Sad Sad Sad.

OK, there's a thunderstorm going on right now so my dog is up. And when my dog is up, I'm up. He hates thunderstorms and that means I'm up for a while. So I'm going to mention something that has absolutely nothing to do with hockey but something I've been thinking about a lot since I found out it happened: John Hughes. Dead of an apparent heart attack at age 59.

Now I know I am an avid movie geek but anyone who knows anything about the 80's knows John Hughes. He had his fingerprints all over movies in that time frame. If you grew up with those movies (as I did) you know the titles. Some of them are:

The Breakfast Club
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Pretty in Pink
Sixteen Candles
Some Kind of Wonderful
National Lampoon's Vacation
National Lampoon's European Vacation
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Home Alone
Home Alone 2
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Weird Science
The Great Outdoors
Mr. Mom
Uncle Buck

There were others. That's all I can think of off the top of my head. The bad comedies of this day and age can learn something from those movies, and the good ones have learned from those movies. Classics from one of the best. Writer. Producer. Director. Icon. That simple.

Thanks for the movies and the memories John Hughes. You are already missed.