Highlander something like 100 times… is the voice of SpongeBob SquarePants’ boss, Mr. Krabs.

Oh
My
God

His coolness factor just rose by something like 100000000000%!

“There can be only one! ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh.”

I am still in a little bit of a New York state of mind. I just checked the forecast for New York, NY for Friday the 18th through Sunday the 20th. Some clouds, temps in the 30’s, no precipitation. Perfect!

I also checked Methuen and Worcester, MA and Hartford and Bridgeport, CT. All cities along our travel route. They all had similar forecasts.

Now if it can just stay that way (or even warm up a little!) we’ll be heading to New York for a little pre-Christmas travel.

Excellent.

This is three years old… I am not on the tip of cool. I never was. It’s only got more than 2.25 million hits.

A Charlie Brown Christmas with the voices redone by the cast of Scurbs. Yeah, it’s funny.

Tonight is Jen’s company Christmas party. I am leaving work a little early so I can go and meet her in time for it. Because we’re both going to be in the same place at the end of the night we figured we’d experiment with something we talked about when she first started working at her current job.

Car Pooling.

Jen’s office is very close to being precisely on my way to work. It’s maybe 5 minutes out of my way, but that’s all. Consider though that me driving five minutes out of my way can save 25-30 miles worth of gas and mileage for one of our cars and it seems very much worth it.

We can’t do it on days where we get the kids after school, but we demonstrated today that we can do it on days when the kids wake up at our house but go to their dad’s in the evening.

Did I mention I get to leave work a little early? I very much enjoy having vacation time. It’s sweeeet.

Back to important things… hockey. The Bruins face the Maple Leafs tonight. They destroyed them 7-2 on Saturday and I fully expect an equal dismantling tonight. We need Phil Kessel to never win a single game against Boston, and we need the Leafs to come in dead last in the NHL this year and next year. A pounding win for the Bruins tonight brings those two goals closer.

Go Bruins.

This is how I feel about the weather today…

California Dreamin’.

I left the house at 7:05am today and punched into work at 9:35. My 1.25 hour commute doubled to 2.5 hours. It’s snowing like a mutha out there. Actually, now that I look out the office window it isn’t snowing at all anymore. Figures.

Jen was the smart one, she worked from home today. I was the dolt who braved the storm… what little storm there was. It was never all that bad, but it was definitely bad enough to grip the wheel tight and pay attention.

Here is the obligatory camera phone picture (processed in Camera Bag. Yup, there’s an app for that). I took this during one of the many, many times when I was stopped in the middle of the road.

29 years ago today John Lennon was taken from us.

There is a new Kids in the Hall mini-series. I want to see it right now!

Here is a small taste of what we’ve been missing since The Kids went off the air…