My Keene Friend
and I have an inside joke (is it still an inside joke if I tell you guys?)
concerning my wife and her fairly puritanical views on movie selection. In an effort to get her to see a movie
through her fairly rigorous moral filter I always claim the movie is a “love
story set in….”. This led to some
comical renderings. Scarface as a love
story set in an immigrants struggle for recognition, The Godfather a love story
set in a son’s effort to keep a family business in operation or the classic - The
Ghosts of Mars as a love story set during a spiritual revival on Mars. None of this ever worked of course but it’s
an interesting exercise; however, yesterday I may have pulled off the ultimate
score.
I got my wife
to watch Warm Bodies which is a romantic comedy set in a zombie apocalypse. The funny thing is this was not one of my
credulity stretching efforts described above (although I did minimize the brain
eating parts). It really is a romantic
comedy, the Romeo-Juliet story with Romeo as “R” the flesh eating zombie. If you haven’t seen this yet, you should,
evidenced by my wife’s reaction who despite her reservations thoroughly enjoyed
it.
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| So Funny |
Two movies out
this week to see so we expanded date night to include Monday night and went to
see (huge surprise – another rom-com) The Other Woman. I was the only attendee with a Y-chromosome
and it seemed like a movie straight off the Lifetime (the evil men) Channel. The evil man here was Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj
Coster-Waldau) himself who’s married to Leslie Mann but sneaking off for affairs
with Cameron Diaz and Kate Upton. The ladies
discover each other and plot their revenge on the evil man.
There were some
really funny moments, all of them involving Mann and Diaz. I think Mann maybe the funniest actress in
movies right now and Diaz has always had great comedic timing. Upton absolutely destroys a white bikini (I
think I was the only one in the audience who truly appreciated that) but her
talents definitely do not lie in acting.
Nicky Minaj was also in this for some unexplained reason and was predictably
terrible. The evil man gets his comeuppance,
the ladies triumph and although you could see that coming throughout the movie
this was still a lot of fun to watch, mainly for Mann and Diaz (and the white
bikini).
Buddy’s
squirrel hunting credentials took a serious hit this morning. We were making breakfast together when he
alerted me to the presence of one of his rodent tormentors pilfering from a
bird feeder. He requested permission to
engage the transgressor and we planned a devastating ambush. I opened the door and Buddy achieved target
lock, launching like a black missile towards the unsuspected infiltrator. Everything was going well until Buddy, so
fixated on the squirrel, forgot about the metal pole the bird feeder was hung
from. The collision was semi-spectacular. I think the squirrel has prior experience
with the Wonder Pooch because he didn’t even seem that surprised as he
leisurely departed the area while Buddy tried to recover his senses. The pole now has a Buddy level bend. Thankfully nothing appears injured other than
his pride.
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| The Aftermath of Buddy's Failed Attack |
It’s hard to
avoid the controversy surrounding the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers
lately and we shouldn't. It goes to show that money
cannot buy common sense or even a modicum of clear thinking. I no longer watch the NBA due to a game that
has devolved to glorified one on one with rules that don’t apply to the
superstars. Sterling apparently took that
to mean the rules of common decency didn’t apply to him even when more than 80% of his highest paid employees are African-American. I grew up in a very “vanilla” childhood and
didn’t interact with minorities to any great degree until I joined the Army. I learned there the importance of judging a
person by the content of his/her character and not the color of his/her skin (where
have we heard that before – some of us were listening). I like the fact this has come out and not
just because I despise the NBA. Racism
equals idiocy and idiocy can never thrive when it’s exposed to public
view. My very wise sister posted this
picture yesterday – ‘nuff said.
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