Jun

This week’s TOT topic is my favorite things to do during “me” time…hmm…

1. Just HAVE some me time – I have been slammed at work lately (two grant proposals in the last 5 weeks, plus end-of-semester and a conference trip), and now advising incoming students about fall registration … SO I have almost forgotten what “me time” feels like!
2. Sleeping – see above
3. Listening to music – and, if no one is home, singing along! %-)
4. Reading a good book
5. Scrapbooking
6. Take a hot, HOT bath
7. Just sit and enjoy the silence
8. Okay, I can’t think of anything else. Maybe if I HAD more me time…sigh…

Jun

Had a HUGE grant proposal due this week, so I am late getting this up…so, this week’s topic is 10 Great Songs from last year. I was tempted to just pick 10 songs off the AT&T Team USA soundtrack they had available during the summer Olympics in Beijing – what great songs! Very uplifting and inspiring, I listened to them over and over. But, for this list, I managed to restrain myself and look at the whole year. There were actually a number of songs from 2008 that still make my current personal “hot 100″ list (in random order):

—Don’t Think I Don’t Think About It (Darius Rucker) – how awesome to see him back!!! I still miss Hootie, but he makes a surprisingly good country singer…
—Love is Free (Sheryl Crow) – fun song AND great concert
—We Run (Sugarland) – ’cause doing what you shouldn’t's half the fun…
—Incomplete (Alanis Morissette) – so good to hear her back, too
—Single Ladies (Beyonce) – I know, I know, but it’s insanely compelling
—Real (Goo Goo Dolls) – just awesome
—In Color (Jamey Johnson)
—I Was Here (Lady Antebellum) – great new group, despite the dumb name; this song was the highlight of the Olympics album
—What If It All Goes Right (Melissa Lawson)
—Crazy Ever After (The Rescues)
—Bad Girl (Danity Kane) – yeah…
—I Don’t Care (Fallout Boy) – the album has the same name as my fav California winery … yay!
—Come on Get Higher (Matt Nathanson) – I know, technically the album came out in 2007, but it was actually the Sugarland cover in 2008 that made me aware of the original … GREAT song
—It’s a New Day (will.i.am) – yes we can!
—What About Now (Daughtry) – I’m a sucker for “seize the day” music…
—Untouched (The Veronicas) – love this group, don’t know why they haven’t been more popular

—note: at the time, I loved Dreamer (Chris Brown), another highlight off the AT&T Olympics soundtrack … but, the whole beating-the-crap-out-of-Rihanna thing now colors this to such an extent I can’t listen to it anymore

I know that was more than 10, couldn’t restrain myself…

May

This week’s TOT topic made me laugh…my list is short and sweet: ALL of them!!!

I’m not much of a “celebrity” aficionado. I just don’t get why people are so obsessed with meeting “celebrities” (it’s not like you’re going to become their new BFF), trying to be like them (for most of them, it’s not like they’re good role models!), talking about them, reading about them, stalking them, etc. Just not very star struck, I guess.

And of course don’t even get me started on the truly disturbing lengths some people will go to to BE famous…

Mar

This week’s topic is favorite things to do on vacation. We have a vacation (to Singapore! ) coming up soon, so the timing is good for me!

1. Umm … ask Craig about this one!

2. Explore a new place – Craig & I both love to travel, and although we have some favorite places, we really like visiting places we’ve never been before. Like Singapore!

3. Absolutely nothing – we take two kinds of vacations: adventure trips (see #2 above) and relaxation trips; the crazier our life gets, the more I appreciate taking time to just chill and do nothing. I prefer a non-crowded beach or an isolated mountain cabin for this type of trip.

4. Try new foods – wherever we are, and why-ever we’re there, we love to sample good local cuisine. No chains allowed!

5. Help my kids learn about other cultures – now that they’re old enough to remember and understand travel, we take the kids with us whenever we can. We both really want them to grow up with high levels of openness and curiosity about and appreciation of other people and places.

6. Walk – Nashville isn’t a walking city, especially the ‘burbs where we are. Nothing gives you a better feel for a place than walking around and exploring on foot. I walk everywhere I can when we’re on vacation.

7. Take a break from work – spend as little time as possible on the computer!

8. Meet new people – humans are social animals, and for me places aren’t places without the people who live there. When I travel, I don’t like to just observe the sights, I like to interact with “real live locals”.

9. Get high – wherever we visit, I like to find the highest spot we can access, whether it’s an observation booth at the top og a very tall building or the view off a mountaintop, and get a bird’s eye view, helps keep perspective. Hah, that’s not what you thought I was going to say on this one, is it!

10. Shop – what’s a great trip without souvenirs?!!

Mar

Okay, I know I am late, but once I got around to it, this week’s topic took me all of about 30 seconds! I tend to like all sorts of music, BUT, there are some songs that I just absolutely can’t stand. Please note, this is NOT, from my perspective, a list of the WORST songs ever. I don’t think these songs are inherently bad, of poor quality (in most cases) or anything like that … I just hate them. Even more oddly, in several cases I love other songs by the same artist/band. I have no justification, somehow they just rub me the wrong way, I guess. Anywhoo … here’s my list of 10 songs I hate (actually, I couldn’t stop at 10):

1. Hotel California (Eagles)
2. At This Moment (Billy Vera & The Beaters)
3. I Shot the Sheriff (Eric Clapton)
4. Indian Outlaw (Tim McGraw)
5. Heart Light (Neil Diamond)
6. Rico Suave (Gerardo)
7. Truly Madly Deeply (Savage Garden)
8. Satisfaction & Oops, I Did It Again (Britney Spears)
9. Courtesy of the Red, White & Blue (Toby Keith) – along with any other small-minded, deliberately misleading song that equates being a good American with being a Republican
10. She Bangs (Ricky Martin … and William Hung)
11. Invisible (Clay Aiken)
12. Macarena (Los Del Rio)
13. She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy (Kenny Chesney)
14. All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You (Heart)
15. Dogs (Pink Floyd) – and this one is hard because Craig LOVES this song!!!

Also, while I’m on the topic, I hate any and all song’s with a person’s name in the title … I know, very odd, but somehow I just can’t relate to them.

I also hate songs about cowboys.

And, like a lot of people I guess, I hate everything ever recorded by: Taylor Hicks, Cher, New Kids on the Block, Jessica Simpson, Kevin Federline, as well as misogynistic rap and virtually anything that has ever been part of a Disney movie.

Oh, and last thing – another oddity – I love to go and hear live music, but I CAN’T STAND to listen to recordings of live music!

I should stop now, all of this is probably just adding to Craig’s secret stash of ammunition in case he ever needs to have me declared legally insane!

Mar

Seeing how it is going up to almost 80 degrees here today, this week’s topic is a fun one for me! Yes, I know we will have at least one more cold snap, maybe even a hard freeze, but still, the end is near, for this year anyway. Here are my top 10 things I will NOT miss about winter:

1. Not being able to wear flip-flops
2. Thick (ugly) socks with heavy (ugly) shoes
3. Never-ending gray skies
4. School getting cancelled just because it MIGHT snow (it rarely does here)
5. Promises of snow that never come
6. It being 34º and raining … pretty much constantly
7. A cold car on cold mornings, especially when the kids are shivering in the back (I know, I could start it early, but most mornings it’s all way can do to get out the door on time and I always intend to start the car early, but rarely manage to do it)
8. Coming home at 4:30 and having it be dark already
9. Waking up when it’s still dark
10. Bare-limbed trees

Feb

Apparently the BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.
Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an ‘x’ after those you have read.
2) Add a ‘+’ to the ones you LOVE.
3) Star (*) those you plan on reading.
4) Tally your total at the bottom.

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen X
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien X
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte X
4 Harry Potter series X+
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee X+
6 The Bible X
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte X
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell X+
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens X
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott X
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy X
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller X
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier X+
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien X
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger X
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger *
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot X
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell X
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald X+
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy X+
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams X+
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh X+
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky X
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck X
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll X
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame X
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy X
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis X
34 Emma – Jane Austen X
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis X
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden X
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne X
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell X+
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown X
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez X+
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery X
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood X+
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding X
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan X
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52 Dune – Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen X
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens X
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley X+
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez X
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck X
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov X
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt X+
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas X
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding X
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville X
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens X
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker X
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett X+
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses – James Joyce X
76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath X
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray X
80 Possession – AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens X
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker X
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert X
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White X
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Alborn
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle X
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad X+
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery X
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams X
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole X+
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas X
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare X
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl X
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo X

67 – what can I say, I love to read!

This is a very odd list … almost like they pulled 50 random classics and 50 contemporary quasi-respectable works of fiction out of a hat. Still fun, though.

My score was higher than Craig’s and Tony’s put together … obviously I need to get a life! %-) I’m tagging some fellow readers so hopefully I won’t feel like such a freak for long…

Feb

Watching (or at least listening to) kids’ movies is something I do WAY too much, thanks to having two little ones about, so this week’s topic is a very salient one for me. Some of the kids movies are much less painful to watch 20,000 times than others! Here are my favorites:

1. The Lion King – possibly the best last scene in a movie ever (well, at least a kids’ movie), and just great throughout; the combination of story and music works well here in a way it doesn’t always.
2. Mary Poppins – I had never actually seen this until I had kids, now I LOVE it! What great parenting messages, and the interplay of color with the black & white is fascinating at multiple levels. Plus Dick Van Dyke steals the show as Bert.
3. The Incredibles – STRONG female characters, enough said; my kids and I have been waiting impatiently for a sequel on this one!
4. E.T. – my kids actually don’t like this one as much as some of the others, but it made a HUGE impact on me as a child, so gotta have it on the list.
5. Mulan – again, strong female characters, rare in a Disney film! Very engaging story, too, for both girls and boys.
6. Finding Nemo – phenomenal characters, and more good parenting messages
7. The Wizard of Oz – love this one as both a psychologist and a mom!
8. Transformers – okay, I know, this one is inexplicable, I just love this movie somehow…
9. Harry Potter – I know, they’re really books, and the books are MUCH, ***MUCH*** better than the movies. But, still, the movies don’t do a bad job of capturing the magical world – some of the visuals are stunning, and key plot elements are there. My kids still aren’t quite old enough to read the books, so the movies are a good stand-in until then. Order of these movies in terms of favorites so far – 1, 3, 4, 2, 5.
10. Shrek – great messages about inclusiveness and being true to yourself, and at least puts an interesting spin on the whole “rescue the princess” shtick.

Please note, even though I did love them as a child (and continue to as an adult), I don’t consider the Star Wars movies to be children’s movies (in the sense that I don’t think they were made FOR children). If they were children’s movies, they would definitely be at the very top of this list (in the order 5, 4, 6, 3, 1, 2). Other favs that almost made this list – Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Monsters Inc.

  

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Ten on Tuesday: Things I want to do in 2009

Jan

This week’s topic is things I want to do in 2009. I like this better than the New Year’s Resolutions … ’cause they’re more specific, and they can just be for fun (which most of mine are).

1. Be a good coach – I got conned into coaching BOTH kids’ basketball teams this year! I have pretty low expectations performance-wise – only one kid on each team has ever played basketball before. My goal is to teach them to love the game, and hopefully make sure they know which goal is theirs! In all seriousness, my kids have played enough sports that I’ve seen a lot of coaches – some great, some absolutely awful. Even if I can’t be great, I hope I always am able to find something positive to say to each kid after the game, and to make sure they have fun, regardless of outcome.

2. Cosmo challenge – this one is for Craig, he knows what it means!

3. Watch either Kentucky or Vanderbilt win the NCAA championship – based on pre-conference play, this one doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell, but you gotta dream! In the case of Kentucky, a follow-up to this one is that I’d like to watch a press conference where the UK athletics director fires Billy Gillespie.

4. Go on another sisters weekend with my sisters – girls, we’ve been talking about this for TWO YEARS, we gotta get our acts together and just do it!

5. Enjoy celebrating my 10th wedding anniversary

6. Join (or start) a book club – again, this is something I’ve talked to several people about, and just need to get my act together and do!

7. Be better about keeping the web page/blog updated – Facebook is great, and I have been doing more of that, but I know some of you want more details!

8. Go somewhere I’ve never been – that’s on my list every year!

9. Submit at least 5 papers for publication, and two grant proposals – need to kick my work up into a higher gear, and now’s the time.

10. Have a Passover seder or Rosh Hashanah dinner at my house – we have gotten out of the habit of entertaining, but I really like having people over, and holidays are an easy way to get back into that groove.

Will try to check back in over the course of the year to see how well I do!

  

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05

Ten on Tuesday: Things I Love to Talk About

Nov

This week’s topic was fun, though I am delayed since I spent all of yesterday talking about the election! I do love a good yack session, much to Craig’s chagrin!

Here’s my top 10 list of things I love to blah, blah, blah about:

1. my kids – the good, the bad, the ugly and the hilarious
2. politics – and NOT just in election season
3. men – how amazing/stupid/annoying/useful/useless they are (depending on my mood)
4. my research
5. books I am reading
6. sports – especially Vanderbilt & Kentucky basketball; Vanderbilt & Titans football
7. my students – kind of like with the kids, the good, the bad, the ugly & the hilarious (all anonymously, of course)
8. gadgets
9. the meaning of Life
10. bad drivers – they follow me everywhere!!!

  

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09

Ten on Tuesday: Best Movie Songs

Sep

What fun – a topic combining two of my favorite things, movies and music! I had a blast going through iTunes this morning – quite the walk down memory lane. You will be able to tell from my list that I was a teenager in the ’80s – like, totally! Another note: I interpreted “song” as meaning music and words – otherwise the themes from Star Wars & Jaws would’ve definitely been on this list! I also *tried* to focus on songs that were written specifically for movies, rather than songs later co-opted for a soundtrack.

Here are my top 10 movie songs:
1. Footloose (Kenny Loggins)
2. Animal House (Steven Bishop)
3. Flashdance … What a Feeling (Irene Cara)
4. Tonight is What it Means to Be Young (from Streets of Fire; Fire, Inc.)
5. Eye of the Tiger (from Rocky; Survivor)
6. In Your Eyes (from Say Anything; Peter Gabriel)
7. Fame (Irene Cara)
8. This Kiss (from Practical Magic; Faith Hill)
9. Axel F (from Beverly Hills Cop; Harold Faltermeyer)
10. Don’t Worry, Be Happy (from Cocktail; Bobby McFerrin)

okay, actually I couldn’t stop at 10 today, so for this week I have 20 on Tuesday:
11. Danger Zone (from Top Gun; Kenny Loggins)
12. St. Elmo’s Fire/Man in Motion (John Parr)
13. Holding Out for a Hero (from Footloose; Bonnie Tyler)
14. Rhythm of the Night (from The Last Dragon; El Debarge)
15. On the Dark Side (from Eddie & the Cruisers; John Cafferty)
16. Good Enough (from Goonies; Cyndi Lauper)
17. Who’s Johnny (from Short Circuit; El Debarge)
18. A View to a Kill (Duran Duran)
19. Magic (from Xanadu; Olivia Newton-John)
20. Climb On A Back That’s Strong (from As Good As It Gets; Shawn Colvin)

Okay, so today I am obviously being work avoidant. This all got me thinking about soundtracks that are just awesome start-to-finish-, even though none of the individual songs made the list above. So, just for fun, here’s a list of my top 25 movie soundtracks:

1. Saturday Night Fever
2. The Big Chill
3. Good Morning Vietnam
4. When Harry Met Sally
5. Grease
6. Boys on the Side
7. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
8. Forrest Gump
9. Purple Rain
10. Coyote Ugly
11. Pretty Woman
12. Mr & Mrs Smith
13. Pulp Fiction
14. Boogie Nights
16. What Women Want
17. American Graffiti
18. Bridget Jones’ Diary
19. High Fidelity
20. The Lost Boys
21. The Lion King
22. Wayne’s World
23. Risky Business
24. Cars
25. Notting Hill

Whew, I guess that’s enough for today! Possibly I should get some actual work done now…

  

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Ten on Tuesday: People I’d Love to Meet

Sep

I’m really not very “star-struck” – I don’t think people’s opinions or tastes or whatever are more important just because they’re famous. Also, living in Nashville means you “meet” celebrities all the time – but all that means is you bump into them at the airport or in line for soda at a Titans game or at a restaurant. It’s not like you’re going to become their new BFF, or frankly that they’re even going to remember meeting you. I don’t really consider that “meeting” someone, and I tend to not call all my friends and tell them about it when I “meet” a celebrity in this fashion.

That being said, there are people I’d love to sit down and have an actual conversation with, either because they are important decision-makers in our culture, or because they’re artists or innovators of various types and picking their brains would be kind of cool. SO, for this week’s topic, I am focusing on the top 10 people I’d like to sit down and have a conversation with:

1. My husband’s dad – for the most part, I focused on people who are still alive, but I have always wished I could’ve met my husband’s dad. His sisters tell me we probably wouldn’t have gotten along (he supposedly didn’t care much for strong women), but I’d like to give it a go. Unfortunately, he died before I met Craig, so I will never know.

2. Barack Obama – honestly, I have more hope in this man than I EVER have about any politician. I *truly* believe he has the potential to change the horrible political climate that has existed in our country since the Reagan years, cross party lines, and GET STUFF DONE! Yes we can…

3. Sugarland – no good reason here, I would just be the typical groupie going “wow, I really love your music”! %-)

4. Steve Jobs – first off I would like to express my gratitude for his role in creating the most perfect device ever (that’d be the iPhone); would also like to pump him for details on the “next great thing”.

5. Steven King – what an amazing place to live his mind must be!

6. My paternal great-grandmother – she was a full-blooded Cherokee and she got kicked out of the tribe (supposedly) when she married my great-grandfather. Would love to hear more about her story, and from her perspective.

7. JK Rowling – to try to persuade her that we need to know much, much more about Harry and his friends!

8. Billy Gillespie – ’cause he needs a pep talk about what it means to be the basketball coach at the University of Kentucky!

9. Simon Cowell – ’cause that would just have to be a trip

10. George W Bush – I know, a weird one from me, but sometimes I wonder if can he possibly be as clueless and dogmatic and … well, lots of other not good things … as he seems. Call it morbid curiosity, I guess.

  

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Ten on Tuesday: Things I Didn’t Like About School

Aug

This week’s topic is funnier to me now than it would’ve been when I was in school … now that I’ve become a professor, I think my opinions are skewed! Anyway, for what it’s worth, here are my top 10 things I didn’t like about school (am combining across high school and college):

1. Calculus – the thought of it still makes me want to scream – both the high school AND the college version!
2. Getting up – even then, was not a morning person.
3. Following directions – I really hate having people tell me what to do!
4. Cafeteria food – again, both high school and college.
5. Sorority girls – I know, I know, YOUR sorority was really great and none of the girls were “like that”! But the ones I knew … they definitely WERE “like that”.
6. Roommates – especially psycho ones (who seem to be drawn to me inexplicably)
7. Getting dressed up to go to college football games (especially since we pretty much always LOST)
8. I almost always had a final exam on my birthday (or worse, the day after my birthday) in college
9. Structure – I STILL hate that about school, and now I’m the professor!!! I get that things have to have specified times and last set amounts of time and all that, but I hate it. I’m more of a free spirit, schedules make me claustrophobic…
10. Going back to school in August – it’s just unnatural.

Despite the complaining here … I really liked school, both high school and college. It wasn’t perfect, but by and large I had a good time, learned a lot, laughed a lot, and made some really good friends. Can’t ask for more than that…

  

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Ten on Tuesday: Favorite Movie Villains

Aug

Ah, the bad guys…for this week’s topic, I couldn’t decide whether to focus on bad guys I empathize with, or was terrified of, or were just awesome. In the end, my list is a hodepodge, doesn’t stop at 10, and also reveals my almost-diagnosable obsession with Star Wars…enjoy!

1. Darth Vader (duh)
2. The Terminator (Arnie’s original)
3. Voldemort (Harry Potter series)
4. Hans Gruber (from the original Die Hard)
5. Hannibal Lector (Silence of the Lambs)
6. Darth Maul (Star Wars: Phantom Menace)
7. General Grievous (Star Wars series)
8. HAL 9000 (2001, A Space Odyssey)
9. Michael Meyers (Halloween)
10. Annie Wilkes (Misery)
11. Billy (Scream)
12. Alex Forest (Fatal Attraction)
13. The Corleones (The Godfather series)
14. Scar (The Lion King)
15. The Emperor/Palpatine (Star Wars series)

  

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Ten on Tuesday: Events That SHOULD Be in the Olympics

Aug

What fun! I love the Olympics. Though they’d be a lot more fun with …

1. Bumper cars – seriously, can’t you picture it now?!!
2. Dodgeball – talk about a new diplomatic solution!

Can’t think of any more clever ones, but I do think these two would be awesome.

I truly don’t know why things like Rugby & Lacrosse aren’t in already. Croquet and Tug-of-War used to be Olympic sports, I’d be in favor of bringing those back.

Several other people suggested Hula-Hooping, Twister & some type of Survivor-style obstacle course, those seem like a good idea.

Know what I think should NOT be an Olympic sport? Synchronized ANYTHING – those people are down right freaky!!!

  

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