3/4/10 – Thursday

If you and I are not Facebook BFFs, you might have missed my status update last night. Last night – oh, the horror! – we watched 2012, the apocalyptic movie starring John Cusack, Amanda Peet, and two very annoying children. At almost three hours long, it was one bloated piece of crap. Roland Emmerich does … Continue reading “3/4/10 – Thursday”

If you and I are not Facebook BFFs, you might have missed my status update last night.

Last night – oh, the horror! – we watched 2012, the apocalyptic movie starring John Cusack, Amanda Peet, and two very annoying children. At almost three hours long, it was one bloated piece of crap. Roland Emmerich does some good-looking destruction shit, but when it’s interlaced with overacting and incredibly annoying children, well, I just hope John Cusack and Amanda Peet were VERY well paid for their parts.

If you’re going to watch it, I recommend you fast-forward through the character development horseshit (except for the parts involving Woody Harrelson, because he’s funny) and just watch the pretty explosions and destruction.

 

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On the GOOD side of stuff to watch, I finished Season 3 of Californication yesterday, thanks to Webster and her suggestion of NinjaVideo.net. (THANK YOU, Webster, you’re a life-saver!)

I started watching it on my laptop, and though the picture wasn’t very good (the laptop is getting old), I kept on going, because I HAD to know what the hell happened. Round about episode 9, I updated my DivX player stuff so I wouldn’t have to watch the episodes in Flash, but then whenever I tried to go to the site, something tried to get me to download stop.php, and a check of Google told me it was malware, so I watched the final episodes on my desktop (which I hate to do, because I like to relax while I’m watching TV, damnit!)

But that last episode of the season – WOW. Hank Moody’s been smart-assing his way through life for the first three seasons (minus the last show), but shit got serious in that show, chickens came home to roost, and I’m thinking David Duchovny deserves some sort of acting award for his performance.

I have no idea if there’s going to be a Season 4 (I hope there is), but if not, that was a pretty good way to close out the series.

 

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You’ve met Mr. “MOTHERFUCKER SAY WHAT?!”, right?

Meet his brother, Mr. “THE FUCK YOU SAY!”

 

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According to weather.com, it’s supposed to be warm and sunny for at least the next five days. I don’t know that I believe it, but it’s nice to think it could be true!

 

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It being that time of year, we’re starting to gear up to get ready to possibly think about planting the garden. Some day.

Last night I ordered seeds for Sungold cherry tomatoes (the best kind of cherry tomatoes there are, in my opinion), swiss chard (which I’ve never had, but I understand it’s like spinach, you can eat it raw in a salad or cook it, and it grows better in hot weather than spinach does), carrots, and catnip. I’m going to have two raised beds behind the back yard this summer – one’s going to be for carrots, and one for catnip. And BOTH will have fences around them so the cats can’t get to ’em!

I tell you, I canNOT wait ’til we get our first tomato of the season. I know it’s ages and ages away, but I’m still looking forward to it a LOT.

Summer can’t get here soon enough.

 

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“You’re wearing… THAT?”

 

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Previously
2009: Hail Stinky/ Full of Hate/ The Tom is with thee.
2008: The pigs reported that he tasted “Too humany.”
2007: No entry.
2006: No entry.
2005: Dumbass things I did yesterday.
2004: I think I need to go back to high school.
2003: “Well, good luck to Daddy on that,” I said.
2002: (You just shut up)
2001: No entry.
2000: No entry.

31 thoughts on “3/4/10 – Thursday”

  2. I LOVE me some John Cusack. But you’re right, 2012 was not a good movie. Furthermore, I am very weary of his upcoming movie, “Hot Tub Time Machine”. Maybe he’s going crazy in his old age??? But i will still be going to check out the movie….el sigh.

      1. I totally agree with you, Robyn! I think the first time i fell in love with him was in the movie, One Crazy Summer. I love his awkwardness…and that his sister Joan is in a lot of the movies he’s in.

    2. I graduated in 1986, the year the Hot Tub Time Machine is set in. I CANNOT WAIT. I have already mortified my son three times during previews alone.

  4. Re: 2012 – I loved it! I didn’t find the kids annoying, but I did watch it on the big screen, so maybe I was still reeling from all that action. However, I would agree that it 1) was not a great movie; 2) had too much exposition at the beginning. And Woody Harrelson was awesome!

    When it really get’s going I was like, “Oh no he didn’t.” “What the what!” “Whooaaa.” Melodramatically fun.

    And. I thought the acting was great in that I felt the actors were believable in totally unbelievable situations.

      1. Yeah, I have to admit that we laughed a LOT! And when something unbelievable would happen, I’d be all “He’d never (whatever)!” and Fred would roll his eyes at me and remind me, “Willing suspension of disbelief!”

  5. I went to the theater to see “2012” – a victim of all the hype ads, curiosity got the best of me. The kids were annoying but I liked the special effects — except even in the midst of all the mayhem, I couldn’t suppress a giggle now and then at the implausible ‘escape’ scenes in that plane as they dodged collapsing building debris, volcanic rocks flying everywhere, etc. It was waaaaaay over the top, but the worst? The ending when they are all totally calm, even the kids, not traumatized by the ‘ordeal.’ Heck, they didn’t even seem too upset civilization as we know it had ended. Yeah, bad overall, but great special effects on the big screen.

    It sort of reminded me of a Bruce Willis action movie (can’t recall the name in the 80s/90s? – that string of bad action movies he did) where a jetliner is speeding down a runway to takeoff, and he is on the wing of the plane. When he stands up and starts walking on a wing at that speed? I started laughing, it was just too far over the top!

  6. I second the “summer can’t get here soon enough” statement. I am soooooooo sick of the rain here in California.

  7. I think the catnip bed is going to have to be about 10 feet off the ground and you will have to take a latter back and forth in order to keep the kitties out of the catnip. My mom had a cat that could find catnip at 500 yards. It grew wild at the campground my parents had a permanent site. He’d go for walks and he could sniff out the catnip. He heart catnip – he’d roll around in it until he was stoned – eyes glazed over and laying around staring at the ceiling. He wasn’t allowed catnip toys very often – they would be a wet, sopping mess in no timne.

    1. Oh, no doubt I’ll walk out there one day to check on my catnip plants and there’ll be nothing but a bunch of stems sticking out of the ground and some VERY high cats rolling around nearby! Maybe I should plant them in hanging baskets, hanging where the cats can’t get to ’em. Hmm, I shall have to ponder!

    1. I just sang “Chunky Newt, Chunky Newt, what are we feeding you?!” to him. He did not appreciate the song. Also, he says he’s not chunky, he’s fluffy. 🙂

  10. I took the kids to see Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs last year. There’s one scene of a newscast where the anchor is saying something along the lines of “As usual, this disaster is hitting the landmarks of the world first, and will then move on to lesser-known areas.” I was the only one in the theater laughing hysterically.

    1. It’s TRUE! The shit never hits the fan in a cornfield in Kansas. They’re always blowing up the White House, the Hoover Dam and the Champs Elysee first.

  11. MMMM, garden grown tomaters and bacon and lettuce sammiches. MMMMM. I can’t wait to get my topsy turvy out again and start me some maters growing.
    Love CN, Chunky Newt. Very artsy picture by the way.

  12. …do you mind being facebook friends with your readers? Or do you reserve it for people you really know? (In other words, if I try to friend you, it won’t freak you out, will it?)

    ~Juby

    1. I was just gonna say the same thing! Also, I know Juby and can vouch for her – she’s squeelicious and not locostabby at all.

      (I update my facebook page about once a year so far – honestly – so if you add me I will be very very quiet… and probably still miss all the updates, but hey.)

      1. Juby and Elaine, I’m Facebook friends with the world – and I’m not that easy to freak out. 🙂 Friend me! (The link to my Facebook page is in the left right sidebar under “me, elsewhere”.)

  13. What a handsome man that Newt is … like Aimee, I’d love to give him a squeeze!

  14. Re your pictures of the Expression Brothers: I think they just found goatse. God knows that’s what MY face looked like..

  16. I love John Cusack too-the pale skin with the dark eyes and hair is a stunning combination. You are right Robyn he does NOT age. My fav. Aunt swears he has a cute Polish face-I think he does too. I’ll probably see the 2012 movie for the action scenes-I love that stuff on the bigscreen tv. I’ll have to catch up on the last season of Californication-I fell behind, it sounds good from what you said. I love that Newtles too and I love you for telling about the songs you make up for your cats. I do it too-but you are MUCH better at it.It’s nice to know I’m not the only gaga crazy pet owner. (Hope you aren’t offended, I mean it in the nicest way-gaga pet people are the best!).

  17. I saw Mr. THE FUCK YOU SAY first. I wonder if there is a crazy sister on the way?

    1. I haven’t seen Mr. The Fuck You Say yet, but I see “MF Say What” all over the place and I cackle when I do. Hard to explain when I’ve laughing my ass off at a CNN page about some disaster or other.

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