Motorcycles Aplenty

09.22.2003

These weekend was the annual Trail of Tears ride, which basically equates to me not going anywhere on Saturday, since Hwy 72 is blocked off for a couple of hours to let thousands of motorcycles run redlights. Ok, it may not be that bad, but the first year I was in the house I got caught on the wrong side of the road coming home from Wal Mart. I was only half a mile from home, but I was caught where the motorcycles were turning on 72, and therewas no way for me to cross the street. After an hour, I was finally able to sneak across and make it home.

I tried thinking over the weekend about the importance of the Trail of Tears. I remember reading about it in high school. But that day we might have spent reading about the Trail of Tears was overshadowed by the endless months each year spent studying the Civil War. I swear every year we spent 12 weeks on the Revolutionary War, 18 weeks on the Civil War, and crammed the rest of world and american history into what was left.

Nyah, I'm not bitter. I'm just forever biased against learning anything about the Civil War.

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Is This Covered In The Constitution?

09.17.2003

Los Angeles Bans Lap Dancing in Strip Clubs. Noooooooo! Who would ever think you could do something in Alabama (barring Nascar or some typical redneck thing) that you can't do in Los Angeles. My favorite comment in the article is " The ordinance, passed unanimously despite stiff opposition ..."

34 years old and I still snicker at penis jokes.

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Dark Tower

09.16.2003

Way back when (evidently 1981), I begged and begged my Mom to get me the Dark Tower game. It was one of the early electronic games that threw in a dash of D&D. My favorite feature, being an introverted only child, was that you could play it in a one-player mode. I probably played that game for years.

As is the way of the world, you can get almost any Dark Tower part, or even the complete game, on Ebay. Right now there's a mint, in box game for $295. Even I've got better things to do with $300 than buy a 22 year old game.

I shouldn't have said 22 year old game. Now I feel ancient.

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Movie Weekend

09.15.2003

This was my weekend to catch up on watching some movies. I started off Friday by watching Avenging Angelo, a direct to video Stallone comedy (at least I think it was a comedy) that is better left unwatched. I followed that with Chow Yun-Fat in Bulletproof Monk. One part cop buddy movie, on part Golden Child. God help me but Sean William Scott is growing on me. Maybe I'm just trying to ready myself for The Rundown (gotta go support my The Rock!).

That was followed Saturday by going off to see Once Upon A Time In Mexico. Or Desperado 2. Or El Mariachi 3. It was probably a pretty good movie, but I had exceptionally high expectations since I like Desperado so much. As it was, I left the theatre feeling like I had missed something. Maybe it was the lack of a Bucho?

On the way home from the movie, Gina and I started singing "Why Can't We Be Friends", which reminds us (of course) of the end credits of Lethal Weapon 4, so we watched that next. An I ended up enjoying it, which I've seen countless times, more than the other 3 movies I had seen over the weekend.

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Remembering

09.11.2003

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