The Top 50 Movie Endings of All Time. I find most of these hard to dispute. There are spoilers so be warned. I have always loved the end of Dr. Strangelove. It's iconic and absurd and brilliant. I first saw the scene when I was about 8 or 9 and my Dad was watching the movie. I walked in just as the bomb was dropped. I asked why he was riding a bomb and my Dad sort of fumbled for an explanation without trying to explain the whole movie and settled on something like "because he's crazy". It stuck with me since then. If I had some terminal disease, I think I'd call the Air Force and ask if they had any daisy cutters they were going to drop and ask if I could have a front row seat like Slm Pickens did.
Quarantine 2008 has ended
Fair warning: possibly graphic post and not for the squeamish. So it all started Friday night. Wife and I had a long day (as usual) and had finally finished with dishes, laundry and the rest of the normal daily grind. The baby had been fussy most of the day and had spit up here and there. Mostly we thought it had been switching from formula to milk which can sometimes cause this type of thing. By the time kid #4 rolls around you tend to let these things slide. If this were #1 we'd have called in a medivac at the first sign of vomiting in a 1 year old. He finally calmed down and we got him off to sleep. We watched a bit of The Wire and retired (very) late. About 10 minutes later #2 wakes up crying complaining of a stomach ache. I ask if he has to go to the bathroom and he says no, it's not that. His stomach really hurts. OK, into my bed and I'll get the heating pad for a bit. We get him settled and he calms down. Knowing that he tends towards the dramatic, I s...
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