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Happy Monday!

Game 6: Pittsburgh Penguins vs. The Columbus Blue Jackets

In a must-win situation for the Blue Jackets in Nationwide Arena tonight, they need to skate, hit, pass and shoot with purpose and intensity and be as creative and daring as “the Minnesota Miracle Man.”

Sergei Bobrovsky: in order to lead Columbus back 180 miles east for Game 7, you may need to do a little more than mind the net…

That would be Goal of the Year Goal of the Century.

Just saying…

We Are The 5th Line!

Happy Monday!

Obsessed with Modern Romance

This will be an eventful weekend for stand-up comedy.

First, Aziz Ansari will be performing his new stand-up, Modern Romance, at the Palace Theatre in Columbus, Ohio. Then, on Sunday night at 10:00 p.m., Comedy Central will premiere Jim Gaffigan’s new comedy special, Jim Gaffigan: Obsessed.

Until then, it is Friday and if this blog can offer just one piece of advice for today and the weekend ahead, it’s this: avoid kale.

Need more convincing?

Okay, here you go…

His perspective on this vegetable is as sound as his perspective towards Hot Pockets.

“Hot Pockets…”

Kale, your days are numbered.

Dude is Going to Look Like a Lady Again

Normally, there isn’t so much news about sequels made within the same 2-week period, especially when it concerns follow-ups to beloved ’80s and ’90s classics.

Strangely, the latest scoop of a man dressing up as an old Scottish nanny has the potential to revive Steiner Street to its 1993 golden presence.

It was recently announced that famed scribe and director Chris Columbus put his hands up in the form of an “L” and reverse “L” and joined his thumbs together for a vision of a Mrs. Doubtfire sequel in the joyfully eccentric northern California city of San Francisco.

Oh, and this is happening with the wonderfully crazy, wild and spontaneously hilarious Robin Williams.

It’s impossible to doubt the comedic fire he’ll surely bring to this sequel.

While we’re not experiencing hot flashes at this news, we’re all experiencing flashes of our favorite scenes from this story of a marriage and family of three children broken up by divorce in a funny, yet very real fashion. And the fact that the 1993 original was funny, sweet and painfully real with the tugging of our heart strings throughout was a defining dynamic that perfectly complemented the unforgettable comedic one-liners of Robin Williams and, of course, a stellar cast.

There is no release date, but that shouldn’t stop our cautious optimism of what will eventually be projected on the silver screen for multiple generations to enjoy.

Thankfully, somebody boxed the trailer from Mrs. Doubtfire and then shipped it onto the Internet (that process can get confusing).

“Could you make me a woman [again]?”

“Honey, I’m so happy!”

And Uncle Frank, maybe make an extra mask or two…just in case.

P.S. I’ll never forget when my family and I were at a cafe in Kauaʻi several years ago and my sister and I were ordering food just feet from somebody who looked very familiar…

007

Yes, he was 007. And yes, he was super nice. But, he was also the hapless Stu Dunmeyer.

Incredibly, I believe he was driving a Mercedes!

Finding That Killer Instinct

“I got soul, but I’m not a soldier”

The power of the written word as expressed though music is completely unsurprising. Not a new revelation at all, but this obvious observation does not diminish the inspiring and revealing nature of a perfectly-crafted phrase sung for, to and from the heart.

As a talking camel strutting through a busy American office would ask right about now, “guess what day it is?”

Wednesday is the most confusing day of the week. It’s not near the beginning (uggh) or near the end (yay!), but smack down in the middle. Thankfully, that song lyric above is the quintessential answer to this mid-week dilemma. Monday and Tuesday, yes, we are relentless “soldiers” for our jobs and our companies. However, once the first sign of light starts to break on the horizon over that tall stack of papers (literal or figurative), that warm, comforting glow is a guiding force that we again need to embrace our adventurous and random side for the end of the week and of the weekend ahead.

Below is a list of 7 things to do today or this evening as a reminder that “I got soul, but I’m not a soldier.”

Here we go:

  1. Go to a local farmer’s market and buy food you’ve never cooked before and try your hand at it
  2. Break out into a dance with a friend/friends on a street or walkway with people around for 10 seconds
  3. Blast music from your car (sans profanity or vulgar material) with entertaining bravado
  4. Sit outside on a park bench (weather permitting) and read a good book
  5. Always, always read and spread the awesomeness of Jimmy’s Daily Planet!!
  6. Go to a bar in a nice restaurant and secretly pay the tab of a couple in love
  7. Watch the abridged video below for visual motivation from the killer source of this post

After all, isn’t it about ‘all these things that we’ve done’?