Monday, October 02, 2017

Las Vegas Edition

Last night a crazy gunman opened fire with automatic and semi-automatic weapons from the Mandalay Bay hotel into a nearby lot/parking area where a concert was being performed.  At least 50 people were killed and dozens more wounded.  Watching some of the videos that emerged from the night, you would not believe this was happening in the US but some area in war-torn Afghanistan.  Seeing people on the ground, running around and then an eruption of automatic fire.  Simply shocking and unbelievable that this could happen but it did.

Weekly Update:
Australia sure has a lot of crazy things that come out of it ... from their yeast, nasty tasting paste they put on toast ... vita-mix? Or something like that, to other crazy things like the size of their beer cans.  I might have mentioned this before but Tim Tams!  These are completely contradictory to anything else that has come out of that country!  This is such a delicious treat, how did they create this crunchy tasty thing??  But if I did bring them up before, the reason they are here again is I found the mother-lode!!!  They were at the 99 cent store and I bought 10 the first time and then 4 more the next day.  I would have gotten more but my freezer is out of room.  Why get so many?  These normally sell for about $5 a container and on sale its around $3 plus.  So for a dollar?!?  BUY BUY BUY and freeze them.  So good!

At the movies:
A bit of a shake-up this week ... re-claiming the number 1 spot is "It" with a mild 17.3 mil but so close to 300 mil cume for domestic.  It should have that by this coming weekend or very close to it.  New at #2 is American Made with 17 mil, slightly below expectations.  Sizable drop to #3 is "Kingsman: The Golden Circle" with 17 mil and unfortunately unlikely to hit 100 mil cume.  Slight drop to #4 is "Lego Ninjago" with an extra 12 mil as the bricks come apart on this.  New and rounding off the top 5 is Flatliners with only 6.7 mil and below estimations however not surprising.

New movies that did not make the top 5:
Just one this week, in at #9 is Til Death Do Us Part with only 1.5 mil and under expectations but not by much!

Quote of the week:
"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Facts & Tips:
The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.

"Stinking kings ruining everything!" - Ryan Ochoa as Lanny in "Disney's Pair of Kings."

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