Today I spent about 4 or so hours with 10 children between the ages of 3 and 12. No, I was not banished to some prison full of child laborers. I was at a birthday party. 9 of these children were boys. I'm not sure I need to actually tell you anything else.
I spent a decent amount of time yelling out phrases like:
Please stop throwing (insert the following at the correct times--rocks, dirt, cherries, your younger brother).
Let's check with your mother before doing that.
At what point did wandering off into the brush seem like a good idea?
Hey! Stop that! (good for almost any situation)
Where did (kid's name here) go?
Obi-Wan is my favorite because Ewan McGregor is cute, that's why!
The day was spent in one of two places. Inside eating or outside burning off the sugar rush. The kids weren't too horrible. They were just mostly boys and the inherent testosterone frenzy often created moments of shoving, hitting and tackling. Not to mention a couple of instances of using one of the younger kids to create a distraction so the rest could go running off like madmen. I don't know how elementary school teachers do it every day.
I'm being a good friend and not going to see Spiderman 3 until my movie buddies are able to find a sitter. We made an attempt for Friday nite, but it was a no go. Now, I may be doing the two in one day option this Sat. as 28 Weeks Later comes out on the 11th. Mmmmm...zombies...and British accents...yeah.
WATCH IT:
Shortbus--rented this over the weekend and I really enjoyed it, even though I thought it lost some steam towards the end. The big controversy over this flick stemmed from it being one of the first mainstream American films where the actors are having real sex as opposed to "acting" sex. In truth, there are only a couple of times where you have a view that let's you know people are really doing it. Otherwise most of the straight folk sex looks the same and the gay sex resembles an episode of Queer As Folk with more full frontal and participation and less dancing to techno. I will say the moment involving the singing of the National Anthem had me cracking up. Ultimately the movie is about connecting with people. In this case, most of the people seem to connect or disconnect via sex (or something like sex). I thought the film was entertaining and some of the sex was pretty humorous. But, if you don't want to see the penises (or is that penisi?) of about 7 different guys you may want to skip this one.
LISTEN TO IT:
Duran Duran--Ordinary World. Seriously, this somewhat recent tune from DD gives us fans everything we want. A lovely melody, a little melancholy, Simon's fabbo voice and a sing along chorus with a build toward the end of the song. I gave in to an impulse and picked up a DD greatest hits cd and spent about a week listening to it.
READ IT:
Wired magazine--there's a great article in the latest issue about the CIA's covert operation to get six Americans out of Iran at the start of the '79 hostage crisis. The folks were able to get out of the embassy and make their way to the Canadian embassy, but needed professional help to get out of the country. It's a great story and we owe the Canadians. Did you know Canada called a special secret meeting of Parliment to give permission for the Canadian government to create real passports using fake identities to give to the 6 people trying to escape? Canada had last called such a session during WW2!
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