Monday, May 2, 2016

Lauren: PHP, Pee-Wee's Big Holiday

Lauren
Sat April 30 2016

Pizza: Patrick's Homemade Pizza

We had weekend guests... nieces Hannah and Reagan were here! So that meant extra pizzas all around. I made four this time, all with my standard dough recipe and Carfagna's pizza sauce. Reagan likes cheese. Trevor really only likes black olives on his pizza. (for confirmation, check the sidebar of keyword labels used in this blog). Hannah wanted pineapple. Lauren and Beth wanted apple and bleu cheese (and I wanted some bacon!). I wanted sausage with onions and peppers. Beth wanted me to throw some mushrooms on the sausage pizza. The kids grabbed slices before I could take full pie shots. Ta-da!






Movie: Pee-Wee's Big Holiday

I saw the trailer for this a month or two ago and thought "That's exactly what the world needs. New Pee-Wee!" And I was right, because the movie was great. It contained many classic Pee-Wee bits, like the Rube Goldberg devices, Pee-Wee misquoting people, a road trip, and meeting interesting strangers. All in all, a very solid entry. Recommended.



Movie Trailer


DUBSMASHES
for Pee-Wee's Big Holiday

Lauren gets us going



Hannah and I play the parts of Joe and Pee-Wee



Reagan is too shy to do it, but Hannah closes it down perfectly





Trevor: Anges, Jungle Book

Trevor
Sat April 23 2016

Pizza: Ange's carryout.

No pictures because I forgot, but today's Ange's order was noteworthy because of two things: It was Lauren's first pizza night as a vegetarian, and because they heard my order wrong and I got a half pineapple and green pepper and half only-bacon pizza. Only bacon is a sub-optimal topping combination, btw. Not recommended.

Movie: Jungle Book (2016)

It was a nice evening so the Longs loaded up VANessa and went down to the South High Drive-In, which is still very much alive and well (even if they have the most 1998 of web pages). It had been years since we had gone, but I'm glad we did. Thanks to cousin Jimmy Mac and his better half Jennifer for the hookup. The movie itself was very well done. The animation was some of the most lifelike I'd ever seen. The only part that fell flat was King Louie (Christopher Walken). That felt a little forced. Everything else was thumbs up.





Movie Trailer



DUBSMASHES
for The Jungle Book


Trevor picked the movie, he's up first with his Sher Khan!



Next, Beth gets a go as Bill Murray's Baloo


Then I get a turn as Sher Khan