I recently installed the AsonishMe Search Cloud plugin for my blog. Here's my search cloud (aka, Zeitgeist). It shows what search terms people most commonly use to find my blog. Clicking on the term takes you to the blog post that they found. Bigger terms have occurred more often. Hover your mouse to see how many times.

But the strange thing I noticed was that "danny" was one of the most common search terms that led people to my site. I searched Google for Danny to see how many pages I would have to go through to find my blog. It was number 2. Not page 2, but the second result on the front page. It puts me ahead of Danny DeVito, Danny Elfman and Danny Bonaduce. I tried Yahoo and found that I'm number 7 there.

This seems like a mistake. Search engines, you may want to adjust your algorithms.

If any Brendoman.com authors want to have your search cloud added to your page, I can do it for you.

TV night at the Neals' place often leads to exclamations like, "Oh my gosh, you've never seen that?!" and "I'm bringing the DVD next week and you WILL watch it." So it's no surprise that when I told Josh I'd never seen the Die Hard movies, he handed me the box set. Yay!

I thought I had seen various portions of the first Die Hard, but now that I've watched it, I guess I've only ever seen Alan Rickman in the most famous scene of the movie. Let me just say first off, I like the use of Beethoven's Ninth, one of my absolute favorite pieces of music (whole thing, not just the chorus at the end), but the edit of the music was somewhat annoying. But it's forgivable, because at least it's an action film that aspired to include classical music.

Bruce Willis is beginning to be a favorite of mine. My early impressions of the guy, never having seen these movies, weren't great ones, because he hadn't done much remarkable work in my opinion. With Twelve Monkeys (which I think I saw before Pulp Fiction), all of that changed. Now, looking at his career since then, it seems he's good at making a few slips here and there, but he's in a lot of iconic movies as well, and even some of his more bland movies still have great performances. He's great here in Die Hard, as a cop whose inability to sit by when crime is nearby, leads him to be the sole opponent to a team of terrorists who have taken several people hostage at the 30th floor of an office skyscraper.

With a little help from a cop on a radio and a limo driver in the building's skyscraper, there's plenty of opportunity for comic relief, and Willis himself has many memorable lines that I'm sure thrilled the movie's original audiences when they first heard them. Those were a lot of fun.

Josh, by the way, I'm not sure if it's my DVD player or your DVD, but seriously, a lot of skipping going on, and during the best scenes! That kind of marred my viewing, because I had to keep rewinding to the right spot after the skips, but I did see it all and liked what I saw. And I'm glad I'm finally catching up (almost 20 years later) with what others saw many years ago!