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Here’s five cool things about the movie:

#5: Judi Dench returns at M.  She has proved in reversing the gender role of this character actually made them more intriguing.

#4: Sam Mendes is directing.  He’s got a unique style that he brought to two movies I really loved.  American Beauty and Away We Go.

#3: Skyfall – Way cool title. I’m guessing there’s a superweapon called sky fall that may threaten everyone.

#2: The release of Skyfall in 2012 will mark the 50th anniversary of the Bond brand.

#1: Javier Bardem is the bad guy.  He was sooooooo much a scary bad guy in the Coen Brothers ‘No Country For Old Men.”  If he says “friend-o” in this Bond movie, I may scream in happiness like a school girl.

Yes, I am a James Bond fanatic, so here’s another important Bond list:

Best movie James Bond actors:

#6 – George Lazenby – Mr. One and Done.  While On Her Majesty’s Secret Service had some cool skiing action sequences, you never really got the feel for Bond.

#5 – Daniel Craig - I really didn’t like the choice of Craig over Clive Owen, but Craig is growing on me.

#4 – Sean Connery – I know.  Purists will rake me over the coals for this low ranking.  The fact is Connery as James Bond was not so much a ladies man as he was a sexist.  I’m still a bit shocked watching Goldfinger and Dr. No these days.

#3 – Timothy Dalton – He’s an underrated James Bond, but I thought The Living Daylights and License To Kill were thrilling.

#2 – Roger Moore – Oh yeah.  The first James Bond I was introduced to.  He was smooth and satirical.  He also fought Jaws (Richard Kiel,) who I got to interview once.

#1 – Pierce Brosnan – He fit a tux better than the rest.   Brosnan was charming, calm, cool and collective on top of being silky and smooth.  Do I have a man crush on him?  Maybe.



Here’s the delicious birthday breakfast that Scott & Heather provided for me this morning.  If my blood-sugar content wasn’t nearing 95% this morning, I would demand Heather deliver on the birthday cookies too.

Hmmm..I guess I can wait until tomorrow.

-43.9% of Americans plan to dress up this year.

- 76% of all young adults plan to deck themselves out.

- On average, they’ll spend about $63 on their look.

-U.S. consumers spent more than $2.5 billion on costumes this year.

- The average household has shelled out $21.05 in Halloween candy alone.

- The average child collects an estimated 3,500 and 7,000 calories on Halloween night.

- A 100-pound child who eats 7,000 calories worth of candy would have to walk for almost 44 hours or play full-court basketball for 14.5 hours to burn those calories.

- Meanwhile, 14.7% of Americans will dress up their pets.

- Nearly half of American consumers (49.5%) are expected to decorate their front yard.

- Many (32.9%) will take their kids trick-or-treating.

- Most of us (73.5%) will hand out candy to them.

- Nearly half of Americans (47.8%) will carve a pumpkin.

- Some (22.9%) of us will visit a haunted house.

- 22% of consumers will spend an average of $59 to throw a party.

Thanks to The National Retail Federation and The Wall Street Journal for the data.

10. Open Water – Two scuba divers left stranded in the ocean only to face a slow death by sharks. I’m already quivering. freaks me out.

9. Låt den Rätte Komma In (Let the Right One In) (2008) – Nevermind the 2010 Americanized remake called “Let Me In.” The original is in Swedish, and is a freaky and sad story about vampires.

8.Rosemary’s Baby - Roman Polanski is creepy enough, but even after it’s 1968 release, this one still holds up. It’s not so much scary things that are happening in this one, but rather how freaky the characters act.

7. Jaws - The sharks again…freaking me out! Watching Robert Shaw slowly slide down the deck of his boat and into the shark’s mouth has damaged me for life.

6. Silence of the Lambs - It puts the lotion in the basket. Also, this movie makes me hungry for fava beans

5. Anything George Romero, but specifically Dawn Of The Dead (1978) – Romero is the king of the living dead. His movies always have a lot of dread and gloom in them. You also get a subtle message about society hidden in each one. Gore + social conscience. Fun!

4. Alien - It may seem like it’s an action movie, but really it’s more of a scare fest. I’m getting indigestion just thinking about it.

3. Misery – Steven King. Ouch, my ankles hurt just thinking about it.

2. Poltergeist – It’s time to sell the house when you slide into your unfinished swimming pool hole and skeletons pop up out of the water. That and having a big skeleton head jump out of your closet. They will certainly bring your property value down.

1. Psycho - Even with all the scary monsters out there, nothing is actually scarier than a real person who is off their rocker.

Here’s the rules for their list:

They are only English-Language pop tracks

They are from 1923-present

They are not ranked

Artists only get one song

2000s

Janelle Monae – “Tightrope”

Missy Elliott – “Get Ur Freak On”

Outkast – “Hey Ya!”

Arcade Fire – “Wake Up”

Kanye West – “Gold Digger”

Lil Wayne – “Georgia… Bush”

LCD Soundsystem – “All My Friends”

Beyonce – “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)”

Lady Gaga – “Bad Romance”

1990s

Sinead O’Connor – “Nothing Compares 2 U”

Pet Shop Boys – “Being Boring”

Nirvana – “Smells Like Teen Spirit”

Richard Thompson – “1952 Vincent Black Lightning”

Wu-Tang Clan – “C.R.E.A.M.”

A Tribe Called Quest – “Scenario”

The Notorious B.I.G. – “Juicy”

Tupac Shakur – “California Love (Remix)”

Pulp – “Common People”

Radiohead – “Paranoid Android”

1980s

Joy Division – “Love Will Tear Us Apart”

George Jones – “He Stopped Loving Her Today”

Michael Jackson – “Billie Jean”

New Order – “Blue Monday”

Prince – “Kiss”

Metallica – “Master of Puppets”

R.E.M. – “It’s the End of the World as We Know It”

Lucinda Williams – “Pineola”

Public Enemy – “Fight the Power”

Madonna – “Borderline”

1970s

The Melodians – “Rivers of Babylon”

James Brown – “Get Up (I Feel like Being a) Sex Machine”

Led Zeppelin – “Immigrant Song”

Black Sabbath – “Iron Man”

Joni Mitchell – “A Case of You”

The Who – “Baba O’Riley”

Stevie Wonder – “Superstition”

Dolly Parton – “Jolene”

Big Star – “September Gurls”

Bonnie Raitt – “Angel from Montgomery”

Fela Kuti – “Zombie”

Bruce Springsteen – “Thunder Road”

Queen – “Bohemian Rhapsody”

Donna Summer – “I Feel Love”

Bee Gees – “Stayin’ Alive”

David Bowie – “Heroes”

Ramones – “I Wanna Be Sedated”

Fleetwood Mac – “Dreams”

Peter Tosh – “Equal Rights”

Parliament – “One Nation Under a Groove”

Velvet Underground – “Rock & Roll”

Loretta Lynn – “Coal Miner’s Daughter”

1960s

Bob Dylan – “Subterranean Homesick Blues”

Patsy Cline – “Crazy”

Roy Orbison – “Crying”

The Ronettes – “Be My Baby”

The Beatles – “I Wanna Hold Your Hand”

Astrud Gilberto – “The Girl from Ipanema”

The Supremes – “Where Did Our Love Go?”

The Beach Boys – “God Only Knows”

Aretha Franklin – “I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)”

Marvin Gaye – “I Heard It Through the Grapevine”

The Band – “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down”

Big Mama Thornton – “Ball ‘n’ Chain”

Jackson 5 – “I Want You Back”

The Rolling Stones – “Gimme Shelter”

Crosby, Stills and Nash – “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes”

Otis Redding – “I’ve Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)”

Johnny Cash – “Folsom Prison Blues”

1950s

Les Paul – “How High the Moon”

Kitty Wells – “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels”

Elvis Presley – “Jailhouse Rock”

Odetta – “Take This Hammer”

Frank Sinatra – “I’ve Got You Under My Skin”

Chuck Berry – “Johnny B. Goode”

Ray Charles – “What’d I Say”

1940s

Woody Guthrie – “This Land Is Your Land”

Lena Horne – “Stormy Weather”

The Andrews Sisters – “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy”

Spike Jones – “Der Fuehrer’s Face”

Bing Crosby – “White Christmas”

Betty Hutton – “It Had to Be You”

Mahalia Jackson – “Move On Up a Little Higher”

Hank Williams – “Cold, Cold Heart”

Ella Fitzgerald – “Baby It’s Cold Outside”

Doris Day – “Sentimental Journey”

1930s

Ethel Merman – “I Got Rhythm”

Cab Calloway – “Minnie the Moocher”

Duke Ellington – “It Don’t Mean A Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)”

Louie Armstrong – “Star Dust”

Fred Astaire – “Cheek to Cheek”

Ray Heatherton – “Where or When”

Judy Garland – “Over the Rainbow”

1920s

Al Jolson – “My Mammy”

Bessie Smith – “St. Louis Blues”

Paul Robeson – “Ol’ Man River”

The Carter Family – “Wildwood Flower”

Perhaps it was the wine talking, but I did have a good case of the munchies.

Good thing I didn’t run into the chef who says he’s created a $35,000 desert.  It includes layers of high-quality dark chocolate pudding, gold, champagne caviar, a 2-karat diamond, champagne jelly and biscuits laced with edible gold. The dish is served inside a golden edible Faberge egg replica.

I wonder what happens if you crunch down on the diamond or the gold?  I’m guessing you also get a $35,000 dentist bill.

There was a story out of Wausau this week where firefighters rescued a dog from a house fire and revived a Yellow Lab named Coda with mouth-to-snout resuscitation. A teenager was home at the time of the fire and managed to get out safely. He couldn’t make it back inside, but the firefighters did.

That’s begs the question. Would I be able to do the same for my dog JD? (pictured at the right)

Well, he is a known for creating a lot of slobber. He’s got these floppy lips that droop over his mouth. He always has dog breath. Still, if it came down to an emergency, I’d give my pup the kiss of life. I’d be searching for my toothbrush soon afterwards, but in the name of my doggie, I’d do it.

My stupid yappy neighbor’s dog that keeps me awake at night? That would be a tougher decision, but I’d like to think I’d help out that little rat dog too.

Here’s Coda’s story that was on the Today show this morning:

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That’s when The DeLorean Motor Company  says they’ll be release their brand new, electric versions of the DMC-12, the car Doc Emmit Brown made famous in “Back To The Future.” The new car will be made of original parts and a new electric engine, will be built to order and cost around $90,000.

88 MPH?  No problem, the new cars are expected to be able to do 125 MPH and go 70 miles on a single charge.

Here’s the other potential benefits of an electric DeLorean:

• It will be upgradable in the future to be able to fly. “Roads?  Where we’re going we don’t need roads.”
• It can come equipped to nicely seat two adults, or one adult and a large dog.
• The electric engine eliminates the need for a Mr. Fusion power converter.  Who wants a nuclear reactor in the trunk?
• 125 MPH can easily outrun Lybian terrorists.
• It’s gull wing style car doors are impressive, except when you park closely to another car or are in a drive-thru.
• $90,000 seems cheap for being able to go back in time to collect embarrasing stores about your parents.

Next month at an auction in England, one of John Lennon’s teeth is expected to sell for $16,000.

Sounds a little sketchy, but the source of the tooth isn’t that nefarious.

The late Beatle gave the tooth to his housekeeper, Dot Jarlett, at his Kenwood mansion in Surrey, England in the late Sixties. He had originally told her to dispose of the tooth, but upon learning that her daughter was a Beatles fan, told her to give it her as a souvenir.

This certainly has a high creep factor for me, but maybe a die hard Beatle fan might sink their tee….oh never mind.