FRIDAY, WHAT WOULD I DO WITHOUT YOU?

A shout out to my best bud of 22 years, I believe his sister and her husband plus their daughter had just arrived in D.C. last night for a two-week vacation and as she was going into the hotel lobby-- her daughter and husband were hit by some drunk driver in their car! I believe there are some injuries, but last I heard they will be okay, so good news, but man what a scare and a REMINDER of how short our time here truly is, and how our lives can change in an instant. Good thoughts their way...

I feel my mood lifting up a notch as of late. The last few weeks, I've been a bit of an emotional rollercoaster, but I think I'm coming out of my funk a bit so this is good news. My job still bores me to tears, but the workload has slowed down a bit recently, giving me a chance to catch up somewhat with some tasks I had put on the back burner. And I am very lucky to have a few good friends out there I can always count on to hang out with, or talk to, or go out with to do whatever, so in this part of my life I have been rather blessed lately. I've neglected going to karaoke, and I kind of miss it actually. I do love to sing I must say. It's been a while since I played The Beatles: Rock Band, so chop chop! Gotta get into it again! :) My beloved bud said he added more songs to the game or something so this is way cool. My very handsome BLACK co-worker has some Beatles tunes on his iPod, and he stopped me today to ask me what my favorite Beatles song of all time was. And I pretty much boiled it down to this one. He had a hard time locating it in his player, and I didn't think he had it, but he located it eventually and shouted out to me excitedly as I was leaving the office, "I found it!" Decades pass, and the music of these British fellows continues to rule the world. Astounding feat really.

I have three Béla Lugosi films on one DVD to watch this weekend as Halloween season heats up! WOOHOO! BELA LUGOSI MAN! ONE OF HORROR CINEMA'S ALL-TIME GREATS! DRACULA HIMSELF! I think the three movies are Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Black Cat, and The Raven. Boris Karloff is in these as well, or at least one of them. But anyway, getting back to that awesome Hungarian that once was, Mr. Béla Lugosi! So brilliantly played by Oscar-winning Martin Landau in this hilarious scene from Tim Burton's terrific movie, Ed Wood: