Storm Chaser---runner-away-from...

Scared, scared, scared! I am at my sister's pet sitting AGAIN (her and the new hubby are out of town for a wedding) and I had to usher the dog AND the cats into the basement because a tornado came by! UGH! I HATE bad weather! Then the power went out! And of course, Cori and Derek are so high-freakin'-tech they don't own a radio! Thank God my computer was charged up, because I was able to listen to the local weather station streaming on my computer....Then I called my dad to make sure he was in his basement, but, no...in true Minnesota-fashion he was practically sitting on his deck watching the storm. Uuuuggghhhh. It's past where I am, and no touchdown or substantial damage, thank God. I heard a fire truck go by so I'm guessing something may have started on fire because there was so much lightening. So, to calm my nerves, I am blogging. It's not really helping.

Maybe some Zorn will calm me down.

This is really par for the course during Minnesota summers, but I never quite get used to it....

Ramblings!

Quinn went with his mom this afternoon until NEXT Sunday. So I am childless for a solid ten days. My first night sans kid? I went to my sister's house, drank some cheap wine and watched The Nanny Diaries. I got home about a half hour ago, and I noticed my cat, Ryan O'Reily, after following me around meowing for ten minutes, is now fast asleep on one of the chairs in the living room not too far from me. I think he was waiting for me to come home before he could rest comfortably. Last night, I went for a walk after dinner, and kinda snuck back in. I heard Jim say to him, "Your not going outside, cat." As he was sitting in front of the front door, if he was waiting for someone, Jim says, "I think Ryan missed you come in." I went out to the living room and called his name, and he came running to me, not going near the front door the rest of the night. He was waiting for me! Isn't that sweet? I don't bring this up to pat myself on the back and think what a great person I am, but, man, that's just so sweet! My little Ry-pants, as I call him (loooooong story) misses me when I'm gone! For a cat, that's impressive. Sigh, I don't know why I decided to share that with you, I just love my cat, that's all. I'll post a picture with him tonight, because he's adorbz. And named after a character from the show Oz, for those of you who were wondering. This is very Ralph Wiggum of me, "My cat's breath smells like cat food."

MOVING ON!

Honestly, folks, I have a wine headache and am having a hard time focusing on anything right now. I found a hot piece of Zorn I want to share with all of you, and just want to say...Happy Birthday, MJ!

I'm going to see the movie Julie and Julia tomorrow, Zach's not in it, but I'm sure it will still be tolorable ;) I'll let you know.

Enjoy ZQ, and my kitty!

*Oh, the picture of Ryan was taken on the old, beat-up ratty coffee table my sister and I had when we lived together. It was my mom's and someone left a damp Windex bottle on the table too long, so that is why there is that big ugly oblong ring on it. Heh. That is all...

No One Looks Good Running.

How does he pull it off?

Oh, right, perfection, I forgot.

We Can Be Heroes!

This was posted last Friday, but I'm only getting to it now. Heroes Season 4 trailer! Woot! Here is the YouTube link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXDRkk4RTUo

Dear TV Gods,

Don't let season 4 of Heroes suck. I know season 3 was much, much better than season 2, but Heroes have yet to get to the level of greatness it was at in season 1. Why is this? Producers? Writers? It's not the actors, I think they are all good, save for a few minor ones who aren't on the show anymore, which is a good thing. I think it's the over-ambitiousness of it all. Quit adding new characters! We care about the original group like family, and along with our real families and friends, and other TV characters we consider family and friends we are running out of spots in our hearts for anymore fictional superheros, ok? I know I'm too late on that trolley because there is already, in the trailer alone, a whole mess of new people..ugh. Circus folk? C'mon now, have we been watching our Carnivale DVDs again? (I love that weird, slow moving show, btw) But, I will give them a chance, as I will poor Ali Larter in yet another incarnation of her character, or her character's twin, or triplet, or whatever the hell her deal is now. I saw her wedding pictures on people.com and she looked beautiful! Anyways, I love Angela Petrelli so very much, I'm glad she hasn't been pushed into the background, as this sometimes happens to women of a certain age in ensemble shows. Also, Peter as a paramedic again? Good...good. And I hear Claire's college adventures are going to get a little on the bi-curious side. Which I am willing to let slide, AS LONG as it's done in a non-exploitive manner, which probably won't happen.

But, my favorite part of the trailer? The very, very end. Sylar is holding baby Matt Parkman and he hisses, "I want my body back." Heh. That baby looks TERRIFIED! I wonder how they got that baby to look so scared? Probably told his mother to go hide somewhere, but it's hilarious. But, I suppose they couldn't have Sylar being all menacing holding a smiling, happy, gurgling baby. Even though that would have been so much awesome. Heh.

Anyways, TV Gods, help us out here. I know there is potential left in this little-show-that-could. It can't go from so much greatness to substantially less greatness to mediocrity in three short seasons. Can it?

Dirty Dreams Done Dirt Cheap

I don't usually admit this...but I had a dirty dream about someone the other night that I really wasn't expecting to, and NO! It wasn't ZQ, sadly enough. It was his Heroes co-star Milo Vent-whatshisface. (I could look up how to spell his last name, but I'm not gonna...) I don't find him particularly, outstandingly attractive. He's cute enough, but he was in that horrible Big Girls Don't Cry Fergie video, with fake tats and ill-advised facial hair. I love, love his character on Heroes, Peter Petrelli, all sensitive-pants and conflicted in season one, his story line was crap in season two (who's wasn't?) and he was kinda, borderline bad ass in season three, as bad ass as Peter Petrelli can be, I guess, taking care of his Ma, and what not. But, I haven't been watching Heroes lately! Also, I don't really know anything about him, I care not to, I guess. He seems a little...I dunno, shifty. He dated Hayden Paniettere and she's not even twenty, and he's thirty-two! Damn. My husband is eight years older than me, but still, that's quite the age gap. Aside, from that, I don't know anything about him. Also, on a personal note, I had a former co-worker who was in a wheelchair and she had a Helping Paws service animal, a golden retriever, and his name was Milo. I saw that dog all day, everyday, for two years. He is the only Milo I know. He was at my wedding!

So, this dream, I will spare you the dirty deets, was very surprising to me. Like I said, I don't know where it came from, or why he was in it, but there is was. I am big on trying to decipher dreams, so I think to myself, since I know so little about Milo himself, I consider him Peter, since I have not seen him act in anything else (that Fergie video doesn't count) but, in the dream he wasn't Peter, he was Milo. Why? What did I experience that day that reminded me of him? Is that what we dream about? I think dreams are our subconscious mind trying to solve problems for us. I think I may be trying to read too much into a dirty dream, maybe my subconscious just went, "Here is a cute boy, knock yourself out." Heh.

Honestly though, every "dirty" dream I've had that had a male celebrity in them, was also a celebrity that is totally out of the blue. ie-Michael Imperoli, yes, Christopher from The Sopranos. And, Matthew Fox---and I don't watch Lost.

Anyways...just thought I'd share, heh.

RE: Today's Zorn. I love how tan ZQ looks in this pic. Use sunscreen, baby! And the pic at the bottom is for LOLs...

And ZQ and Milo palling around to the left! Man, there are hardly any pics of these two together. You'd think since they work together, and Sylar has tried to kill/befriend Peter on several occasions, but not so much...

Even Headless, He's Still Hot

Welp, I just watched (finally) the bootlegged Star Trek from Aruba. It wasn't half bad. Well, the movie is excellent, and that translated very well (I wouldn't recommend viewing Star Trek for the first time with the bootlegged version however...) the quality was a bit shifty. I would compare it to something taped on a VHS off say, the BBC, 30 years ago. The audio was tinny as all hell, and the big music swells, when the Romulan ship appears etc. were absolutely ear-splitting, but it was totally fun to watch. We also had a good laugh because it wasn't formatted to fit television screens, so it was "tar Tre" when the title popped up, and darling ZQ, Spock, was walking around without a head a lot of the time since he's so tall, which was LOL-tastic. I watched it with my eight-year-old step-son Quinn, who did see it in the theater, but he kept looking out the window waiting for the cops to come squealing around the corner because we were watching an illegal movie. I texted my sister, "Quinn thinks we are gonna do hard time if we are caught watching this." She texts back, "Tell him speeding is a capital offense too." I sent back, "As is talking back and not finishing your milk."

It was just funny to see how excited he got, and a little apprehensive, that we were doing something that's "illegal." I don't think watching a pirated movie at eight is going to turn him into some criminal mastermind by the time he's twenty or anything like that, I just don't want him to go back to school this fall and say his favorite thing he did this summer was break the law with his step-mom.

I still can't wait to get the offical DVD when it comes out in November. It'll be fun to re-watch it the way it's intended, high in quilty, crisp audio, and Spock having a head.

Well, I Know I Can't Wait To See This!

First of all, Happy Birthday, Kristi!!!

Second of all:

from imdb.com:

Quinto's Gun Role Terrifies Locals

1 August 2009 7:11 AM, PDT

Zachary Quinto stunned diners in Los Angeles when he toted a gun as part of a comedy sketch - and his act was so convincing, terrified onlookers called the police.

The Star Trek actor was filming an upcoming skit for the Funny or Die website at L.A. bakery Kiss My Bundt.

But patrons weren't warned of the filming in advance - and were horrified to see the star with a gun, seemingly carrying out a real-life robbery.

Owner Chrysta Wilson tells E! Online, "When someone saw Zach hold up a real gun and scream, 'This is a goddamn hold up!' they called the police.

"Zachary is scary as hell. I was in the back, making batter, and he was running through the script. All I could hear was, 'Nobody f**king move!' He plays evil very well."

Quinto was so good in his role as a gun-toting robber, cops were called a second time as he re-shot the scene - so the actor and director Hank Nelken faced a race against time to get the spoof wrapped.

Wilson adds, "They knew if the cops were called again, the set was going to be shut down. They were whispering their lines in the alley. They knew they had to nail it on the last take."

Hehehe...