I keep visiting online umbrella shops looking for a nice one. Most likely, I’ve already posted a link about umbrellas. Today’s link has some real cool umbrellas for a somewhat expensive yet decent price: expensive because an umbrella costing over a hundred dollars is ridiculous and decent because there are even more expensive ones out there. These are relatively good. I’m hoping that they are. I may buy one.
Why do I want an umbrella?
Bring on the rain!
A classic of the left side political spectrum today's link makes everything alright because you too can get a pony.http://examinedlife.typepad.com/johnbelle/2004/03/if_wishes_were_.html
The MegaMillion jackpot is up to $500 million!
I had bought tickets last night. Actually, I only bought one for $1, but hit the $5 free play or something like that. The clerk said that I got a $5 credit and that I can buy another $5 worth of tickets. Being confused I went ahead and bought them. I thought she was asking for another $5 which I didn’t have. I wonder if I could’ve just cashed out and called it a day coming out $4 ahead. (In reality, it would be $3 ahead as I bought a ticket last Friday, too.)
Not any of the numbers I had received hit. Ain’t it a suckers bet?
Sunday Noon Chesapeake Hyatt
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All this eating is making me fat.
7:00 PM Glyndon Post Office
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T. G. I. F.
It’s sunny and warm in March. Global warming is a myth perpetrated by a vast global conspiracy of trees and flowers. What now will April showers bring? Floods in the Northeast.
Jock rock!
No reason to post this except that this was one of the first songs I tried learning. Right? I know. T.G.I.F.
Fantastic! We’re a long way from the zeroes. I think the car had about 98 miles on it when I received it. That’s a lot for a new car considering Itsuki-chan had 23. But it’s still about 16K per year. When I did get Itsuki-chan, she had about 145K on her. That was three and a half years ago.
“I’m fascinated how a person’s sense of consciousness can be… so transformed by nothing more magical than listening to words. Mere words.”
Jose Chung (Charles Nelson Reilly), The X-Files, “Jose Chung’s ‘From Outer Space'”
This Means War came out around Valentine’s Day. I only got to watching it today, and while watching, I can see the trappings of why it was released as such. You have lots of action: things blowing up good, guns a’popping, and fists and punches thrown. That would bring in the male demographics. The fact that the men doing the action are the pretty boys, Chris Pine and Tom Hardy, would also bring in the ladies. The female demographic can also settle for it being some kind of love/relationship story. The marketing threads are so apparent for this movie that it is no wonder that they went for the bang on Valentine’s day.
The movie as much as it was marketed for the ladies spends much of the time with Pine and Hardy. They’re good buddies in the CIA after the deadly Jonas Brothers. After a botched (incompetent) opening, one of the Jonas Brothers was dead and the surviving one has vowed revenge. He’ll be important as the third part will have to resolve this part of the story.
Pine and Hardy after that incompetent opening are desk bound. They’re left to wonder about what to do. The slack in the story allows Hardy to go all emo and Pine to go all debonair. Hardy has a kid and an ex who doesn’t want a wimp as a lover. Pine has his fun chasing women. What he doesn’t have is a copy of the bro code. Hardy starts web dating and meets up with Reese Witherspoon’s character. She, as all female leads in rom-coms, is a successful entrepreneur who isn’t successful in her love life and has to rely on her wacky female friend to put up an entry in the internet dating site. Witherspoon and Hardy meet and hit it off, but soon after Pine bumps into her trying the pick her up. She goes out with both.
Pine, no matter how close he’s to Hardy, goes against the bro code once it is revealed that they’re now dating the same girl. He doesn’t yield to Hardy’s emo. He doesn’t respect his buddies choices. Instead he lets his girl-getting ego take over and challenges Hardy to her. Then they both end up using government assets to spy on each other to slow the other’s progress with Reese. Bro code be damned!
Nothing good will come out of a marketing driven movie. I can see all that they threw to attract both males and females to this movie. I couldn’t take it serious. This was a product meant to attract the most movie goers. It’s just that. Guns and love. Everything is nothing.
2 of 5 stars.
