The Incredibles

The Incredibles, I've been waiting for this movie for some time. Hell, there hasn't been anything worth spending my money on in theatres since Spiderman II. No, I'm not a flaming comic geek. I just want to be entertained without the recycled movie corp kaka.

Anyway, the danger of looking forward to a movie is that you build it up in you mind, you place it on an unreachable pedestal. Then, like anything produced by George Lucas this century, it tears our your heart like an Aztec priest on game night. Then, what could have been an alright film seems mediocre at best.

Did I scare you...? Mwhahahaha! The Incredibles was exceptional.

Masterfully paced, well executed, it never falls flat, not once. Like Shrek II, there's a lot of homage going on here. However, unlike the scattered but ultimately entertaining ogre, The Incredibles is subtle in its mood lift.

I'm not big on movie reviews. It was just damn good and I had to share.

Random Funny

I've seen some of these before, but Ed collected them all in one place.

Bad Parenting made me laugh out loud, which may make be a bad person.

This one, innocuously called
Keep the car washed, stumped me for probably a second longer than I'd like to admit. Maybe that makes me a good person?

Lit Bits

Somewhere in my brain is a little place where choice song lyrics, poetry lines, and various pithy saying are lodged. Some lay in wait, ready to jump out at painfully inappropriate moments.

There was the time I ended up holding a Finnish flag while a man on an accordion mangled their national anthem. Everyone, apparently unfazed by the accordion, was being respectfully observant. In my mind, Michael Palin happily belted out "Finland, Finland, Finland,"

Anyway, sometimes when getting ready to start something new, the following like just pops into my mind; "'The time has come,' the Walrus said, 'To talk of many things:" I'd even considered this for a blog tag line, but then I heard in my head,"I am the Walrus, I am the Ape Man," and I just decided to leave it be.

Because I can never recall the middle of that particular stanza, I googled it. Strangely, the first page had only a few hits that even mentioned Lewis Carroll. Perhaps my brain is not as odd as I thought...

Nah, probably just a fluke. For future reference:

"The time has come," the Walrus said,
   "To talk of many things:
Of shoes -- and ships -- and sealing wax --
   Of cabbages -- and kings --
And why the sea is boiling hot --
   And whether pigs have wings."

-- 'Through the Looking-glass', Lewis Carroll, 1832-1898