You GUYS. I'm in New York! So, here's what's happened so far...uneventful plane rides except for the condensation rolling across the ceiling of the plane from Detroit to LaGuardia, I took a video with my camera but haven't uploaded it yet. It was like when you open your freezer and that mist rolls out? Once we got up in the air it went away but it was still weird. Oh, and of course when I landed at Detroit from Lansing I was at one end of C terminal, and my flight to LaGuardia was at the completely opposite end of A terminal, so I had a bit of a hike to get there. But it was all good. The guy who picked me up from the airport was from Michigan, what are the odds, and he was so great. His name is Tom Rhoades, and he's an actor who works for this car service that hires new actors on purpose so they can drive established actors back and forth from the airport and make industry contacts. He got a job working for Angela Lansbury because he picked her up from the airport! I cannot … [Read more...]
Confessions of a Shopaholic Blu-Ray review
The movie "Confessions of a Shopaholic" is based on the book by the same name, by author Sophie Kinsella, but the movie changes the book's plot considerably, while still maintaining the basic idea. Isla Fisher ("Wedding Crashers") plays Becky Bloomwood, a young, single gal who loves to shop. Walking into a store is like walking into a holy place for Becky, and if the clothes are on sale, even better. Unfortunately, what she doesn't like doing is opening her credit card bills and paying them. Her roommate Suze (Krysten Ritter of TV's "Breaking Bad") helps her out by not cashing her rent checks, but when bill collector Derek Smeath (character actor Robert Stanton) begins pursuing Rebecca with a vengeance, she realizes she'd better start paying her bills. Her dream is to work for fashion magazine Alette, but she takes a job at another magazine published by the same company, a magazine with the ironic name "Successful Saving". There she meets ultra-suave Luke Brandon (British … [Read more...]
Site review- The Exit Store
Here's something I bet most people don't think that much about but can be found in every building everywhere- EXIT SIGNS. Building codes require exits to be clearly marked, whether it's an office building or restaurant or school. Talk about something we take for granted! We assume that in any public building, we will be able to figure out quickly where the exits are, and that's where The Exit Store comes in. Until I reviewed this site, I had NO IDEA how many different kinds of exit signs there are. They come in "thermoplastic", steel, and aluminum. They can be self-luminous (some kind of glow in the dark material so that the sign glows without need for batteries or an external power source), or lit with LED bulbs. For "high abuse" areas like correction facilities, apartment buildings, and schools, exit signs can be made with tamper-resistant materials and even housed behind steel cages. Different cities have different requirements for compliance, meaning that The Exit … [Read more...]
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