Some Updates

This past week, I have posted a lot of short blog entries and they were starting to look strange and/or lazy, so I put them together into this one post. Enjoy and feel free to leave your comments.

• Torchwood in America: Torchwood is coming to America according to this article. Does this mean a certain person will come back to life?
• Shirtless Magazine Covers: In case you wanted to take a look... Johnny Depp appears shirtless on the cover of the latest issue of GQ. And (for some reason) John Mayer is shirtless on the cover of Rolling Stone. They both have tattoos on their left arms.
• Villain News: Peter Saarsagard might play the villain in the new Green Lantern movie.
• More Good News: Soon, you will be able to stream Netflix movies from your Wii!
• Traffic: I read this article today about the areas in the U.S. with the worst traffic. I can't believe only two of these are near me (in the L.A. area). It's nice to know that other Americans share the grief of the Angelinos.
• Grammy's 2010 (Um, 2009?): Here is an article from the L.A. Times about how Phoenix is up against Depeche Mode at the Grammy's.
• Death Metal Rooster: If you haven't seen this YouTube clip of the Death Metal Rooster, you should watch it. Turn down your speakers a little bit, first.

I warned you.

By the way, you wouldn't want to eat anything this cute, would you? Check out Meat Free Monday!

Disneyland

So my mom came to visit me last week and we went to Disneyland (and California Adventure). Fortunately we missed the big Lakers parade which happened the day we left (I mean, go Lakers, but that would be a big crowd), but unfortunately the first day we were there was the last day for year-long passes and was so crowded they had to stop letting people in.

My mom is not a big ride person, and she's not as mobile as she once was, so we got her a wheelchair. I've heard that if you have a wheelchair you get into special shorter lines, and for some of the rides this was true! Pirates of The Carribean (I haven't seen it since they added Johnny Depp) had a REALLY short line near the exit for wheelchairs. Haunted Mansion also had a special line, but other rides, like Buzz Lightyear's Astro Blasters, had only one line we all waited in.

California Adventure was not crowded at all. I'd never been there before. It was mostly 3D interactive movie things. I can't see in 3D (one of my friends said, "You have to use the glasses" - was that a joke??) so that was a bit of a drag. Yeah, I know, I'm weird because I can't see in 3D. Another thing I noticed about CA was that it was based almost entirely on movies I have never seen before like A Bug's Life and Monsters Inc. (and High School Musical 3). If you like those movies, you will probably have fun there.

Downtown Disney is a shopping area located between the two parks. You don't need a ticket to get in there. They have a movie theatre where my mom and I went to see Up, the new Disney/Pixar movie. I'm not normally into those Pixar movies, but my mom really likes them. This one was kind of sad, but the talking dogs were cute. Anyway, because it's an AMC theatre, you can take food in! My mom brought in a burger and I had cheese fries! I learned from a friend of mine who used to work for AMC that they'll let you bring in your own food. It's just cool.

That's my report from Disneyland, and now my vacation is over. It's back to work for me tomorrow.