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Ten toasts to use today: 1. May your giving hand never fail you. 2. May we all be alive at this same time next year. 3. May the Lord keep you in the palm of His hand, and never close his fist too tight! 4. May you live as long as you want and never want as long as [...] (click to enlarge) Floyd left the latest edition of Inside Higher Ed in the Executive Washroom at Threedonia World Headquarters and as I was leafing through it while otherwise occupied I stumbled onto this article. It’s the results of this year’s NCAA tournament if the teams performed on the court as they do in the classroom. [...] I love the movie My Man Godfrey. I love William Powell’s urbane butler, Carole Lombard’s quirky blond screwball energy, but it’s the cool sophisticated older sister — the icy bitch that Godfrey thaws that completes the picture. This is that woman: Gail Patrick was never the biggest star in Hollywood, but when they needed [...] This Weekend’s Five brought to you by a panic attack. I was killing time, waiting for that gangsta-wannabe-misogynistic-piece-of-crap that is the soap opera I occasionally watch, to come on…sitting through another soap opera. A long-time fan favorite was lecturing the latest seventeen-year-old soap hunk he didn’t realize was his own son (Soap Action 101!) on how [...] The best ever wasn’t even shown at the Academy Awards — it was TCM’s 100 Years At The Movies (by Chuck Workman, who edited this one and most of the best of the Academy ones) — but they do have their share of wonderfully trippy spliced-together trips down memory lane. Make your own! theme-up, or just [...] You might be asking yourself — who is this guy? He looks familiar. That’s because he has like a million credit on IMDb.com. I was watching an episode of From the Earth to the Moon on DVD the other day and he had quite a substantial role — and he was great. [...] After last weekend’s debacle, Five is at a “Learn to explain it” clinic in Lausanne. I’m here as Oscar week fill-in. Choose your favorites from the winners’ lists and make your all-time Academy Awards. Here are the links: Best Picture winners. Best Actors & Best Supporting Actors. Best Actresses & Best Supporting Actressess. Fun Fact: My all-time favorites are not [...] Continuing with Oscar-bait Watch 2010… The Academy is known for handing their Little Man to the right performer a year (or twenty) after the right performance. This is called the “Whoops! Our bad” Award. Edited for further explanation: This is not a list of people who should have won but didn’t. (that was a previous 3D5) Or [...] I’ve (we’ve) been tagged for a “Creative Writer” Blogger Award! Which means I get to lie shamelessly to you all and test your truth-detecting skills. The rules are … • Thank the person who gave this to you. (Thanks [or something] to Lars Walker of Brandywine Books.) Edited for your linking pleasure…Happy Valentine’s Day from Wanks & YouTube…all but two are here; one’s a trailer and one’s a clipfest and a few are excerpts (Valentino’s Son of… is the first kiss shown); all worth watching! It’s Valentine’s Day, so you knew what to expect. I b’lieve some of this is repeat business, but [...] In honor of Superbowl 2010’s Cheetos/Fritos/Doritos/Tostitos Halftime Show (and a Threedonian’s request that we compile a list for the halftime act), I bring you the return of the Battle of the Bands. Every song is one point for that group, and every number one is five points. I’ll post the winner on Monday, along with that [...] This is the first in a series of Academy Award-prep Weekend Fives, all leading up to my liveblog of the event itself. Yes: I have finally healed from that sword I fell on last year for you people. Eric Cantor isn’t the only one tanned, rested, & ready. Today’s Five is a riff on a photo [...] We at Threedonia were remiss this past week in failing to honor Global Belly Laugh Day on January 24. I’m sure it’s a UNICEF thing. In any case… no one loves a good belly laugh more than me. So what makes you laugh Threedonians? I’m not talking Cheshire Cat grin or [...] In honor of the Lost in Austen series (which runs twice today on OvationTV)… Which fictional character(s) would you like to meet, if given the chance? 5. Adam Dalgliesh: PD James’s detective. And poet. How do you live that life? 4. Sinbad: Or any of those Thousand & One Nights guys. Eh, I must be culturally bound. 3. Sid Halley/Kit Fielding: Or [...] In my Classic Pick O’ the Day: January 21 justjack makes the observation that John Boorman’s Point Blank could’ve been an all-time great save for the crappy editing. I think he’s right. I haven’t had time to think about it beyond Point Blank which may or may not make my top 5. [...] Credit to our Trooper-about-town (Rich), who got me musing on this subject after his post about food he grew up on. I missed a chance then; I’m making up for it now. How old were YOU when you figured out that the way your mom made tuna salad was..not how everyone made tuna salad? 5. tunafish [...] Since the New Year is always ripe with the possibility that, among other things, something as exciting as what these characters live through, could actually happen: 5. Han Solo (Harrison Ford, Star Wars): Sometimes the Hero’s Best Friend is way cooler than the hero. And, p.s., “A New Hope” should refer to a Bob movie you haven’t yet seen; [...] As Wankette takes care of her familial obligations — (our thoughts and prayers are with her Mom as she is in hospital this morning) here is one of Wank’s favorites — a Proust questionnaire (pardon me if any of these 5 are repeats). My answers in bold: 1. How would you like to die? Either [...] It’s not only the end of the year — it’s the end of the decade**. This list is top 5 favorite, best films whatever you wish. These are 5 movies from the “Aughts” that I have been or will be revisiting through the next decade. (** editor’s note — I follow the [...] I emerge, bleary-eyed and blinking, from the dank, dark underground of paper grading and final exams, to announce: Tell us what you love most about this time of year! I’m back! 5. The decorations…Michael Kelly (R.I.P.) wrote a marvelous essay once called “Not a White-Lights Person” (or something to that effect), about how he was all about [...] Yahoo has an article about a new study revealing the happiest states in the country. Are they warm? Are they cold? What’s the secret? Ever wondered if you’d be happier in sunny Florida or snow-covered Minnesota? New research on state-level happiness could answer that question. Florida and two other sunshine states made it to the Top 5, [...] Today’s FiveIdea, courtesy Matt Helm. He would’ve been 94 today (Frank, not Matt). In honor of this, list your favorite Sinatra things…songs, films, memories, general associations… 5. Somethin’ Stupid (w/Nancy): I loved it when I was a kid, and later (when I was old enough to get it) I listened closely & thought, God, this is so [...] Since December is the last month of the first decade of the 21st century it’s time for a bunch of Top 5s to revisit this decade. For this one… a little bleed over is OK. For example, The Sopranos started in 1999 and ended in 2007. Please NOT television movies or miniseries [...] edited to add: Hewonhewonhewonhewonhewonwonwon!!!!! A favorite story of mine involves two great storytellers in their own right: Garson Kanin was chatting with David Niven and mentioned in passing something to the effect of, “Now that we’re both middle-aged men…” Niven said, “What are you talking about?” and Kanin admitted he’d just turned 55 the day before. “And how [...] Eh, you knew it was coming. What are you thankful for this year? 5. the occasional day off: Man, do I love the unexpected pleasure of turning the alarm off and sleeping another hour. Or three. 4. that it’s a year later: A year ago I was selling my furniture to pay my rent while I was [...] Split your list, or have ‘em all one or the other; I’ll be counting up votes (#1s count twice) and posting the results, from all five of us, on Monday: 5. Angie (Stones): Hated this song when it first came out; then a few years ago I heard it on the radio — first time in [...] Today’s Five is dedicated to Chuck Klosterman. His attempt to re-work the question “What kind of music do you like?” so as to more accurately reflect the kind of person he is, intrigued me. It was a pretzel logic. He ended up assembling bits he loved from songs he liked, trying to establish the “why?” behind [...] Laughter the best medicine? Some old, some news, so you decide … Q: What’s the main problem with Barack Obama jokes? Q: Why does Barack Obama oppose the Second Amendment? Q: What’s the difference between Rahm Emanuel and [...] I know Halloween is next Saturday, but I thought this brainstorming session could get our 3Ders a jump on the Netflix queue: 5. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974): Original recipe creepiness. The low-rent nature of the production did nothing to lessen the fear factor. That intro voiceover? the worst part of it. 4. Magic (1978): Before he [...] Mine’s tonight, and I can’t go, and I’ll be truly blue over this all day long. List the five things you connect with your senior year! 5. self-esteem: I’d so love to go back in time and smack my 17-year-old self upside the head. You were ADORABLE, you moron! why’d you doubt that?? 4. corduroy: The fabric d’choice…boys, [...] Yes: I was ohsoclose to making this “Top 5 Crap Award-winners of All Time”, but I’m already sick of the subject. 5. If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be? a fabulously dressed Frenchwoman 4. Where would you most like to live? [...] h/t Danny Peary. This would be for either category, nominee or no — who should have won? Second-guess to your heart’s content. 5. Meryl Streep (1985, Out of Africa): I’ve been watching this a lot lately on my free cable. I think it may be her best, and her Danish accent doesn’t seem an affectation. It’s [...] – except here, of course. 5. Julie, Do Ya Love Me?/Bobby Sherman: Ah, my first love. About ten years ago, this song came on the radio…hadn’t heard it since, uh, the 70s…I screamed and started singing along. Scarily, every single word came back to me. Immediately. 4. I Think I Love You/The Partridge Family: David Cassidy [...] – this is as opposed to Evil Nosh Films, which are saved for another weekend. Here’s to good movies; not necessarily the best or your Top 10, but movies you like so much, you’d watch them over and over and over…sometimes on the same channel, same night. Mine are all pretty girly, but the last time [...] I felt a taffy-pull, cotton candy-sort-of-day coming on. 5. Gummi Bears — I mean the real Deutsche, flavored-eraser, kind. Forget those stupid worms. They’re mooshy. ”Haribo macht kinder froh/und erwachten eben so!” eh, sue me — German club was thirty years ago. 4. Baby Ruth — Just like Colgate and Crest, as a kid, somehow I [...] Mark Hemingway at The Corner aptly summarizes the following column — a sports column mind you — this way. Worst. Sports. Column. Ever. Now I know that putting periods after each word to evoke a Shatnerian enunciation is an Internet cliche, but this one applies perfectly to. this. column. from The Orange County [...] – eh, I probably didn’t have to be that specific. They have the best ones, anyway. 5. Here’s A Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares) — The best “Piss off!” title. 4. Queen of My Double Wide Trailer — The video is almost as hilarious as the Sammy Kershaw song. One of my favorites. 3. Drop Kick Me, Jesus (Through the Goalposts [...] Milton “Gummo” Marx…. Most bands of any staying power have a string of well-known songs whether top 10 hits or concert staples…. What are your top 5 deep cuts? For the Beatles example… not “I Wanna Hold Your Hand” or “Eleanor Rigby”, but that unknown — relatively speaking (it is The Beatles after all) [...] Being the good great husband that I am I have been sanding and staining all of our kitchen cabinets… so of course I can not do anything paint related without music…. I’ve got the speakers and iPod on shuffle set up in the garage so I can annoy my neighbors with the eclectic nature [...] Gutsy, raw, pure sex. And I like their voices, too: 5. Rob Thomas (Matchbox 20): Oh Rob, Rob! you don’t have to beg, even though you always manage to make it sound like you are. And after I first laid eyes on you — in the video for Carlos Santana’s “Smooth” — I remember thinking, “You [...] I don’t usually link to the ACLU website, but my Mom sent me this link — interesting. Is it paranoid or not? Tell me what you think Threedonians. If so, I know there’s a better way than joining the ACLU to combat it. Share on Facebook In honor of all the fuss… Pick five from the ‘69 performers*, and list your favorite song (not necessarily sung at Woodstock) of theirs: *those born after 1969, can hit off the ‘94 list. 5. Piece of My Heart (Janis Joplin): How can you get more anguished in love? 4. You’ve Made Me So Very Happy (Blood Sweat & Tears): [...] Pick the winner of your choice; the one that should have been! ( nominee not required). All of mine are comedies, a genre hideously underrepresented in this category: 5. The Patsy (1928) — The first screwball comedy! 4. Moonstruck (1987) — Funny, and operatic. It’s the Italians. 3. Almost Famous (2001) – One of the best supporting casts, [...] Inspired by last night’s Late Night Oldies on 94.5 & “Help!”, which has more resonance for me, the older I get. This was way tough; I shoulda broken it up into ballads/rock/Lennon&McCartney /Harrison/ singles/not singles. 5. Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da — “In a couple of years they have built a home-sweet-home/With a couple of kids running in the yard/ [...] |
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