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Last night in bed I saw a familiar face on Smallville and it took me a bit to place him.



That's Todd from Love It or List It! A lot of reality people have done acting and vice versa but it never occurred to me that anyone from the LIOLI or LIOLI2 might have done anything I've seen. Other than Hilary, who I learned late last year has a very small role in Rocky Horror Picture Show as Betty Munroe aka Mrs Ralph Hapschatt. (Hap-shit!)

So I looked Todd up on IMDb and was surprised to find a fair amount of acting roles, even a role as a dancer on Absolutely Fabulous. I definitely needed to see that, so I watched the episode while I drank my coffee before PT this morning. But I didn't spot him in the group of five dancers so I google "Todd Talbot" and "Absolutely Fabulous" together in quotes and found that there's another Todd Talbot, who's a professional dancer.

It surprised me that Todd lets a credit that doesn't belong to him remain in his IMDb, but of course it's always possible he's never even looked at it. I signed in and submitted the correction.

He had a role on something dramatic-looking called Fifteen for a couple of years starting when he was 18 or so. I'll definitely be looking at clips of that soon. It also says he's a dancer in Josie and the Pussycats, and it's been far too long since I saw that one.

My eye: *sees a photo of a tunnel from an architecture blog*

My brain: (quoting Lily Tomlin in All of Me) “A tunnel! With a very bright light!”

Also my brain: (quoting Jim Belushi in Once Upon a Crime) “Luhh too-nal iss skeh-dey!”

Friday the 13th part 7 and Weekend at Bernie's came out within a year of each other and are two of my favorite movies, but I never realized this dude (Terry Kiser) was in both until I saw him just now in Tammy and the T-Rex. I've been on IMDb pretty much every day since 1996 and I'll never get tired of it.

That's a bit of an exaggeration, but moving is definitely not fun right now. Someone I know locally posted on Facebook about the Strength Together class at the YMCA and swears by it, so I decided to check it out yesterday. Unfortunately my lower back issues crept up because we stood in place a lot lifting weights, but otherwise it's a pretty cool class! And highly effective. I was very weak and wobbly after, and now I'm very stiff and sore.

That's totally expected, but now I'm very motivated to get my back feeling better so I can go back to the class and do well in it. That means it's time for more yoga. Ever do yoga while you're exhausted from full-body strength training? That's what I did yesterday and it was pretty difficult. Today was even harder now that I'm sore all over.

That was this afternoon. I started the day with some time in the hot tub, then swimming that included a lot of stretching in the water. I even came up with a new way to stretch my back backward!

Anyway, the whole thing kept reminding me of the show L.A. Doctors from 1998. There was an awesome scene where one of the doctors went to talk to another in her office, and she looked like she was paying far too close attention to what he was saying. He finally asked what was up, and she said, "I can't move." I can't remember why, but she was paralyzed in her chair.

I decided to look up who it was, and it turns out it was Laura Palmer from Twin Peaks!

I wish commercials were on IMDb. I hate when I can't place someone from a commercial. Thankfully while typing this I realized that the guy who finds the hidden man cave next to the kitchen in the VW commercial is either Wes Bentley or a dude who looks enough like him that the glow from the man cave in his eyes is reminding me of the light from the TV when Ricky Fitts shows the video of the most beautiful thing he ever saw, which was a plastic bag swirling around in the wind.

We're watching the episode of Shameless where Liam's in the ER because he got into the pile of coke, and I recognized the nurse. I was about to give up trying to figure out from where, but then I spotted in her filmography that she was the main character on Boston Common, a sitcom I was thinking about recently anyway.

I played the word "toe" in Word Trick and it made me think of the acress Toy Newkirk from Nightmare on Elm Street 4. That probably would not have happened, but I recently read Robert Englund's memoir, and she was one of actresses he specifically mentioned. Decided to see what she was up to, and it turns out she has produced all the episodes of Hulu's little entertainment show, The Morning After, which I had forgotten all about and am surprised still exists.