Oh So Deep Thoughts
1) "The Hurt Locker" may very well win Best Picture tomorrow night but our staff left en masse 35 minutes in this summer at the Nickelodeon. We were in a stretch of going to, and walking out, of a lot of crappy movies and thought this was another overhyped monstrosity. The scene that did it for us, for those who've seen it, was the one in which the Iraqi citizen drives up to and through an American military roadblock, with the US soldiers yelling crazily for seemingly minutes at him to stop. The 'Pent? If we're in a war zone and somebody we don't know drives past our position with a crazed look on their face, we shoot them between the eyes, no questions asked. We felt this manipulative scene was ludicrous on its face and a bad omen for the rest of the film. Wish we'd stayed in order to make a more informed judgment on the leading Oscar contender, but the other scenes we sat through were not good either. FWIW there isn't a movie all year that grabbed Apartment 404 the way "Doubt" did back in 2008. Two thousand nine was an awful year for movies, with "The Hurt Locker" being Example A.
2) The 'Pent's older sister Maureen is expecting us to fill out her NCAA pool in two weeks and we still don't know who to pick. Kansas is good but boring, Kentucky young, Syracuse's best player , Wes Johnson, is banged up, Duke sucks and is too white, Kansas State is undisciplined (though tough as nails and a real dark horse), and Villanova is slumping. But here goes: the Final Four will be Ohio State, Kansas, Syracuse, and Kansas State, with Kansas winning. Back when our staff had a real 9 to 5 jobs we would always take off the first weekend's Thursday and Friday afternoons to watch CBS noon to midnight coverage. The opening weekend, with its 48 games, many of them carried live, is the very best sports weekend of the year for Apartment 404. Don't fucking call us that weekend, in case you were planning on it.
3) We here at The 'Pent hate motorcycles. We know a lot of guys that ride and have respect for their passion, but man, the NOISE! Today is the unofficial first day of spring, with temps in the mid 50s, and all of Portland was out and about. A beautiful day spoiled only by the mutherfucking noise machines tooling around town. Our staff loves summer in Maine but the assholes with their sound wagons and uniforms (Rebel? REBEL? Your Harley chaps, Harley t shirt, and Harley leather jacket are more a uniform than cops and soldiers ever wear. Take your "Rebel" bullshit and get some real clothes.) are too damn much.
4) Forty years from now, we expect folks to look back at contemporary society and say, "How could they eat like that?" The wonderful and important book, "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Micheal Pollan, is one of the must reads of recent times and has opened our staff's eyes to the utter grossness of The 'Pent's old diet. Whole Foods may be too expensive for our limited budget, but we will try with all our might to avoid the fast food emporiums that are littering our bodies and our nation with their disgusting products and byproducts. Much as folks today can't seem to fathom how it was possible one hundred years ago that women could not vote and that fifty years ago blacks had few practical rights, future generations will wonder how it was possible that so many Americans in 2010 were eating like such pigs for their whole lives. And we certainly include ourselves in the "Eat like a slob" group. No longer.
2) The 'Pent's older sister Maureen is expecting us to fill out her NCAA pool in two weeks and we still don't know who to pick. Kansas is good but boring, Kentucky young, Syracuse's best player , Wes Johnson, is banged up, Duke sucks and is too white, Kansas State is undisciplined (though tough as nails and a real dark horse), and Villanova is slumping. But here goes: the Final Four will be Ohio State, Kansas, Syracuse, and Kansas State, with Kansas winning. Back when our staff had a real 9 to 5 jobs we would always take off the first weekend's Thursday and Friday afternoons to watch CBS noon to midnight coverage. The opening weekend, with its 48 games, many of them carried live, is the very best sports weekend of the year for Apartment 404. Don't fucking call us that weekend, in case you were planning on it.
3) We here at The 'Pent hate motorcycles. We know a lot of guys that ride and have respect for their passion, but man, the NOISE! Today is the unofficial first day of spring, with temps in the mid 50s, and all of Portland was out and about. A beautiful day spoiled only by the mutherfucking noise machines tooling around town. Our staff loves summer in Maine but the assholes with their sound wagons and uniforms (Rebel? REBEL? Your Harley chaps, Harley t shirt, and Harley leather jacket are more a uniform than cops and soldiers ever wear. Take your "Rebel" bullshit and get some real clothes.) are too damn much.
4) Forty years from now, we expect folks to look back at contemporary society and say, "How could they eat like that?" The wonderful and important book, "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Micheal Pollan, is one of the must reads of recent times and has opened our staff's eyes to the utter grossness of The 'Pent's old diet. Whole Foods may be too expensive for our limited budget, but we will try with all our might to avoid the fast food emporiums that are littering our bodies and our nation with their disgusting products and byproducts. Much as folks today can't seem to fathom how it was possible one hundred years ago that women could not vote and that fifty years ago blacks had few practical rights, future generations will wonder how it was possible that so many Americans in 2010 were eating like such pigs for their whole lives. And we certainly include ourselves in the "Eat like a slob" group. No longer.
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