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I love to read. I am the kind of person who loves to book binge if the book is that good! I know I’ll be running on empty the next morning from lack of sleep because I finished the last chapter of a book at 2am is so totally worth it! So it’s no surprise that I got a bunch of books for Christmas and decided to share some titles. Here are some of my future top reads:

1. Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a real doll By M.G. Lord

The tell all book about the life of Barbie’s inventor Ruth Handler and the barbie doll’s weird fantastic ride to becoming a cultural icon.

2. Make Trouble by John Waters

John Waters commence speech at Rhode Island’s School of Design where he offered critical yet funny advice on what to do now that you graduated.

3. And I don’t want to live this life by Deborah Spungen

Mother of Nancy Spungen. It is a tell all book about her daughter life before her murder by Sid Vicious. It goes a little bit deeper than just the headlines from that horrible event. Nancy Spungen talks about her daughter’s out of control lifestyle that broke up her family.

4. PTL: The Rise And Fall of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker’s Evangelical Empire

A fascinating story of how Jim Bakker raise from small city priest to nation wide televangelist and how he lost his empire.

5. 199 Cemeteries to see Before you die by Loren Rhodes

A luscious selection of photos and chalk full of historical information of cemeteries.

Until next time!

The first adult show I remember watching was The Golden Girls. It was on NBC from 1985-1992 and it was about four widows who move in together in one house and share their lives, hardships, laughter, and cheesecake under one roof.

I was about seven years old and flipping on the tv one night and seeing this image popped on the screen

I was confused as to why the blonde lady was looking so uncomfortable playing the piano but I remember the audience’s laughter and decided to keep watching the rest of the show and kept laughing how funny it was! It got me hooked to watching it every week until 1992 when the show ended.

It is hard to pick which character is my favorite. Each character has their own defined personality: Rose was not the smartest one in the group but whenever the rest of the group was down she would try everything in her heart to cheer them up. Blanche was the over sex man crazy lady with the refined manners and elegant personality. Sofia was the wise cracking person of the group. And Dorothy seemed to be the one who teaches you a valuable lesson and seems to be the voice of reason.

A couple of years later I noticed that Hallmark channel started showing the old episodes and whenever I hear the opening theme song or saw this

I automatically sat down and watched the whole show!

I have watched this show so many times over the years that I can tell you what episode it is within the first ten seconds!

I can truly say regardless of seeing the episodes hundreds of times I can still laugh at the same jokes and have the feeling of watching it like this is the first time I seen it. Thank you for being a friend Golden Girls!

Fun fact: even though hundreds of cheesecake was eaten during the show’s run. Bea Arthur (who played Dorothy) hated cheesecake!

Until next time!

Principal Skinner we are twins this week!

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Barney we are twinning this week!

When it comes to Star Wars toys the first brand that you might think of is Kenner toys. But after this post perhaps you might think of the brand Uzay instead….

Kenner really changed the toy world with their Star Wars toy line in the 1980’s so there is no surprise that other brands they to cash in on this. Uzay is a total example of this! A toy brand from Turkey that made one of the greatest bootlegs of Star Wars EVER! Some of them are laughable names like “Head Man” and some don’t even look like Star Wars characters. Here are some examples below:

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Today’s movie of the day is Best Worst Movie (2009) directed by Michael Paul Stephenson.

This documentary is about a movie called “Troll 2” and how one of the worst movies ever have one of the most endearing Cult followings and how the cast of the movie reacted to being in this film. “Troll 2” has an IMDB of an 2.8 out of the 10.

“Troll 2” was made in 1990 in Utah with amateur actors, and not a lot of money in the budget for special effects or great editing, sound effects, music and unfortunately it shows!

However flash forward ten years after the movie was made the little boy who starred in the movie turned into a director. He decided to come to terms with this movie, and his ok acting in it and move forward with this documentary.

This documentary has heart to it and it gives us a better understanding of the why Troll 2 is consider a cult movie classic.

Until next time!

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