The last batch of great date movies we discussed included The English Patient, Titanic, Stardust and Stupid Crazy Love. Today, I want to talk about some really fun children’s movies that are great for dates. Many of us are quite young at heart and love our cartoons! So without further ado, here are some wonderful children’s romantic movies that are great for any date.
Beauty and the Beast
Everywhere you look today, there’s sex selling. I’m not even talking about human trafficking this time. I’m not even talking about the magazines and music videos and TV advertisements. No, I’m talking about every time you log onto your computer and there’s a spam message or even an ad waiting for you to talk about increasing the size of your penis, or getting laid tonight, or meeting hot young singles right now. It’s beyond irritating.
When EA announced the new SimCity, one of the items a lot of people jumped at was the news that it would have an "always on" system. "Always on" means that you have to have an internet connection to play the game, even if it is a single-player game. Internet goes out at your home? Traveling away from an internet connection? Too bad - you can't build your city.
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=== Dr Grumpy Shoots He Scooooooores ===
:: Rich Eisen :: After his last start, we offered a 7-part series on Felix' career transition. If you're here for the afterparty, you can read the first article here. Collect all 7.
In the first six articles, I guessed an 80% to 90% chance that Felix' 94 MPH was gone to stay, but also a 90% plus chance that he'd take the Pedro route to stardom, not the Valdes / Freddy route to meatballdom. Captain, please bring me my wine... We haven't had that spirit here since 1969.
But Dr Grumpy, our resident SSI/MC gastro surgeon, had a different inclination. If Felix lost that much weight, sez he, some could be lean body mass. That would mean that probably he wasn't feeling a lot of jingle in his spurs. That, in turn, would mean that maybe his training was "lagging" and if so, you could see a gradual return of velocity.
Dr. Grumpy, we are confident, will read this Brooks Baseball chart as a thunderous reinforcement of his instincts:
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Felix came out with a crackling +2 to +3 MPH that had Dr. D swaying beatifically to the music. The circles above represent his fastball velocity as the game wore on, and the decay looks like grrreeeeeeat news from the layman's seat. It's a velocity pattern that you would see in the first game of spring training. He showed the 91-93 MPH that he had not in earlier games, and now it looks like a question of building endurance.
No question about the radar gun. It had Felix at 91.5 to 92.0, while pegging Wilhelmsen at 94.1 and League at 94.1.
Genius, Dr. G. Hope you turn out to be right.
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=== The Changeup ===
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Q. Does SSI buy the idea that Erasmo Ramirez needs to be kept well under 200 IP this year?
A. Am very skeptical about this belief system, because (1) I haven't seen any convincing studies on it, none that convinced me anyway, and (2) logically, I don't see why sitting on the couch strengthens your muscles. If you go to the gym once per week to lift weights, is there some reason you should take June, July, and August off?
The James paradigm, which he shares with the Japanese, is that pitching is good for the arm. James thought that 125 pitches, for the 30-year-old Roger Clemens, was literally good for him.
But it's possible that the "X number of bullets in the gun" paradigm is right. I guess Jamie Moyer was born with a lot of bullets.
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James answered our question on this by saying he didn't buy the dogma, either, but "you can't resist conventional wisdom with intuition." Since there's no feasible way to study this issue, there isn't going to be anything you can do about the belief system. Maybe some day people will notice all of the Lincecums, Verlanders, Felixes and etc.
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Q. Does the Michael Pineda experience play in?
A. You've got to remember how loudly this 2011 music was turned up in Zduriencik's and Armstrong's headphones. They boldly put Pineda in there to start the season, and Pineda was in fact a bug on the windshield at 170 innings, had to be YANKED out of the rotation in a panic in mid-September.
Then, Pineda came to camp this year and the "overwork" seemed to have lasting effects. It's a scary visual.
If you’re looking for the perfect springtime date to make a great first impression—or to really get to know someone without being stuck in front of a movie screen for two hours—think children. I don’t mean to procreate already, of course! I mean think back to your own childhood days and remember what you loved to do. Try to recreate that open joy with your date by doing something that you love—or loved—to do.
A lot of singles will be spending this Valentine’s Day alone; there’s nothing wrong with that. In fact, what could be better than sharing this celebration of love with the person you need to love first—yourself? If you end up with a date, fine; if not, why not spend the holiday spending some quality time with yourself? Here are a few ideas to do just that.
Like many geeky people, I have spent a lot of time making the perfect mixed tape (er, playlist) for the perfect mood—from work playlists to romantic ones, special collections for my husband to play in the car (complete with tons of scribbled notes in Sharpie ink on the front of all of them—volumes one through five) to workout mixes for my daughter and me to get down with our bad selves. Sexy music isn’t my strong point, because it took a long time for me to embrace my own sensuality to begin with.
Even though so many people are in a rush to get into a relationship, get married, and start their happily ever afters as soon as possible, there are some things you just shouldn’t rush in life, and I maintain that a relationship is one of them. With that in mind, here are a few things to make sure you leave off your agenda during your first date with someone new. So don’t…
