HALLOWEEN / DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME EDITIONCreepy and spooky ... warm and more warm. Not much this past weekend for Halloween, got home late and just fell asleep. Yeah me! No trick-or-treaters that I was aware of but that is OK. I do miss my old neighborhood and you would see several packs of kids roaming around going door-to-door and I would say at least 90% of the homes had their lights on and were giving out candy. You would find that odd home with no lights on but go up to the door anyway and someone was still show up with candy. And then the very small percentage of someone not actually being home which is understandable. People do have lives and other family I am sure they will visit and spend the evening with at their homes and greet their trick-or-treaters. But the times have certainly changed a lot and now a lot of folks go to malls and visit all the stores. Safer, nosier for sure with all the echoing of a mall and all in one central location. Plus if you can not trust a store to give you safe candy, then that store will have some serious problems!
Weekly Update:It was Comikaze this past weekend and I spent pretty much all day on Saturday and Sunday there. It was a really wierd set-up with two separate halls and did not function or flow as smoothly. They lost part of the regular hall th
ey used due to another convention which I think was poor planning on the cons part and not planning ahead possibly? Plus having it on Halloween did not seem to help. I thought they were doing trick-or-treating but I did not see any indication of that any where. But during the two days, I managed to bump into a lot of familiar faces and friends ... and met some new ones:
*Larry Wilcox - best know from the TV show "CHiP's" and a pretty awesome guy!
*Ellen Hollman - met her before and kind of know here, super sweet and super awesome.
*Austin St. John - from the original Power Rangers and a chill guy.
*Danielle Panabaker - from the current TV series "The Flash" and very sweet!
At the movies:
Not much this weekend in terms of overall gross and surprises. Still surviving at #1 is "The Martian" in it's 5th week and with another 11.4 million with a cume of over 180 mil now. It should get to 200 mil not to mention some award nods. Also holding on to #2 is "Goosebumps" with another 10.2 mil and is maintaining a good solid hold since opening. Doing well at #3 is "Bridge of Spies" also in its third week with another 8.1 mil but not an overall big box office number. Continuing in its 6th week and in the #4 spot is "Hotel Transylvania 2" earning an extra 5.8 mil as it passes 150 mil cume. Rounding off the top 5 and something finally new is Burnt with 5 mil to open.
New films that did not make the top 5:
Pretty much both new movies that opened which is pretty sad but yet, expected. In at #8 is Our Brand is Crisis with only 3.4 mil and at expectations sadly despite the film pedigree of talent. New at #12, theme for the season is Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse with only 1.8 mil and well below expectations. Horror not so popular right now.
Quote of the week:
"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings." - Saint Augustine
Facts & Tips:
A flea can jump 30,000 times without stopping.
"Charlotte has pudding in her Prada." - Cynthia Nixon as Miranda Hobbes in "Sex in the City."
"Charlotte has pudding in her Prada." - Cynthia Nixon as Miranda Hobbes in "Sex in the City."
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