Nova all the way

  It has been since the mid 1980s since this miracle has happened to them.


Villanova now in the final four. Some thought it would not happen.


     I was a really sick baby born in 1984 and in 1985. By then I didn't know much about college basketball or even knowing what Villanova was about. I had to deal with my own problems. Suffering from a three chambered heart, a minor stroke during a surgery and having pneumonia going through all this hell.




   But all I could remember is my mom was there the whole time, taking care of me.   My dad, along with most of the nurses at the time were glued to the tv when they were against Georgetown and let's say there were a lot of screams of joy that year in CHOP. Some of the nurses majored in nursing in Villanova university and they were happy, and my dad let's say did flip flops of excitement at home while I was sick with pneumonia. His best and worst night ever in his life. But I survived and every march madness I say to him, "I promise not to get sick"

       It has worked but sadly Villanova hasn't been to the final four in a long time. Sweet sixteen yes many times, and on occasion, They would be in eights, and now 2016, 31 years later.... It could happen all over again, you never know.

   All they have to do is defeat Oklahoma and then the top two. We'll see what happens. To me, I'm happy for them no matter how far they have gotten, but deep down, I live with a father who bleeds Villanova. Born in Philly, Conceived in Canada but his heart beats for the Wildcats since he went to major in Accounting so long ago.




     For me, I could go either way, If they win this year.... we will all be freaking happy and if they don't make it to the top two, they are still champions. Good luck Wildcats. Party like it's 1985
                                         Ciao Bloggers Final Four  2016

Pee Wee Herman 2016

  It has been over twenty nine to thirty years since Pee Wee Herman had made a movie. Yesterday, Netflix posted "Pee Wee Herman's big holiday"

   It was about Pee Wee going from California to New York for Joe Maganello's birthday party.

Pee Wee met Joe in Fairview and they got along, but it seems everything for Pee Wee was going sour and Joe told him that he would invite him to his party, but he had to drive there. When Pee Wee gets into zany adventures with female bank robbers, a guy who is convinced he will be lost in the woods forever, the Amish, a traveling sales man who wants Pee Wee to get over his fear of snakes, a farmer with 9 (yes 9) daughters and he forces Pee Wee to marry one.
 
  He escapes that through a disguise. Soon he sees some people with crazy hair that have faith in Pee Wee, a women with a flying car (portrayed by the actress who played Simone in Pee Wee's big adventure) and also the Amish and the female bank robbers once again with one of them named 'Pee Wee' as well who has a crush on Pee Wee. They get caught when they reach New York after Pee Wee leaves them, but when he finally reaches New York City, he ends up getting trapped in a well and gets saved by Joe Maganello and they enjoy a candy called root beer candy.



   The other movie was called "Pee Wee's big adventure" that was in 1985. He has an amazing bike that gets stolen and he goes finding it every where he goes. First off, a bratty rich kid (who really is an adult) named Frances wants it and steals it with a help of a friend, but tells that same friend to get rid of it when Pee Wee goes on the hunt.
   Dotty (played by the talented E.G. Daily) looks after his (now dead) dog Spot and the shop, and she tries to give him hints that she has a crush on him but he keeps saying, "I'm a rebel."

  He finds out from a fake fortune teller that his bike in the basement of the Alamo. He goes through some craziness like having nightmares of his bike being destroyed by clowns, riding in a truck with the ghost of Large Marge, a women named Simone who wants to go to France and Pee Wee ends up in Texas where he rides a bull, he soon is in a train with a hobo, an Edsel with a criminal who he helps escape and eventually he finds out his bike is in Hollywood and he goes there to get it back where a kid (portrayed by Jason Hervey from Wonder Years) he takes the bike back, saves a pet store and then he is in trouble once again.
  But this time they ask him if they would make a movie out of his adventure. He aggress and the movie is made with two actors: James Brolin and Morgan Fairchild.


  In my opinion both movies seem equal in the storyline of Pee Wee's history, what he is doing, why he is doing it and the length of adventure he will go for it. They both are amazing movies. Paul Rubens never seems to age in my opinion, and now I hear he will portray Penguin's father in Gotham, that is amazing. But with these two pee wee movie's which is the better one?
  I will have to say the new one seems like the better movie, because it just has more detail and more flowing story narrative. Sadly, it did not have E.G. Daily, but it seemed that the story of Pee Wee having an adventure going to New York City for Joe Maganello's birthday party seemed interesting enough and it wasn't as if he was going to do any harm to anyone like he did the last one, threating someone over a bike.

   The only thing is you can only see the new one on Netflix and no where else. I guess that's fine. Not many people want to see movie's in theatres these days so it's just fair to put this movie on a computer or a smart television.

   Pee Wee, you are funny and amazing and you never seem to age. Thanks for all the entertainment. Ciao Bloggers and enjoy both movies!

what is the best paper towel?

 So many paper towels have promises that they are stronger or can clean up the best spills.

I've been seeing a lot of Bounty commercials claiming they are the best picker upper. We usually buy those. Before that, there was a sweet waitress named Rosie telling people in a diner that Bounty was the best paper towel to buy, and because of that, a restaurant in Rockford, Michigan named their diner after her.

   But there are also some that are just store brand and some that claim they are better than others. Which is the best.

Brawny is considered best for having a huge and husky man on the front of their towels showing that the mascot stands for strength in their towels when wet.

   I don't know why in some commercials they have to say one paper towel is better than another or another towel doesn't work as well.
But that is marketing for you.


  With marketing Viva paper towels (which is a Kleenex brand) has this creepy fairy going to people saying that Viva paper towels has pockets of air.
  Scotts paper towels are just not advertising as much as the other three brands, Brawny, Bounty and Viva are.

  Even toilet paper ads are the same, saying they are the best. Advertisements do it all the time with brands. 
  Scott, Angel Soft, Quilted Northern many brands are the same ways as paper towels. We use these products mostly every day of our life.

   Advertising these products gives customers the need for these products. We always need to clean spills.

  Which is the best one for us? Whatever we like to choose, not because a commercial told us, but we like how it works for us every day, and why does Bounty work for us? It seems it is the quicker picker upper to us.

  Till then, remember it's not the commercial, its how it works. Ciao Bloggers

who is Frank Welker

   Today, Frank Welker is 70 but who is he really?? To some people his is the voice of a Transformer, a monkey, a talking dog that solves mysteries...but to others

    HE IS A VOICE OVER GOD!!!!!

  Starting his film debuted with "The Trouble with Girls" staring a young Elvis Presley, his career later mushroomed and his first voice over role was "Scooby Doo Where are you" when he voiced Fred and later Scooby Doo when the original voice for Scooby doo left. He voiced Melvin White in the show "Super Friends" and when the years when on, he did some voices and made animal sounds that ended up in popular films and many people didn't even know it was him making the noises all along.

  He was the sound effects for Cujo the dog after he was bitten and had the rabies. He was the sound effects for just about every animal you could imagine, he would do it.

   He also was the most popular Transformer robot ever next to his best friend Peter Cullen who was another famous Transformer robot. He played: Buzz saw, Blades, Chromadone, Groove (just to name a few) The most popular one of all was MEGATRON!

   Frank was known for voicing Megatron. Peter Cullen voiced Optimums Prime. Since the cartoon, they both have been doing the voices of Optimums and Megatron at comicons and many other places nerdy fans of the show loved to hear the voices. And they both were not fans of the Michael Bay Film.

   Frank has replaced the late Lorenzo Music as Garfield. I'm going to have to say I prefer Lorenzo's voice over Franks, but let's say that new show was better than that movie where Bill Murray voiced Garfield.

  Sometimes I will never know who voices who, but I'm great at detecting who is voicing who, but when it's with someone like Frank Welker or Jim Cummings, it takes a while to figure it out. But when it's an animal sound effect, I will always know it's Frank Welker. Happy 70th birthday big guy.

    Enjoy some more great roles and believe me, If I hear the sound of Fred from Scooby Doo, I will never know if you are just using your actual voice, or just portraying a character.

             Till then, enjoy the voice acting while you can and Happy Birthday.

Ciao For now Bloggers!

Happy Birthday Gus!!!

I can't believe it has been 3 years since Gus topher, aka Augustus Caesar was born.

It seems that he is one of a kind to all of us. When we got him from the farm in Lancaster, it was an interesting thing.

  First off, it was an Amish family and they were having dinner. We were waiting and the kids came out and just stared at us.

   It was like something out of Children of the corn. Creepy. They had many breeds of dogs, but mom wanted golden doodles.

      There was a tiny one that came right over to mom. He was the one. Gus. Well I didn't name him. My parents and brother did. I didn't care. I fell in love with him, just like I did Fudge. He would never replace Fudge in my heart because there is always room for Gus in my heart.


   The difference between him and Fudge is with Fudge, he loved car rides. Gus hasn't gotten use to them. Fudge loved to chew bones, Gus; well he's getting there.


Many dogs are different, by breed and by how they are trained. They age different than humans, they age faster, and they can actually sniff out cancer in humans. You can never tell how a dog feels right away. You can look into their eyes but what are they really feeling. Fear, happiness, sadness.

   My dog always feels upset when my mom is gone for a while and happy as a child when she comes back. I've seen some videos where deceased dog owners grave sites where dogs are whimpering in pain. It is sad.


   My dog, Gus, is very hyperactive and lovable and is always wants to be with someone 24/7. Dogs are lovable creatures. All needing loving families.

     I know my dog can't read this blog but if he did, he would know how much I loved him.

                           HAPPY BIRTHDAY GUS!!!!

Losing another Reagan

Today we lost another first lady. Nancy Reagan.

   I didn't know much about her because she

became the first lady when I was born while her husband became president of the united states. Nancy Reagan, was not one of the best first ladies but she was very helpful on trying to get drugs out of schools and the streets.

  Born Anna Francis Robbins, she helped with the just say no campaign that made it helpful to get children to not do drugs.

It started around 1982 and also became her husband's protector and also was on tv shows staring herself helping children with her "Just say No" campaign showing episodes on different strokes on how one person can just do what is right and say No to drugs. She even started D.A.R.E as well which stood for... Drug Abuse Resistance Education.

Like her husband, she use to be an actress as well and that is how she met Ronald. They didn't get into politics until later in their life. She performed in Broadway's Lute Song as well as playing opposite side her husband Ronald in Wagon Train as well as The Tall man. They both retired from acting and went into politics

When she was in the white house, she seemed to be more in charge than Ronald but she was the one that helped him with most of his Presidential career. Her fashion style during her years in the white house were pretty wearable, but it wasn't much of the style you would see today because it was very eighties. She had met past first ladies such as the late Jackie O. Kennedy and the Late Betty Ford.


    We will miss her. Not many people appreciated her but to tell you the truth there are some first ladies that were not one of the best, while others (like Jackie O.) were really tolerable and able to make a President feel that he was doing a good job. I don't know if I would have voted for Reagan, but I'm sorry to hear about Nancy's passing.  I will miss her but, I'm glad to know Ronald's wife will be keeping him company up in the clouds.

  God rest your soul Nancy Regan. RIP