If I had a nickel for every time our cat walks all over us in the middle of the night I’d have an extra $2.35 in my wallet each morning.
Did you know….that 500,000 Rubik’s Cubes are sold each year? True fact.
Happy Friday, everyone! As always, thanks for stopping by, and I’ll see you next week!
Calvin’s dad is my hero, and is just the kind of father I want to be to my son. That gives me a couple of years to perfect my answers before Tyler starts asking such questions. Heh…
It’s as if somebody has been spying on us for the past two years. This is more than a bit eerie and coincidental. Now…where’s that miniature secret camera hidden?
I’ve been struggling with words this evening. Within the past hour I’ve written and rewritten passages that would make Clive Barker blush, but in the end, the point I was so valiantly trying to make within the confining lines of carefully scripted flourishes is this: I am freakin’ excited about this upcoming film.
As a child I was deprived many things, but the one thing that I did have was an overabundance of reading material. Among the many tomes that helped shape me as a human being was a well read, worn copy of Where The Wild Things Are. I’m not sure why I was so drawn to this story, but I’m sure it had something to do with the trippy artwork that, in turn, had a hand in pushing me into the realm of comic books, which eventually led me into working in a comic book store prior to joining the military, which in turn led me into writing, which I’m hoping will lead me into something much more fulfilling than my current position in life.
And while I’m busy bearing my soul to you, let me take this moment to man up and admit to my deep-seated hatred of brussels sprouts, (most) country music, and anyone who thinks that the lyrics to Devil Woman have something meaningful so say.
There….I said it. *Whew*! Lemme tell ya, it feels good to get that off my chest…
I just got back from a screening of Watchmen, and I have to say that I’m more than a bit impressed with the way this film turned out. True to the source material, many scenes appeared to have been torn straight from the panels of the graphic novel. The Comedian was spot on, Patrick Wilson was the perfect doppleganger to the illustrated Dan Dreiberg, and much in the way that Heath Ledger put his irrevocable stamp on the Joker, Jackie Earle Haley was born to play Rorschach. Stepping into the Wayback Machine you might also remember Haley from the movie The Bad News Bears.
If I had to say anything negative about this film adaptation of Watchmen I’d have to mention the obvious omission of the Tales of the Black Freighter sub-story and the interactions between the news stand owner and the kid. I hear that TotBF will get a separate DVD release in a few days and will be included on the blu-ray version of Watchmen, so no big loss there. We’ll eventually get to see the life raft composed of bloated corpses and ginormous shark carcass on the small screen soon enough.
I’m also a bit upset that the original ending found in the novel was completely scraped from the movie. In its stead is a more “mainstream”, sterilized ending that I think was included to make the film a bit more palatable to the average non-comic book reading moviegoer.
It’s a shame really. I was looking forward to seeing how they were going to handle the extraordinarily gory “space squid” scene…
