The House Of Odd

Disaster strikes the maiden voyage of the H.M.S. Lego in this soon to be classic Brickfilm. Featuring an anachronistic appearance by the Unabomber.

Glengary Glen Ross (1992)

Jenna – This movie is about a bunch of guys in an office. But it’s not funny like that television show The Office. Most of the time everyone is really angry and yelling.

The story takes place one rainy night at a real estate store. Some guy comes in (Alec Baldwin) and yells at the rest of the people. He tells them they are crummy salesmen and won’t let them have any coffee. He said because coffee is for closers. Everyone in the office thought he was a jerk.

They have a sales contest where the winner gets a new car, second place gets a set of steak knifes and third place is they are fired. The salesmen get really worried they are going to loose their job. I don’t know why it seemed like a really crappy place to work.

One of the salesmen (Jack Lemmon) has a sick daughter and tries real hard to make a sale so she can have like an operation or something. But he keeps having trouble because his cards have bad leads.

The rest of the time they keep yelling at the office manager guy (Kevin Spacey) because they want more cards with good leads. I think a lead is a phone number of somebody who might like to buy something. I would have used the computer to search but I guess this was a long time ago before the internet was invented.

Daddy said this movie had a lot of famous actors in it like that Creator guy from The Truman Show (Ed Harris) and the Scarface guy (Al Pacino).

Ethan - I didn’t watch this movie. I left after five minutes to go play with my LEGO

The Movie Kids have reviewed the latest set from LEGO’s Indiana Jones collection. The Jungle Cutter.

If you are still a fan of reality television you’ll most likely appreciate this compilation video. Perhaps the most commonly phrase uttered in all of reality television is “I’m not here to make friends.”

The good folks at Virus Comix have created a lovingly illustrated guide to Things They Don’t Tell You (But Should)

This short but shockingly accurate guide to life is sure to enlighten the most naivete.

Your education begins with this brutally honest lesson:

“As a person, it’s what’s on the inside the counts.  It’s what’s on the outside that matters.”

This seemingly endless treasure trove of knowledge touches on a dozen or so topics including beauty, tall people, work, old age, money, love, and television.

Save your toddler a life of crushed dreams and disappointment, replace their coloring books with this invaluable lesson and they will thank you later. Guaranteed.

It has been just over two years since opening a Netflix account.  Overall it has been an outstanding service.  For the most part I have no complaints, except one small one.

After opening the account some 25 months ago I checked the Netflix Top 100 list.   At the time the number one movie was Crash.  The critically acclaimed Crash was released in September of 2005 to DVD.

Fast forward to May 2008 and Crash is still holding the number one spot.   Having checked periodically it has never budged from the top.  How is this possible?  Is it that popular of a flick?

Imagine this scenario. It is mid morning and after three cups of burnt
coffee you a mid-level office drone feels the pangs of nature calling.

Off to the nearest clean restroom facitlity you go. The handicap
accessible stall is your preference because it gives you all the
lebensraum you require.

Before beginning the depanting procedure you notice a little
unfinished business from the previous occupant.

You have this not wanting to ‘cross the streams’ policy so a preflush
is needed.

One flush, two flushes, still hanging on. These low flow toilets can’t
handle anything.

A third and forth flush is required. As the forth flush valiently
attempts to dislodge a stuborn piece of toilet paper you feel
something cold hit your cheek.

Its not only cold but its wet. The toilet expelled some water high up
into the stratosphere and invaded your face.

Thank the maker that the first three flushes had purged the bowl of
all the discolored material before the horrific incident occurred.

Is it cool to use Purel on your face?

I Am Legend (2007)

Ethan: Jenna won’t be reviewing this movie because she only watched the last 10 minutes. She was busy doing homework or something.
This movie is about this guy (Will Smith) and his dog. He is in the Army or something and is also a scientist. He lives in New York all alone because some other scientist made some virus by mistake that killed all the people on the planet.
He spends his days with his dog hunting deer in the middle of the empty streets of the city. At night he has to hide from the mutant humans. Daddy keeps calling them zombies but I have to correct him. There is a huge difference.

If I was the only person left on Earth it might be fun. I would go to the LEGO store and get all the LEGOs that I could carry. I would stay up late and if the TV still worked I would watch all my Star Wars DVDs and nobody would tell me to stop. I’d sleep on the couch and never take a shower. I’d eat only Frosted Flakes and Root Beer. Not at the same time though, that would be gross.

It might be lonely after a while so I’d like to have a couple of my cats with me. They could also warn me if any giant rats tried to attack me.

This movie was kind neat. I would recommend it to my friends since it had mutant humans.

Ah, the fruits of zero tolerance in a post 9-11 world have given us this bit of insanity.

Two Bronx New York 4-year-olds were handcuffed by a school safety officer for the high crime of refusing to take a nap.  A substitute teacher took pre-felons Jaden Diaz and Christopher Brito into an empty classroom.  They were then met by a ’safety’ officer who handcuffed their tiny wrists.

They were also reportedly told that they’d never see their parents again. Certainly this punishment fits their unspeakably heinous crime.

Surprise, surprise, the parents are suing.

What a treat this is. Andrea Bocelli joins Sesame Street’s Elmo in a duet of Con Te Partiro, arguably one of the world’s most haunting melodies.