Edna Vs. Disney's A Christmas Carol

I left Edna home one day to go see ‘Disney’s: A Christmas Carol’ with the cast members from 'Hale Centre Theatre's: A Christmas Carol'

We did not approve.










This kind of animation really freaks me out. It looks too plastic-y and nobody has a realistic expression on their face.

In this version Scrooge falls and rolls down stone stairs, flies through the air, shrinks, is hit in the face, runs a marathon, falls 8-10 feet, and then bounces back from it all as if he weren’t the 70+ year old man he is depicted as. If I were a member of the geriatric society I’d be up in arms about this.


They also made some weird changes to this story. For some reason they rearranged and cut some dialogue from the original version, and then added in an extensive and irrelevant chase scene through the streets of London that I don’t think Dickens had in mind when he wrote the story.


Plus in the end, Cratchit turns around and suddenly starts talking to us as the narrator, where have you been the whole time when I needed you to explain all the stuff that didn’t make sense.


I prefer the 25 minute version Disney made years ago starring Mickey.

Edna loved this

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Movie Reviews: This is It vs. Cirque Du Freak: The Vampires Assistant

Michael Jackson's 'This is It'-



















That was it?



















(This photo is about 3 noses ago)


Cirque Du Freak: The Vampires Assistant-



















This film was excellent, but I have a feeling that it will get snubbed at the oscars, despite the fact that they are featuring 10 films in the 'best film' category this year. Few thoughts:



















When did John C. Reilly become a headliner?















Michael Cerveris is a Tony award winning stage actor. Clearly he's making good career decisions.












What's up with this?










Willem Defoe looks just like Vincent Price. I plan on offering him the role for the screenplay I'm writing 'Priceless: The softer side of Vincent'


This movie was almost as good as Twilight (or as New Moon is anticipated to be). It's an ensemble movie with a fine cast. Most of the cast is barely seen at all in the movie, which is nice (it keeps the movie nice and short when all the 'acty' parts are edited out)

Really, what's not to like?

The Pumpkin Dance

This might be the most terrifying thing I've ever seen in my life.

That's not Ray Parker Jr. either.

2009 Chili Cook Off

Yesterday was the 2009 OC Tanner Process Team Chili cook off. Of my team of 20 we had 5 people bring in their home made chili's for the contest. It was some stiff competition. Last year, for some reason my white chicken chili came off a little soupy, this year I made some adjustments and it came out quite a bit spicier than it usually does. The judges came by around lunch time and took copious notes of the chilis. Mine wasn't the only white bean chicken chili. There were also some traditional recipes and one that was really good that had a lot of cinnamon in the recipe.

But still, I took this award. It will join the many other lucite frames that sit in my cubicle.

It got a little awkward, because I made the awards, asked the judges to come and taste the chili's and then won. But that's not going to stop me from keeping the title.

Twilight is coming

Twilight is coming pretty soon. I already have my tickets, not for the night it opens, but the night after.

Angie found this web

site

http://www.instyle.com/instyle/makeover/, where you can upload a photo of yourself, and then you can put the hairstyles from the Twilight on your head to see what you would look like as Edward or Jacob.

So Here's me with Robert Pattinson's hair.

And Taylor Lautner.

And Zac Efron.

And Barack Obama.

And Joe Jonas.

With as long as my hair is right now, I think I'm well on my way.

This is Halloween

or FHE this week a group of us got together to carve our pumpkins and eat bosco beans. I think bosco beans are the best part of halloween. They were delicious, I even made a vegetarian chili for some of the group who don't like meat.

The carving was great and everyone's pumpkin turned out.

I decided to use props this year, and added a parsnip and toothpicks to mine.

Bryan made his into Jack Skellington, and so did John

We should have saved the pumpkin seeds, but cleaning and cooking them sounded like a lot of work.

Bruce's 3 Year Service Anniversary

At OC Tanner we celebrate employee's service anniversaries. Last week was my friend Bruce's 3 year anniversary. Usually for anniversaries a person's manager and co-workers will get up and say nice things, but for Bruce, a few of us got together and decided to do something different for him.

This is Garrick, Ron, Darin & I singing a funny song we put together.

I've been told I look like this guy

Angie says I look like Parker Lewis.

I think it's the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me.

Now I just need to work on not losing.

Edna Reviews: 'Where the Wild Things Are'

I saw ‘Where the Wild Things Are’


Now I take umbrage with:
Bi-Polar Monsters
Balls of Twine
Stuffed animals
Sailboats
Children
Buffalo/rhinos
Dirt Clods
Snow owls
And vague/existential/plotless movies.









That's all.

Work

I work at OC Tanner, and I really like my job. I was originally hired to be the 'bench Brochure Professional' to help pick up the slack when we were very busy, and when there was an opening on a regional team within the company, to eventually get assigned there permanently.

Thing is, because of the economy, we slowed down a bit, and nobody has left the company in ages, so I'm still here on the bench. I wouldn't trade it though, I love my team, and being here on the bench has allowed me to work with a lot of great people on a lot of different projects.

Recently I got put on the International Project here at work. For a couple months me and a few other members went to a lot of meetings and tested double-byte characters so that we can now translate all of our verbiage into every language. It was a little different, one night the team had to come into work at 10:00 pm and stay until 3:00 am. Being on the team was a lot of fun, but the coolest part was when I got back from Vegas I had this waiting on my desk.

Not only this awesome star-trek looking trophy that I keep here in my cubicle, but I got another recognition at work award (with a gift certificate) that allowed me to get this.

So, now I have great teeth and an awesome trophy. Thanks, Obert!

Vegas '09 Baby!

I left Edna home to escape to America's Playground a couple weeks ago. It was amazing fun!

We went to the Tournament of King's at Excalibur for medieval times! Stefanie met Gandalf and Garrick met a showgirl.

We also saw Mystere, the Cirque De Soleil show, it was amazing.

Here's the whole gang


We stayed at the Planet Hollywood right on the strip, and did some great sightseeing.



















The last night we saw the outside (free) show at Treasure Island (it wasn't very good).












Someday I'll be rich enough to stay at the Bellagio, that place has got style.











I think the best thing they have there are the fountains at the bellagio, we watched them for about a half hour. I want one for my front yard.
On the wall of our hotel they had Joe Jonas's hand prints, no sign of his purity ring though. (guess he took it off for this).

It was a great trip and I still feel full from the buffet at Planet Hollywood. It was so much fun, everyone's already planning Vegas 2010!