James Gandolfini, Kristen Stewart form a bond in warm yet far-fetched 'Welcome to the Rileys'

Welcome to Simple Living Media’s  Home for the Holidays!  We’ve got 25 giveaways across the entire network this week to give you plenty of chances to win a great gift, just in time for the holidays.Remember that secret gift for Tate I mentioned in my vlog last Friday? Well, today you get to find out what it is:
Yep, today I’m giving away a multi-level, solid wood dollhouse from Melissa & Doug. I absolutely cannot wait to give it to my almost-six-year-old girl, who’ll most definitely go nuts over this. This will be her main Christmas gift this year!Valued at $150, this dollhouse is move-in ready (ha!) and comes with 19 pieces of moveable furniture.Perfect for hours of open-ended play for kids of many ages.Learn more about this little sweet dollhouse and how to win it.I was thrilled to learn that this dollhouse on its way was almost two feet tall and two feet wide — so I was surprised upon arrival when the box didn’t really seem all that big. Ah. Assembly required. Time to get out the tools.
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James Gandolfini, Kristen Stewart form a bond in warm yet far-fetched 'Welcome to the Rileys'

James Gandolfini, Kristen Stewart form a bond in warm yet far-fetched 'Welcome to the Rileys'

On screen, James Gandolfini has become the big, beefy Buddha of unresolved internal conflict and quiet rage.
He developed the persona on "The Sopranos" and gives us a law-abiding version in "Welcome to the Rileys" as Doug, a hardware salesman from Indianapolis who uses a sales convention in New Orleans to take a break from his wife (Melissa Leo) and his stifling home, where the couple grieves messily and separately over the death of their teenage daughter.In the big N.O., he meets a teen dancer/hooker named Mallory (Kristen Stewart), and the two develop the sort of dramatically symmetrical relationship common to screenwriting workshops, if not real life.Doug's got an aching hole in his life where his daughter should be, and Mallory is a young runaway, vulnerable and alone. Soon, Doug is paying rent to stay at her place, functioning as a live-in dad.I know, this sounds like the Sundance premise from hell, and you've also got Gandolfini's accent to deal with - his character's from Indianapolis, and for some reason the actor attempts a southern drawl (it fails).Yet for all of the movie's conceptual and technical shortcomings, it is sometimes unexpectedly touching. There's something about Doug's approach to Mallory that makes emotional sense. He doesn't try to change her, rescue her, any of that (though he does start docking her $1 for every f-bomb, which adds up). He just wants to improve her reckless life around the edges, get her bathroom running, fix the electric, etc.

Read more: James Gandolfini, Kristen Stewart form a bond in warm yet far-fetched 'Welcome to the Rileys'

James Gandolfini, Kristen Stewart form a bond in warm yet far-fetched 'Welcome to the Rileys'

Facebook Cartoon Profile Pic: Childhood Cartoons, Classic Cartoon Characters Avatars

Facebook Cartoon Profile Pic: Cartoons from the 70s, 80s further 90s, including expired cartoons savor Pinky again the Brain, Muppet Babies, Strawberry Shortcake, also Rugrats are felicitous some of the classic caricature characters that Facebook users are using since their avatars.

But why is the Facebook cartoon pattern pic part on? Is concrete felicitous a accession to treasure the juvenescence cartoons of our past?

In fact, the classic satire characters used on Facebook is a caravan to hoist touch about pet condemn children.

Facebook users are circulating the succeeding message: “Change your Facebook form delineate to a travesty from your tender age and invite your friends to finish the uninterrupted. Until Monday (Dec. 6), competent should speak for no human faces on Facebook, but an outbreak of memories. This is whereas ire inveigh children.?”
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Facebook Cartoon Profile Pic: Childhood Cartoons, Classic Cartoon Characters Avatars

Ahh Real Monsters Come To Life

With Facebook profile pictures using cartoon characters become a trend lately, the Ahh Real Monsters characters resurrected as well. Aaahh!!! Real Monsters was an American animated television series about adolescent monsters in training, developed by Klasky Csupo for Nickelodeon. The show ran for four seasons on Nickelodeon’s main United States cable channel and was rerun on Nicktoons Network until 2006. This was also the first Nickelodeon series to be owned

The show focuses on three monsters in particular (Ickis, Oblina and Krumm), who attend an institute for monsters under a city dump and learn to frighten humans. Many of the episodes revolve around the monsters making it to the surface in order to perform “scares” as class assignments.
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Ahh Real Monsters Come To Life

Cassette Playa and Ambush Collaborate On Creepy Creatures

Cassette Playa and Ambush Collaborate On Creepy Creatures
Cassette Playa and Ambush have joined technicolor forces to create a collection of necklaces, bracelets and bolo ties in shapes and color ways that are strangely reminiscent of the Nickelodeon of our childhood. We’ve got an inkling that the creepy creatures from cartoon classic Aaahh!!! Real Monsters might have been an inspiration for the jewels, what with the Play Doh colors and pouty, droopy faces. Check out some more images after the jump.
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Cassette Playa and Ambush Collaborate On Creepy Creatures