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I Got Nada

I got nada to write about. Sure events are occuring in the world, but I have nothing new to add. I could just repeat other people such as Jeff Jarvis but that seems pointless. I pretty much agree with many of his points so go read some of his stuff. I especially recommend his "God Rolled His Eyes" I-III.

A side note: Entertainment Weekly declared Jon Stewart of the Daily Show Entertainer of the Year. Not exactly sure if thats something a person wants to achieve or not but congrats anyway. Nice to see more and more people appreciating his program. Hopefully this will continue to fuel his attacks on the pathetic press corps.

Nation of Hate and Fear

You know reading the posts of Republican's and others it seems that most of their views come down to what they like or what they think may or may not happen. Yet they act like the support the ideals of America.

For example flag burning. That is an expression of free speech. I don't like it. I despise it. But I love America more. The America I love accepts it. Just like the America I love accepts bashing of presidents, of critizing them. The America I love recognizes that sometimes the expressions of the rights we take for granted may not be pleasant or agreeable.

A worldview fpr many many many Republican's if they don't like it, it must go, the ideals of America be damned. Rights be damned. To me you can't claim National Pride then support decisions that go against the very grain of the nation. The Patriot Act is one such example. Its suspends rights. America was founded on the ideal that rights trumped EVERYTHING, including safety and life. EVERYTHING. The America I use to know would find such a law that did otherwise unacceptable. That America no longer exists. The America I know believes everyone has a right to express themselves. That is no longer the case. It seems the expression extends to followers of Jesus now, all others need no apply. I also thought America could learn from its own and others past mistakes, but that was wishful thinking.

America is now a country where fear and safety are king, where rights can be ignored or suspended. A country of religious intolerance. A country of hate. I have hope that the country will past this test of nationhood as it seems all countries must. This is our time of hate and fear and when its over we will be much stronger for it.

Apprentice Finale

Ooh ahhh kelly won. Whoopie. I felt for poor Jen or whatever her name she took a beating for that first hour with everyone fawning on the to-be winner. I give her credit for taking it stride but love to know what thoughts where floating through that head.

Mostly I am disappointed Stacy Rotner lost for no other reason then I have a crush on her. She just roxor me. Gorgeous from head to toe and a brain to match. :X

Well anyway another season endeth and i just can't seem to care. BTW, I think Trump knows on day one who he wants to win cause some of his reasons for tossing where just asinine. Really where. Tossing some for having to much education, then tossing another for not having enough, yet final two both had to much education and not enough experience so in the end it just didn't make sense.

LoTR: Return of the King EE

Bought it, watched it, and reminded once again what good movie making is. Few films have integration story with special effects so well. Then when you add the sound and the glorious Howard Shore music...well you have a level of movie making perfection that has rarely been achieved. The most amazing part is that it wasn't done just once...but three times with the entire trilogy.

These films, together and seperate, will be stand the test of time and be considered some of the best ever made in any category. My hats off to the achievements of Peter Jackson and company.

Peterson Trial

Well the was declared guilty and sentenced to death. People cheered or cried. This whole trial things annoys me on sooooo many levels.

One is why. Why did this get national attention over all the thousands of murders that occur every year from a husband killing a wife and vice versa? Why does no ask that question. It seems very critical to me to understand why the press picked this story. And make no mistake, it was the press that drove this to national attention. The viewers where words of encouragement only. Am I the only one pissed off by manufactured news of this level.

The woman died, its sad but it is NOT national news. If a husband killing a wife was national then how come all the other deaths that occur national wide not reported on CNN and FoxNews ad nausem? Well one reason is because apparently to be worthy of national news certain requirements have to be made. One is the family has to be photogenic. Do you really think national coverage would have happened if the Petersons where ugly? I don't think. Another requirement is apparently have to live in California. Why, beats the hell out of me. Also you have to be rich and white. The exception to this requirement is if a famous black person. If not rich then apparently your murder is just expected and barely worth local news coverage. Finally the woman has be gorgeous. If men don't look at her photo and think unclean thoughts, well just not good enough.

So the lesson to be learned is this. If photogenic, rich, white woman in California and you get murdered you just might become famous! Then throngs of insane strangers will rally around your corpse and declare love for you!! I bet that will make death go down easier.

BTW, the jury did Peterson a favor. Getting sentenced to death means his litany of appeals will probably get heard when before they may not have. Long story short, expect his ass freed in about 5-10 years.

Poor Kitty

BERLIN (Reuters) - A German couple was shocked after a 275-mile car journey to discover a surprise stowaway cowering next to the engine of their car -- a 6-week-old kitten.
The meows of the tiny animal only became audible after Elisabeth and Dieter Gesehl had parked their car.

"First of all we called the police as we feared for a moment that we must have run over and seriously injured a cat," the 64-year-old woman from Eggenfelden told Bonn express newspaper.

After checking under the hood, however, they discovered the unharmed kitten. The animal, which the couple have since adopted and named "Pussy," was soon back to normal after a few minutes of petting.

Source: http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=7041359&src=rss/oddlyEnoughNews

- Hope they at least fed the poor thing.

Alexander

Don't watch this movie...ever. Even if its shows up for free at your doorstep or on tv. Its simply aweful and boring. The only good things going for it is Angelina Jolie and Rosario Dawnson (who shows off a great set of tatas) both of whome looked great on screen. Acting, lines, etc onthe otherhand...

This movie should have been titled "Alexander the Gay". Every scene is just loaded with gay sexual innuedno. I don't care if Alexander was gay there are better ways to express that then inordinate amounts of time being spent on gay looks, lines, and longing stares at the dude that looks feminimn. Take all the innuendo out and you have a 2 hour film instead of three.

Then there are other problems, scenes that go way way to long without conveying important information about the man or his supporters. Usually the first line or two is the core idea and the rest is the "Oscar siloquey" films like this suffer from. They might as well splash up a "for oscar consideration" card before these moments. But again they do nothing for the film. Take these out and you have an hour film instead of three.

What is really sad about this film is it doesn't convey WHY he is called Alexander the Great. Apparently its because his mom said so the way the film shows it. Not because he conquered most of the known world or had progressive ideas of a unified world. These are touched upon in the film but poorly as they Oliver Stone just could not miss opportunies to display more gay inneundo.

The only real good think about this movie is the sets, costume design and CGI being used. Anytime see a new set or costume moment, there is a great wow factor. The CGI people also out did themselves. Babylon, Athens, and other cities where conveyed in amazing detail making you wish they existed today to walk through them, truly gorgeous. To bad Oliver Stone didn't depend on them more, might have had a better movie.

So now you are thinking, what about the battle scenes? They have to be good right? Well no. They could have been. Again when CGI is used, great, when not, aweful. And there was only one real epic battle scene. What messed up the scene was again Oliver Stone's dislike of CGI. You literally lose track of what is occuring during the fight. Because of this it has no impact. All you know is Alexander won. You don't know how. It comes across as dumb luck instead of the military prowess of this great leader. Once again undermining why Alexander is great. Its like Stone intentially wanted to make sure that the only thing you learned when walked away was Alexander is gay because he seemed to undermine any other attempt to draw other conclusions.

Now to the acting and writing. Well frankly it was all garbage, across the board. Not only did a lot of lines seemed cribbed from superior films such as Braveheart and Gladiator but they where delivered poorly and without context. There is zero emotional heft in this movie. Pretty much the actors where phoning it in (such as Jolie) or way way out of their depth (such as Colin Ferrell).

Long story short, this movie has no redeeming value to it. Absolutly nothing. Unless you feel like learning that Oliver Stone thinks Alexander is gay there is nothing to gained from watching this movie except a nap and waste of three hours of your life.

Man I suck

More I read other people's blogs the more I realize how I suck at this. What I type is not only shallow but its pointless and boring. On top of that I don't even do it habitually. Like television blogs succeed by being a thing you check out every day or once a week or even once a month. In other words it becomes a habit for the reader. Yet I can't even make it a habit to type junk. Don't know why. I could make excuses I guess but I don't have any. This does tell me one thing...all that thinking about how easy blogging is...wrong wrong wrong. Its hard. It actually does take skill to wright down words regularly and in a way that motivates people to not only read them but decide to come again. So hats off the the successful bloggers and those to come. Maybe with practice I will be one of them.