The Terror of Tiny Town

When Kate and I were little, we used to watch this ALL THE TIME. From the giant drink one of the guys drinks to the chef chasing Fritz the Duck ("Look Fritz, it's gettin' late for the boss' dinner, and I'm gettin' tired!"), we laughed until we cried! (Come to think of it, this movie is probably the reason why I think the name Fritz is so funny.)

Parts 1-7, courtesy of YouTube!

Old Favorites

Call 'em what you will - old fashioned, corny, etc., but I still love Shirley Temple movies!

(And don't tell him I said so, but I kind of think Jack looks like a boy version of her! Seriously, if we gave him ringlet curls and put him in a dress, we might be able to win some sort of look-a-like contest!)


"War Babies" - from Lindsay's and my old favorite Shirley Temple Festival.


I LOVED her pink dress! I still want to dress my future children in little Shirley Temple dresses!


Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is probably one of my all-time favorite Shirley Temple movies.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Here's what I was doing last year around this time:

Stuck in the schoolyard helping my friend Jackie try to get her keys out of her locked, turned-on car! It was quite the adventure and a slightly depressing Valentine's Day turned into one that will be hard to top!


Trying to get the keys out!


Me in the snow!


My friends Michelle and Amanda in a snowball fight!

It really was quite the afternoon. We had the janitor trying to pry open Jackie's window with a hanger, the rest of us helping to push the staff's cars out of the snow (and falling in the process!), and a whole score of both helpful and not-so-helpful people!

Humphrey!

I used to LOVE these cartoons! I especially liked when he "grew" the fish! Humphrey's awesome!

Silly Symphonies!

A blast from the past! We used to LOVE watching these! There will be MANY more to come, as we try to collect them, I'm sure! This was one of our favorites!

Looking Back... 1995

I love this show (I Love the 90's), and am trying to find some of my favorite segments on youtube. I tend to find that they believe almost the exact same things I did - or do now - about the things they criticize.

This is their segement on Party of Five, something else I was seriously into back in high school. I didn't notice then just how depressing the show was!

More Movie Nostalgia

Lindsay and I were discussing the Gnome Mobile this morning, one of our childhood favorites with Jordan, Kara and Emily. The first time we saw it was up at dad's house in Cutchogue - we had Jordan with us for the weekend, and we loved it immediately. Lindsay mentioned today how she had completely believed in the existence of gnomes after this movie, because it just looked SO REAL. Not in comparison to today's graphics standards, I'm afraid! However, this should NEVER be remade, because if it had today's graphics, most of it's charm would be completely lost!

This was always my favorite scene - when all the lady gnomes chase Jasper!

Quote of the Day

This is one of those many instances in which someone said something and it was mistaken for something else. On a recent trip to the very crowded mall, we drove around the parking lost looking for a spot to leave the car. We got to a strange area where the spots looked different, so I checking with everyone in the car (Lindsay, Kara and Emily) saying, "These are spots, aren't they?"

However, because there were a lot of spots in that particular area, Kara thought I said, "These are spots aplenty!" It has been one of our favorite quotes every since.

Picture of the Week

I can't believe I almost forgot to post this! I've had a really busy week, apparantly!



This famous family picture was taken during a trip to Kevin and Lori's house. We filmed one of our famous musicals in the basement, using bags of old clothes. Kara and Emily located these teal pants that apparantly my dad gave to Jordan and which Jordan used to wear in the snow (this was confirmed the next day when we were watching home movies). Anyway, as we were cleaning up all the clothes, I thought I heard Kara say something like, "Let's make a fat man dummy and leave it on Jordan's bed." When I mentioned it, everyone liked the idea and we proceeded to create this new person on Jordan's bed.

When Jordan came home with his girlfriend at the time, they headed into his room while we waited for the reaction. We later heard that Suzy had jumped at the sight of it, and Jordan admitted that he had thought it was his dad, as the shirt we used was Kevin's "lawn mowing shirt."

You Gotta Believe

Just for fun - another blast from the crazy childhood of the cousins: Ghostwriter. What can I say? The lyrics say it all (particulary "Boom-Shacka-Lacka-Boom" by the amazing Sheldon Turnipseed, who played Jamal).

Fun fact: my friend Michelle went to high school with the Ghostwriter cast. That was amazing to find out!

An Important Message for all...

Well of course now I'm on a kick of finding Follow that Bird clips on youtube. If I recall, Lindsay enjoys this part of the movie, which we missed in last night's viewing.

I enjoy the gusto with which they are singing (and Big Bird's affirmations - "That's right!," "Uh-huh!", and "Sing It!" towards the end of the song are pretty entertaining).

We'll Laugh Our Cares Away!

Last night, Katherine, Joe and I were flipping the channels looking for something to watch after discovering nothing good on the HDTV channels. Finally, we took a look at the movie channels, where one was labeled "Sesame Street." Joe put it on and we all got excited right away, for we all immediately recognized the movie as Follow that Bird, a childhood favorite! So, of course we had to watch it because it just so happened to be our favorite part.

I found a video of said favorite part - when Big Bird stops on the farm and meets Ruthie and Floyd and helps out with the chores, and they all sing "Easy Goin'" - it took me back to the days when we would play Follow that Bird and I would play Ruthie, Joe would play Floyd and that left Lindsay to play - you guessed it! - Big Bird!



We spent the rest of the evening quoting the rest of the movie as it continued. The best part was Pam and Mom in the dining room/kitchen, singing all the words, remembering everything from when we used to watch it - including the key change at the end of "Easy Goin'"!

P.S. I mentioned the Sesame Street quiz I took a while back to Joe and how I ended up as Bert - he wanted to take it so I shared the link, and he's Bert too! Apparantly we are just not a cool bunch. (Though when Emily took the quiz a couple weeks ago, she was Big Bird.)