Monday, May 07, 2007

Jonny 5 is alive, lets just hope he doesn't short circuit


So I’ve decided I am an idiot! This has undoubtedly been realized by many of you, but it’s just sinking in for me. So last Friday I’m getting off work and I’m excited because my Turkey hunt starts in the morning. We rush home (after a rather unfortunate shopping experience involving repeated trips to the store, and ending with the whole man verses woman thing…. I lost) and I start to get my things together for the morning. Jamie and the Nikkinator had plans to go see the new Spiderman movie, while I was to go to bed early because the sun has the audacity to rise at 5 in the morning this time of year. Just as I am about finished getting things together, I grab my tag and briefly look it over to make sure I have the right dates and area’s and everything is fine. Well everything isn’t fine. As a matter of fact I have to make phone calls to my dad to cancel the hunting trip because everything is so NOT fine! Somewhere I got the impression that the hunt opened on the 5th, which is a Saturday, when it actually opens on the 7th, which is a Monday. Who opens a hunt on a Monday? Well that’d be our lovely department of wildlife services (left un-capitalized because it’s a small way of getting revenge for 10 years of dashed hopes). Normally this wouldn’t be a big issue, but with us leaving Wednesday (Capitalized because I like Wednesdays!) I am a bit short on time. I’ll still have 11 days when I get back, but still (te he butt still). So instead we went scouting yesterday (Sunday, capitalized because… well I don’t really like Sunday’s, but I don’t dislike them either, it’s more of a mutual respect kind of thing. Let’s just say it’s capitalized because it should be.) and found a bunch of turkeys and called a few within about 30 feet. It was pretty cool and I am excited for tonight when I can actually shoot one now. Oh, for those of you who didn’t run out and watch Spider-Man 3 this weekend, DON’T (Capitalized to show a sense of importance or exclamation, thus conveying my feelings about the subject)! Since I didn’t have to go to bed early, I went with Jamie and the Nikkinator to see the movie. Here’s the thing about the Spiderman movies. The first one was great, nice new concept with neat effects and a compelling storyline. The second was alright, still a cool story and a new bad guy and the squishy value remained somewhat low (The squishy value is a number assigned based on the tendency for a movie to turn into a dribbling pathetic pile of teenage high school love scenes involving the main character and any of the female characters such as the “late blooming nerd girl turned playful hot chick but only because she discovered contacts and a good hair stylist” or the “whore who is really a good person inside and just needs a second chance” or the “I’m going to love you until after we mate, at which time I’ll eat you so the protein from your digesting corpse will feed my growing babies” or some other example of the female antagonist. Can you say run on sentence?). The third movie, however, is kinda slow and mostly about how MJ really is an untalented nobody, but for some reason hasn’t discovered it until now, and how she’s jealous about PP’s fame as Spiderman. Beyond that is a side story about a guy who somehow turns into the Sandman via a silicon particle disrupter, despite being made mostly of carbon, and can somehow rematerialize after dissociating into countless grains of sand (which are apparently made from amino acids and carbon chains) and another villain which starts out as a black booger sneezed from the gaping orifice of a fallen meteorite, who goes on to turn Spiderman into quite the lady killer. Anyway, these two do… stuff and it all looks pretty thanks to the advent of computer graphics, which should never become a replacement for good acting but there you go. I thought it was an over anticipated high school drama which didn’t actually take place in high school. Also, the Aviator is a horrible waste of 2 hours (yes, I just now got to see it). I think I remember why I don’t watch many movies anymore, they’re just not very good. Anyway, the next time I post will be about our adventures in Mexican food land, where the streets are paved with Taco’s and the Burritos frolic like the Salmon of Capistrano! Toodlie Pipski!

4 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Well, good to know that I don't need to waste monies on a movie with a very high squishy value. I was actually rather annoyed by the squishy value of Spider Man 2.

Also, I'm sure you'll get your turkey, just sad it's a bit late.

I envy you. I wish I could go somewhere, where burritos frolic. I love me the little burritos.

5/07/2007 9:17 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

That really sucks about the hunt. BTW how does the turkey hunt work. Is it like big game where you get 1 tag and 1 animal or it is more like a pheasant/fishing license where you can keep going out as long as you don't exceed the bad limit.

In other news Spider Man 3 made 148 MILLION (capitalized to emphasize the amount) this weekend.

5/07/2007 9:23 AM  
Blogger Mandinkus said...

See, you are just letting the new, eager hunters get out there and get all the slow and scrawny turkeys. Then when you get back the big, fat, hard to find ones will be ready for you. Yeah, that's it. :D

5/07/2007 12:12 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Aww, vacation? I want a vacation--if this were last year I'd be on vacation...vacation, vacation, vacation! Jerks! (Have fun, though. Be safe, too.)

5/07/2007 2:18 PM  

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