Rants

Who Picked This One

In an effort to winnow down the stack of DVDs on the coffee table we are going to try and watch a movie every night until we can’t stand it anymore. Tonight we watched a movie called “The Price of Milk” whose write up on the Netflix< site made it sound a lot less quirky that it really was. It was a movie from New Zealand and I understood it about as much as I understand about the mammalian life forms found down there, that is to say very little. I'm sure some folks would have been able to see through the quirky scenes and derived the proper symbolism from them, but I not me. On a positive note, it made last night's "Happy Accidents” seem positively mainstream…

Drivin’ & Callin’

Followed along behind someone who was using the phone in his car this evening. The speed limit on the 2-lane road we were on was 55, but we were traveling along seesawing between 40-45 mph and occasionally he managed to stay in his lane. Naturally there was enough traffic coming the other direction so that passing was impossible the few times I had a dashed line. When we got to the four lane portion of the drive I of course zipped right on by, Donna looked over and reported it was a 20-something male. We think that 60+ drivers suck now, wait another 40 years when this generation gets there. At least today’s seniors don’t have a phone to their ear to go along with the poorer sight and reflexes.

The Stranger

Just saw this Bud Light commercial during West Wing tonight. Both my wife and I thought it was quite funny, not enough to make me want a Bud Light, but funny. Used to be able to link to a place called Adcritic.com so you could see commercials, but they were over run with freeloaders (like me,) so now they charge for access.

I did manage to find a place to view it the Commercial Closet. It bills itself as “The World’s Largest Collection of Gay Advertising”. The Stranger They dis the commercial because of the lecherous old man at the end and it also fails to take into consideration the feelings of cross-dressers and transsexuals. Crap, nothing is politically correct anymore.

Dawn Dish Soap

We needed light bulbs this evening so we ducked into a grocery store to pick up a couple. Not familiar with this particular store we had to wander down several aisles before locating our prey. The first aisle we went down contains cleaning fluids. About 15 linear feet of shelves from bottom to top were filled with Dawn, in a half dozen colors. Just how many flavors of this stuff do you need?

Turns out there are actually 8 different types of Dawn in a veritable rainbow of colors. To find out which one is right for you, go HERE are on the left-hand side is a pop-up quiz you can take.

The Others

Seeming average ghost story movie with a nice little twist of an ending. If you haven’t seen it, it is definitely worth the rent. Just be sure to watch the whole thing. If you have seen it you know what I mean.

I Hear By Announce…

…that I am running for President of the United States. Please paypal your donations to brian@mr-miata.net. Once I have received enough donations I will register the easy to remember domain of BrianBogardusForPresidentIn20004.org and get my web page up so I will have an appropriate place to publish my platform. For my running mate I am seriously considering the corpse of Pat Paulson.

I wonder if just announcing it here will get me listed HERE.

God, I’m A Sucker

I rejoined the Columbia House DVD Club. They sent me a flyer in the mail, buy 5 at 49 cents each. Take your first DVD at $14.95 and reduce your committment to just 2 more in the next 2 years. Plus as a bonus take a 7th for just $9.95. I ended up ordering Shrek, Spinal Tap, Sixth Sense, American Beauty, Exorcist, Momento and Woodstock. This means I’ll end up with a total of 41 movies in my collection. Trouble is that I usually watch them once and put them on a shelf. Everytime I say to myself, “Let’s watch a movie.” As I look at each title of all my movies the whole movie is fast forwarded through my mind’s eye and then I have no reason to watch them….