Log Time: 10:15-10:24; The Hunt for Brown October
You know how you sometimes do something that you know you really shouldn't tell anyone about, but the results are so impressive, that you still want to... well... that's how I felt this morning. I have appropriately named my accomplishment, The Hunt for Brown October, due to its large, fully intact, and mostly submerged nature. In the immortal words of George Costanza, "... he was ten stories high if he was a foot." I just wish I had my digital camera with me to document the historic occasion. 5 additional thoughts...
Additional thought #1: I keep waiting for Jesse Jackson to publicly complain that UPS's "What can brown do for you?" campaign is racist. (I'm positive he's already doing so in private... testing out responses.) It just feels like a useless, silly exercise (i.e. "cause") that would be right up his alley.
Additional thought #2: What product doesn't potentially lower your cholesterol?
Additional thought #3: Was it just me, or on American Idol last night did Paula Abdul looked like she had spent the day with the make-up crew from Planet of the Apes?
Additional thought #4: Is the Broadway show based on Bon Jovi's music close to being made? I hope so. (was that a Brokeback Mountain moment?)
Additional though #5: I had the displeasure of watching Revenge of the Sith (the most recent of the Star Wars movie) recently and am perplexed by George Lucas's continued decline in storytelling ability. Does he just not care??? There are two things that bothered me greatly about this movie: (1) When Anakin and Obi-Wan are fighting in the lava stream (the last fight), Obi-Wan implores Anakin to give up because he, Obi-Wan, has the higher ground, making any attempt by Anakin to win their fight, futile (which proves to be correct)... this whole series of movies has been marked by Jedi's who didn't have the higher ground, yet still defeated their opponents in miraculous, fight-ending moves. Now, all of sudden, it's not only impossible to do, but also a situation in which a Jedi should just pack it in and surrender??? (2) When the going gets tough at the end of the movie and we're basically down to two Jedi's left on the good side of the force, Obi-Wan and Yoda, they decide that instead of keeping up the fight against the dark side and helping form a "resistance", they better split town for 20 years until Luke comes along to clean up their mess... Obi-Wan to a cave in the middle of the desert, and Yoda to a swamp-infested planet. What kind of message does this send to kids who went to see it? ... it seems to be... If the shit hits the fan, just wait for someone else to clean it up, no matter how long, just wait...
Additional thought #5 (part "b"): On a similar topic, at the end of the movie The Last Samurai, when all of the other Samurai's have been massacred on the field of combat except for Captain Nathan Algren (Tom Cruise), and Tom Cruise rides into the small Japanese Samurai village as the sole survivor, how do you think he explained this to the villagers? This was a culture that prided itself on fighting to the death. Did the women overlook the fact that he didn't fight to the death and still give him run of the place or did they secretly plot his demise?
-TDoodieM
Additional thought #1: I keep waiting for Jesse Jackson to publicly complain that UPS's "What can brown do for you?" campaign is racist. (I'm positive he's already doing so in private... testing out responses.) It just feels like a useless, silly exercise (i.e. "cause") that would be right up his alley.
Additional thought #2: What product doesn't potentially lower your cholesterol?
Additional thought #3: Was it just me, or on American Idol last night did Paula Abdul looked like she had spent the day with the make-up crew from Planet of the Apes?
Additional thought #4: Is the Broadway show based on Bon Jovi's music close to being made? I hope so. (was that a Brokeback Mountain moment?)
Additional though #5: I had the displeasure of watching Revenge of the Sith (the most recent of the Star Wars movie) recently and am perplexed by George Lucas's continued decline in storytelling ability. Does he just not care??? There are two things that bothered me greatly about this movie: (1) When Anakin and Obi-Wan are fighting in the lava stream (the last fight), Obi-Wan implores Anakin to give up because he, Obi-Wan, has the higher ground, making any attempt by Anakin to win their fight, futile (which proves to be correct)... this whole series of movies has been marked by Jedi's who didn't have the higher ground, yet still defeated their opponents in miraculous, fight-ending moves. Now, all of sudden, it's not only impossible to do, but also a situation in which a Jedi should just pack it in and surrender??? (2) When the going gets tough at the end of the movie and we're basically down to two Jedi's left on the good side of the force, Obi-Wan and Yoda, they decide that instead of keeping up the fight against the dark side and helping form a "resistance", they better split town for 20 years until Luke comes along to clean up their mess... Obi-Wan to a cave in the middle of the desert, and Yoda to a swamp-infested planet. What kind of message does this send to kids who went to see it? ... it seems to be... If the shit hits the fan, just wait for someone else to clean it up, no matter how long, just wait...
Additional thought #5 (part "b"): On a similar topic, at the end of the movie The Last Samurai, when all of the other Samurai's have been massacred on the field of combat except for Captain Nathan Algren (Tom Cruise), and Tom Cruise rides into the small Japanese Samurai village as the sole survivor, how do you think he explained this to the villagers? This was a culture that prided itself on fighting to the death. Did the women overlook the fact that he didn't fight to the death and still give him run of the place or did they secretly plot his demise?
-TDoodieM
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