Month: May 2012

Well That Explains That

For lack of anything worth watching on the tube this evening, I had the first Iron Man movie on. It was playing on FX, so it was chock block full of commercials, but it was better than Entertainment Tonight, Wheel of Fortune or the 38th viewing of a Two And A Half Men repeat episode. One of the best sequences of the movie is Tony busting out of that cave with his cobbled together original Iron Man suit. Just after crashing into a sand dune in the middle of the desert, miles from who knows where, we go to some commercials.

What comes next in the movie I saw in the theaters 4 years ago, and what is on the DVD I got for Christmas later in 2008, is we see Mr. Stark walking around in the sand and then within a couple minutes Colonel Rhodes shows up with some helicopters to rescue him. I always thought this a little odd because, how did they get to the middle east and the scene of hundreds of Stark Industries exploding in flames so fast.

What came next on TV was a scene of a bunch of soldiers loading into some big helicopters. Tony’s friend “Rhodey” Rhodes is there and gets stopped by some General who teasingly chides him that heading off to find Stark is a fools errand as no one has any way of knowing where he might be. This explains away that quick find.

Pretty coincidental timing on the search mission and Tony completing his escape in the newly finished Iron Man suit. Then again it is a “comic book” movie, so you really can’t dig too deep on anything going on without finding incongruities.

Mom? Mom? Mom? Mom? Mom?

We had dinner with the MMC tonight at a Mexican restaurant in Augusta. Throughout the entire meal there was a baby crying/vocalizing loud enough to be sort of annoying. From where I was sitting I could see the mother rocking the car seat that the baby was in. The mother was doing this in an absent-minded way while staring at her smartphone.

Maybe, just maybe, if she picked up the baby it might have quieted down.

Started up, went down, still down.
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Time For A New Look?

In the past few weeks I’ve had several good subjects for blog posts, but for whatever reason I can’t seem to sit down at the keyboard and run with them.

Is it time for a new theme here? Maybe if the place had a different look I would want to contribute something here. Maybe. Now it remains to be seen if I can muster the enthusiasm for remodeling…

Started down, went up, still up.
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