Elliot Thresher

Saturday, March 28, 2009

More 2009 upcoming movies

The Hangover

The Brothers Bloom

Explicit Ills

Planet 51

The Limits of Control

Astroboy

The Education of Charlie Banks

Miss March

Surveillance

2012

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Where The Wild Things Are trailer

Wow, kind of deep for a kids book turned movie. Not sure if I'm as interested in this movie now. I was expecting there to be some metaphors for escaping reality and unleashing the inner wild thing...but emotional abandonment? Neglect? Deep stuff from a bunch of fancy mascots.

No one is safe from layoffs.

Guess Darth heard they're cutting the contractors first? You hate to see this happen to a single father with 2 kids.

Pizza investigation needed!

While on vacation, I had some pizza and got to wondering about my previous posting about Sbarro's and pizza slices. Now, I know there may be local places that sell pizza slices, but they're few and far between or they open and close in the blink of time. Well, I did a quick search and there are some spots in Chicagoland that offers NY-style pizza by the slice AND white pizza. WHITE PIZZA! They serve white pizza up at Pizza-Ria, a franchise outfit with several locations in Chicagoland. I definitely need to make a pizza run to one of these.

Then there's Ian's Pizza, in Wrigleyville. I'll definitely try to swing by before or after my next Cubs game, but I don't have high hopes. I suspect drunken Cubs fans are discriminating enough to truly judge a great slice of pizza. Really, they just want dough to soak up Old Style.

I also found Pronto Za. Oh no they didn't. Any place that calls pizza "za" is not to be trusted for quality pizza. It's sacrilege. As if that wasn't offensive enough, slices are $3.50 a pop! Yep, we've got a gourmet joint (with specialty choices including Marguerita, Crabcake and Monkey Mango) pretending to be old school. Not working. And it's no coincidence websites on "protozoa" also came up in my finding "Pronto Za." Symbolic and ironic.

I will figure out a way to investigate these so-called by-the-slice shops and report back on my findings. Based on my previous samplings, the offerings will probably be chewy crusted and cheesy white (sans cheese bubbles), but I'll keep an open mond (and open taste buds).

Monday, March 23, 2009

The weather channel girl, with her perfect hair and curl...

...is talking cold, cold, cold. You can't get out of bed, you can't remember what she said, you're feeling old, old, old.

I'm taking a quick vacation and so excited. I NEVER go on vacation. I've been working crazy hours to keep my job so I need this. Funny, because when I work long hours, I never post on here. I'll probably be posting out my butt on vaca, but hey it's my time on my dime!

WTWTA

USA Today has new photos from the upcoming 'Where the Wild Things Are' movie. With Spike Jonze directing, this movie is bound to be not the usual kiddie fare. Cool.

Where The Wild Things Are

No joke, this looks awesome. As a parent, it'll be nice to see kids movie that's not another dumbed down cartoon buddy flick with the latest tween voicing a character along with Ray Romano and John Ratzenburger. (Sidenote: Viva la Cliff Claven!)

Toilet humor. Literally.

Now Firing!

Er, awkward.

Dear Bethany,

You know why that magazine is in your son's room, don't you? Admit it. It's OK. Your son and his girlfriend are selling naked men magazines to girls at school to get them adickted to sex. The girlfriend probably left a vibrator in his room too, to see if you'd notice? In the closet, right?

The only advice I can give is for you to kill yourself. You clearly aren't smart enough to be a parent and the truth will only warp your feeble, naive brain. Plus, you snoop through your gay son's sh*t!

Sincerely,
Elliot