Monday, July 31, 2006

ITS RAINING!! Ok, a very light mist drizzle but still, after the heat wave and high humidity we had two weeks ago to last week ending with cooler temps and some drizzle rain, who flipped the weather switch?! How does this weather happen all of a sudden in SoCali? Our weather can be very extreme here however it doesn't change in the course of overnight, its very (or use to be) gradual.

Weekly Recap:
Earlier last week traffic coming home has been really bad. I am not sure why because on a typical Monday it would take me under an hour. For some reason it took me almost 2 1/2 hours to get home, Tuesday was 2 hours and Wednesday was almost 2. Did something get announced to only travel the freeways when I am on the road and I missed the memo? I even tried going at different times but no go. Last Thursday I left at 8pm and got home at 8:45 which also includes stopping for gas and getting a sandwhich at Subway!!

At the movies:
This is a summer for the race cars! However this week's winner isn't animated as the early summer winner was. Sony's Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby takes the checkered flag with a 47 million opening. Struggling in a far second spot is the Paramount animated Barnyard with 16 mil. "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" continues to lead the summer box office with an additional 11 mil and a cume of 379.7 mil which now makes it the #8 All Time Highest Grosses movie just passing "Spider-Man 2" and Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" (#10 and # 9 respectively). By the end of this week it should take the #7 spot away from "Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith". Holding on to this week's #4 slot is "Miami Vice" with 9.7 mil and rounding off the top 5 is thriller The Descent with a falling 8.8 mil. Other films that did not make the top 5 was The Night Listener with 3.6 mil however it was only released in 1300 locations so semi-limited.

Q & A:
None at this time.

Other News:
Fidel Castro (at 80) had some surgery last week from internal bleeding. In the meantime as he recovers, he gave temporary power to his younger brother. His younger brother is 75 and is considered more radical than Fidel ... how will this play out? Hundreds of people in Little Havana in Florida hit the streets celebrating when they heard the news of Fidel but is this pre-celebrating to something worse to come? Time will tell of course and I know nothing of the younger brother other than he is part of Fidel's current administration and was part of the coup that put Fidel in power.

Tips & Facts:
In 1860, Abraham Lincoln grew a beard at the suggestion of an 11 year-old girl.

"No more conning! No more! If you're gonna be my wife, you're gonna live a respectable life, chopping cars!"- Ray Liotta as Dean Cumanno in "Heartbreakers"

posted by McDuck @ 14:38