Okay, I've had about enough of this cold. I'm at that stage where you feel miserable and have no energy, but you're not really sick enough to justify staying home from work, so you drag yourself in and get nothing done. Is it bedtime yet?
I'm back home after a Thanksgiving Day with my wife and the in-laws. A good time was had by all, except me, the wet blanket of the group with a nasty head-cold. I felt fine for most of the morning, then my drugs wore off, and I took an hour-long siesta on the couch after eating turkey. I'm home now, have popped some Nyquil, and am ready for a good night's rest. There's not much worth getting up early for tomorrow as I look over the tech ads. The best deals, to me, appear to be the $30 DVD burner and the $50 200GB hard drive at OfficeMax, as well as the $30 160GB hard drive at Best Buy. But I've never gotten anything at Best Buy on Black Friday, the line is too long. I've scored at OfficeMax before, and while I could use a fourth DVD burner (yes, really) I don't think I'm prepared to haul my sick butt out of bed to go get it tomorrow.
You heard it here folks, we must eat the turkeys in order to save them:
"When talking about certain animals being raised for food, if no one eats them then they become endangered," said Erika Lesser, executive director of Slow Food USA. "You ensure their survival by consuming and ensuring demands for them."
Okay, maybe it's not the worst movie ever, but it's certainly one of the worst I've ever sat down and started to watch expecting it to be acceptable. I'm talking about Wrong Turn, which is a horror movie that will have you howling at the dialogue. This is a modern day version of one of those movies that are usually only seen on episodes of Mystery Science Theatre 3000. Yes, it's that bad. I'm going to give away the plot right now and say that it's about a group of Young People who find themselves stranded in the backwoods of West Virginia where they're hunted down by Disfigured Superhuman Inbred Redneck Cannibals. That's it, the entire plot, I shit you not. Unless you're looking for a movie that you can mock with your friends, stay away from this one, I don't care how much you like Eliza Dushku or Jeremy Sisto. Oh, and HBO said that the movie would have nudity, but alas, I couldn't find any, though I did watch it at fast forward speed after the first 20 minutes, on the off chance that I'd get to see some of Eliza's goodies or that something resembling a plot might develop. Roger Ebert didn't lower himself to reviewing this movie, but here's a longer review. I too enjoyed the meaningless irony-free dialogue where we learn our protagonist became an expert in identifying roadkill by attending medical school...
Robert Heinlein: "Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something."
(Via Quotes of the Day.)
