“Take a moment here to refer to the performance of Viola Davis in the role of Donald’s mother: If she doesn’t get an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress I’ll throw shoes.”
Frank McCourt in his look at the movie Doubt.
A stong-willed nun in the 1960s. Imagine that.
“You haven’t the slightest proof of anything,” Father Flynn.
“But I have my certainty,” Sister Aloysius.
No where in the collection of holiday songs is the singer lamenting for Christmas of their youth were it was 65 and sunny.
Or having tamales to eat on Christmas Eve.
Or plucking a piñon tannenbaum out of the pile for 15 bucks a piece at the flea market.
Or filling paper bags with sand.
No, the “east coast bias” that applies to sports seems to infiltrate the holiday as well.
Click to see Karen’s photo of another Albuquerque Christmas tradition.
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Bill Simmons, a sportswriter for ESPN, coined the term “Tysonic”. It refers to Mike Tyson, and applies to anyone who has entered a sphere of existence so bizarre, you will believe any news you hear about them, no matter how absurd. Aside from Mike Tyson, Britney Spears is Tysonic. After the turkey interview, I classify Sarah Palin as Tysonic.
As a native Chicagoan, I say Blogo is definitely Tysonic. If someone told me, “Hear about Blogo? He dressed himself up as Elvis, highjacked an Air Yugo flight from O’Hare to Belgrade, and is now living under the protection of Serbia… And he’s formed an exploratory committee for 2016.”I’d pause for a moment and say, “Yeah, that sounds right.”
“According to a new survey that just came out, the most admired profession is doctor. Doctor is the most admired profession. Yeah. The least admired profession? Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s barber.”
Conan O’Brien
Runner-up:
“I tell you, the economy’s rough. People are standing behind President Bush just to get the free shoes.”
Jay Leno
Regret the Error compiles the errors and corrects of the year. Some very amusing errors and some pretty stylistic corrections, too.
NewMexiKen feels a cold coming on — it is after all the week before Christmas. I’m doing all I can think of — even have both the humidifier and the de-humidifier going full blast.
It’s the birthday of Al Kaline. The hall of fame right fielder is 74.
Today is also the birthday
… of Oscar-nominee Cicely Tyson. She’s 75. Tyson was nominated for the 1973 best actress award for her performance in Sounder.
… of Kevin McHale. The basketball hall of fame member is 51.
… of Mike Lookinland. Bobby Brady is 48.
… of Flashdance’s Jennifer Beals. She’s 45. Flashdance was her second film. She played Clifford’s girlfriend in My Bodyguard. Adam Baldwin (no relation to “the” Baldwins) was the bodyguard, Matt Dillon the bully, and Joan Cusack another girlfriend.
… of Jake Gyllenhaal. The Oscar nominated actor is 28.
Edith Piaf was born on this date in 1915. Petite Piaf (4-10, 90 pounds) was known as the “sparrow of the streets.” She was the leading chanteuse of her day, most well-known for “La vie en rose.” According to some reports she used her fame to ingratiate herself to Nazi officers during the occupation of France, then in turn used that to gain access to French prisoners with whom she had her photo taken. The prisoners used the photo to create false identity cards to assist in an escape. Ms. Piaf died in 1963.
… was published 165 years ago today.
Scrooge. a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. He carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn’t thaw it one degree at Christmas.
Al Unser Jr. paid an undisclosed sum to an extortionist who threatened to release a “compromising” videotape of the two-time Indy 500 winner, AP reported.
Though New Mexico prosecutor Mark Drebing picked an inopportune time to invoke Unser’s nickname when he said, “I don’t think Little Al did anything wrong.”
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