And as I look outside, the snow is coming down in waves. This isn’t boding well for the weekend.
Fortunately, we have a cunning plan. We’re going to crack out our director’s cut editions of the “Lord of the Rings” and watch the entire trilogy. That’ll kill twelve hours right there, not even counting the extras. We got popcorn, we’ve got cookies to bake, I’ve got a novelization to finish. Should be a quiet weekend.
PAD
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Twelve hours sounds about right.
A lady friend and I once murdered a weekend with LOTR. We watched the first two on DVD Starting Saturday evening and went to see Return of the King Sunday Morning. It’s quite an investment of time, but it’s fun!
As for the weather… Oggg!! I just finished shoveling my driveway two days ago. I should have known…
Have fun PAD!
And where I live, in south England, spring flowers are blooming and so far we didn`t have any snow at all this winter. I am hoping the snow stays up there in Scotland 🙂
I hope you all have a relaxing, nice weekend in a warm house. Although we don`t have the temperatures you have here, I am glad that we got our new boiler a few days ago. Being without heating for two weeks is no fun.
We did that a couple of days before Christmas, mainly because of the same thing, heavy snow. Actually took under twelve hours when you factor in interruptions to get food, shovel car out of snowdrift, and take a short phone call from my brother in Akron. We shoved the ottoman between two couches in our living room and threw a big blanket over it, making it one big bed. Then we lit a fire. Was a great way to ride out a storm.
Unfortunately, the next day was Christmas Eve. Guess who decided to go shopping at the last minute.
We had a blizzard pass through last night (third to hit the province in a month). I spent a good chunk of my morning shovelling out my car, only to discover that thanks to the sheet of ice underneath it, it ain’t going anywhere. I’ve given up for the day.
Enjoy the movies, I might have to find a similar pursuit.
Well it’s 77 here, but thats no reason to move here, looking forward to a low of 40 tomorrow, if it snowed here (S.FLA) there would be heads exploding.
Sounds like fun.
Nutcase that I am, I went down to the Big Apple Comic Show. Met and talked with Danny Fingeroth, Jim Salicrup, and Dan Slott, watched a Will Eisner panel, and bought some vintage Lee/Kirby FFs for under $50. I call that a successful weekend.
I couldn’t even make it through the extended-unto-forever Return of the King DVD in one living-room sitting…
Bought the extended edition of ROTK for Xmas, watched it over the holiday, then decided to watch all the extendeds again over the course of three nights. This really got my wife fired up over Tolkien, so she then watched all the documentaries – these are the best documentaries
I’ve ever seen with movie DVDs – and she’s now, finally, decided to read the actual books. I first read LOTR about 35 years ago. One of these days, I must get around to reading THE HOBBIT….
Gonna be a lot of babies born next October 22!
I hate snow. I hate cold weather. I think here by Pittsburgh, six or so inches are on the ground (three or four atop the two to three from earlier in the week). Digging out okay here, and thank God the worst of it’s over.
At least it’ll only be cold (really REALLY cold) at the AFC Championship tomorrow. I’m not driving–not that brave–but rather taking a bus up (taking a bus to see The Bus, ha). Should be loads of fun. There’s my Sunday.
I pity the people over in Philly. I hear it’ll be a white-out tomorrow come game time.
Go Steelers!:-) *waves my Terrible Towel (TM)*
Enjoy LotR, PAD! Here’s hoping it screens even better all in one go than as singles.:-D
~G.
We’re getting the snow now up here in Boston and from the sounds of we’re going to be getting the worst of it. We’re in for 24″ in my area and the rest of the South Shore is expected to get 30″.
LOTR is a good call, although my wife and I are planning on hunkering down with some quick-bake homemade lasagna and either The Prisoner of Azkaban or the Bourne Supremacy. Of course, tomorrow, there’s football…
Here’s hoping none of us effected by the storm suffer any power outages.
Mark
Me, I have a big front yard, and I’m not even going to bother shoveling it all until tomorrow, Peter.
There are foot high drifts already in Brooklyn. I know the perfect movie tonight; David Cronenberg’s “The Brood” filmed in chilly, snowy Canada. The hot chocolate is waiting.
BTX
We got hit hard by the same storm on Friday night. In this corner of Minnesota we were given 10+ inches of snow.
Hello. I’m in Queens, with the snow. Would like sooo much to relax with a movie too, but I’ve gotta cram for midterms. *Sigh*
Yes, I’m new to your place, PAD. And I’m only sixteen. That explains the ‘midterms’ thing. ^_^
I love comics and I love your writing (read your Spider-Man movie novelizations over the summer). You’ve got a cool site. Thanks!
~ Steph
Two friends and I did the marathon viewing two saturdays ago. It was a lot of fun and we were astonished at how quickly the day flew by. I’m still not pleased over the changes to Faramir’s character, though.
cal
I’m watching all 3 “Matrix” movies, but taking a break for “The Iron Chef”
Tomorrow, though everyone sing-
“Fly, Eagles, Fly
On the road to victory
Fly, Eagles, Fly
Score a touchdown One-Two-Three
Hit em’ high!
Hit em’ low!
but just watch our Eagles go..
Fly, Eagles, Fly
E- A- G- L- E- S!”
After the game tomorrow, it’ll be The Red Hour in Philly! Festival! Festival!
I had to work today and ended up drivng home in this crap weather!!Ok folks ,i work in the medical field i gotta be out.Will all the idiots who dont need to be out and more importantly dont know how to drive in snow STAY HOME!!!There were more cars out today than i normally see on a saturday.BTW just cause you drive a truck or SUV doesnt mean you are safe or can go 90 in a snowstorm. Sorry needed to vent:)
Im thinking i will watch SEXY BEAST and BAD SANTA again and then play SOCOM on ps2.I guess i could study for my chemistry class too .
GO EAGLES!!!!!!!!
Ah…. I’ll just while away the time doing nothing much. I’ll start shoveling snow tomorrow morning. Until then, I’ll just let it fall.
As for you Eagles fans, I pity you. You know your team is gonna lose tomorrow, as McNabb will choke, again, and the Falcons have a better running game.
As for New England, Pittsberg… I’ll go with NE, they have the experience, and if they can shut down Manning (all be it with help from mother nature), then they too can shut down Big Ben… now if they can stop the Bus, all will be set.
If I were to kill a whole weekend in front of the tube, I’d probably pick something different than LOTR. I could hardly sit through those movies one at a time. I’d probably watch the entire Star Wars trilogy, or go through all my VHS tapes of the 1990s X-Men cartoon series. You’d be surprised how effective that cartoon is for wasting time.
As it stands, we got a bit of a storm last night. They wanted me to come into work at 7am today because they figured they wouldn’t be able to get anyone else to come in and help with breakfast for the residents. I thought about it long and hard and decided that, if I have to think about it that long, I really don’t want to do it and I’ll probably be cranky and miserable if I did. So, I’m home today, but my car is still at work. The battery died while I was working, so I had to get a ride.
Not the best snowstorm I’ve been in, but I could imagine it being worse.
> I am hoping the snow stays up there in Scotland 🙂
Not been so bad here (Glasgow) – we had 10cm of snow last Mon night/Tues morning, then the rain came down & 90% of it was gone by Tues night, and the rest by Wed morning; and that’s been it for the year
Around here if we get any real snow we also lose all of our electricity (Duke Power: Our Motto, We’ve Never Even Heard OF Burying The Lines) so actual movie marathons are out. We do play movie charades though. My friend Eddy and I once achieved near legendary status when we correctly got Nosferatu in a few seconds (actually it’s easy; 1 word, 4 sylables, point at nose, hold up four fingers, do the small word sign, hold up 2 fingers. It impressed the rubes though).
On the other hand, if you do play this game, just hope you don’t get The Black Hole.
The snow messed up my weekend plans, too. Or at least my Saturday plans. I had planned to be in Kalamazoo to see the performance of a radio play I wrote (it’ll actually be broadcast in April). However, the storm kept me from getting there. And, in point of fact, one of the heads of the reperatory theatre that puts on these radio plays called me yesterday morning to say they were thinking of rescheduling the performance, because of all the snow. As of right now, I haven’t heard whether they did so. In a way, part of me is hoping they did decide to reschedule the performance, so that I’d still be able to see it.
On the other hand, that would require taking _another_ day off work, without pay. So that’d a bit of a downside.
As to what I actually did, yesterday, I spent a few hours watching most of a two disk DVD called “Holy Batmania”, which focuses on the popularity of the 1960s TV shows. Some of the extras included the Lyle Waggoner and Peter Deyell screen tests, and clips of Adam West and Burt Ward when they hosted a “Batman” marathon back in 1989. Either I missed it, or I’d forgotten about those brief bits.
Rick
The extended edition LOTR trilogy is what a group of us all did on New Year’s Eve. Started at 10am, took a couple of 20 minute breaks in between each movie, and ended up just about 11:30, in time to do the traditional midnight stuff…
Cookies? COOKIES?
Well, you’ve inspired me to do something with my days off. No snow here in Florida, but…the thought of being snowed in, with all the cookie ingredients, and good TV, and good work that one gets paid well to do and enjoys doing…that’s kind of romantic.
Remind me sometime and I’ll post cookie recipes. Not now, though, since if I did, I know some of the ingredients wouldn’t be in the house, and you couldn’t go out to get them without a snowmobile, and you’d be resentful.
Some of this reminds me of a computer system I worked and played on in college 30 years ago. It was called PLATO (Programmed Learning And Teaching Operation) and was connected via phone lines between colleges and military bases around the world. Yep, it was the Internet we used way back in the days when we had to hide from sabre-toothed tigers on our way to school.
Anyway, when the weather was bad (the blizzard of 78), we’d all get on PAD, an early version of a message board, and gripe. And we’d always get someone at a school in Arizona casually dropping the word that it was in the low 60s at night there.
As for killing time when bad weather has you trapped indoors, this is also what DVD sets of TV shows are for. I loaned my older brother the first season of 24 over a year ago. He’s just FINALLY getting around to watching it.
Jeff Lawson said We had a blizzard pass through last night (third to hit the province in a month). I spent a good chunk of my morning shovelling out my car, only to discover that thanks to the sheet of ice underneath it, it ain’t going anywhere. I’ve given up for the day.
That took a lot of intelligence. Maybe you should think next time before you act.
LOL
Your shroud is off to a rocky start.
I’m open to any suggestions you may have as to how I should have tried to move my vehicle without first shoveling it out. I tried just lifting it up, but that sucker is heavy.