Raf

Men in Black?

I made the DJ play that song at Steve! and Cindy!s wedding. I don't know, some of those lines sound "Rock"ish to me. :) They made up their minds And they started packing They left before the sun came up that day... ... And when the car broke down they started walking... TWI written all over it. ;)

This thread has been moved here by request from the Prayer Forum. Some of you may have noticed that I added a "Fight Lou Gehrig's disease" link to my signature. This thread explains why. The hope now is that it will spur more discussion about the disease and its progression, treatments, etc. Many thanks to all who have contributed to the effort thus far. Raf

Ok.

Who's Afraid of Chachi?

Thanks Robes. MH, trying to understand what you're writing there, so help me out here: "Viruses hide in your DNA..." DNA is a molecule. A virus is a cell. So I'm trying to picture this in my head, and it's not working. A virus can no more hide in my DNA than Jupiter can hide in New Jersey. Help me understand, please... In the meantime, Diane is eating very healthy with the consultation of doctors and nutritionists. Appreciate the prayers.

Nice.

Thurman Munson, Yankee catcher who died in 1979, I think it was. E, entertainment television Brad Pitt. Thurman E. Pitt Or, Thurman Ape It Either way, it's The Money Pit. The clown is Pennywise, the otherworldly killer clown from Stephen King's It.

Figure out the clown, and you'll figure out why you were right the first time. And guess it already!

My opinion: this is the kind of film you want to see on the big screen with a big crowd. Second time's better for the small screen (where you watch for subtleties you might have missed the first time around).

Alternative second and third pics...

WW, you are too close, but not close enough.

The gorgeous Ione Skye. And some poor shlub getting high. Skye. High. Sky High

I knew it immediately, but seeing as I'm dried up on ideas, I don't want to take another turn.

Goldie Hawn Death Becomes Her Bruce Willis

Sorry for the delay. George is right. First Blood, like Rocky, is a great movie whose legacy is marred by sequel-itis.

Oh, all right. The Sound of Music Next... "I came here to rescue you from him." "Well, we all appreciate your concern Colonel, I will try to be extra careful!" "I'm just amazed he allowed any of your posse to live." "Is that right?" "Strictly speaking, he slipped up. You're lucky to be breathing." "That's just great. Colonel, you came out here to find out why one of your machines blew a gasket!"

Did no one else see this?

Adieu, adieu, to you and you and you-ou.

MH, I understand your desire was to be helpful, and I do appreciate that. It's just that checking it out, I don't think this particular guy stumbled onto anything all that dramatic. I'd love to be wrong. But I do note that he has yet to respond to the ALSA e-mail, which again leads me to wonder. I trust you, MH, to be good-hearted and desire to help. I trust you to bring to my (our) attention things we may not have considered. And I appreciate it a great deal. Diane is on an organic diet and is doing what she can to eat healthy so that the things she takes in don't aggravate an already difficult and emotionally painful diagnosis. But I also believe there are people who prey on the good-hearted and hopeful among us. Eric Edney is, in my estimation, either one of those people or being used by those people. It seems to me he took a natural occurrence (his anomolous survival years after being diagnosed with ALS and doing nothing about it) and turned it into an amazing tale of anti-"science" and pro-"alternative" success. This, in turn, offers false hope to people with, admittedly, nowhere to turn. On another board, someone tried to turn me on to Kevin Trudeau's book, "Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know." Kevin Trudeau is a charlatan who'd put the most malicious TWI leaders to shame. I guess what I'm saying is, you have a good heart and I find comfort in your prayers. And Mark S: Thank you. This thread was easy to miss for a while because it was called "Rob and Diana," which didn't tell anyone anything. I had the name of the thread changed to be more straight forward in what it was about. Many thanks to all. $2,025 in donations so far for the ALS walk (April 12). My sig takes folks straight to my walk page, and yes, I'm still looking for donations. Every time I reach a goal, I raise it, so we've now raised the goal to $2,500. Peace.

Pretty much as advertised: The setup is that it's footage found in a video camera picked up in what used to be Central Park in NYC. That alone tells you pretty much how and where the movie ends. Ah, but getting there. Without going into every detail, we start out at a going away party for some guy who's on his way to Japan for a job. Some monster starts attacking, first in New York Harbor, then in midtown. Everyone runs outside just in time to see the head of the Statue of Liberty hit the street. Way cool. Some looting takes place, at which point our hero decides he needs a battery for his cell phone. While he's looking for the battery, the guy filming everything stops and looks at the news footage of what's going on, which helps give some other views. I won't say much more except that our main characters decide for fairly stupid reasons to head TOWARD the carnage to rescue some damsel in distress. The monster is like nothing you've ever seen. The Blair-Witch-type footage is either distracting or the best way to tell the story, the subway tunnel scene is one of the scariest I've ever sat through, Peter Jackson films more efficient endings, and you'll either love it or hate it. I loved it, but with full recognition that it's a stupid monster movie. If you saw Godzilla (the 1999 movie) and thought you could have done a better job with a camcorder, this is your movie.

I loved this movie, but please, do yourself a favor and take some Dramamine first. Oh, and if you hated the Blair Witch Project because of the camerawork, don't even bother watching this. But I really enjoyed it.

Mystic River Tim Robbins The Shawshank Redemption

Platoon Charlie Sheen Wall Street

I'm always distraught to hear stories of people who are afflicted with this disease. Last night I heard another one, and I confirmed it this morning. The guy's name is Charles McPhee. You might know him as "The Dream Doctor" from a hugely popular radio program that was broadcast in several cities up until a year and a half ago. He noticed that his speech was starting to slur, and when he got checked out, received his diagnosis. Lou Gehrig Jim Catfish Hunter David Niven Mao Tse Tung Jacob Javits Jon Stone (co-creator of Sesame Street) Henry Wallace (vice president under FDR) Harry Browne (1996 and 2000 Libertarian presidential candidate)