The blog hit 800 today despite my lack of posts lately. I'm still shy of the 1,000 that I was gunning for by the end of the semester. Oh well.
On the 5th of July I went and saw both Transformers and Sicko. Both are highly recommended. Transformers was unbelievable. I grew up watching the cartoon, and I left the theater with the same sort of "Wow, cooooool," response to the movie that I had as a kid. Sicko was impressive for several reasons. The main one was how ridiculously well that the propaganda from HMOs and insurance companies has worked on us. While I try and stay more educated on the workings of the world than my peers, I still had some of the same false opinions about the state of health care in the world that were critiqued in the film. What was sad is that Michael Moore does such a good job of researching that when I talked to my educated friends about national health care, I got the uninformed, idiot answers that the movie was targeted at. Sad. We need national health care. If you disagree, you either work in the health insurance field or haven't seen the movie yet.
I'm still really against Stranger Than Fiction, but the book did nearly redeem itself with one single quote today. While talking about the genius behind the work of Ira Levin, Chuck was going on about the metaphors that he chooses as the basis for his books and how they are effective on society without being over the top. The fantastic quote itself concerned the books The Stepford Wives and Rosemary's Baby, and said "Your Disney-female-robot-sex-slave-hausfrau metaphor is even better than your big-dick-Devil-date-rape metaphor." Awesome.
I had 2 lucrative poker opportunities online in the past couple of days. I won around $60 in 2 sessions of $.02/$.05 poker. One night, I saw 2 guys playing NLHE at that level, and they were making ridiculous overbets at each pot, so I sat and waited. I didn't totally bust either one of them like I planned on doing, but I did end up peeling about $30 off of them combined. The next night I saw a guy sitting at an Omaha Hi/Lo table with over $100. I took another $30 off of him before I called it quits for the night. I've been goofing off playing small little $1 and $2 tourneys on both Bugsy's and Full Tilt, and I've been on a rush. I've moneyed in about 80% of the dozen or so tourneys that I've played. Granted, I've only won like $30 total in all of them, but that's a pretty good return on my money. I also went to the casino with Brandon on Thursday night making a whopping $20 over 3 hours. I'm feeling a bit out of it right now, so I'm going to end this post abruptly and awkwardly.
5 comments:
Nice quote.
I have not seen any new movies lately.
Poker. I know not what to say.
I personally wasn't arguing against state health care because I think it is needed as well. I was arguing the fact that Michael Moore does a really good job telling his side of the story. You a former debater should know that the best arguement is discrediting your opponents. I think he makes really good points, but lacks the confidence to present and discredit the other side. Also I think some of his interviews are combative. I am all for being passionate about something, but name calling irritates me to no end. It shows a lack of intelligence. That type of arguement style does exactly what it's supposed to do to me. It makes me want to punch the other person and not out think them. Any moron with an extra chromosone can respond "well your mom is fat" but it takes real intelligence to make points and sway intellectualy (sp*).
The entire movie is an answer to the criticisms of national health care. The most common arguments against it are: unhappy, poor doctors; long wait times; lower quality treatment; and ridiculous taxpayer cost. The movie hits all of those head on, with Moore earnestly trying to get the people he's interviewing to admit some sort of negative, but the problem with this issue is that there aren't any negatives.
guess I'll have to see it before I judge. I was just going off of what he previously produced. Not that I am a Bush supporter at all, I just know there are always multiple sides to every story. I don't think someone with his views could ever present an unbiased documentary. But then again I don't remember any documentary film made without some sort of agenda.
did some research in the forums around the nerd world and looks like the "Big Surprise" we were supposed to stick around for till the end of Transformers was Star Scream leaving planet earth. We stayed an extra 5 mins. for nothing. your boss lied to you. Oh and Amanda and I will be in town probably Saturday mid morning and possibly staying the night to sunday. Will be giving you a heads up.
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