The Film Is Over
If only I could write a movie review one tenth as good as the man, fare thee well Mr. Ebert. See you in the balcony.
The War Against Fat III
I reached my goal. It didn’t look like it until that last week and that phenomenal steep drop. No idea why, but it may be an illusion as the last day of the month it’s just right below my goal. At least I reached my goal.
It was a battle. I was also participating in Concept2’s March Madness — row 5000 meters for at least 25 days in March. I was on pace to do it too, but then I got ill the last week. (Did this illness contribute to that drop?) I came up short but I did do around 150 K this past month. That’s a lot. I also did a 15K piece on the rower; that is some serious sitting. My ass hurt afterward. Perhaps it’s getting ready for cycling.
It’s time for a reset. What’s the next goal?
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone is a mess. It’s like a lame magic trick. You know its bad. You feel terrible watching it. And yet you keep watching hoping that there will be magic soon. The magic never appears and all you have is fake. Bad magic means a bad movie.
The mess is because the movie doesn’t know what to tone to take with the magic. Should it laugh at the practitioners? It did sometimes, but other times their earnestness came through. Olivia Wilde’s character, sadly misused, wanted to be a magician when she grew up. Same with the leads, Steve Carell and Steve Buscemi. Should it treat magic with ironic detachment similar to Blades of Glory? Maybe. It made fun of it and took magic seriously.
The major problem was Burt Wonderstone became a dick as an adult. He took to magic because when he was young because he was friendless and bullied. Yet, when we meet him as an adult he was jaded from the magic. I could not believe that change in him. He needed to find the magic again. Which was another part of the story.
Again, the movie was all over the place. Not very good. And that’s bad magic.
2 of 5 stars.
Spring Clean Shaven
Only for the week or maybe the month, but no facial hair is weird.
Metropolitan Baseball Nine
Getting ready for the season? Here’s a picture from the Library of Congress of the Metropolitan Baseball Nine. I think these are the Mets of yore. They look imposing, but I’m sure they were a knock over. Same as the current Mets. Baseball is baseball.
Quote of the Day [3.15.13]
“Did you get the letters that I sent last summer,” you asked again and again
Well they been pilin’ up on the top shelf in my closet
Yeah, and I read them every now and then
It’s got me feelin’ kinda stuck like “What the Fuck” is goin’ on,
someone tell me what is happening
Yeah, you been actin’ like you’re too cool for far too long. It’s OK it’s just kind of embarassin’
See, I been sneakin’, I been sneakin’, I been sneakin’,
wonderin’ just what I’ll see
You turned around and stared, you squinted then you glared and I was leanin’ back in the passenger seat.
Cayucas, “High School Lover”
Link of the Day [3.15.13]
So after accepting Google shutting down Reader, you’ll have to get all your subscriptions and stuff back, right? Well at least Google will help you. Anyhow, go Argo yourself Google. That’s the last vestige of any Google application I am using (maybe except for YouTube), so good riddance.
Go get your RSS and remember to do it by July!
Link of the Day [3.14.13]
The last bit of Google I use will disappear in July. No not Snapseed Desktop for Macintosh, but Google Reader. I’ve been a user since its introduction. I’ve always used it for reading websites at work — it makes it easier to visit blocked sites and to look like your working and not visiting websites. But now its gone.
Go Argo yourself Google. You can’t put ads in my RSS reader, so now you want to stop the fun. Oh well, I’ve got to find an alternative. Anyone know some type of replacement?
http://googleblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/a-second-spring-of-cleaning.html
Quote of the Day [3.14.13]
“Are you goin’ to the party on Saturday,” she asked as if I didn’t know
See ever since I saw you on the back of some guy’s bicycle
Well I’ve been feelin’ kinda so-so
So, girl don’t act so surprised, got that look in your light-blue eyes, you can stop pretendin’
Yeah, I been watchin’ the movie all along, wonderin’ if there was gonna be an ending
To the story, to the story, to the story
I guess I’ll never know
Cayucas, “High School Lover”