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Ok ok Trillium photo coming soon!

June 5, 2007 by Tricia

I can’t believe how popular my Trillium Grandiflora photo was that I used for my Green Thumb Sunday post. So many of you have written in saying that you want to see what the plant looks like when it’s blooming that I promise you, I will be posting a photo of the bloom tomorrow, perhaps as my wordless Wednesday post.

The bloom is long gone now. This is another plant that only blooms for a week or two. We had a spell of very hot weather around the time that the buds finally bloomed so the lovely flowers didn’t last long, but I did capture it with my camera.

What, you thought I didn’t? Nah … now you only have to wait a short while and I’ll have a photo of a maroon trillium for you.

I just have to move it from camera to computer, ‘k?





Filed Under: Entertainment, Home and Lifestyle, Photography, Recreation, Tricia's Garden Tagged With: bloom, blooms, blossom, bud, buds, camera, computer, demand, digital camera, flower, flowers, photo, Photography, photos, plant, posting, request, Trillium, Trillium grandiflora, weather

Crank – The Movie

June 5, 2007 by Tricia

As I mentioned in an earlier post I haven’t been feeling very well over the last week, and especially through the weekend.

So what have I been doing? Well .. I have been working a very little bit behind the scenes on our sites, but mostly I was lying on the couch trying to feel better.

Since there isn’t much on TV now that most of the shows have had their season finale I’ve been paying more attention to what’s on the movie network. We’ve been paying extra to have the movie networks as part of our cable package for years, but I must admit we really can’t justify the expense as we don’t tend to watch movies very often.

200px-crank_final.jpg That’s about to change.

On Saturday we ended up watching a movie that I think I taped Friday evening on the DVR.

The movie was Crank, a 2006 action/thriller film, written and directed by both Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor. The Lions Gate Films-produced film stars Jason Statham, Amy Smart, Efren Ramirez, and Dwight Yoakam.

Chris and I both loved this film.

This action filled movie got my adrenaline pumping:

Summary from Wikepedia

After Chev Chelios, a hit man, completed a job, he wakes up hallucinating, finding himself extremely uncomfortable. He plays a DVD message from a rival hit man who reveals that Chev has been injected with a mysterious poison known as the “Beijing Cocktail” and he has only an hour to live. Chev soon realizes that the poison can only be slowed by his own adrenaline. With what little time Chev has left alive, he plans to get his revenge on the people who injected him with the poison. He must fight and race all throughout Los Angeles to say goodbye to his girlfriend, Eve, while keeping his adrenaline pumping. He will face-off against his employers at every turn as he searches for an antidote to save his life.

I really wasn’t all that sure in the beginning if I’d like it or not. The hallucinating, out of it scenes in the beginning made me feel that I wouldn’t enjoy this movie but I was totally wrong. I loved it. As you watch the movie you just get hooked, and by the end you almost don’t want it to end.

I rarely say this, but I could have watched this movie again right after the first viewing ended.

I don’t know if this film is still showing on the movie channels this month, but I do believe that it’s out on DVD, so if you’re looking for a good movie to watch look for Crank.

Filed Under: Entertainment, Movies Tagged With: action adventure, action movie, adrenaline, cable TV, Crank, crank movie, DVR, hit man, loved it, movie, movie network, out on DVD, poisoned, Rent, revenge, watch, watched

Alanis Morissette sings National anthems before Hockey Game

June 5, 2007 by Tricia

Did you see the beginning of the hockey game? (yes Ottawa lost). Alanis Morissette sang the national US and Canadian anthems before the start of game 4.

I thought it was pretty good. She has such a unique voice I was afraid she might get carried away but I liked her versions of both anthems. I think she let a little more of her personal style into the Canadian anthem, but she’s a Canadian from Ottawa so that’s allowed.

Did anyone else catch her performance?

Filed Under: Canada, Culture, Entertainment, Music Tagged With: Alanis Morissette, canadian, game, hockey, Hockey game, Ottawa, personal, sang, sing, style, Unique, voice

Putting Chris to bed

June 4, 2007 by Tricia

I just had to coax Chris to go to bed. All week he’s working the early shift so he’s got to get up at 5 a.m.. Yikes! Of course, Ottawa and Anaheim are playing the fourth? Stanley Cup finals game tonight.

He would have stayed up to watch the whole game if he could have, and when Anaheim took the lead in the 2nd period he wanted to. I was keeping my fingers crossed that Ottawa would tie up the game because I knew I’d be able to coax him to get to bed if the game was at least tied.

Ottawa did tie it up so he’s in bed now. That’s a good thing too ’cause Anaheim just took the lead again!

Yes you read that right. I actually left the hockey game on even though Chris has gone to bed. I don’t know why … well other than the fact that I hope Ottawa wins this game too! Hey, it’s my home town, I gotta hope the Sens win!

Filed Under: Canada, Culture, Life with Chris, Recreation, Sports, Television Tagged With: Chris, finals, game, hockey, Hockey game, in bed, Ottawa, Stanley Cup, the game, watch, win

Adding video content to more of our sites

June 4, 2007 by Tricia

I’m totally loving The News Room. See the post I wrote below about it.

I’ve been going over the News Room site and I found some great video of Paris Hilton going to jail that I put up on Celebrity Scoop. I can really see having a daily entertainment video feature on my celebrity website.

Now I’m going through the site to see if I can find items that Chris can use on Odd Planet (ie weird news) or his music and guitar related site Guitar Licks.

The content that we can put in our sites by using the News Room is fantastic. I’m so happy I joined the site.

Before I go hog wild on this let me ask you something:

If you visit a website that has video on it are you as likely to watch the video if it appears to be something that interests you as you might be to read a plain text post?

Filed Under: Culture, Entertainment, Recreation, Services, Video, Web and Technology Tagged With: add video, celeb, celebrity, celebrity scoop, Chris, Entertainment, guitar, interests, Join, news, news room, odd planet, read, Video, visit, watch, website

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