Rick Kitchen

Adam Lambert fronting Queen

God, I hate Lenny. He is so phony, it's ridiculous. He just checks off the items on the list as to what a cowboy is supposed to look like and sound like.

The Oscar Meyer cold cuts ad, with the same people in the Thanksgiving ad from last year, only focusing on the grandparents. I especially love the part where the daughter is looking at a painting (we only see the back of it), and her mother says, "Your father has taken up painting." And the woman says, "Is this Mrs. Abbott from next door?" I have a feeling that Mrs. Abbot is naked, and I wonder if she knows that Dad painted her that way.

The Buick ad where two women are trying to meet up and they're talking on their cell phones. Woman 1 says, "I'm outside, where are you?" And Woman 2 says, "I'm right here, in the Buick." No you're not, you're standing beside it.

Ryan Gosling in Blue Valentine. His performance just blew me away.

Mutiny on the Bounty - well, the Tahiti scenes

Wow, The Fault in Our Stars fell quickly.

I'll second this. Outstanding cast and the set design, set in the modern world but in a sort of punk underground, is superb.

Sami was taking art classes from Abby, although most of that happened off-camera, so I guess they bonded over that.

They ought to have one season on the island of Lanai in Hawaii.

I saw a preview for the new "Gracepoint" TV series, which is an American remake of "Broadchurch". David Tennant, star of "Broadchurch", is starring in it. Hearing him do an American accent is just blowing my mind.

With the raves for Emily Blunt coming for Edge of Tomorrow, I went looking to see what her next project is, surprisingly she plays the Baker's Wife in Into the Woods. Can she sing? Following that, she has Sicario. The plot summary says "An officer from Tucson, Arizona travels across the border to Mexico with a pair of mercenaries to track down a drug lord." I wonder if she plays the officer mentioned. The other stars are Josh Brolin and Benicio del Toro. Sounds like another action film.

10 Things I Hate About You was a really good modern-day interpretation of "The Taming of the Shrew". Julia Stiles also starred in O, a modern retelling of "Othello", although it wasn't as good. My Own Private Idaho is a very strange reinterpretation of "Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2" and "Henry V". But an excellent movie, all the same.

I thought Jennifer Garner should have gotten a Supporting Actress nomination for Juno.

Eve's first day will be Thursday, when she has an appointment with Doctor Dan. Although maybe "appointment" should be in quotes. Other spoilers: (from http://soaps.sheknows.com/daysofourlives/spoilers/, http://www.dayscafe.com/weekly-spoilers.html and http://www.dayscafe.com/sneakpeek.html) Kristen returns to rock the boat by kidnapping someone. (From what I understand, it will be Nicole. I wonder if this will either bring Nicole back to Eric, or into Dan's arms.) Eve Donovan returns with a big story and some surprising connections. (Paige, I imagine.) Eve pays a visit and is a super schemer! The sexy songbird makes a play for the medicine man. Kate digs up a dangerous man from Jordan's past. (Finally?) Jenn deals with a lawsuit regarding Jack's book. (Yawn) Lucas lectures Rafe. Kate defends him and then falls into bed with him! (Too late, Jordan) Sonny regrets the past. (Seriously? A Sonny storyline? Can we hope?) Rumor has it a future death is faked! (Yeah, I imagine that will be EJ).

Tom Hiddleston to play Hank Williams.

I loved Julia Stiles in 10 Things I Hate About You. She was all right in O, but it was actually sort of silly. But she never moved on till I saw her again in Silver Linings Playbook, and her appearance again gave me hope that she might eventually become the big star she should be.

Several years ago a group from my office, in Virginia, went on a business trip to Massachusetts, we ate dinner together and the waitress asked us if we wanted chad as a vegetable. We all looked at each other blankly. "Chad?" And she said, "You know, Swiss chad?" One of the group said, "Oh! Chard!"

Considering that the 49ers sell out every game, and have since 1981, then, no.

Why is Will dressed like Mister Rogers's senior citizen neighbor? Why would somebody wear a buttoned up sweater over an untucked shirt, so that the tail hangs down below the sweater? I like Sami's new 'do.

Today there was a man suing his ex (girlfriend, I think, never wife) over child support she kept even though their son was living with him for 14 months. The woman never put his name on the birth certificate and didn't even claim that the guy was the father till the boy was 11 years old and the woman decided she needed child support. The guy has support taken out of his pay check, so the money was still coming out of his pay even though she had sent the boy to live with his newly-discovered father (well, not that new, the kid just turned 18). The woman had so brain washed the son into hating his father, it wasn't funny. He tried to testify on his mother's behalf, but never really got what he was trying to claim through except to make his mother look worse and worse and his father better and better. The father even took in a friend of his son's while the kid was living with him, and even when he was living with his mother, his father sent him extra money. But the mother never gave him any money when he was living with her, and never sent child support to support him while he was living with his father, but the kid clearly thinks his mother can do no wrong.

But the flight attendant speaks almost flawless English to him, but he still points at the picture in the flight magazine because she's a stupid foreigner who doesn't understand what this American has a right to demand.

Please, let Jason Quartermaine come back and not Jason Morgan. Please?

Bluto: "Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?"

I hate his racist implication that the Asian flight attendant doesn't understand that he has a back ache.