Nov 20 2008
Random Miscellaneous Stuff
The last few days I have had some free time surf the net and find some vaguely interesting stuff. First, in the news recently a 74 year old blind Massachusetts woman received a notice that she was going to get a lien on her home because of a 1 cent balance for an overdue water and sewer bill. Antonio Viveiros wrote a check for the penny to settle her debt to the city and expressed his disappointment that the government will help bail out big businesses, but won’t help the senior citizens. You can find the entire article here.
In other news, some guy in Maine was so eager to join the Marines that the lost 140 pounds to do it. I can think of a lot better motivation then joining to Marines to lose weight and better things to do if I did lose 140 pounds. Click here for the article.
Aside from reading odd news, I also came across a new singer I like. I found a music video for Kerli. After a little more searching, I listened to a few songs of hers and then ordered her album Love Is Dead
I also found a few movies that I had not included in my upcoming movie list.
November 26, 2008 Jason Statham returns as Frank Martin, the ex-Special Forces operative who specializes in high-risk deliveries in Transporter 3. Fransois Berleand will also return as Tarconi.
March 13, 2009: Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is starring in Race to Witch Mountain, a remake of the 1975 film Escape to Witch Mountain.
The world is going to end (again) on July 10, 2009 in the movie 2012. Starring John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton, Oliver Platt, Thomas McCarthy, Woody Harrelson, Chin Han, Morgan Lily, and Beatrice Rosen.
On November 20, 2009 we get to see Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law in action as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in Sherlock Holmes.
In 2012 Johnny Deep will be back as Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean 4. Geoffrey Rush has expressed interest in returning as Barbossa, but has not signed on yet and Director Gore Verbinski will not sign on without a complete script.
Since Thanksgiving is coming up, I was looking up stuff on Thanksgiving menus and came across some interesting info on turkeys. The first turkey was served for Thanksgiving dinner at Plymouth in 1621; however it was not called Thanksgiving back then. It was just the harvest festival. Thanksgiving started in 1623 for the Pilgrims as irregular church observances after favorable events. It wasn’t until 1680 when the Puritans in Massachusetts Bay Colony started holding annual Thanksgiving celebrations. President Alexander Hamilton in the 1790’s proclaimed that no citizen of the United States should refrain from turkey on Thanksgiving Day; however turkey did not become the traditional fare until around 1857. Then in 1863 President Abraham Lincoln nationalized the holiday and we have enjoyed turkey dinners ever since. Bet you didn’t know all that.
I was going to go on another tangent, but I think this post is getting long enough.
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Actually, the first “Thanksgiving” in 1621 wasn’t even really a harvest festival. The Puritans wanted nothing to do with any kind of celebration. The event truly was a thanksgiving in that they were giving thanks for the fact that they had managed to stay alive since their arrival, that the crops had survived to be taken in, and that they finally had enough to eat.