A Little Zen Moment

Aw, timid widdle spring

Yes, yes, you do have to arrive at such a turbulent time. We hear you concerns, Fair One. We do.

What if he's angry, the wind from the south? What if he wants us somewhere where we aren't, anywhere but where we are? What if he pushes us? Already we have arrived too early. It is February still, no time for flowers and greening things. We have no right to request warmer, softer rainfalls between orchestras of thunder clash grand syphonies announcing the coming of rebirth, freedom, and all those colors.

Yet it is green, and it smells green. Here it even feels green. The air tastes green and new and wet and Spring bends her neck against the gush of the winter wind who would move her in and himself out, but he always holds on so tightly that it feels as if he is about to just take her with him.

Spring screams with her thunder, her lightening, her stormy rage, and winter fights back, and thus the tornado is born.

Can no one just be polite enough to say "Excuse me. Just passing through.' and that'd be it.

Steve! Don't eat it!

This is pure beauty. The man's a true artist.

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Film Review - Friday The 13th

Tonight, a friend and I saw the new "Friday the 13th," aka, "Don't f*ck with Jason's Weed."

Yes, it was a very, very violent movie. Let's move on. Apparently, there are two rules to follow when camping in the woods near the old Camp Crystal Lake. 1) Do not f*ck with Jason's weed, and 2) Do no f*ck with Jason's weed.

Many of the characters in this movie were actually funny, endearing, charming, and loveable. That's a nice change for a horror movie, and it makes it harder to watch them go out into the woods alone knowing that means it's their turn to get the ax, er... the machete, I mean. Don't get me wrong. There are still the abudance of jerks to see offed by our ski mask wearing hero, as usual. True to form, they are just as sterotypical as ever.

My favorite character action in this remake/sequel/whatever was the use of a wok as a sheild. Adorable. Be warned, there is a lot of drive-in movie style nudity, in case you're not into mixing bare breasts with your violence, and the sex scenes are graphic enough to push this out of the rating it skinned into.

This is, however, another one of the great torture horror films of late. Deaths aren't always fast, and one scene is so drawn out that even I had to finally look away.

If you're a fan of the original and first 13th, then you will most likely enjoy this one. In my opinion, it was made in the spirit of the old one. Camp Crystal Lake lives on.

Bored

I'm using Google Earth to search all of Afghanistan for Bin Laden. I think that he might be the dude spray painting "Mine's Bigger" on the Minaret of Jam.

Stop it.

Someone explain to me why the media is already on a feeding frenzy re: Obama's first 15 minutes in office? The bill hasn't even been signed yet, and already the buzz is salivating for it's failure and driving down the Dow in the meantime! Are people TRYING to cause crisis? It's like failure is so much more interesting than success that we have to try desperately to literally make it happen.



I do love watching him navigate these waters, though. He never does what they predict. He just keeps on being real and being reasonable.

Today, on CSPAN the government took a break from the debates over the bill. On the screen it read "Session in Recess for President's Day Break." On another live channel, Obama was in Florida at a "Town Meeting" addressing the crowd regarding layoffs and spelling out in plain English what was going to be in the bill for them.

Oh, okay. He forced you guys to take a break from the posturing and fighting so he could go get some real work done. Why didn't you just say so?

It's no wonder his approval rating is still far far higher than congress.

I just loved it during his address the other night when a reporter implied that he was not being as bipartisan as he had promised. Prez Obama was direct about the opposition he is getting from the Republicans when he attempts to reach out to them. His promise to be transparent will not just be extended to his own actions. Looks like he's going to call people out on their bullshit.

God, it's just so nice to see someone really do what they promise and mean what they say.