Laughter.....it's music to my ears

This is very sad. I have been watching, or rather, leaving on, a not funny comedy called "Due Date." Seventy minutes in with thirty to go and I just couldn't take it any longer. I think I'm getting a lot more selective about what makes me laugh. These days it may take a little more and happen less often. But when the laughter happens, it's music to my ears.

Last night while Wanda was playing Scrabble I watched the Disney movie "Tangled." It was a cute slant on the fairy tale "Rapunzel." One character was a roguish swashbuckling fellow who went by the name Flynn Ryder. Before the end of the movie he revealed his real name to Rapunzel. I heard Eugene The Pervert which I thought was an odd name for a Disney guy. His name, it turns out, was Eugene Fitzherbert. I love being able to entertain myself.

Now this may be a slightly esoteric but I feel the need to share it. Earlier this morning I watched part of the 1996 movie "Jerry Maguire." The actor Cuba Gooding played a wide receiver named Rod Tidwell. The brash, fast talking character won Gooding an Academy Award. In the movie he wore number 85, or, Ocho Cinco. A coincidence? Believe it or Not.

I love films and good television, always have. I've written about going to the movies as a kid. It's one of the only times I remember spending with the whole family. Sunday evenings we would go out for dinner and then to a theater. Sunday night dinner and a movie introduced me to the wonderful world of film.

I thank the people who are reading and contributing to the blog. Andi, your comments about the showers are hilarious........woo-woo. Several of you have suggested I publish. I respect your opinions, especially when they are so positive. If anyone has any ideas on how or where to do this I'm open to suggestions. Perhapes one of you is has an idea for the next "Julie and Julia."

San Diego police say the man accused of trying to rob a convenience store last week dressed as the famous claymation character Gumby turned himself in Tuesday.

A man dressed in a Gumby costume and an accomplice went into a 7-Eleven in Rancho Penasquitos on Labor Day and told the clerk it was a robbery.

The clerk thought it was a prank and dismissed him. Both then left the store.
Surveillance video shows the clumsy would-be robber struggling to keep the green suit on as he walked out the door.

A man in southern Mississippi is accused of trying to walk out of a local grocery store without paying for food items he'd stuffed into his cargo shorts.

The man was arrested Saturday after allegedly being caught stuffing two bags of jumbo shrimp, a pork loin and two live lobsters into his pants.

He tried to escape by throwing the pork loin at employees at the local Winn Dixie but fell while running away. He was arrested at the scene.

The shoplifting charge is a misdemeanor, but he remained jailed Wednesday with no bond pending a hearing on a probation violation.

If you are sad or depressed, if you feel life has got you down, look around. It's really easy to find someone, somewhere, willing to do something that will make you laugh.