That’s IT. That’s ENOUGH already. Really.

No more bad news. I mean it.

Otherwise I’m going to just hide in my basement and stop talking to people.

Got an interesting question this morning:

“Can I print out my voice mail messages?”

How does that go? “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic?”

You’d definitely need magic to be able to accomplish that one.

(You’re lucky–I skipped a rant about why this is completely impossible with our current technology.)

It’s almost 8:30 and it’s 0 degrees F. We’re waiting for my Dad to come by to jump start our car, so we can go buy a new battery.

Yup.

It’s Monday.

When The Departed first came out, Michael and I were in the middle of getting the house ready for my grandmother to move in, so we didn’t make it to see any movies for about three months, so I was pleased to see that because of the Oscars, the local theaters brought back The Departed (despite the fact it comes out on DVD in little more than a week.)

Yay for that, because I loved The Departed.

I went in expecting to dislike Leonardo diCaprio. I don’t know what it is, but I haven’t been impressed with him since What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? (Mind you, because of that I also tend to avoid movies he is in.) I also went in expecting to like Matt Damon, who I’ve loved since Dogma.

I ended up surprised, in that I was really impressed with Leonardo di Caprio. I thought he did a fantastic job, and I ended up really enjoying his character.

I was also thoroughly unimpressed with Jack Nicholson. He didn’t seem Irish. He didn’t seem South Boston. He instead seemed transplanted in from elsewhere, while everyone else seemed like they belonged where they were. Maybe I’m missing something, and maybe I’ve been watching all the wrong movies, but I just don’t understand why everyone likes Jack Nicholson so much. He always seems like the same person to me in the movies I’ve seen.

And also–yay for Mark Wahlberg! Once I got past the fact that every other word out of his mouth was “fuck” I really liked his character.

So thanks to the theaters for bringing back The Departed so we could see it in the theaters. Now I have to figure out all the other movies I missed in the fall and want to see…

They finally have a release date for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

I’m torn as to whether I want to pre-order it or not. I didn’t last time, but ended up buying a copy the first day it went on sale (but not at a midnight sale thank you) and reading the whole thing in almost one sitting.

If I pre-order it from Amazon, at least I won’t have to leave the house to pick up my copy. But the release date is Saturday, so maybe I should just pre-order it from a local bookstore.

Or maybe I’ll forget to pre-order it, and pick it up the first day it comes out like I did with the last book.

Of course the best part about all of this is seeing people all excited about the release date of a book.

Guess with Pantheon of Gods I should be worshiping…
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Just for the heck of it, I went to Amazon to see if they had a release date for the second season of The Wild Wild West.

They DO!

I’ve pre-ordered!

Now I have something to look forward to in March–Jim West and Artemus Gordon. In COLOR!

I hope I liked it in color. We had a black and white TV when I was watching reruns of The Wild Wild West, so I don’t think I’ve ever seen an episode in color.