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| Because I Can't Post This Picture a sufficient amount Enough Already!!! |
Someone mentioned it was spring yesterday. That comment seemed wildly out of context as
passed through yet another day of frigid temps in the twenties. Today there’s a snow storm pulsating just to the
east of us pummeling the Cape Cod area. This is kind of turnabout fair play because
the Cape always seems to get over when it
comes to snow totals. It does seem extremely odd that I’m talking about snow in
the area and we didn’t get any – I’ll take it though.
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| Daughter and Son in Law in Palm Springs |
The kids are both doing the globe trotting thang again. My daughter just returned from a wedding in Palm Springs , California
while the son is on another of his Virginia
Beach business trips (no lunch today, dammit). My daughter had a funny moment while
preparing for the trip to California . One of her friends who works in the jewelry
business heard that there would be a semi-celebrity at the wedding (Nicole Richie
I think). She then requested my daughter
wear some of her company’s jewelry to the wedding and provided her with nearly
$60K worth of jewelry to wear. My daughter, being of stern stuff, bravely volunteered herself for the
effort. So that was pretty cool, but I
think she has to return it.
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| Son In Law Demonstrating his Altruistic Tendencies Attempting to Civilize California |
Date night last night saw us at the movie theater seeing
Divergent. I’m guessing this is some
sort of Hunger Games rip off and I later learned it’s part of a trilogy penned
by a young female author in that vein.
Thank God it wasn’t some of that soulless Twilight crap and was actually
pretty entertaining. It’s set in a
future post-apocalyptic Chicago
surrounded by a huge wall. The people
have divided themselves into factions based on their abilities which leads to a
lot of intrigue.
Shailene Woodley who was the best thing about the movie The
Descendants stars as the lead character and does a good job of carrying it. She’s
a “divergent” which is a bad thing in this strictly structured class society
and we follow her initiation into the war fighting faction. Since this was penned for the young and
female there’s a hunky trainer who falls madly in love with her but that doesn’t
distract from the action and a fast moving plot. It’s evidence that good acting can elevate some
marginal writing, this was a lot of fun to watch. Maggie Q and Ray Stevenson are severely underused
but Kate Winslet chews up a lot of scenery as the villain.
Speaking of fun, a friend posted a link to Jon Stewart
skewering the mainstream news coverage of the Malaysian plane
disappearance. In a very sad situation
he does a good job of pointing the hilarious idiocy of CNN in their coverage,
too funny. It can be found here:
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