Panamanian Vigilantism and Disaster Strikes at Cinema

Well, that late lamented polar vortex wasn’t as dead as we hoped and arrived in the area overnight.  On the plus side with the snow pack frozen again Buddy is free to charge around the yard on top of the snow which increases his exercise and the amount of time needed to coax him back inside.  I’m going to be very circumspect in describing weather conditions in case my wife reads the blog.  I do not want to provide any fodder for an extension of her tropical sojourn.

She had something of an adventure yesterday in Panama.  There are a lot of street thieves in Panama; something to expect when some people have literally nothing.  That doesn’t excuse these wastes of protoplasm just explains their existence.  The lowest form of these scumbags prey on the elderly such as my wife’s parents.  Their house has been hit a few times over the last few years.  One of these fine specimens ran into my wife yesterday.

She noticed a really skinny, shabbily attired young man on her parents’ front porch.  Exhibiting more courage than sense she immediately moved to confront the guy, demanding to know what he was doing there.  He was more than a little cowed by the force of her personality (know that, been there, got the t-shirt).  He mumbled something about looking for a school and beat a hasty retreat.  My wife followed him out onto the street to insure he left the area and pointed him out to the neighbors.  She’s not one to mess with, that gal (and don’t I know it!)



My Wife the Superhero
Do Not Mess With Her Parents

 I took in a movie yesterday scheduled around the weekly Sunday prep for the work week.  Pompeii, a movie about the Mount Vesuvius eruption disaster in ancient Roman times could have been a good flick, but it wasn’t.  The plot had Jon Snow from Game of Thrones teaming up with Lost’s Mr. Echo as gladiators in Pompeii’s doomed arena with the mountain percolating in the background.  They were the best thing about the movie which was really just a vehicle to demonstrate some epic 3D shots of the mountain falling on everybody.  Kit Harrington (Jon Snow) has real screen presence and has the potential to go far.  While we all know what was going to happen (hence the archeological digs) – the movie maker still managed to royally screw up the end, making the plot to that point worthless.

Disaster Filled

Unfortunately Vesuvius wasn’t the only disaster in this movie.  I don’t know how Emily Browning keeps getting female lead roles – she’s awful; I’m talking biblical level awful.  I’m guessing at this point that she must have blackmail quality evidence against some movie mogul to still get parts.

As bad as she was there was someone even worse and it really pains me to say this about Jack Bauer.  Kiefer Sutherland plays the bad guy and for some reason attempts (poorly) some kind of British accent (because we all know the ancients Romans spoke with a British accent).  Jack should stick with CTU because he’s an epic fail here.  He and Ms Browning gave Mount Vesuvius a real run for its money as the most visible and horrific disaster in the movie.