Christine is an Avenger of Sexiness. Her Superpower is helping Hot Mamas grow their Confidence by rediscovering their Beauty. She lives in the Heights in Houston, Texas, works as a boudoir photographer, and writes about running a Business of Awesome. In her spare time, she loves to knit, especially when she travels. She & her husband Mike have a food blog at Spoon & Knife.
Before I forget to write about it – I do have something worth talking about. Derek’s latest story, “The Scar” over at Fray. I was in tears by the end – interesting to think about it both from the perspective of a child and a parent. Witold Riedel’s artwork was the perfect complement to Derek’s words, and his story about what he had to do to come up with the drawings for it should inspire the artist in all of us.
I laughed, I cried, it was wonderful. Enjoy.
Have you ever written a post just so you could ping Weblogs.com because you knew you were going to be way too busy all day long to write anything of any great value? Huh? Have you? And just what does that say about me?
This post inspired by J-Mo, who pontificates on profound things such as Cornnuts. Oh, and her birthday is tomorrow too…
I was on my way home from work when I called my Dad to let him know I would be there in a few minutes to pick up Jason. He pointed out that there was the last Boy Scout meeting of the school year tonight, and they were heading out for that. I realized that it was the perfect opportunity to head to the theater to see The Matrix Reloaded.
I struggled to get through The Matrix, having owned the DVD for two years before I even tried to watch it. I feel asleep twice, finally making it through to the end on the third try. It was good, but in that blah sort of way. Like vanilla ice cream is good. I probably ruined it by knowing way too much about the movie – I just wasn’t intrigued by it.
Matrix Reloaded? Reloaded kicked ass. I won’t bother giving my review of it or anything like that – you can read it on all of the other sites. Instead I’ll tell you how Mike lost the right to wear the Geek Button after tonight.
He met me at the theater. It was pretty empty until just before the movie started, and then it filled up. People were bringing in toddlers – what the hell? I was worried that it would be too racy or violent for Jason to see – and he’s 11. But a 4 year old? Or a 7 year old? Come on people…
Ok, back to the point of my story. We sat, we watched, we were mesmerized. The movie ended and the theater started to clear out. I was feeling smug because my co-worker told me the morning after it opened that when I went to see it I had to stay until the very, very end. I knew about the trailer for the third film – but none of the other people knew about it. Ha! I am superior! (Ok, so about 10 other people stayed for it, but they can be superior with me.) However, while I was sitting there feeling so smug and wondering if I should just yell out at everyone that there was a trailer coming up, Mike started to move.
Yes, he was going to leave before the trailer. For that, he loses his Geek rights and his Geek Button.
I kept laughing about it as we left the theater. He had honestly forgotten about the trailer – he knew about it ahead of time – and that just cracked me up. He finally looked at me and said, “You’re blogging this as soon as you get home, aren’t you?” Ohhhhhh, yeah. He’s just lucky that I didn’t feel like typing all of this out on the cell phone and blogging it from the car!
I just looked at him and said, “I am so blogging this!”
Good movie, but really – could those credits have possibly been any longer? I swear, I think they even included the guy that brought bagels to the set each day!
Photo taken with my Sanyo 8100 phone and posted to my Moblog as the movie started. I wear my Geek Button proudly.
I have been told over and over again that the Kiev 35A produces photos that are very similar to those that come from the Lomo, but at a much cheaper price. I’m all about the cheap, so I’ll gladly give it a whirl. Mine arrived in the mail last week from the Ukraine, and I got batteries for it at Wal-Mart tonight. Now I just have to load it up with film and shoot!
If you’re in the market for one – head on over to eBay. They sell them on the Lomography site now, but they are overpriced there. Go for the cheap!
Handy links:
:: Kiev 35A Instructions
:: Information and sample photos
:: More Operating Instructions
:: Review of the Kiev 35A
Scott made a good point in my comments earlier. The political parties (both sides) “have us right where they want us.” It’s true. I guess I am feeling very cynical of politicians in general after watching them say one thing and do another.
I promise, I will not attempt to write in the future any posts that even sound close to me being a war blogger. I will probably still rant about government idiots, but that’s a whole different story.
Speaking of which, I haven’t mentioned it recently, but did you know that there is a whole uproar over how they went about looking for the “Killer D’s” when the Democrats walked out of the Texas Legislature a few weeks ago? Charles has been doing a great job of following all of it the past few weeks, from the scandal of the DPS shredding evidence to the debate over DeLay calling in Homeland Security measures that weren’t legitimate. They even sent the DPS to a hospital to check out the neonatal unit to see if one of the Democrats was there. Charles has a Killer D category set up to make it easy to follow along. It’s always a hoot around here!