This week's super-awesome find comes in the form of a play. Specifically, a play inspired by William Shakespeare and the Coen Brothers, aptly called "Two Gentlemen of Lebowski".
It seems the first round of Guess That Gun had a fairly good response. As there might be others who join late in the game, I am not going to reveal the answers to round one just yet. But here are the totals for those who have played. (I'm giving half a point to those who said that a movie was from a series, but didn't specify which movie in the series.)
TheFormer786 - 6
RedSteve - 5.5
Rachel - 2.5
Anonymous (I need to know who you actually are) - 6
Tiff - 4.5
All in all, not bad guesses from many of you. Please, keep them coming and tell those you know who would want to play. Before round two starts, let me clarify a few things to help those playing. Firstly, all the screenshots are from movies I own. In other words, if the movie is still in theaters, you can toss it out. Second-of-ly, all the screenshots are from movies, so if you guess a video game, you can also toss it out. And thirdly, anyone can play at anytime. That means if you only discover the game on the last day, you can still guess for previous entries. And if you already guessed for a round, but an idea suddenly springs into your head as to one you missed, feel free to enter.
Guess That Gun
Round 2
I have long said that if one wishes find out who a person really is, one simply needs to peruse their movie collection. Think about it: people like movies that match their personalities, and I can't think of a better way to "meet the man", as Xiang Yu said—or rather, as Firefly said that Xiang Yu said—than to search through the movies that person views as "good/sentimental/worthy/etc. enough to be owned".
After having that thought, I decided to go on a journey of self-discovery and document my movie collection. As they were already in alphabetical order [insert OCD comment here], it was simply a matter of going across the shelves and writing down each film in the collection. And what did I discover during this sojourn of mine? Many things. I discovered that, due to the nature of how my collection came to be—that is, some coming from my days at Blockbuster, some coming from the wife when we were married, some coming from presents from others—it is one of the more varied and eclectic collections I have come across. I also discovered that, had two of my movies not mysteriously disappeared, I would have exactly one movie for every day of the year—I'm looking at you, whoever has my copy of Three Amigos.
As we enter the new year—but not the new decade, as was clearly pointed out by sixteen-year-old-me in the editorial I submitted to the Deseret News back in 1999—NU14 is going to undergo a change or two. For starters, you have my word that unless I am physically unable, there will be a new entry every Tuesday and Thursday. (Granted, this isn't so much a change as it is a confirmation as to the frequency of entries.)
I am sure that, after reading my previous entry, many of you are thinking the following: "Wowzers! Your wife is fantastic! I wish I had one just like her!" Well, my dear friends, I sadly must inform you that she is one-of-a-kind, not to be found elsewhere. Notice how I refrained from saying "one-in-a-million". The reason for this being that according to the US Census Bureau's World Population Clock, at the time of this writing there are just shy of 6.8 billion people on the planet. If I said my wife was one-in-a-million, that would mean there are 6,792 other people on the planet just like her. As this is not the case, I will stick to my original statement, but shall add a modifier: my wife is one-of-a-kind, or in other words, one-in-six-billion-seven-hundred-ninty-three-million-five-hundred-thirty-seven-thousand-two-hundred-ninety-eight.
My whole life, I have been taught that buying people things is not a good way of showing them you love them. This makes sense for many reasons, as it can cause a myriad of problems in the mind of the givee:
1) If the gifts stop or drop in quality, that means your love does is well.
2) If you give someone else a better gift, it means you love them more.
3) If the gift breaks, then your love is equally as fleeting.
This was told to me time and time again throughout my youth, including the Full House episode where Uncle Jesse buys DJ a drum set to apologize—presumably because sexiest men alive lack qualities in the "caring for children" department.
With Christmas virtually upon us, no doubt many of you—myself especially—have been flooded with Christmas music at all turns. As the number of days before Christmas have become shorter, an inverse proportion of Christmas songs has risen both in number and ubiquitousness, starting as simple musak instrumentals playing over the PA in the mall and culminating in the 100 Hours of Christmas on 100.3 FM, "Utah's Official Christmas Radio Station"—a claim that is as perplexing as it is unfounded, as I doubt FM100 has endorsement from either the state of Utah or the holiday of Christmas. How one even gets an endorsement from a holiday is beyond me.
