The Ottawa Rabbit Hole

Wow...that last blog entry was so well received I feel I have no choice but to do a follow up. It hit the web on such high quality blogs as The Uhrblog and Train's Station. I highly recommend you read what these guys have to say. You will lead a better life for it.

Other than that I have even less to say than last time, so here is some rambling about pop culture. If all goes according to plan, this entry will be so inane nobody will care when it disappears again.

I cannot wait to see The Love Guru tank which by all accounts it should do. I've liked Mike Myers in the past, but sometimes he just comes across as a smarmy bastard and he deserves to be knocked down a peg. One review I read likened it to Meet the Spartans, an abysmal 45 minutes of my life (I fastforwarded through a lot of it since jokes last about 5 minutes) I'll never get back and deserves the 2% rating it got.

Whereas the Love Guru ads make it look as awful as it probably is, I'm pleasantly surprised by some clips from Get Smart. I think it's an awful idea but it is starting to grow on me. Plus I can't stand to see Steve Carrell suffer another Evan Almighty style bomb.

To complete my trifecta of movie talk, I recently saw The Happening. All I can about this one is that it should have been called The Crappening. (I'm willing to sell that joke to SNL Weekend Update for $5000 by the way). M. Night Shamaylan's stock has officially fallen lower than that of Galantas Gold Corporation (a fine little Irish Gold mining company you should all pick up).

I'm heading to Belleville for Big Music Fest this weekend, and the forecast looks like some lovely rain is on the way! Even more exciting than that concert though, is the Friday night private engagement by Distillery, the loudest band in Ontario. If all goes according to plan, I won't hear a thing on Saturday. Here they are belting out a classic.

Good night internet. Have a great weekend.

Posted by WRMB :: 8:05 PM :: 1 comments

Thursday, June 12, 2008

447 Days...

Since my last blog posting. Is this an incredible return to form of daily posting? Probably not. For whatever reason the mood took me today. Seeing as how I haven't posted in over a year I'm guessing nobody actually reads this anymore, but for anybody who has this pop up in their RSS feed...enjoy!! Here are some interesting topics that popped up lately:

1) David Suzuki is an asshole. He told me to get low power fluorescent light bulbs, so I did. Here's the problem, they attract bugs from outside like most lights but because they are low wattage they do not have the power to kill these bugs. I then get a dozen or so bugs camping out on my wall. Disgusting. Somehow these things are smart enough to navigate passed my screen door. I solve this problem by closing my patio door and cranking my AC, thereby using a lot more electricity than my old light bulbs ever did. I guess Suzuki is such a dirty hippie he's used to living with bugs so it's not a big issue for him.

2) Last night I realized I am the oldest person on my 3-pitch co-ed softball team. I want to thank Skip for making room on his roster for a crafty old veteran like me instead of filling it up with big swinging young punks. I'll do my best to live up to the nickname 'Oil Can'.

3) After struggling through Catch-22 for 3 months, I forgot what it is like to read a good book. I picked up Generation Kill by Evan Wright from the library to prepare for the David Simon miniseries coming in July and it is a captivating read. The author tagged along with an elite Marine unit during the first days of the Iraq war. I predict less than a week to bang through this bad boy. Highly recommended! Actually Catch-22 was really good too...just tough to get through due to it not having a linear story telling method.

4) I am on the hunt for a new pillow. Up to this point the big winner has been a $5 Zellers pillow, and forays into cheap down pillows have been unsuccessful. I need to see what is out there. Costco offers both down and memory foam pillows for the low low price of $25. I will buy both and return whichever one provides the least sleep.

5) In order to prepare to see Martin Scorsese's Rolling Stones documentary/concert 'Shine a Light' tonight I have purchased his Bob Dylan documentary/concert DVD 'No Direction Home'. After about 10 minutes it is all good.

6) A-Train, if you ever read this, I promise I will blog an in depth character study of Clarence Boddicker by the end of the summer.

Boy this has really tired me out. See you in a year!

Posted by WRMB :: 4:35 PM :: 2 comments