i. can’t. sleep.
21/05/2009
I hate when I can’t get to sleep. I end up stewing over everything that’s been annoying me. Funny. I sleep fine when I’m not annoyed.
Oh, found out the tomato flowers have given way (some of them) to little green fruit! Very excited. And tomorrow I’m expecting a shipment of violets and begonias. Can’t wait!
in the eye
09/05/2009
F**K doesn’t even begin to express the extreme freakin situation. I went to the bathroom to wash my face and brush my teeth (after a late night movie, which I was originally going to blog about), and when I hit the pump dispenser for the hand soap – I use a lightly diluted mint castille soap mix – it squirted through a hole in the gunk, flew out of the dispenser and hit me right in the right eye.
FUCK!!!! does not begin to express my freaking displeasure.
In fact, I’d rate the magnitude a 9, on the Pissedher Scale, probably a notch below Nero when Spock screwed him over, and Nero yelled SPPOOOCCCKKKKK instead. Who knew them Romulans spoke American, because it certainly sounded like what I yelled in the bathroom.
Get over it, it’s not much of a spoiler.
The Star Trek movie was a true JJ Abrams vehicle. Complete with all that sci-fi mumbo-jumbo: warp drives, ejecting the core, black holes, rifts in the space-time-continuum, crazyass hungry creatures, aliens – the only thing missing was a conspiracy. I suppose I was hoping for something more Spock, less Kirk. But like Kirk, the movie was full of action, sound and fury, cowboy diplomacy and a big reward for “winging it”. I’m just not a big fan of that whole premise. Haven’t we seen enough of that? It’s so commonplace here it’s acceptable, it’s probably an aspiration for most. I just happen to believe that kind of behaviour should be discouraged to say the least.
Sylar is a pathetic attempt at a reproduction of Spock, failing even more miserably because of the glaring comparison you’re bound to make.
As for entertainment, there was no-one droolworthy, no really cool lines, no mind-blowing action, no crazyass cutting edge technology. Sorry geek fanboys, I was not particularly impressed.
What then, did the Star Trek movie have? Original Spock. Dr Who. Eomer. Hester. At some point the comedy was a relief. Oh, great soundtrack. The stuff you want to have playing in the car when you’re on the freeway. Gotta have it.
What did I think of Star Trek? Weak plot, actors who had big shoes to fill and couldn’t, and stuff that belonged on the other JJ Abrams franchise, the one with the island and the bunch of random looneys running around in it. Was it entertaining? Yes. Lots of action. Lots of comedy. Lots of ka-ba-boom! Do I recommend it? Only to the Trekkies, but then again, if they were trekkies they wouldn’t need a recommendation.
The bottom line? Kirk is an ass. Jean-Luc Picard rules.
There said it.
4-20
20/04/2009
Bay Area stoners gathered at Golden Gate Park and UC Santa Cruz campus to “celebrate Marijuana”.
News teams that covered the event tried (somewhat stupidly, if you ask me) to ask a bunch of folks that are obviously “stoked” for an opinion. It is hard for those guys to make sense, much less be eloquent, even when they’re not high. Why bother when they’re lighting a joint and inhaling? Pygmy hippos would probably have been able to make a point.
I think it’s pitiful, the state of the States. When the system allows for the general population to just kick back and have the government provide for them, you’re going to breed generations of people who get away with doing nothing or doing it sub-par at best. And it’s a vicious cycle that’ll go on and on. Instead of fixing their broken system, the sub-pars scoff at comments that Jackie Chan makes about Chinese people needing control, deploring it as “backward” or “idiotic”. They should take a look within, and leave the governing of Chinese people to, (no prizes for guessing) Chinese people. It’s not like they can control their own people.
见贤思齐焉，见不贤而内自行也.
I suppose I can’t blame the Sub-par Americans. Asians have 孔子. All they have is a bunch of Ewoks.
local annoyances
23/06/2008
This is so lame, it’s not even funny.
