I felt in a [tag]funny[/tag] mood today, decided to make up one of those [tag]top 10[/tag] lists, picked an appropriately [tag]cynical[/tag] topic, made a list, blogged the results. I hope to inspire some dark-comic smiles.
10) You woke up this morning floating down a river… in a different country
9) Your significant other had a gender-change last night… and chose to let you ‘find out for yourself’
Alcohol seems to have no effect on you
7) You just drove over a cliff… that wasn’t there yesterday.
6) You’ve been hit by lightning 42 times…. since lunch
5) You woke up this morning in a full body cast… asking what happened merely causes the nursing staff to break out in giggles.
4) You’ve just been attacked by a dinosaur.
3) You seem to be the first person in 150 years to develop the black plague.
2) A giant grasshopper swarm ate your garden and lawn yesterday – nobody else lost a leaf.
And my number 1 sign that $DEITY hates you:
1) You’ve just been told that your life insurance is cancelled due to ‘imminent disqualification’
So last night we went to see [tag]transformers[/tag].
Whaaaaoooooooooooooooooo !!!!!!!!!
It isn’t deep. It’s not very art. In fact the way the autobots talk just like in the cartoons… it’s almost juvenile… only it’s not just juvenile. What it is, is one hell of a lot of fun. The “Sam’s happy time” scene had me screaming with laughter.
[tag]Michael Bay[/tag] took on one hell of a challenge. Take a series of characters popularized by a Saturday morning cartoon inspired by a series of toys, and while staying true to them, make a real movie that adults can also enjoy (keeping in mind most Transformers fans are now adults), I think he pulled it off, by offsetting the transformer’s formulaic dialogue and storyline with a very sharp satire of typical teenage adventure movies, war movies and political intrigue.
Basically if there is art in there, it’s in a very subtle satirizing of modern effects-mad Hollywood and their creations.
The effects guys here certainly had a great time, and of course any movie where the geek gets the girl has automatic kudos from me. Of course there is one major interesting thing about this. Most movies come out, and inspire action figures. This time, we had action figures, which inspired a cartoon which then inspired a movie… it’s completely backward !
In the end though, I come back to the conclusion I started from. The movie is serious fun. Not just funny, fun. This much fun would normally cost you a lot more than a movie ticket. Go see it.
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shivering with the fever of a bad flu. I was perfectly fine when I left Cape Town, start coughing a little while on the plane, was feeling quite sick by the afternoon, and really sick by the evening.
I had a big multi-hour meeting this morning which I handled as best I could with my fevered head, went pretty well though – I know this stuff 
.
Now I am back at SNNA headquarters feeling like I got hit by a truck, and hoping to feel better before 2pm when the schoolnet staff returns. The downside of the timeshift is that everything feels 1 hour later for me than it is -so I get an extra hour’s worth more tired with each action.
Still, I think the visit will be fruitful, the flu despite.
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