The Christian school Mean Girls, Saved is one of the better movies that I have seen this summer. It makes you think about religion and approaches the question of how do you incorporate religion into your modern life.
The only problem is the tone of the film. Was it satire? I thought it started out as such, but morphed into a straight morality tale by the end. I had laughed lots at the start, but was somewhat melancholy at the end.
Watch it. It is good.
3 of 5 stars.
Remember yesterday I was talking about the unstoppable Jeopardy champion? Well on today’s show, he finally received a worthy challenger. His challenger was knowledgeable and quick on the button. He also was very ballsy betting all of it for a true daily double during double jeopardy with very few answers left. He nailed it and closed the gap with the champ. Unfortunately, they gave an easy answer in the final jeopardy which everyone and his mother could answer. (My mom got it.) All throughout the game, his challenger was nervous knowing that he had the champ in a close match. Thumbs up to this challenger, he deserves to come back in the champions league.
Have you seen the latest Jeopardy champion? As of today, he has won about half a million dollars. And it doesn’t look like he will lose anytime soon. This guy is phenomenal and can’t be stopped. The closest anyone has got was when he missed final jeopardy, but his competitors could not take advantage of it. I am waiting for the rule change to reinstitute a champion’s reign. The only thing: he should bet big.
Aug. 8, 2001
10:00 Waiting for St. Petersburg. Looks like the Russians won’t let us in. Looking over the passenger list. It looks like Napolean waiting to conquer St. Petersburg. Hitler trying to conquer Stalingrad. We may not be successful.
10:15 We’re cleared to have an excursion in Russia. I hope I make it back.
11:00 Anatoly and Micah as our guides.
16:00 Back in St. Petersburg from Pushkin. Drunk from vodka. Got me a bottle.
17:40 St. Isaac’s cathedral. “All roads lead to vendor.” Thad dude was right. There are the most beautiful girls here.
17:57 Strike by the sea pilot’s union kept us in bay this morning. Welcome to Western economic difficulties.
More to say later…
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I thought this would interest you: The American Film Institute has published its list of the top 100 movie songs. I thought that La Marseille should have been in there because of the way it was used in both Casablanca and Jean Renoir’s Grand Illusion. Of course the latter is French so I think that would exclude it from American movies.
Aug.7, 2001
08:30 Helsinki. My stomach aches from breakfast. Oh! Kaisa. Going to the fortress of Finland.
11:45 Coming back from the fortress on a ferry. Ghosts stories to tell. Dark tunnels. Granite walls. I wonder if you can ride a mountain bike through there?
13:00 Fast, fast, fast food. Stomach churning. Burgers by some brown brothers is good.
13:25 Going back into Helsinki. Tour of the city. What’s her name? Tuija. Arne are our guides. 5 million people. 500,00 in the city.
15:00 Rock Church. Looks like the Planet of the Apes church. Blasted out of rock.
21:05 After dinner walk and wrote some email for outragous prices. Still feel fat.
Helsinki, Finland. Very neet place. Land of Linux. In fact the tour guide pointed out Linus Torvalds house or the house he had lived in as a child. They are really proud of him there. The city is small. The island fortress was cool. The Finns call there homeland Suomi. I want to go back.
I have a bird problem.
My condo has a rather large deck off the family room. It’s nice to take in the summer evening air out on it after work, especially when it is not hot or muggy. Except, there is a pair of birds (swallows or finches I think) that have perched out back and made my deck their own territory. They like to use one of the sprinkler heads as a perch. Every time I go out back these two fly off and return with reinforcements. These birds dive bomb me while I am out on my deck. It freaks me out.
Does anyone know how to discourage them from using my deck as their love nest? Can a wind chime help? I really want to crush them. String up their dead bodies as a warning to the other birds.
Aug. 6, 2001
01:00 We are losers!! Hot chicks. We are losers. At the Disco. Old man at the disco.
07:50 Woke up early for tour of Stockholm. Breakfast. Wait for tour to start.
08:00 Viking greet us on shore. Note next time Walter take axe. Nynashamn w/Avia our tour guide. Uva is our bus driver and he’s a viking.
15:10 Gerry is late. Gustav built this town of Stockholm. Visited Valhalla.
16:00 Goodbye, Sweden.
Stockholm, Sweden was cool and grey. The port of Nynashamn on the Baltic was very pretty. Situated in a calm bay, it looked like a dock on a lake.
Saw Stepford Wives tonight so that you don’t have to. Let me warn you now. It is humorless and lifeless as the robots of the original. Did I ruin it for you? Good. Don’t see this movie.
1 of 5 stars.
