My third week of getting the Sunday New York Times. Plowing through it much quicker, now.
Sometimes, when I'm confronted by a massive amount of information, I have to learn how to deal with it. And the N.Y.T.'s has the content of a full book, basically. So I'm learning what to ignore and what to skim and what to actually read.
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There is very little to say about the City of Bend's budget woes. (I told you so?)
If only they had all those millions they utilized on Juniper Ridge; if only they had charged sufficient rates while the town was actually growing; if only they hadn't taken on expenses they couldn't pay for (BAT). If only, if only....
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Linda and I went to see Season of the Witch yesterday. It was our -- "Let's go see a really bad movie!" moment. We are suckers for all things fantasy.
O.K. It was cheesy.
But I kind of enjoyed it, in a cheesy way. There is no way I would recommend it -- but if you had to see a bad movie, this a good bad movie to see.
The acting was O.K. , the story actually wasn't bad, the special effects were adequate.
It was the dialogue and character development that were rudimentary and uninspired. You have to wonder sometimes in movies like this if they didn't have a production meeting where someone said; "Hey, we could make this movie a whole lot better if we hired an average T.V. sitcom writer to spice up the dialogue!"
It was funny to see the audience for this movie -- I don't want to sound all elitist, but it was a pretty blue-collar, uneducated group, by appearance.
I guess they hadn't read the reviews.
Or -- maybe it was their "Let's go see a really bad movie!" moment.
We're going to have another "Let's go see a really bad movie" day, today. We're going to see The Tourist.
So I can stare at Angelina Jolie for a couple hours. (And Linda can stare at Johnny Depp for a couple hours...)
Sometimes, when I'm confronted by a massive amount of information, I have to learn how to deal with it. And the N.Y.T.'s has the content of a full book, basically. So I'm learning what to ignore and what to skim and what to actually read.
**********
There is very little to say about the City of Bend's budget woes. (I told you so?)
If only they had all those millions they utilized on Juniper Ridge; if only they had charged sufficient rates while the town was actually growing; if only they hadn't taken on expenses they couldn't pay for (BAT). If only, if only....
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Linda and I went to see Season of the Witch yesterday. It was our -- "Let's go see a really bad movie!" moment. We are suckers for all things fantasy.
O.K. It was cheesy.
But I kind of enjoyed it, in a cheesy way. There is no way I would recommend it -- but if you had to see a bad movie, this a good bad movie to see.
The acting was O.K. , the story actually wasn't bad, the special effects were adequate.
It was the dialogue and character development that were rudimentary and uninspired. You have to wonder sometimes in movies like this if they didn't have a production meeting where someone said; "Hey, we could make this movie a whole lot better if we hired an average T.V. sitcom writer to spice up the dialogue!"
It was funny to see the audience for this movie -- I don't want to sound all elitist, but it was a pretty blue-collar, uneducated group, by appearance.
I guess they hadn't read the reviews.
Or -- maybe it was their "Let's go see a really bad movie!" moment.
We're going to have another "Let's go see a really bad movie" day, today. We're going to see The Tourist.
So I can stare at Angelina Jolie for a couple hours. (And Linda can stare at Johnny Depp for a couple hours...)