A JFC as been rare sight lately. I have moved to a small country neighborhood and you just don't see the kind of silly behavior from adults in the country as you do in the city. Lucky for me that I work in Austin Minor, a city that is working feverishly to become just like Austin Major.
The Jesus Fish Chronicles: Chronicle Five, The Mini-Van Cell Phone Driver.
September 20th
Time: 7:36 am
It was on an access road intersection in Austin Minor. I am heading to work and from the opposite direction there is a semi-truck in (their) the inside lane with a mini-van on the outside lane. Now both lanes are turn lanes but only their outside land is both straight bound or turn bound, while the inside lane turn only. Typical right?
Well justice was served today...for all those people that drive on the road with the pretentious, self absorbed, "me first", Escalade drivers who talk on their cell phones while driving. Yes sweat justice was served and the light side of the force grew a little.
Mrs. motor mouth managed to complete ignore the dotted yellow line and smashed her $40k+ mini-van into the much bigger semi-truck as SHE crossed into the other lane.
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Friday, September 28, 2007
Government "protects" us again....
The Imperial Guard made another drug bust in the Empires war against drugs. The raid took place in Oakland, CA. and the place raided..... a candy shop.
See funny thing is that those wacky lefties in California actually did something right and legalized medical pot. Which, if you ever had a family member with cancer (I have), is a great piece of medicine, if you can call it that. Its more like an enabler for those with cancer to take their cocktail medicine to fight off or prolong the final effects of cancer.
But another point I would like to make.... it is not MY business what I decided to put into MY body? Not according to the Empire and the Imperial Guard.
Ignoring state law, the Imperial guard seized all assets of a candy making company that was making pot-laced candy. But not any candy...before you go up in arms, with names like "Mr. Green Bud" or "Stoned Rancher" or "Baby Jane" you obviously can see that pop-humor.
The argument that these could fall in the hands of children is a farce. A five dollar "Budda Finger" is no match the marketing power of a fifty cent "Butterfinger". Not the mention that these pot candies are NOT sold on the candy rack. The statement that these are in the environment of a child is simply not true. The market for these novelty candy bars is entirely on the realm of pot users and medical pot users that have the funds available to purchase this product. Namely anyone NOT under the age of 16 (legal working age).
...is any of this making sense yet?
Imperial guard violates state law to protect the children from the big bad drug pushers, when in reality children are not going to want to purchase this product anyway nor can the afford it. State law is broken, Constitutional boundaries have been breeched, Civil Liberties have been violated...all for the children. Awwwwww, how cute.
Sleeeeeeeeeep
*DISGUSTED*
See funny thing is that those wacky lefties in California actually did something right and legalized medical pot. Which, if you ever had a family member with cancer (I have), is a great piece of medicine, if you can call it that. Its more like an enabler for those with cancer to take their cocktail medicine to fight off or prolong the final effects of cancer.
But another point I would like to make.... it is not MY business what I decided to put into MY body? Not according to the Empire and the Imperial Guard.
Ignoring state law, the Imperial guard seized all assets of a candy making company that was making pot-laced candy. But not any candy...before you go up in arms, with names like "Mr. Green Bud" or "Stoned Rancher" or "Baby Jane" you obviously can see that pop-humor.
The argument that these could fall in the hands of children is a farce. A five dollar "Budda Finger" is no match the marketing power of a fifty cent "Butterfinger". Not the mention that these pot candies are NOT sold on the candy rack. The statement that these are in the environment of a child is simply not true. The market for these novelty candy bars is entirely on the realm of pot users and medical pot users that have the funds available to purchase this product. Namely anyone NOT under the age of 16 (legal working age).
...is any of this making sense yet?
Imperial guard violates state law to protect the children from the big bad drug pushers, when in reality children are not going to want to purchase this product anyway nor can the afford it. State law is broken, Constitutional boundaries have been breeched, Civil Liberties have been violated...all for the children. Awwwwww, how cute.
Sleeeeeeeeeep
*DISGUSTED*
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Deep thoughts
If your accountant is Mexican ....... can you still get away with still calling him a bean counter?
A win for civil liberties
PORTLAND, Ore. - Two provisions of the USA Patriot Act are unconstitutional because they allow search warrants to be issued without a showing of probable cause, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. - Assoc. Press 9/27/2007 via MSNBC
Wow! What is it five years later and we are finally starting to win rulings against the un-Patriot Act? Still, I think Americans in general need to start waking up to this (soon I hope) and contest what the government is doing.
If we are not careful we could be the next Rome but I cannot say that I would expect Canada to burn the Aqueducts. Maybe Mexico and our roads?
Anyways...I beg my two readers to please take politics to heart. Even if its just keeping up with the news. K, enough from me.
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
RTFM
K, finally figured out how to get the comments to work again. You may have noticed but most likely you stopped here right before you started to surf for porn....so the odds are likely you never noticed that my comments were AWOL.
Well after a little research and then finally reading the manual I figured it out. Hmmmm well "figured out" it implies that I know what I am doing. More like the developer told me how to do it.
So basically you are going to see the most recent post. At anytime you can click the post menu and insta-load your post of choice. You'll notice that post load extra fast which, the net net, will get you to your nasty porn that much faster....assuming you come here before you search for porn.
Well after a little research and then finally reading the manual I figured it out. Hmmmm well "figured out" it implies that I know what I am doing. More like the developer told me how to do it.
So basically you are going to see the most recent post. At anytime you can click the post menu and insta-load your post of choice. You'll notice that post load extra fast which, the net net, will get you to your nasty porn that much faster....assuming you come here before you search for porn.
Burma
Lord have mercy...if Americans had even an ounce of what these monks are doing over in Burma this would be a different world. Peace.....who knew so many people are for it.
Red River game announced!
Finally the BSC, or Fox Sports, or the U.T. Illuminati FINALLY announced the time and channel of the Red River Shoot Out!
For all you Yanks...that is just about the biggest game in college football. K, now go back to your honey nut lattes and badminton.
This year is extra special! Don't know if you heard but a longhorn fan was visiting Oklahoma and decided to spend some time in a local pub. About pee'thirty he had to go to the restroom or something. This apparently pissed off a Oklahoma fan AND CHURCH ELDER to the point where he attack the long horn fan and ripped his nut sack open. I kid you not, here is the article.
Now that alone is not really enough to get me pissed off. Sure, I was outraged when I heard it. And I calmed down when the D.A. pressed charges or something but then this happened
Let's keep this shyt on the field people....*firmly looking at OU fans*
For all you Yanks...that is just about the biggest game in college football. K, now go back to your honey nut lattes and badminton.
This year is extra special! Don't know if you heard but a longhorn fan was visiting Oklahoma and decided to spend some time in a local pub. About pee'thirty he had to go to the restroom or something. This apparently pissed off a Oklahoma fan AND CHURCH ELDER to the point where he attack the long horn fan and ripped his nut sack open. I kid you not, here is the article.
Now that alone is not really enough to get me pissed off. Sure, I was outraged when I heard it. And I calmed down when the D.A. pressed charges or something but then this happened
"I've actually heard callers on talk radio say that this guy deserved what he got for wearing a Texas T-shirt into a bar in the middle of Sooner country," said Irven Box, an attorney in this city 20 miles from Oklahoma's campus in Norman."Oh really?! Wow so sporting your teams colors is "ethical" grounds for a firm nut grabbing? Better think twice about that kind of crap. Last I checked, UT fans don't move to Oklahoma but it seems that a lot of you Oklahoma folks just loooooove to move down here. You really don't stop wearing your team colors either. The way I figure....there is about a 10,000:1 ratio of Texas to Sooners fans. I'm sure we'd be more than happy to return the favor if that is the way we are going to play this game.
Let's keep this shyt on the field people....*firmly looking at OU fans*
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
New grill
Hot diggity dog! I got a new grill!
Work decided to give me a nice bonus, which is a huge relief! The bills situation is about the same and my mother is starting to pull in some income finally. Long story there, sort version: Mom worked at a clinic, accounting lady was corrupt, stole a lot of money, company went under, mom lost her job. She bounced back by taking a job at Sears until she can find a clinic job again. Till then we are tight on money.
So here I am, a few bucks richer and I am trying to decide what to spend my money on. I've been dying to try out the Chinese restaurant close to me, The Hao Ling Kat, but eating out just seems silly at a time like this. Course bills comes to mind but I am not really exciting about paying them off. They like to call every day and try to harass me and frankly.....I don't give a hoot if they aren't getting my money when they want it. Besides, what can they do to my credit? Already got a house, truck, and job. Not to mention years of good history! Any bean counter can look at the numbers and recognize a down slump.
Aye, so my point. Well wifey pointed out that I have been wanting a new grill for a long time now. I already have two BUT grill number one is a little Weber grill that I used for cooking a few hamburger patties. I would put anything larger than four patties on it. Oh don't get me wrong! Its the perfect size for cooking cats or other small meals, specially when the bigger grills take so much charcoal/wood to get going.
My big grill is one of those barrel grills you see for $60 at the local shop-n-steal. You've seen it, it looks like a barrel cut into two. Handy fella! Came in handy for my 4th of July BBQ when I was cooking for about a dozen folk or so. Problem is that the grill has two giant holes in it where the rust had its way. It also has about half of the bottom rusted out. I use tin sheeting to keep my coals in but those of you with a chemical back ground know that hot tin is toxic when converted to a gas. No bueno
Not to mention I do not have a smoker!
Well not anymore! Wifey shoved some bills in my hand, wrote a note and stapled it to my shirt and sent me to the market. I was to buy me a grill....with a smoker! Yippie!
No lie, when I got home I went straight to building my new grill-o-love right there in the back
property. I think god was showing me a little love too! Not a single mosquito came to investigate the back of my knee.
It was a pretty day and not hot at all...just something about that day was magic. A man and his grill....should be a book title!
Well I got a lot of help from my mother and my son to get the grill together. Wifey helped big time by keeping the CLG (cute little girl) out of the mess. Nothing I would hate worse than smashing her little toes with a cast iron grill.
The instructions were obviously written by Rain Main and were a total pain in the arse to follow. It was pretty much built-by-picture and from that point on it went pretty smooth.
From start to finish I would say it took my all of two hours to put it together. Most of that time sitting on the tail gate looking at the instructions and cursing.
I added a few pictures so you can see my new beauty. I wuv it sooooo much !
Work decided to give me a nice bonus, which is a huge relief! The bills situation is about the same and my mother is starting to pull in some income finally. Long story there, sort version: Mom worked at a clinic, accounting lady was corrupt, stole a lot of money, company went under, mom lost her job. She bounced back by taking a job at Sears until she can find a clinic job again. Till then we are tight on money.
So here I am, a few bucks richer and I am trying to decide what to spend my money on. I've been dying to try out the Chinese restaurant close to me, The Hao Ling Kat, but eating out just seems silly at a time like this. Course bills comes to mind but I am not really exciting about paying them off. They like to call every day and try to harass me and frankly.....I don't give a hoot if they aren't getting my money when they want it. Besides, what can they do to my credit? Already got a house, truck, and job. Not to mention years of good history! Any bean counter can look at the numbers and recognize a down slump.
Aye, so my point. Well wifey pointed out that I have been wanting a new grill for a long time now. I already have two BUT grill number one is a little Weber grill that I used for cooking a few hamburger patties. I would put anything larger than four patties on it. Oh don't get me wrong! Its the perfect size for cooking cats or other small meals, specially when the bigger grills take so much charcoal/wood to get going.
My big grill is one of those barrel grills you see for $60 at the local shop-n-steal. You've seen it, it looks like a barrel cut into two. Handy fella! Came in handy for my 4th of July BBQ when I was cooking for about a dozen folk or so. Problem is that the grill has two giant holes in it where the rust had its way. It also has about half of the bottom rusted out. I use tin sheeting to keep my coals in but those of you with a chemical back ground know that hot tin is toxic when converted to a gas. No bueno
Not to mention I do not have a smoker!
Well not anymore! Wifey shoved some bills in my hand, wrote a note and stapled it to my shirt and sent me to the market. I was to buy me a grill....with a smoker! Yippie!
No lie, when I got home I went straight to building my new grill-o-love right there in the back
property. I think god was showing me a little love too! Not a single mosquito came to investigate the back of my knee.It was a pretty day and not hot at all...just something about that day was magic. A man and his grill....should be a book title!
Well I got a lot of help from my mother and my son to get the grill together. Wifey helped big time by keeping the CLG (cute little girl) out of the mess. Nothing I would hate worse than smashing her little toes with a cast iron grill.
The instructions were obviously written by Rain Main and were a total pain in the arse to follow. It was pretty much built-by-picture and from that point on it went pretty smooth.
From start to finish I would say it took my all of two hours to put it together. Most of that time sitting on the tail gate looking at the instructions and cursing.
I added a few pictures so you can see my new beauty. I wuv it sooooo much !
Beer Can Chicken strikes again
Well this post is coming kind of late.
I did a second attempt on the beer can chicken. The first B.C.C. was under cooked and I had to microwave it to finish it off. Still it was mighty tasty and worth a second try.
This time I did it right! indirect grilling method again but this time the coals were closer together and I used an orange to plug the neck hole. The first time I used a potato and don't ask me what the difference is other than an orange taste around the neck skin. Functionally it works the same, keeping the beer vapors locked in.
Anywho....I brought that little bastard into the house after a two our roast on the grill. This time I knew the chicken was cooked properly! When I picked the leg off the chicken the meat slid right off. The Wifey managed to get the other leg off and gave it a gentle shake..resulting in the meat falling on to her plate. Yeah, it was done!
So all in all the second try was a major success!
I did a second attempt on the beer can chicken. The first B.C.C. was under cooked and I had to microwave it to finish it off. Still it was mighty tasty and worth a second try.
This time I did it right! indirect grilling method again but this time the coals were closer together and I used an orange to plug the neck hole. The first time I used a potato and don't ask me what the difference is other than an orange taste around the neck skin. Functionally it works the same, keeping the beer vapors locked in.
Anywho....I brought that little bastard into the house after a two our roast on the grill. This time I knew the chicken was cooked properly! When I picked the leg off the chicken the meat slid right off. The Wifey managed to get the other leg off and gave it a gentle shake..resulting in the meat falling on to her plate. Yeah, it was done!
So all in all the second try was a major success!
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
keeer-rap!
Holy Moses....I have been feeling like someone hit me in the face with a sledge hammer. Monday I had people from work telling me to stay home cause I looked like crap. And as for yesterday...wife told me to stay home. I'm glad she did! I was not in any capacity to do any kind of work. I even tried playing Civ 4 and I ended up getting tired.
So I spent the day watching the history channel. I totally lucked out too! Almost the entire day we devoted to Rome and the Romain empire. I was in a total intellectual nirvana.
As for today.... I am still totally wiped out but I am at work. So at least I can feel like I have some measure of productivity. And hey, I did get at least five hours of sleep this time.
Oh, and yes. I have tons of posts to make (with pictures). I was trying to do it yesterday but the level of complexity that I was able to handle just about throttled out with using the TV remote. I think I might have time tonight but we have plans to eat dinner with my old friend Mikela.
I haven't seen her in almost two years and I miss her a lot. Time, family, and work just keeps me from getting hanging out with my friends (unless they come over). Anywho, I get to see her again and I am exited about that. Plus she is married now and is expecting in March (I think its March).
ok, enough from me. I have nineteen days of work to do in a span of seven hours. Catch you on the flip side.
So I spent the day watching the history channel. I totally lucked out too! Almost the entire day we devoted to Rome and the Romain empire. I was in a total intellectual nirvana.
As for today.... I am still totally wiped out but I am at work. So at least I can feel like I have some measure of productivity. And hey, I did get at least five hours of sleep this time.
Oh, and yes. I have tons of posts to make (with pictures). I was trying to do it yesterday but the level of complexity that I was able to handle just about throttled out with using the TV remote. I think I might have time tonight but we have plans to eat dinner with my old friend Mikela.
I haven't seen her in almost two years and I miss her a lot. Time, family, and work just keeps me from getting hanging out with my friends (unless they come over). Anywho, I get to see her again and I am exited about that. Plus she is married now and is expecting in March (I think its March).
ok, enough from me. I have nineteen days of work to do in a span of seven hours. Catch you on the flip side.
Monday, September 17, 2007
New layout
Ok by now you have noticed the new lay out to my blog....and if you haven't you can count on me to never ride with you in the car. EVER!
Some things didn't make it over, like Sudoku. No biggie...I wasn't really planning to have it there for very long. If I can find one that fits the columns I'll add it back or something.
I'm still kind of drowning with work at the moment but I'll try to set aside some time to make a few blog posts.
Some things didn't make it over, like Sudoku. No biggie...I wasn't really planning to have it there for very long. If I can find one that fits the columns I'll add it back or something.
I'm still kind of drowning with work at the moment but I'll try to set aside some time to make a few blog posts.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Sudoku challange
k, my best time so far is five minutes and fifty five seconds...anyone want to try to best that score (time)?
Updates
Hey folks....I am looking for a new template that fits my mode of communicating. The template I have now is too skinny and doesn't offer a lot while at the same time it doesn't utilize all the "white space". Throw any ideas my way
I also added a game so that I could shamelessly whore myself to you to support my frail ego...love me
I also added a game so that I could shamelessly whore myself to you to support my frail ego...love me
Beer can chicken!
I did my first beer can chicken this weekend! I took a five pound bird from my local HEB. They sell it cleaned, de-necked, and ready for a beer sodomization. My mother gave the chicken a nice rub down and I did the honors of downing half a can of the national beer of Texas.
All it takes is setting up the grill for indirect grillin' and to shove the beer up the arse end of the chicken. Two hours later, a bon-fire (still burning brush), and three dead mosquitoes later....we had some mighty fine eatin'.
sorry, I wasn't thinking and I did not take pictures :(
All it takes is setting up the grill for indirect grillin' and to shove the beer up the arse end of the chicken. Two hours later, a bon-fire (still burning brush), and three dead mosquitoes later....we had some mighty fine eatin'.
sorry, I wasn't thinking and I did not take pictures :(
9/11
I'll start with two things; first I wanted to sit here and write a full detailed post about my feelings about 9/11. Alas, work is paramount and it just doesn't permit this. Second, I do NOT believe the governments' (executive branch mostly) story about this event.
Does this make me a conspiracy theorist....whatever. I get so disgusted when someone says it and now I have to bring that up before I even talk about 9/11. Dogma rules the seneca....
No....what this makes me is an analyst, a critical thinker, a questioner, a thinker, an open thinker, a deep thinker, and a patriot. You should never trust your government for when you do, you've become the enslaved.
So what is the point about posting this... well six years ago, today, thousands of people died right before my eyes. Images are still burned in my memory, sounds still ringing in my ears.
I know they'll never get a fair investigation and their memory will be used as a political tool for decades to come. I know that that day marked a day when religious extremism stuck such a blow, so deep, that we lost what it meant to be free and American.
That's the day the Constitution of the United States became optional
Does this make me a conspiracy theorist....whatever. I get so disgusted when someone says it and now I have to bring that up before I even talk about 9/11. Dogma rules the seneca....
No....what this makes me is an analyst, a critical thinker, a questioner, a thinker, an open thinker, a deep thinker, and a patriot. You should never trust your government for when you do, you've become the enslaved.
So what is the point about posting this... well six years ago, today, thousands of people died right before my eyes. Images are still burned in my memory, sounds still ringing in my ears.
I know they'll never get a fair investigation and their memory will be used as a political tool for decades to come. I know that that day marked a day when religious extremism stuck such a blow, so deep, that we lost what it meant to be free and American.
That's the day the Constitution of the United States became optional
Stressing
I haven't been sleeping well and I can really feel it when I am at work. Most of my restless sleep comes from the stress at work. I have a lot on my plate and not a lot of time to do it in. I really shouldn't be doing this kind of work for the peanuts I make but the experience and exposure to what I am doing to priceless.
I did a recent survey of people in my field and I found that the median salary is well past $70k a year. I'm not even close....I've been stressing that to my manager but it seems like we are waiting for the planets to align before H.R. and finance get around to reviewing my demands. But its because they know they got my twig and berries in their palms. So that is stressing....plus we are having a hard time with the bills!
I had it all planned out with the money and the bills thing. We could have had everything paid off (minus the house and the student loans) by this time next year. But plans being plans, did not execute and now I am stressing over bills.
When I get home I tend to drink a little....to get the day off me....and then I keep drinking cause the day won't freaking leave. By the time I know it the day and I are sitting on the front porch telling each other how much we love each other as a brother and singing bar songs. So of course all this drinking and getting drunk is not letting me sleep well either. Which then makes me stress about not sleeping enough.
F............... I need a vacation
I did a recent survey of people in my field and I found that the median salary is well past $70k a year. I'm not even close....I've been stressing that to my manager but it seems like we are waiting for the planets to align before H.R. and finance get around to reviewing my demands. But its because they know they got my twig and berries in their palms. So that is stressing....plus we are having a hard time with the bills!
I had it all planned out with the money and the bills thing. We could have had everything paid off (minus the house and the student loans) by this time next year. But plans being plans, did not execute and now I am stressing over bills.
When I get home I tend to drink a little....to get the day off me....and then I keep drinking cause the day won't freaking leave. By the time I know it the day and I are sitting on the front porch telling each other how much we love each other as a brother and singing bar songs. So of course all this drinking and getting drunk is not letting me sleep well either. Which then makes me stress about not sleeping enough.
F............... I need a vacation
Sunday, September 9, 2007
Out with the old ...
I was in H-E-B when, in a rare display of thoughtfulness, I started to look at all the coffee makers. My wifey has been talking about how badly our coffee maker sucks. 
We have three coffee drinkers in the house (me, wife, and my mother) and the little four "cup" coffee maker is just not up to par....double bogey really.
ok, so I am looking at the coffee makers and I see this super wiz bang coffee maker. It does delay brew, light or strong brew settings, plate warmer settings, a brew timer that lets you know how fresh a brew is, self cleaning, and hand jobs (the attachment comes in the mail when I send in the rebate), all for $25!
Normally the coffee maker is $50 but it is marked half off. The clerk said something about purging inventory...
The family is super happy with my find. Wifey can have the coffee brewed before its time to go and she doesn't have to take time out of her morning schedule anymore for coffee prep. Mother likes it cause it looks slick and now she doesn't have to start another pot of coffee after we leave. And I am spending a lot of time with the coffee maker when everyone has gone to bed.
Love this new coffee maker!
We have three coffee drinkers in the house (me, wife, and my mother) and the little four "cup" coffee maker is just not up to par....double bogey really.ok, so I am looking at the coffee makers and I see this super wiz bang coffee maker. It does delay brew, light or strong brew settings, plate warmer settings, a brew timer that lets you know how fresh a brew is, self cleaning, and hand jobs (the attachment comes in the mail when I send in the rebate), all for $25!
Normally the coffee maker is $50 but it is marked half off. The clerk said something about purging inventory...
The family is super happy with my find. Wifey can have the coffee brewed before its time to go and she doesn't have to take time out of her morning schedule anymore for coffee prep. Mother likes it cause it looks slick and now she doesn't have to start another pot of coffee after we leave. And I am spending a lot of time with the coffee maker when everyone has gone to bed.
Love this new coffee maker!
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
More rain
2am....that's about when I finally fell asleep last night (this morning). I wasn't up cause I was cooking brownies, playing Civ4, or watching a late late movie or anything. Nope, I was up cause of a strobe light of lighting going off just out side my house. Add to that a two hour series of wall shaking thunder going off every five minutes.
I was up because we had yet another thunder storm! If only I had managed to fall sleep before the storm hit. Well I did but I was having dreams of Auto Regression Integrated Moving Averages forecast modeling. A far part and journey of my usual Ninja army dream. You know the one where you have a pen, a garden hose, and one shoe and you still manage to kick some arse!
Math sucks....I want ninjas
I was up because we had yet another thunder storm! If only I had managed to fall sleep before the storm hit. Well I did but I was having dreams of Auto Regression Integrated Moving Averages forecast modeling. A far part and journey of my usual Ninja army dream. You know the one where you have a pen, a garden hose, and one shoe and you still manage to kick some arse!
Math sucks....I want ninjas
Weird quotes from work 9-05-2007
Co-worker: "Uh huh.....kind of like saying "That's double redundant!"."
HCB: ".....God hates you......."
HCB: ".....God hates you......."
Opinion on Apocalypto
The story is centered in Mesoamerica and takes place at the Apex of the Mayan decline. The opening quote of the movie, "A great civilization is not conquered from without until it is destroyed from within" - William Durrant, sets the time line from which the movie starts.
The film follows Jaguar Paw, Son of Flint Sky, in his journey during this period and the challenges of that time. It's really hard to talk about some of the elements of the film with out giving away what happens. But be assured it has National Geographic nudity, blood, gore, violence, and plenty of subtitles.
Overall the movie felt slow....much like "Passion of the Christ", Another Mel Gibson film. The film is filed with detail to accuracy Mel Gibson is know for, and sometimes accused of going over board. However, the philosophy is interesting and the commitment to it for people during that time is amazing to watch. It is a rare glimpse into history that you get by watching HBO's: Rome.
I would recommend that you rent it....its worth it. Its not Braveheart or anything but its a good movie.
The film follows Jaguar Paw, Son of Flint Sky, in his journey during this period and the challenges of that time. It's really hard to talk about some of the elements of the film with out giving away what happens. But be assured it has National Geographic nudity, blood, gore, violence, and plenty of subtitles.
Overall the movie felt slow....much like "Passion of the Christ", Another Mel Gibson film. The film is filed with detail to accuracy Mel Gibson is know for, and sometimes accused of going over board. However, the philosophy is interesting and the commitment to it for people during that time is amazing to watch. It is a rare glimpse into history that you get by watching HBO's: Rome.
I would recommend that you rent it....its worth it. Its not Braveheart or anything but its a good movie.
Opinion on Blades of Glory
This story of two antagonistic competitors that allow themselves to cause such rift in the figure skating community that they become banned from the sport. The story follows their casting out and subsequent journey to return to their beloved sport through a series if "hard times" team work.
Jon Heder plays his famious social awkward charater again. Much in the line of Napoleon Dynamite, Bench Warmers, and probably countless other movies (Minus the second half of School for Scoundrels). Unusually feminine in this movie, Jon plays an overly metro-sexual figure skater breed for combat...in the ice figure skating sense. He can probably make a mean tiramisu!
Will Ferrell plays...well ..... Will Ferrell, like he always does. But that is what we like and keep coming back for. Even when he puts out crap like "Kicking and Screaming". We just kind of ignore it and wait for his next movie. Well waiting is to strong of a word, more like made aware of and then see it when you have some free time or HBO feels like showing something other than indy documentaries.
Overall the movie was out right silly fun. The movie NEVER took itself seriously from the second scene on to the end. Filled with innuendos, asinine behavior, and lines that only Will Ferrell could say with a straight face..."Hey. They laughed at Louis Armstrong when he said he was gonna go to the moon. Now he's up there, laughing at them".
I would recommend seeing this movie. It is not a drama or actions flick. Don't expect Anthony Hopkins material. This is just totally silliness and it was a nice break from life.
Jon Heder plays his famious social awkward charater again. Much in the line of Napoleon Dynamite, Bench Warmers, and probably countless other movies (Minus the second half of School for Scoundrels). Unusually feminine in this movie, Jon plays an overly metro-sexual figure skater breed for combat...in the ice figure skating sense. He can probably make a mean tiramisu!
Will Ferrell plays...well ..... Will Ferrell, like he always does. But that is what we like and keep coming back for. Even when he puts out crap like "Kicking and Screaming". We just kind of ignore it and wait for his next movie. Well waiting is to strong of a word, more like made aware of and then see it when you have some free time or HBO feels like showing something other than indy documentaries.
Overall the movie was out right silly fun. The movie NEVER took itself seriously from the second scene on to the end. Filled with innuendos, asinine behavior, and lines that only Will Ferrell could say with a straight face..."Hey. They laughed at Louis Armstrong when he said he was gonna go to the moon. Now he's up there, laughing at them".
I would recommend seeing this movie. It is not a drama or actions flick. Don't expect Anthony Hopkins material. This is just totally silliness and it was a nice break from life.
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Weekend recap 9/4/2007
Friday
Picked up the kids from school (one private and the other public, thanks to his mother!) and high-tailed it back to the ranch. Nothing I hate worse is getting into traffic with the subjects from A-town, Austin Minor, or G-spot (aka Georgetown). Nothing against you guys but you drive moonbat crazy (word shamelessly stolen from Lawdog).
I kid you not! Spend five minutes in A-Town traffic and the following WILL occure
Saturday
UT 21 ASU 13
nuff said!
Sunday
Wifey and I went for a second visit to this new church the wifey found. It has a distasteful taint of Evangelism but for the most part it is a nice church. I am not to found of the attempt at Rock N Roll... We'll see if we stick with this church. Takes a while to see if it as House of Religion or a House of Faith.
I also honored the good lord with a little fishing out in his country. What can I say....Texas has a little bit of everything. You want flat lands, head east. Want lakes, head central. Want hills, head West. Want Desert, head waaay West. You get the idea.
Anywho! Got me three sun fish! My son was all over the place with this. He has never seen anyone catch a fish before and this was a totally new experience for him. To bad he drove me and my buddy Eric insane. In a total of five casts he managed to lose his hook, weight, and bobber five times. We had to put him in observation mode but hopefully he learned.
I think I need to let him practice casting back at the ranch. When he gets the hang of it we can try again.
Monday
I spent the day light clearing the ranch of my weed trees (Cedar). For you granola pounders, keep in mind that Cedar is not native to Texas, turns my soil acidic, and sucks the water out of my water table. The result is a dead forest of Cedar that not only kills each other off but prohibits anything from growing. Need to rekon' that the ground is basically course powder around a Cedar tree...not good when you live on a hill and rain comes to wash your top soil off.
The Cedars are getting tree-o-cide but you bunny thumpers can take heart that all the live oak saplings are taking off now that the Cedars are being cut down! So see, bad trees go away and good trees grown strong so you can molest them later.
OH! I am also preparing to transplant one of the adolescent Live Oaks to a nice spot in my front yard. In a few years (decades) it will provide some nice shade, look hansom, and provide some nice roots for my ecology.
During the evening we rented Apocalypto and (Watched) Blades of Glory. A few scribblings on Blades of Glory, despite the full on gay innuendos it was funny. In fact I think that made it funnier. Seeing hard core Mormon Jon Heder put into a seriously feminine role was amusing and Will Ferrell just totally exploited it.
Also educated my son on the finer arts of BBQ several times this weekend. Along with teaching him to flame cook hamburgers when the wifey wants you to double time it with dinner, all while keeping it from becoming blacknd'.
And I am hoping to watch Apocalypto tonight.
Picked up the kids from school (one private and the other public, thanks to his mother!) and high-tailed it back to the ranch. Nothing I hate worse is getting into traffic with the subjects from A-town, Austin Minor, or G-spot (aka Georgetown). Nothing against you guys but you drive moonbat crazy (word shamelessly stolen from Lawdog).
I kid you not! Spend five minutes in A-Town traffic and the following WILL occure
- No LESS than five times you will be cut off
- A minimum of one person WILL use their blinker but only then as they travel down the speed lane at 55 for the next 15 miles.
- Two people will rocket themselves from the left hand fast lane to the far right hand exit ramp, barely missing the barrier and depriving you of a show.
- The speed limit will be 60, you and traffic will be at 80, and some A-hole in A-town will come up on you at 120 and live on your bumper for six seconds, move around you to give you the bird, then move to the person in front of you, or course you are slamming on your breaks when he does this.
- You'll see one college student talking on the cell phone, smoking a cigarette (or something else), talking to their friend in the passenger seat, and head banging to music, sometimes applying make-up......the females too!
Saturday
UT 21 ASU 13
nuff said!
Sunday
Wifey and I went for a second visit to this new church the wifey found. It has a distasteful taint of Evangelism but for the most part it is a nice church. I am not to found of the attempt at Rock N Roll... We'll see if we stick with this church. Takes a while to see if it as House of Religion or a House of Faith.
I also honored the good lord with a little fishing out in his country. What can I say....Texas has a little bit of everything. You want flat lands, head east. Want lakes, head central. Want hills, head West. Want Desert, head waaay West. You get the idea.
Anywho! Got me three sun fish! My son was all over the place with this. He has never seen anyone catch a fish before and this was a totally new experience for him. To bad he drove me and my buddy Eric insane. In a total of five casts he managed to lose his hook, weight, and bobber five times. We had to put him in observation mode but hopefully he learned.
I think I need to let him practice casting back at the ranch. When he gets the hang of it we can try again.
Monday
I spent the day light clearing the ranch of my weed trees (Cedar). For you granola pounders, keep in mind that Cedar is not native to Texas, turns my soil acidic, and sucks the water out of my water table. The result is a dead forest of Cedar that not only kills each other off but prohibits anything from growing. Need to rekon' that the ground is basically course powder around a Cedar tree...not good when you live on a hill and rain comes to wash your top soil off.
The Cedars are getting tree-o-cide but you bunny thumpers can take heart that all the live oak saplings are taking off now that the Cedars are being cut down! So see, bad trees go away and good trees grown strong so you can molest them later.
OH! I am also preparing to transplant one of the adolescent Live Oaks to a nice spot in my front yard. In a few years (decades) it will provide some nice shade, look hansom, and provide some nice roots for my ecology.
During the evening we rented Apocalypto and (Watched) Blades of Glory. A few scribblings on Blades of Glory, despite the full on gay innuendos it was funny. In fact I think that made it funnier. Seeing hard core Mormon Jon Heder put into a seriously feminine role was amusing and Will Ferrell just totally exploited it.
Also educated my son on the finer arts of BBQ several times this weekend. Along with teaching him to flame cook hamburgers when the wifey wants you to double time it with dinner, all while keeping it from becoming blacknd'.
And I am hoping to watch Apocalypto tonight.
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