Nordly Beaumont

That was Judith Drake; Meemaw in BBT was played by June Squibb. She did look familiar but I couldn't quite place her; she's been in lots of stuff. Everything from House of 1000 Corpses to Young Sheldon... fun career!

I'll give it a 7/10 - because I kinda liked the weirdness. And the acting was so good. But yeah, it was a bit much so I can't go more than 7. Last night I watched His House. I got up this morning and watched it again. It's sort of a haunted house story, but more than just that. I found the movie itself haunting. It's about a refugee couple who escaped from South Sudan trying to settle into their new life in London. But you can't escape your ghosts... 9/10

I made a quick stop at the grocery store on Saturday and the kid who waited on me was so nice and friendly, I decided to submit the survey that is listed on the receipt. I just wanted this young guy to be recognized for his terrific attitude and customer service. Well! That survey was picked as a winner and I got a $100 gift card to the store!! I'm so tickled!!

I read on HuffPo the dogwalker is a family friend and the whole family very upset. From that I assume he's being taken care of, even if it's not announced.

Oh, I think it'd be fun to know who had a crush on me (hopefully someone besides the two rather skeevy guys I worked with at Burger King decades ago) YES!!

Hated it. The scene where she escapes the car and swims to the surface then goes to the store dripping water seemed like such a rip off of Kill Bill when the bride bursts through the earth and goes to the restaurant "dripping" dust. But we not only had reason to root for the bride in Kill Bill, the movie was set up so we also had reason to believe that the bride could actually survive the things she survived. Marla was recently drugged, crashed full impact into the water, kicked out a car window underwater, all while holding her breath for over a full minute. Come on! Why would a mafia gangster (with zero ties to Marla) care about making it "look organic"? Why would a mafia gangster track down and use Marla's mother to threaten her - but not her girlfriend? Especially when his goons were with her at that very moment. He doesn't even mention her? After two full (long!) hours there needed to be a much better ending than an easy death for Marla and thousands of the elderly still being scammed. That's what I wanted too. When Jennifer tells Marla "I'm the worst mistake you ever made" - I wanted to see that. I feel like there was a good movie in there somewhere. This just wasn't it.

I think she'd look fine if she didn't have that line across her face (giving the "Joker" look). I don't like country and don't even like Dolly's corny humor - but I'm certainly a fan of Dolly as a person!

Yes, and it made me remember how great the supporting cast was! I think that's my biggest issue with CmK - the supporting characters are just one-note, stock sitcom characters. On Miranda, they all had fun personalities and quirks of their own. Even Clive at the restaurant and the recurring customer had more personality than what the characters on CmK are being given.

Yelling at Alexa (several times) to turn the music down and realizing I'm playing music on my phone. Having to apologize to Alexa (again).

Big Fat Quiz of the Year on youtube - any year with Noel Fielding and/or Richard Ayoade.

In 100 episodes! He did Mark and Lottie a favor by giving them a head's up. Paul can't really help it if there's a food he hates. I mean, he's a judge in a baking competition that has just a couple of savory elements per season. It took 100 episodes for gherkins to come up, Paul probably thought he was safe. The meat was dry. Paul noted that she needed a meat with more fat (he also said Mark's and Laura's meats were dry). Even with relish I'm sure Paul would have noticed the meat was dry. As it was he was fine with Lottie's bun, and Mark's too. He had nice things to say about both - "spot on" "excellent" "very, very nice" were used - so no one was harmed by leaving the gherkins off. Having said all that, I did enjoy Noel saying "What is he, five?"

My sister and I went to see The Conjuring in the theater, it wasn't something we particularly wanted to see. We just wanted to see a movie while I was visiting. There were only four other people in the theater. When it was over one of the guys stood up and looked at us with a big smile and said "That was actually good!" That was many years ago, so I don't really remember the movie, but I do remember I thought it was well done and creepy.

A vampire walks into a bar and says "I'll have a Bloody Mary." Bartender says "Run for it, Mary!"

I HATE that! It's so hard to clear! The snow is packed hard with lots of ice chunks. And if you don't get it immediately, it gets worse. I'm glad to be working from home now so I'll be able to tackle it when it's only back-breaking and not whole-body breaking!

I have a neighbor that uses his leaf blower as a snow blower! It's a big honkin' thing too - he looks like a ghostbuster or something. And he'll go out when there's barely any snow on the ground. And it might be 11:00 at night when he does this. I just roll my eyes.

I've seen Bowie, otherwise it would be a three way tie. So it's Freddie or Kurt... I'll go with Freddie, because I think it's Freddie Mercury energy I need right now.

Love that picture of giant Penn standing next to him! The documentary of James Randi's life "An Honest Liar" is quite good, I don't know if it's currently streaming.

Podcast peeve: Movie podcasts that take 10, 15, or even 20 minutes to start talking about the movie. I guess maybe long time listeners may enjoy the "witty" banter of the hosts, but I'm just interested in a movie discussion. Also, if you're going to do a podcast about a 50 year old classic movie like Rosemary's Baby - maybe consider glancing at the Wikipedia page before starting the podcast. That way you'll know little details like the character names, and that it was first a book, keeping you from saying stupid things like: "Did you guys notice that Roman Polanski combined his and John Cassavetes names to name the head witch?" No, sweetie, Cassavetes and Castevet are two entirely different names. And Ira Levin named him, not garbage person Polanski.

I love "That's My Boy?" not only because it's one of the best episodes, but also because Mel is at Rob and Laura's (with Millie and Jerry) and no Buddy. It's nice to see Mel just enjoy an evening with friends!

I had to watch the part where Marc's concoction exploded all over his face and workplace about three times before I could move on! I loved when Noel came over and just laughed. He couldn't even come up with a line, could only laugh! I had to watch that a second time too, it really had me laughing. "I'll put in less... mooore? NONE!" Noel looked smokin' in that outfit, and I generally don't like leather of any kind! I love Hermine's voice/accent.

We got the canned puddings in our lunch sacks and I wish I had a dollar for every time mom warned "DO NOT LICK THE LID!!!"

Thanks for that. "Dreams" is my all time favorite VH song, and in my list of all time favorite songs. I can't hear "Eruption" without thinking of my dearly departed boyfriend grinning like a fool and exclaiming "One guy! That's ONE GUY playing all that!" He said it every single time we listened to it!

This news makes me cry, but I did get a bittersweet chuckle out of a tweet that said "RIP Eddie Van Halen. Somewhere David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar are fighting over who’s more broken up about the news."

My mom didn't like it when people held doors open for her. "They're only doing it because they think I'm old!" She was in her 80's, so I'm not sure what her definition of "old" was! I felt bad that people who were really trying to be nice and polite got the business end of her angry stare.

Aw, c'mon now! Don't you want to take stand and bravely tell them how you won't let the bad guys win or let them change who you are? Jeeez, Shannon L, it's like you want to live or something!