Cinco de Mayo

Nobody else said this and I'm wondering why... today is Cinco de Mayo. You can bet your ass, I'm going to a Mexican restaurant, and probably having a drink too. I'm not going to get shitfaced drunk or anything... I'll leave that to the locals, but still you have to celebrate the holiday. Maybe it's the Cajun in me... just looking for an excuse, I don't know.

Maybe they can't say they are going to party, but party anyway... as hating on Mexicans is the right thing to do. Or maybe they are just honestly stupid. I'm going to have to party up for all those people I can see.

But alas, I did see people drinking it up... so there is definitely party atmosphere somewhere.

Mondays

I don't really have anything to post on, it seems Mondays are a lull. Sucks I know, but looking at the rest of my compatriots... they don't have anything either. I do have some upcoming issues but I want to give them the proper time I think they deserve, not the 15 minute off the cuff thing I'm doing now. Mondays are about getting to work, or simply getting things together so they work ENOUGH. And that's pretty much what I'm doing today. Putting out fires until the real solution comes.

The Weekend

Well this sure shaped up to be quite a weekend. Friday we went to see Iron Man, which was a pretty good movie, and a semi-date night which doesn't happen to me often. We had dinner at the pizza place right by the movies, a salad for two and we shared a ravioli dish. Not bad. But with my stomach still not working so good, I feel I can't give anything a proper review. Iron Man was pure summer blockbuster fun, nothing out of the ordinary, but man are they a slew of films coming out related to superheros.

Saturday we wound up going to the Taste of Beaufort. I would have come out better if we ate before going and just enjoyed the music, but it kinda was all about the food, so we were stuck with $60 for the four if us. The bands were good, the food... well nothing struck me as gotta' have it, so no like I said before, eat before getting there, have a few drinks and enjoy the music and I'll be ready for them next year.

Today, we were to go to the beach. But a 102 fever decided otherwise. Really I don't think I've had a weekend where I have so much fun, in a long, long time. So the beach will wait. I told my wife that we should put a crab line out when we do go. But since I'm the only one who eats them, it'd probably be a waste. Man I do like some crabs though. I think I going to do a post about Grand Ilse very soon.

Semantics

My page is still quite young, and while I have not had the success of youtube or myspace for what it is, just a local blog that talks about nothing, I think I'm doing ok.

1,250 Views

My Case Against Organized Religion is the most popular story thus far with My Case For Having Children doing a close second and ironically is just one day before my stroke... the last time I wrote with all of my brain function. Really I don't know what to think of that.

The most popular movie is His Girl Friday and comes in at 3rd. And the most "colorful" entry will have to be 300 pound, Naked, Escaped Mental Lady. Some people are looking at some weird stuff. Anyway...

The top cities are Hilton Head, Savannah, and Bluffton. With North and South Dartmount MA and Greenville SC the top cities not in the Lowcountry. (please comment if your from there, or even have a blog). As you know I'm always searching out new people.

I've been read in French, German, Japanese, and Portuguese. and of course English. I recommend that everyone has a translator on their page, you just never know!

I want to thank you the reader again, because I need this not only as an outlet to get things off my chest, I need it for therapy too, you'll probably have no idea what it feels like to go through a stroke, how helpless, hopeless, and useless one feels. I don't have to feel like that anymore, but every now and then I think its nice, if for nothing more than to see where I've come from, to look back at myself. Anyway, if you the reader didn't read it, it wouldn't be nearly as effective. Keep on reading... :o)

Side Notes

Just a little couple of side notes:

1. There is no movie with today's post. I looked, but could not find anything.

2. There is quite a run in hits in my May 3 flood post, some even from New Orleans. I thought that it had been forgotten. I am pleasantly surprised.

3. I am nearing the 200th post. I don't know what I'll do on the 200th post, but I think the 200th post, especially given my condition is good.

Classic Film Friday: The Sun Also Rises

Get ready for 2 hours of drinking, bull fights, and self regret. The movie stars Tyrone Power as Jake Barnes. He is a newspaper man in Paris after WWI. He really only wants to be left alone, but people keep pulling him back in. Ava Gardner, Lady Brett Ashley mainly does just that, the two were in love, but because of a war injury that has left him impotent they cannot get the relationship going. Which is where the drinking comes in.

All of the characters have been wounded somehow by the war, and wish to drown themselves in one way or another. Jake is taking a vacation in Spain, down time, just to fish and watch the bull fights. But it all comes down around him, his plans unraveling before him. All he wants is to be left alone, but in the end he invites everything that’s happened to him on himself.

This movie, is an adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s book, and is done true to it. We (my wife and I) used so many clichés while watching this movie, She’s not that into you, He’s not that into you, telling Jake to just run but that’s something we have that they didn’t. Knowledge of dysfunction. Still it is a movie, a pretty good one, and you could say you read Hemingway in 2 hours.

Power Hungry

An old friend mentioned that papers like the Bluffton Today is about controlling people. I really didn't think that, but I'm beginning to wonder. First of all the paper is rammed down everybody's throat. Unless you call them and tell them you don't want it... but even then it's hit or miss. Then you look at the stories, which for the most part is non-news, but even pay for papers seem to be full of. But the stupid public seems to take it all for granted, that they are the paper and they got to tell the truth.

Actually it's their version of the truth, and they don't always have their facts straight. Add to that a image or heartfelt plea, and suddenly you have a very different story on your hands. They can use half truths or god forbid "photo-illustrations" to control how you feel about something. I'm not saying you should or shouldn't believe every story, but a little cynicism never hurt, did it?

Gullibility is so last century.