All I can say is: What the fuck?

WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE? Jesus there is something seriously wrong with this place and these idiot people.
If I could remember what these beyond stupid people said I would quote them. But the main point from several people interviewed in Wichita was that they think students should be able to carry guns on campus. Their reasoning...get this...is that people would be able to protect themselves against psychos. Apparently someone could have taken out the shooter before he shot so many people.
WHAT IF THE PSYCHO IS THE DUDE WITH THE GUN SITTING NEXT TO YOU IN CLASS?
Is there a high percentage of brain deficiency in Wichita? Actually I can tell you there is just from watching the news.
Now they're talking about the abortion ban on the news. Fan-frickin-tastic. Thank god senior citizen assholes are making decisions for me. I don't think "partial birth abortions" are a good idea, and can be avoided nearly all of the time and that has nothing to do with the ban. The ban is the first step toward banning all abortions and removing rights from women. I can't even describe how baffling it is that humans do not understand equal rights for all people. It's not a difficult concept, Jesus has nothing to do with it, and if you don't agree with someone elses choices then shut the hell up and go make your own choices.
If the future mothers of America don't die in childbirth, not to fear...they can just enroll in college and get shot by someone who doesn't agree with them in art class.

Just my valid and significant opinion.

First of all, I'm sure they did what they thought was right and they couldn't have known what was going to happen. However, I have some thoughts.

My nagging common sense seems to think that when someone kills two people in a dorm an initial action would be to shut down campus. I'll be the first to say that I don't know all or even most of the details of the shooting situation but no additional facts change my opinion in that fact. This is a superb example of humans relying on technology, and this time it resulted in death.

Here's the situation: A couple students get shot. Let's send an email.

You're kidding me right? If there was a killer running amok in the Fort Hays dorms I would not go to class and I would sure as hell not want to rely on an email to give me this kind of information. I want guys and gals in uniforms with flashing lights. I want them at every building telling students to get off campus or to lock themselves up in their dorms.

I know we're all techno-happy as a society but not everyone has email wired into the brain. Professors have the luxury of having an office where they can more easily get email on campus. Students are in class, in the library, walking to and from class. When exactly are they supposed to check for an email titled Re: Shooting? One student was quoted as saying that these campus official whoevers had "blood on their hands". Since I wasn't getting shot at I aviod taking it that far but I agree with him in sentiment. You close campus, period. Don't rely on phone calls and emails, just keep people out of the buildings in the first place. He locked them in before he started shooting. I'm sure he was thankful for the convenience of everyone still being on campus.

I hope that if nothing else universities look over their crisis "plans" and do it with a little bit of common sense. Or here's an idea--ASK THE STUDENTS. I wouldn't be all that surprised if that didn't happen in the planning stage. (Most likely after 9/11.)

Consider you are the person in charge of notifying people of this kind of event and think about this-- if your kid was on campus would you send them a fucking email to warn them that their classmates are being shot? I don't think so.

And just so it's said I would like to point out that the psycho was a senior English major. See what happens when we don't foster creativity? It moves off the page if one is disturbed enough to take it there. He was crazy, but I still think it's an issue.

Soccer Season

Yesterday the boys had their first games of the season. They should have started weeks ago but Mother Nature wasn't feeling like soccer at the time.

Tanner has played for several seasons, and is all over the soccer thing. He's often been one of the best on his team, but he's going to have to work a little harder this time since he's a growth spurt behind a few of his teammates. Playing on a bigger field also makes a little guy kinda tired, even for a Destroyer. (Tanner's team is the Destroyers...naturally.)

This is Jordan's first time playing soccer and his games are much different than Tanner's games. Jordan's games resemble a cartoon more than soccer. Jordan turned 5 in February so most of his teammates are probably around the same age, they are the Flying Frogs. They dance, and spin, and fall, and hop, and run just to run. They huddle together like they are magnetically connected to each other. They move like a school of fish, and kick wildly in any direction. When not doing any of those things, they stand still and stare off into the distance until they are pummeled by the rest of the team that doesn't realize there is a person standing in their way. Many goals are by accident, but they are celebrated all the same.

Excluding the occasional ball-to-the-face everybody seems to have a good time. Jordan likes to run, and even if he never lays a foot on the ball (which is somewhat possible) at least he's enjoying the wind in his hair.

Friday the 13th

You'll notice that I have a picture of Michael here and not Jason. That's simply because MICHAEL COULD KICK JASON'S ASS!!

I just watched Friday the 13th, part 1 and 2, and was nearly bored to tears. That's always unfortunate plus I was terribly disappointed. It's Jason! Isn't he supposed to be scary or something? Blood and death, a scary movie does not make. Nothing happens in the movie. People run and scream at the end but it's supposed to be thrilling to get there. Not LAME.

With all that said, I will still watch #3-10 and most likely Freddy Vs. Jason. The hockey mask comes about in #3 so I have a little more faith in that one. And, surprise, surprise, someone is remaking the original. Supposedly it will come out this year.

Though I haven't seen them all yet, I feel that I can safely say-- I'm sorry Jason but I'll take Michael and his sister over you and your crazy mother any day. I wish you luck with your remake.

Pope says evolution can't be proven - Yahoo! News

What? SCIENCE has unnecessarily narrowed humanity's view of anything??? Says the friggin' POPE?? Wow.
Does he even know what his "job" is?? Maybe he's unsure of what science is.


BERLIN - Benedict XVI, in his first extended reflections on evolution published as pope, says that Darwin's theory cannot be finally proven and that science has unnecessarily narrowed humanity's view of creation.
Pope says evolution can't be proven - Yahoo! News

Movie: GRINDHOUSE + a few others

Grindhouse AKA Planet Terror, and Death Proof. Between the two they have Rose McGowan, Kurt Russel, Bruce Willis and some other cool people and lots of so-so actors.

If you don't know about Grindhouse I'm going to wager you won't want to see it. It's a horror double feature, which was a brilliant idea.

Some of you know I have issues with Quentin Tarantino (being that I don't like his movies) so I thought I would give him another chance. Planet Terror is a Robert Rodriguez film (who I'm not totally in love with either) and Death Proof is Quentin's film.

Rodriguez has totally redeemed himself and I'm sorry I ever doubted him. He is clearly a disturbed and horrible human being and I love him for it. Planet Terror is the funniest, most disgusting movie I have ever seen. I don't know if I've ever seen a movie that was quite so much fun. The guys in the theatre losing their minds made it all the more entetaining. I thought one of them was going to laugh himself into a stroke. I've never seen anything so wrong in my life. It's what I've been waiting for. I've been searching for the perfect horror movie and I might have just found it. Along with Rodriguez, I now fully appreciate the talents of Rose McGowan. She is brilliant. I had no idea. Everything was perfect from beginning to end.

And for Death Proof, the Q man...well I still can't say he's in the clear with me but he has improved his spot on the list for sure. Death Proof is not NEARLY the entertainment powerhouse that Planet Terror is but it has it's good points. There's almost 2 mini-movies in Death Proof. The beginning of #1 is boring, but the conclusion is brilliant. (Which means it was disgusting and horrible.) Then we move on to scenaio #2 and it's boooorrring for quite a while, then it's fun, then the last 2 minutes makes the whole damn thing worth it. The dude mentioned above that I thought was going to injure himself was jumping up and down losing his mind by the end of the movie. I will say for Q, he knows how to end a movie.

Aside from the boring stuff Kurt Russell is hillarious. I didn't know he still had it in him.

The "missing reel" trick is hillarious and well utilized.

Now that I know what comes at the end I would gladly sit through the boring stuff again and again. Honestly if Death Proof was as good as Planet Terror I think theatre dude might have needed oxygen.

So I gave Q another chance and it paid off. He can give his friend Robert a lot of credit for that but I'm glad I did it. As I was walking out of the theatre behind the rowdy boys one of them said, "What did I just see?!?" Q would have been so proud.

Blood Stains, starring no one.

Dumbest movie ever. There is no friggin blood, it's so stupid. I can't believe someone made this piece of crap.

Wishmaster 1 & 2, starring...that dude who plays the Wishmaster.

These were an awful lot of fun. They were better than they look like they would be. They were cheesy and silly, don't get me wrong but there was gore and a monster thing (djinn). The guy is very creepy, and I like him a lot. Not the best but fun for me. I'd watch them again.

Feast, starring Henry Rollins, Balthazar Getty and no one else you'd know by name.

It's bloody, it's gory, it's gross, and wrong, and funny. This was a Project Greenlight film (the Ben Affleck and Matt Damon search for new movie makers) and it shows because there's quite a few original ideas in there. The way they introduce the characters is excellent. It sets up the whole vibe of the movie. It's the people vs monsters story. People in a bar, monsters outside. Monsters want to eat people. It's good fun.

Beyond Re-Animator, starring the guy from the first one.

The guy, West, is now in jail and it makes for a ridiculous setting for more Re-Animator fun. Prison is a really fun place to have undead zombie types running around. Surprisingly good for a sequel. I was expecting the worst, and not the good kind. It's also gross and terrible and disturbing. It is a nice follow-up to the first one. I'm pretty sure there's another one, I guess it comes after this one. The Bride of Re-Animator.

Movie Reviews Gone Wild

The Hitcher starring Sean Bean.

Totally worth seeing for me. Sean is a bad ass and someone gets pulled apart by trucks. Awesome. If you hear that and don't go "COOL!" then I wouldn't recommend it.

The Queen, starring Helen Mirren.

Helen IS the Queen. She won an Oscar for a very good reason. The movie doesn't sound all that great if you don't care much about the Queen, but it's more than that. It really shows that she's a person, and not just a Queen. You'll think of her in a whole different way. And the Queen Mum is pretty funny. If you're at all interested in politics and the nastyness of the public mob then I think you would like it.

Number 23, starring Jim Carrey and that awful blonde woman.

Fun, but completely absurd. I was impressed by Jim the movie just could have been better. I liked the story though. Not bad for a weekend rental or something, but not a must-see.

300, starring Gerard Butler and David Wenham.

Totally f*$&in' awesome. One of the coolest movies I've seen....ever. The CGI is awesome and the dudes run around in their underwear. It is seriously an all around excellent movie. And yes it's kind of bloody, it's about Spartans and war for Pete's sake.

Now for the old ones....

How to Murder Your Wife, starring Jack Lemmon.

Very bizarre, but entertaining. It's pretty unique. Jack Lemmon is fun even though he's an idiot. The whole movie is extremely sexist from both sides but that's kind of the point.

A Bucket of Blood, starring no one anyone would know.

Strange movie. It's a great horror premise it's just in a cheap movie. Decent enough to watch though.

Anchors Aweigh, starring Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra.

Excellent fun. Frank is a wee thing and just so cute. It's a classic that one must see at some point to feel complete. They even spoofed it on Family Guy so it must be good.

Some Came Running, starring Frank, Dean Martin, and Shirley Maclaine.

It's pretty depressing but Frank is there, Dean is there and Shirley is adorable. I'd watch it even if it sucked.

On the Town, starring Gene and Frank.

It's Anchors Aweigh the rough draft. Watching Gene do anything is enjoyable.

Phantasm, starring unknown people. (And Angrus Scrimm.)

Not too bad actually.... Really lame horror with really dumb stuff and weird people. But The Tall Man is cool and the people are actually likeable for some reason. It's adaquately scary when watched right before bed. Not at all terrifying, but it's memorable.

Hellraiser, starring Pinhead of course.

Disturbing for all kinds of reasons and I'd totally watch it again. It's so lame that it's almot awesome. The lady in the 80's attire is almost as scary as the guy with no skin.

Notorious, starring Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains and Cary Grant.

Pretty typical spy movie I think. It moves a bit slow but it's another classic. It's worth watching if you care about such things. And it's Ingrid and Carey, that's like Gene and Frank. You just watch it.

Frankenstein, starring Robert De Niro, Helena Bonham Carter, and Kenneth Branaugh.

Oh yeah, and Pinto from Animal House. Because we can definitely take him seriously.

The movie was pretty cool. It's very different from the old one, but it's a nice update. It shows a different, more sophisticated, version of Frankenstein but he's just as sad as Boris was in the original. Kenneth walks around without his shirt on for a while so that's pretty cool.

Ocean's 11, starring Frank, Dean, Sammy, Peter, and Joey.

Of course I've seen it before but I just watched it again recently.

It's such a brilliant movie. The new guys are alright lads but even they can't compare.

Noises Off, starring John Ritter, Michael Caine, Carol Burnette, Christopher Reeve and several other people.

I've seen this one before too but I just love the movie. It's hillarious and if you think about it it's extremely impressive that they got all those people to do all of that stuff. John Ritter is my favorite character and he doesn't ever say anything of any use. But that's why he's funny. It's like a prolonged Three Stooges skit. It's brilliant.

Mighty Aphrodite, starring Mira Sorvino and Woody Allen.

Much better than I thought it would be. I quite liked it. Both Woody and Mira both somehow seem charming and kind of pitiful. The use of the chorus adds a lot to the movie. Nobody else has ever done anything like that on film before. It's a stage thing. It's worth seeing if you haven't.

When Harry Met Sally, starring Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal.

Also better than I thought it would be. Lovely, charming little movie. Everyone is young and adorable.

Penny Serenade, starring Cary Grant.

It's construction is ok, but it's terribly depressing.

His Girl Friday, starring Cary Grant.

It's supposed to be super funny, it doesn't quite get there though. It's a bit too much crazyness. It's fun but not as good or as funny as it could have been. Wonderful banter, but I need more than that.

Pal Joey, starring Frank Sinatra, Rita Hayworth and Kim Novak.

Frank and two ladies, what a surprise. The movie is awesome of course, but it's not all that believable. I'd take Kim over Rita any day. I don't see the issue here... Classic Frank though.

2001: A Space Odyssey, starring the talking computer.

I was fully impressed. I was bored at the same time but I couldn't stop watching. I think that if they made it now it wouldn't look any better than the original does. Genius camera work and the computer is pretty cool. The whole thing is just really well done, classis sci-fi. Don't watch if you have vertigo issues. It made me dizzy.

Nanny McPhee, starring Emma Thompson and Coin Firth.

Bad kids learn a lesson, Emma gets pretty, bad kids become good kids. It's pretty entertaining actually. Everyone gets what they deserve in the end. If that's your cup of tea then you can give this a try. The colors in the film are quite effective. I don't know why they did it but it has a very cool look. It's a little Lemony Snicket-ish. Nanny McPhee is like the count's nice sister.