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By: maura

maura — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:56:24 +0000

You weren’t (just) tired and confused, the FF remake really WAS good! Jamie Lee Curtis is hilarious.

Yeah, I am worried about asking Netflix for kids films for that very reason, he will want to watch it repeatedly and I will want to send it back so we can get a better movie! Of course, we have 3 movies right now that we haven’t had time to watch for over a week, so maybe we are the Netflix slackers.

By: Anne

Anne — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 02:25:25 +0000

Oh I lied, he did see “Phantom Menace.” He watched it like 10 times after Netflix sent it to us. I blocked out the entire experience.

By: Anne

Anne — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 02:23:13 +0000

“Freaky Friday” was awesome but scared the heck out of me. My mom worked in the next county and I was afraid if we were switched I’d have to a) drive, which I didn’t know how to do, and b) drive a long way into Butler County, where I would probably get lost. This is why it took me until age 26 to get my license, I’m sure.

We saw the “Freaky Friday” remake after Hurricane Isabel made us totally stir crazy. It was very good, or maybe I was just tired and confused from not having electricity and water.

I’m all for knocking sense into Little Miss Lohan! She was Ben’s celebrity skank girlfriend until he saw her on a talk show being not-so-smart (bedazzled by her red hair, he had perhaps previously mistaken her for a Mensan). We kept blaming her dad but c’mon, girl, at some point you gotta rise above your dysfunctional family and get on with your happy little life!

By: maura

maura — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:44:15 +0000

Har, we are commenting almost in real time — like IM, but clunkier!

When we lived in Missouri I used to to to this arcade and play Frogger and Tron (really!). And buy Jelly Bellies from the candy store next door. I’m such a girl.

Stupid Chuck E. Cheese. Gus is always wanting his birthday party to be there (we’ve been to a few). I am so unsubtle with it — I just reply “they’re busy that day.” Hopefully by the time he figures out that I am not psychic he will no longer want to have a party there!

By: maura

maura — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:40:24 +0000

You know whenever I ask general questions of blagland about kids stuff I am really just asking you! :) It is good to hear I’m not the only square in the world.

*We* haven’t even seen all the new three! The first two were so bad that we were scared, though apparently #3 is not as bad.

By: Anne

Anne — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:37:50 +0000

Of course I meant “the other 2.”

Tron might as well be in space. Who can say? Did you ever see that ep of “Everybody Hates Chris” where the voice-over talks about that very same thing–leaving the house to play video games? Hee, we used to go to Acropolis Chili. It smelled awful and there was grease all over the machines. Eeeew, but they had a hilarious game called Pengo, which had a fabulous theme song.

Even Chuck E. no longer has video games!

By: Anne

Anne — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:33:14 +0000

We didn’t let Max watch “Star Wars” forever, and when we finally did…oh, man. Then of course the other 3. He has not seen the newer installments, but he tries this Jedi mind game with me where he asks me all these S.W. questions, then I say “I don’t know, I only saw the first 3 and then one new one, I can’t remember the name,” and he says “you mean the LAST 3!”

Well he’s pretty much off that kick right now. I thought it would never end. Harry Potter seemed to have something to do with it. Anyway, 6 is a good age for the trilogy, I think that’s how old Max was when we finally relented.

No “Indiana Jones” yet. And I was going to let him watch “The Mummy” (Uncle Ben has a copy) but Ben (dad) said no way. We saw “Time Bandits” instead, hope the ending doesn’t make him go into therapy.