So I’m the semi-proud owner of a new
couch which my wife assures me that I’m going to love. That’s an important
point because this couch will be sheparding my fourth point of contact through retirement
years down in Panama where I’ve pledged to finally watch, again, all these
movies I can’t seem to stop buying. The couch is going into our beachfront
retirement condo down in Panama which is still a year away from completion. I’m
now seven days away from reuniting with my Favorite Panamanian and we can
jointly peruse the monthly credit card bill; not that it will help, of course.
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| Future Couch Potato Position Holder |
My hopefully last dateless date night yesterday
since next Tuesday will be spent on house cleaning and trying to remember where
all those damned pillows go on the bed. They’ve been sitting on the floor since
she departed. Luckily her expectations aren’t as lofty as her standards as she
knows the material (me) that she’s got to work with.
I went to see Allegiant, the third in
the Divergent series and it is as bad as you’ve probably heard. They followed the
tried and true method of splitting up the last book in a trilogy in the interest
of making more money on two versus one film. Hopefully this will crash and burn
so badly that Hollywood abandons that flawed concept. Losing Kate Winslet
really hurts because surprisingly Naomi Watts as one of the lead villains fails
miserably. They also kill off Maggie Q early which I took a personal affront
to.
Our jolly band of angst filled
teenagers is bound and determined to escape the walled in existence in Chicago to
investigate the burned landscape outside. Of course they discover an even more
sinister threat beyond the blasted lands, led by eerily evil bureaucrat (I know
– redundant) Jeff Daniels. They spend way too much time in CGI world instead of
with the fine actors which was the strength of the earlier movies. If you saw
the trailer for this movie (hard to avoid that) then you know the entire plot,
which really is just a placeholder for the final (they promise) movie in this series.
At any rate, if credit card bills, an
impending cleaning frenzy, and a bad movie try to lower morale all I have to do
is look at the daily edition of photos from the left coast and all is well:
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