I watched this video, then pow!

I got a really bad feeling about this. I think the movie was called "One Week".

How would you like to be remembered?

Ronald Reagan, younger, as governor long-since an actor, but with Hollywood ties. He was on Dean Martin's Roast for at least two celebrities. If you are a fan of Reagan, this small glipse is a better portrait and way to remember him.

I'll have to work on Nixon ... he's a toughee.

Famous or not, I'd rather be remembered for a modicum of humility and humor.

Winter winner and whiner

I walked to my frozen car today, my print made semi-permanent in the super cold snow.

Frozen inside and out ... I gave up.

Saturday, I got a thank you card and check from a neighbor, whose driveway I plowed. Isn't that nice. Thanks!

rude comment of the day

"Crossing Jordan gets edgier"

Well, I'd start watching it when Jill Hennessy's character starts getting "nakeder". Wow! The smut that comes to my mind is astonishing! Okay, so I find her attractive.

old fart

I have reached the age where my nieces and nephews can say, "parents just don't understnad"+ about me. He's just weird. That is correct, but it is sometimes that nasty generation gap that leaves them in wonder and me in self-doubt. Crud! I'm old!

+ "Parents Just Don't Understand", by DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince aka Will Smith

Super Bowl XLI

For Indiana XLI is for Superbowl eXtra Large one, in that Indy is there and Chicago is there. Hooray; hoorah; the gang's all here! Yesiree, dis here game, da Bears and the Colts will be legendary. Either Colts win be a respectable 2nd or pull out a win. I'm still thinking that da Bears will win. I posted early that I think the spread will be 12 points, but I believe that I should drop that a bit. With the possibility of injury recoveries, I'll drop the point spread to 9. Bears should win by 9 points, but not likely 12.

Indy will have its larger dome and might sometime host the superbowl. I just hope that the Colts have this new dome and putter out after this year. "Looks like we made it ... " sadly droning on in the background, Shania's voice echoing, not the intentionally love song, but rather Colts losing focus.

Politics aside, the fanfare of the first two African-American (Black) head coaches making it to the Superbowl, I believe that they will, will, get some real hefty raises, regardless the outcome. You got your team to the Superbowl? Here's x (current salary), whereas x is a number between 2 and 9 inclusively. Ah, I see you've solved x for 12, very good.

week 2

I have looked through the job postings and found that FW still isn't hiring. Indy, Lafayette, and the Gary area area.

House of Flying Daggers was Over the Hedge

House of Flying Daggers started with dance choreography, featuring the accomplished dancer Ziyi Zhang. If you remove the beauty of the dance, you are left with a sloppy Bazooka Joe comic of a story. While the themes are culturally specific and the lust curtailed by duty and implied love, it is nontheless a sour mash of bad dialogue and circumstances. The Spy Kids animation in the movie takes away from the already weak story. It was all visual, so, technically you could strip away the soundtrack and replace it. I saw the English version, which was weaker still. Overall they did an alright sound remaster, but sound is intrinsically valuable in a movie about a blind woman/girl who uses sound. It was like watching an aquarium, while you were entertained visually, in the end you wonder why you sat that long.

Over the Hedge slipped into the area of one half of an idea with thirteen other ideas glued together for a miss. I like Wanda Sykes, but she wasn't enough to save it. When your star line up is Gary Shandling and Bruce Willis, well disaster looms. Hammy getty loopy on caffiene, where have I seen that before, oh yes ... in a better movie, Hoodwinked. Thomas Haden-Church as an overstuffed terminator -- nice touch. The movie's conclusion was just terrible. I tried to put it in perspective for a child, but the bear, "I'm going to kill you" and a few other adult references make me rate this one poor. The link of this to the comic strip is a S - T - R - E - T - C - H. I doubt that anyone watching the movie would hurry to start reading the comic.

Summarized:
House of Flying Daggers, visually interesting and that's where it ends. Over the Hedge, overdone with some samples of clever scenes.