The next post is about 28 Weeks Later.
It contains spoilers.
So there’s that.

AO Scott of The New York times quips :
28 Weeks Later is brutal and almost exhaustingly terrifying. It is also bracingly smart, both in its ideas and in its techniques.

Scene 1 : Eerily idyllic cottage. Begbie from Trainspotting is in love with his wife.
Scene 2: Zombie attack on cottage. Begbie ditches his wife to save his own ass. Everyone eats it but him. I wonder if this will come back later.
Scene 3 : Clever sequence involving title cards with a number of days/weeks later explaining the course the outbreak takes. Oh, this movie took place at the same time as the other. I get it now.
Scene 4 : Begbie’s kids come back to England. They are told not to go to unprotected areas.
Scene 5 : Begbie lies to kids about mom’s death. I’m still wondering if this will come back.
Scene 6 : Kids go to unprotected area to go to their old house. Oh I wonder what’s gonna happen. It is at this point what could have been another cool zombie movie turns into a typical “don’t look behind the door” horror movie.
Scene 7 : Oh wow. The mom is alive. I wonder if she’s a zombie mom…a Mombie!! She is.
Scene 8 : Mombie is in medical custody. Begbie sneaks in to visit her. Gets bitten. Let the infection begin again.
Seriously, I had to wait 45 minutes for this?
Scene 9 : Kids still locked up. EXECUTE CODE RED….
MILITARY MAN (to locked up kids) : “Everything’s Fine. Don’t worry. I’ll be back in a moment.”
OLDER KID : “It’s probably nothing.
YOUNGER KID : “It doesn’t sound like nothing.
OLDER KID : “He’s gonna be back in a moment.”
Scene 10 : Begbie infects Military Man. Military man returns…a ZOMBIE! Gets shot by minor secondary character who warned of all this at the beginning of movie. She gets to become a primary player now.
Scene 11 : Evacuation. Kids get separated. Way to go secondary character. I’m sure we’ll all be reunited again.
Scene 12 : Sector blah blah LOCKDOWN. Civilian panic in the parking garage without power. Hmmm…where’s Begbie?
Scene 13 : Rattling door at end of dark passage of parking garage. No, lost kid, don’t go there. Please. Wait. The lost kid (I think his name is Andy, but who cares really) goes to investigate. IT’S BEGBIE!!!! He gets in. (What did I tell you about the predictable horror movie plot devices?)
Scene 14 : Parking Garage Outbreak! I bet what’s his name escapes and everyone else doesn’t. Yup, AC ducts.
It’s at this point I remember earlier in the movie the Big Shot General said this wouldn’t happen because they would issue a Code Red. Yeh, that didn’t help.
Scene 15 : Snipers. Only target the infected.
SNIPER (heard over radio) : “Oh man this is FUBAR.”
Scene 16 : General pandemonium.
Big Shot General : ” We’ve Lost Control”
Oh, she’s Medical Commanding Officer Sierra Lima. Leema. Liemah? Nice to put a name with a pointless face.
Scene 17 : Sierra is trying to tell Army to look for the kid. ROOFTOP UNITS : Target everyone at ground level. No Exceptions.
Scene 18 : Target Practice.
Scene 19 : That Andy kid is meandering around. Not getting shot. Not getting bitten. Even i’m not paying attention to him. Slow brooding mood music.
Scene 20 : Andy found shelter with some dude. Why do I want him to turn out to be a pedophile?
Scene 21 : Andy meanders around. Oh there are other people in there….HOORAY! He finds Medical Commanding Officer Sierra whatever and his sister whose name I never really got.
SOME DUDE : “It makes no sense”
SIERRA : “It makes perfect sense…….DRAMATIC PAUSE…….It’s CODE RED.”
Wait. Is this movie sponsored by Mountain Dew?
Scene 22 : Enter tertiary character introduced in a practical joke on another army dude earlier in the film. At this point I have no clue what is happening (aside from the obvious). His name is Sergeant Doyle something of Top Unit. And he’s gonna get the fuck outta there.
Is this seriously only 1 hour in?
Scene 23 : The helicoptor guy Doyle played the joke on reappears to give Doyle shit on the radio. Something about everyone getting firebombed and they have to make it to some pickup point.
I think I’m done watching this movie.
Nope. i’m not.
I decide to skip ahead 20 minutes. Now it’s just Sierra HotPants and the 2 kids. I’m sure they narrowly escaped some harrowing ordeal and are still trying to find the pickup point.
Skip ahead 10 minutes.
It’s just the 2 kids. they find the pickup point. It’s a soccer stadium. England. Soccer stadium. See the connection? I just realize the pilot is Augustus Hill from Oz. I think he’s in Lost now too. I don’t know his character name cause I don’t watch it, but I reckon he’s the black one. I like that guy. They should have put him in a wheelchair for this movie. They fly away to the brooding mood music. Something bad better happen. I don’t need a happy ending. Especially since I have invested so little in these characters.
The White Cliffs Of Dover. They Escape.
TITLE CARD : 28 Days Later. OK, there’s the picture the chopper dude had in his chopper….Zombies running…Oh for fucks sake. The Eiffel Tower.
BLACKOUT.

And there’s really no right way to ask someone talking to you at a show if they used to be a man.

Friday night I was in the improvised Japanese game show Samurai Davis Jr. and Dim Sum’s Super Mega Happy Fun Time Improv Show. Like anything Japanese game show related it involves losing participants to have their asses handed to them in the form of some ridiculous punishment.
To prepare, I drank half a sparks and some Miller Lite.
The show opens with Treat Treat Treat Stink. the 4 players are handed boxes and you thrust your hand in them. 3 have treats. 1 has stink. I was lucky enough to get stink and I started the show with a handful of fish. Nowhere to go but up! After a close battle, we lost the first scene. Dan (my teammate) and I were handed a slip of paper. His said PANTS. Mine said DRINK. I knew then I was fucked. Out comes a bottle of clam juice. Not Clamato – pure unadulterated clam juice. half the bottle went down Dan’s pants. the other half in a glass and handed to me. Down the hatch. It wasn’t too bad, but I knew I would be paying for it later. 2nd scene. We got slaughtered. Out come the FRAT BOYS with a wooden paddle. We were bent over and WHACK! I have the welt to prove it. I think we finally pulled ahead in the final scene of the half and the opposing team was forced to eat Baby Food mixed with Wasabi.
INTERMISSION. 2nd half of sparks and some Miller Lite.
The other team lost the tossup and Amber had gravy poured over her head. We lost the 1st scene again. Nothing could phase me after the clam juice incident. But then I saw them bring out the toothbrushes and announce TARTER SAUCE TOOTHBRUSH. they proceeded to load the toothbrushes up with what looked like rotten buttermilk. It was indeed tartar sauce but it tasted like awful.It was the most awful thing I’ve eaten. Gagging and fighting through it i accomplished the torture and thought i was gonna wretch. We won the 2nd scene but again lost in the 3rd. For some reason that night I grabbed the one pair of hanes briefs I own rather than my usual boxers. I think because I know the show ccan ruin clothes so I figured I would ruin the pair of skivvies I never wear. What would follow was a new dimension of pain. Our pants were tightly taped up above the thighs to trap whatever would get poured in them. The Samurai of Doom enters with 2 buckets filled with ice and water. He pulls open our pants and pours it in. I was lucky enough again to have not only my pants pulled out but my underwear too. Because of the nature of briefs, the ice didn’t fall into the taped portion of my pants. Rather, it sat there. Freezing the hell out of my …. well, to paraphrase the nihilists in The Big Lebowski…. JOHNSON! they had wrapped the tape so tight I couldn’t shake the ice out for what felt like an eternity.
I spent all day Saturday feeling absolutely wretched as my stomach tried to deal with the clam juice and tartar sauce.

I can’t wait to do the show again.

I spent part of this morning dancing around in my boxers to Billy Joel’s Scenes From An Italian Restaurant.
And not just dancing…fist pumping!

Cool is subjective.

I hate it when I pee and then I go wash my hands and it makes me have to pee again. But then I go to pee again and it turns out that it was totally a false alarm. My brain lied to my penis. Or is it the other way around? One of them is lying. That’s all I know.

Lady Dehumidifier : ugh i am not ready to be back at work
baby courageous : i hear ya…
baby courageous : says the guy wasting the day in a coffee shop and accomplishing nothing

Traveled down the road and back again

Your heart is true your a pal and a confidant.

And if you threw a party

Invited everyone you ever knew

You would see the biggest gift would be from me
And the card attached would say thank you for being a friend.

R.I.P. Estelle Getty

It’s no secret I love Mexican food. I loved this place mostly for its amazing interior decor and design.



But also for the ironic menu exclamation

Unfortunately, you have to be in Columbus, OH to go to it.
Double unfortunately, their liquor license doesn’t allow them to serve booze on Sundays.