Patti McCoy Jacob's Friends

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About Me:: Something “about me,” huh? Well, if you have nothing much happening at the moment – on hold with the DMV, perhaps – now would be the ideal time to read this riveting stuff. I’m a native Californian, have four daughters, three sons, two Bichons, one husband, a weekly humor/human interest/sporadic book review column for the Yorba Linda Star – OC Register community newspaper – and a total love for reading anything and everything, fiction and non. My children inspire much of my material for the humor column, but (please, God) will hopefully provide zero material if I ever write crime fiction. For purposes of crimespace, please consider me strictly a very interested reader.

Books And Authors I Like:: Either in general or for their one-hit wonders (one-hit for me, anyway), and in no particular order: John Grisham, Elmore Leonard, Stephen King, Joseph Wambaugh, Michael Crichton, Judith Guest, Frank McCourt, Khaled Hosseini, Dan Brown, Austen Burroughs, Peter Straub, Tolkien, J.K. Rowling (is it ok to admit that here?), Jon Krakauer, Richard Preston, Martin Cruz Smith. Oh, and S.J. Rozan for Absent Friends. And, well, Paul Reiser. Have you read Couplehood? HILARIOUS! And Dave Barry. Oh my gosh. Not at all crime oriented, but I couldn't NOT mention him.

Movies And TV Shows I Like:: I'm all over the board here -The Quiet Man, Fargo, The Sixth Sense, Stranger Than Fiction, Crash, One Flew Ove the Cuckoo's Nest, The Usual Suspects, Like Water For Chocolate, Afraican Queen, All That Jazz, The Princess Bride, Arthru, Sling Blade, Dial M for Murder, Babe, A Beautiful Mind, Murder By Death, Silence of the Lambs, Psycho, The Breakfast Club, Signs, Jesus Christ Superstar, To Kill A Mockingbird, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Misery, Best in Show, The Birds, Pulp Fiction, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Unbreakable, Rear Window, Shawshank Redemption, No Way Out, Waiting For Guffman, Pirates of the Caribbean, Marathon Man, Brubaker, Raising Arizona, Young Frankenstein, Million Dollar Baby, Das Boot, The Shining, Cast Away, Ordinary People, The Sting, A Christmas Story, Parenthood, Click, Little Miss Sunshine, A Fish Called Wanda, GhostStory, Search For the Holy Grail, Ice Age, Jaws, Jurassic Park, Chocolat, Kramer vs. Kramer, March of the Penguins, Matrix, Moonstruck, Napoleon Dynamite, Omen (original), The Other (NOT The Others), philadelphia Story, Rain Man, Forrest Gump, Sweeney Todd, When harry Met Sally, and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane.
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TV programs pertaining to crime - CSI Las Vegas, The Closer, Missing. And only if I remember to tape them. I really need to get that T-Vo (sp?) thingy...

At 12:51am on November 15, 2009, RONALD FEASEL said…: add me my requests full

At 11:21am on April 30, 2007, Brian Kavanagh said…: Hi Patti, good to catch up. Some interesting films on your list!
Cheers.
Brian

At 11:04am on April 25, 2007, Lesa Holstine said…: Hi Patti,

Thanks for inviting me. I love the sound of your newspaper column. Sounds like an Erma Bombeck one. And, I'll agree with Charles Kelly. I've only been in Arizona for three years, but I love every bit of it.

At 6:44am on April 25, 2007, Jeff Markowitz said…: Thanks for the invite. I'll stop back when I have more time to chat.

At 2:43am on April 25, 2007, Robert K. Foster said…: Hello Patti. I couldn't make a movie list like that if my life depended on it, even though I love movies -- many on your list.

At 1:41am on April 25, 2007, a g bennett said…: I like your choice of movies Patti- there's some great stuff in that selection.
All the best.

At 12:09am on April 25, 2007, Jordan Dane said…: Thanks for visiting my site. Looks like yours will be fun to read through. My kind of woman.

At 1:46am on April 12, 2007, Maryann Miller said…: Patti,
Thanks for the invite to be a friend. Like you, I wrote a humor column for a number of years and my kids provided the fodder for each week's piece. Sometimes they would fight over who got the most column exposure over a period of time. Other times they would say, "You are NOT going to write about this." If things were dull around my house for a while, I could always get material from my friends, who also at times said, "You are NOT going to write about this."

At 11:23am on April 10, 2007, Patricia Abbott said…: No, I hadn't heard of Disburbia. I doubt anyone can get the whole package right: the actors, the set, the script, the atmosphere, the direction, Grace Kelly, more beautiful than anyone ever. It happens so rarely.

At 10:52am on April 10, 2007, Charles Kelly said…: It is very beautiful in Arizona. I've been here about 35 years now, and the landscape is still stunning to me. At first, I missed the grass and trees ((I'm from Nebraska), but the beauty of the desert really grows on you.