Star Wars & 9/11

"Revenge of the Sith" is the title of Star Wars Episode III. Perhaps slightly better then "Attack of the Clones" but not by much. However upon reflection, all the Star Wars movies had bad titles, we just don't criticize the Holy Trilogy. "Empire Strikes Back", guess what happens in that movie. Does like the Empire, you know, strike back or something; yes I believe it does. Further, I sould note that the original title of "Return of the Jedi" was "Revenge of the Jedi" but a fan pointed out that Jedi's would not take revenge. Also this is a good title since it could be Jedi as in the plural not necessarily the singular, i.e. Luke. Thus is it the return of the Jedi order as a whole, Luke being the first who will go on to train more people. So maybe this new title ain't so bad.

And now for something completely different:

I finally saw Farenheit 9/11 last night. It was a really good documentry but I must say that I liked Bowling for Columbine a lot better. This is because Columbine did not have a clear thesis in it. It was analyzing a problem in American society and not really offering a clear solution or even a cause for it. I really liked that after watching it you could have many long discussions about the film and your own experiences with guns and the related issues. Farenheit lacked that because I found it was much more straightforward. "Bush is Bad" and here are all of the reasons he is bad. I know Bush is bad and I knew a lot of the reasons why before.

"Things I hate about you"

Ok so I have to confess that I enjoy reality shows. However, I have a qualifier and that is I really only watch reality shows that are on Bravo. While Queer Eye is always good I'm watching their new show as I type this and that is "Things I hate about you". Basically the idea is that cameras are set up to record a couple and document behavior that the other finds anoying. Then it is seen by a jury and the most disturbing one loses. Quote of the night so far is "I think that if you can't belch and fart in front of a loved one then that is sad." This show is histerical and makes you wonder what you do that would piss off other people. Discuss.

EDIT: OK, new quote "she is a back rubbing whore"

2nd: "so maybe he has a penguin dying inside of him"

Wide Load

Ok what is the deal with moving a house. I'm talking about the huge tow truck, creeping along the road, taking up ever lane, in an attempt to move a house that has been taken off it's foundation. Is it possible that these people became so attached to this home that they felt the need to pull it up from the ground and put it in a new plot of land that they bought. Normally people move for two reasons:  1) they got a new job and have to move somewhere to be closer to the job, or 2) they feel they have to upgrade/downgrade to a bigger/smaller place. Seems to me that neither of these situations calls for someone to rip up the foundation and move an entire house. In the latter they need a different house altogether and in the former in order to warrant them moving for a new job it would be over a great distance such that moving an entire house would be impractical. So, I see one of these moving houses yesterday and the thing that really kills me is that the thing is trashed. The roof is caving in and the walls are coming down so they will have to fix it once it gets to wherever it is going. WTF I want to talk to these people who decide to move their house!

Chuck Palahniuk

I case you haven't noticed I am a fan of Chuck Palahniuk (the author of Fight Club for those poor uneducated souls who don't know). I just started his new book Lullaby and I have to say that I'm already hooked. He always has these fantastic, deplorable, interesting characters. First we meet Helen who is a real estate agent specializing in selling and reselling haunted houses making a commission on each sale. Let me give you a taste:

Forget those dream houses you only sell once every fifty years. Forget those happy homes. And screw subtle: cold spots, strange vapors, irritable pets. What she needed was blood running down the walls. She needed ice-cold invisible hands that pull children out of bed at night. She needed blazing red eyes in the dark at the floor of the basement stairs. That and decent curb appeal.

And some more:

People who would never throw litter from their car will drive past you with their radio blaring. People who'd never blow cigar smoke at you in a crowded restaurant will bellow into their cell phone. They'll shout at each other across the space of a dinner plate.
You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide the yours. You turn up yours again. Everyone buys a bigger stereo system. This is the arms race of sound. You don't win with a lot of treble.
This isn't about quality. It's about volume.
This isn't about music. This is about winning.

Some of you will probably ask "what is the book about?" Well, if I told you it's about a real estate agents who sells haunted houses and a reporter to believes that the cause for SIDS is poem in a children's book that might sum up the story but says nothing about the way in which the author has the ability to capture what our society has become.

Needless to say I recommend his work.

WMD's

So yeah...

CIA overstated threat of Iraq

Meanwhile...

Remember the guy we went to war over in the first place (no not Saddam)

"Pessimism never created a job?"

Ok so have you seen the new Bush commercial? Well, it's the basic "look at what we've done, here's what the other guy says." They say how great the economy is and then say that Kerry is talking about a Great Depression. So the great sum up tagline is "pessimism never created a job" I'll tell you what else never created a job "sticking your head in the fucking sand." I think this is what the campain will be about. Either you think there is a problem and will vote for a change or you think everything is great and you'll vote for Bush. If so it will make for a boring campain since one side will say look at this problem, be it jobs, economy, or the war on terror, and Bush saying "what problem, we're doing great." Sigh...