While I usually avoid using a blog for ranting - I feel I have some worthy diatribes built up over the last sixteen hours or so.
First off - In celebrating my friends Catherine's completion of the Capital City Marathon (go Catherine!) I managed to make myself sick on one half of a normal sized margarita. I don't have the highest alcohol tolerance in the world, but that is really ridiculous.
Then, Ariel and I watched what truly might be the worst movie I have ever seen, Beowulf and Grendel. It was much, much worse than the last Star Wars, and made 300 look like an Oscar winner. Beowulf is supposed to be a monster movie and the first rule of all monster movies - DO NOT SHOW THE MONSTER! Especially if you are a low budget film and your Monster is just a big ugly guy with a bushy mullet. Even worse - do not give your monster a back story where they only eat people because of childhood trauma. Monsters are evil and we do not need to understand where they are coming from. Also, they had a woman in the movie say "I know he is not so bad.... because he only raped me once". That is so offensive on so many levels I just can't psychologically deal with it. Finally - if you are going to have actors speak with an accent, please, please, please have them all just pick one and go with it.
Last, but not least, our family had quite the adventure today - it began at 5 am when we all got up to got Immigration and Naturalization Services. We had an appointment to be fingerprinted for our adoption process. Two and half hours after our appointment and three long lines later, we emerged intact - although we still have no idea why on Earth they needed our fingerprints to process the adoption.
First off - In celebrating my friends Catherine's completion of the Capital City Marathon (go Catherine!) I managed to make myself sick on one half of a normal sized margarita. I don't have the highest alcohol tolerance in the world, but that is really ridiculous.
Then, Ariel and I watched what truly might be the worst movie I have ever seen, Beowulf and Grendel. It was much, much worse than the last Star Wars, and made 300 look like an Oscar winner. Beowulf is supposed to be a monster movie and the first rule of all monster movies - DO NOT SHOW THE MONSTER! Especially if you are a low budget film and your Monster is just a big ugly guy with a bushy mullet. Even worse - do not give your monster a back story where they only eat people because of childhood trauma. Monsters are evil and we do not need to understand where they are coming from. Also, they had a woman in the movie say "I know he is not so bad.... because he only raped me once". That is so offensive on so many levels I just can't psychologically deal with it. Finally - if you are going to have actors speak with an accent, please, please, please have them all just pick one and go with it.
Last, but not least, our family had quite the adventure today - it began at 5 am when we all got up to got Immigration and Naturalization Services. We had an appointment to be fingerprinted for our adoption process. Two and half hours after our appointment and three long lines later, we emerged intact - although we still have no idea why on Earth they needed our fingerprints to process the adoption.
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