The Weak in Review 2000


  • I slept in a barn on new years.  The parents of the guy who threw the new year's party I went to had a barn, I was tired:  it was clear what needed to be done.   It's a funny thing about stuff like sleeping in barns:  people either immediately recognize that it's something that needs to be done, or there's no explaining it to them.  I just wanted to demonstrate that in an age of dot com this and millennium that, a guy can still sleep on a big-ass pile of hay.

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  • At the risk of turning this into a soccer mom, minivan drivin', aol subscribin', personal homepage, here's a shot of my sister and I keeping watch as The Hour of Destruction relentlessly bears down on the Eastern Standard Time Zone.

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  • All the holiday talk about who's working where and why and what they want to get out of it started me thinking:  how can greed and sloth both be in the top seven deadly sins when they're opposites?  If one is really bad, the other one should be really good.  Webster's definition of greed is "excessive desire for getting or having".  My personal-experience definition of sloth is "desire for getting or having which is insufficient to get one off one's ass ever".    Slothy people are just easy to please.  Give me a job making 20 grand a year and desire no longer exists, let alone greed.  I don't know what the other 5 deadly sins are, but it's a safe bet that I'd be too lazy to bother with them either.   It's time we as a society stopped unfairly condemning sloth and extolled it as the wholesome and admirable attribute that it is and always has been.

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    Movie Review:  Waking Ned Devine  (2 stars)
            An oldsploitation movie about a tiny Irish village full of elderly people.  One of the old people wins the lotto and dies on the spot, so another old guy pretends to be the dead guy in order to collect the money and the villagers divide the winnings amongst themselves.    That last sentence is the extent of the plot, no more, no less.  You might be thinking, "my parents said that was an excellent movie, surely there's more to it than that".  And you'd be right: there's a skinny naked old guy riding a motorcycle.

    Movie Review:  American Pie (2 stars)
            I was disappointed with this one after all the hype.  It was one tenth of the high school party movie Dazed and Confused was and half the "guys trying to score" movie Booty Call was.  The only area in which this movie held its own, so to speak, was that of "teen masturbation humor" movie and that's only because, for good reason, there is little competition in this genre.   The only direct competitor I can think of is a really crappy movie from the 70's called Portnoy's Complaint, and I have to give American Pie the upper hand against that one...or the upper pie as it were, duh har ha huh.
     

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