Incredibly Unlikely Celebrity Friendship Pool

Late January? Or pre-Halloween?

Snowstorms That Disrupt Halloween

My personal winter storm forecast model is as follows:

-If they predict big far out, e.g., a Monday forecast of 8-12 inches on Friday, expect it to underwhelm.
-If they start out on Monday calling for a rain/sleet/snow mix, and then on Wednesday up it to 1-3 inches, with more north and west of The City, and by Thursday, they've gone to 6-10 inches in The City, and there's a Winter Storm Warning on Friday morning, expect it to pack a punch.

14 inches of snow, two downed trees, no electricity for 120 hours and expected to be near 192, and two stuck vehicles later, I believe that my forecast model was, once again, accurate.

The Canadian Government Has Apologized For Bryan Adams On Several Occasions

On 12/5/11, a posthumous Amy Winehouse album, Lioness: Hidden Treasures, will be released. Naturally, the cover art was photographed by none other than Bryan Adams, apparent "rocker-turned photographer," he of Everything I Do, I Do For You/Summer of '69 fame. Oh, but it doesn't stop there, as SPIN reports:

When Winehouse died on July 23, the Montreal Gazette traced her "unlikely friendship" with the Canadian musician, who reportedly let Winehouse stay in his Caribbean home during a tumultuous period of her life and wrote her a song called "Flower Grown Wild."

If you had the Amy Winehouse/Bryan Adams combo in your "Incredibly Unlikely Celebrity Friendship" Pool, then I guess that today is your lucky day.

Scott Weiland Is Putting Out A Christmas Album

Sometimes the headlines write themselves. Kudos to SPIN for putting the obligatory "White Christmas" pun front and center.

No, seriously. Scott Weiland. The Most Wonderful Time of the Year. Really.

Two Things

And because nobody blogs about how to be a better human anymore, if they ever did, just remember that we've all got two things in common: we're all going to die, and we all have no idea when. A simple concept, sure, but thinking and internalizing these things because I said it, rather than because of first-hand experience, is better, believe me. Apply both of those fundamental truths to every aspect of your day that you can.

After, watch The Tree of Life. Buy the Blu-ray, actually. Shut your phone off, put your computer in the other room, leave behind every preconceived notion about what makes a movie a movie, and just bask in it. Haven't seen anything like it in quite some time, and I don't plan on it any time soon.