Friday, March 21, 2008
Iris and Honor Win Video Contest
Honor and Iris entered a video contest about new state requirements for schoolchildren... and they won! You can go here to see the video, as well as the other videos that either won or got Honorable Mention. Congratulations to Iris and Honor! We're told they won $1,000!!
Washougaled!
Yesterday I was in Camas, Washington. It looks like this:
I went down to the Washougal River by way of a little park area that started at the bowling alley on the eastern outskirts of town.
I went down to the Washougal River by way of a little park area that started at the bowling alley on the eastern outskirts of town.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Mug Shot Goodness
Father and son in Florida... they like their tattoos out there for you to see! Mugshot courtesy of The Smoking Gun.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
2 Quick Movie Reviews
This past weekend we saw two movies at the cinema.
Saturday, at Lloyd Cinemas, we saw 10,000 B.C.. We figured it would be dumb, and it was. We arrived late and missed the first ten minutes, so there's a chance we missed out on a key scene that made the rest of the movie un-dumber. But there are some cool big-screen kind of effects, and that's good.
There's also some kind of impossible geography that has our heroic tribe venturing from snow-capped mountains, across deserts and through tropical jungles to get to the Egypt that's not really Egypt. Along the way they seem to meet African warriors from the Congo, Amazonian tribesmen, Australian bushmen, Native Americans and a few frat boys from a Pac 10 school on the eastern seaboard. Here's a frame from the movie, with dialog as best I remember:
Sunday we saw Girls Rock, the documentary about Portland's Rock Camp for Girls, at the Hollywood Theater, up the street. It was good, although a little long-ish in the middle. It was also a little sadder than I expected.
And it was maybe a little heavy-handed on the message, as if the (male) filmmakers wanted to make sure and impress the gals at the camp with how committed they are to feminism. Maybe that's too harsh a criticism. Men my age are 77% more likely to be harshly critical than our animal counterparts (spirit animals).
Turns out I used to know the parents of one of the girls profiled in the movie. I was surprised by that.
It was a better movie than 10,000 B.C., but both experiences were equally good.
Saturday, at Lloyd Cinemas, we saw 10,000 B.C.. We figured it would be dumb, and it was. We arrived late and missed the first ten minutes, so there's a chance we missed out on a key scene that made the rest of the movie un-dumber. But there are some cool big-screen kind of effects, and that's good.
There's also some kind of impossible geography that has our heroic tribe venturing from snow-capped mountains, across deserts and through tropical jungles to get to the Egypt that's not really Egypt. Along the way they seem to meet African warriors from the Congo, Amazonian tribesmen, Australian bushmen, Native Americans and a few frat boys from a Pac 10 school on the eastern seaboard. Here's a frame from the movie, with dialog as best I remember:
Sunday we saw Girls Rock, the documentary about Portland's Rock Camp for Girls, at the Hollywood Theater, up the street. It was good, although a little long-ish in the middle. It was also a little sadder than I expected.
And it was maybe a little heavy-handed on the message, as if the (male) filmmakers wanted to make sure and impress the gals at the camp with how committed they are to feminism. Maybe that's too harsh a criticism. Men my age are 77% more likely to be harshly critical than our animal counterparts (spirit animals).
Turns out I used to know the parents of one of the girls profiled in the movie. I was surprised by that.
It was a better movie than 10,000 B.C., but both experiences were equally good.
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