A Toast! (10)
t’s actually been a busy week. Between the news, real life, and Chris Benoit, it’s been non-stop. Here in Casa del Java, we’ve spent the last two days cracking out on Resident Evil 4 for the Wii, which is deeply awesome. Also, damn the Restaurant Where I Work, damn them to hell! We just rolled out several tasty new desserts. I’m trying to lose weight, and these people are not helping.
And now, on to the Toasting!
- To Congress, for trying to act like they’ve accomplished even a teeny little bit of what they were voted in to do. They’re cutting funding to Gitmo, which the Bush Administration is already planing to close.
- To Harry Potter, who’s about to go toe-to-toe with Lord Voldemort . . . just twenty days from now. Yes, I admit it — despite the fact that I really don’t think the books are all that, I do like the series. And I have to say, after the big old stinking turd that book 6 turned out to be, book 7 had better rock my socks.
- To the newly conservative Supreme Court, which is just plain pissing me off.
- To George W., who, despite spectacularly bad polling numbers, the fact that the man can’t even take a shit anymore without us wondering which piece of the Constitution he used to wipe with, and increasing allegations of shady activities in his Administration, still has not managed to get himself impeached, yet. I mean, we’ll try to impeach Clinton over a blow job, but G-Dub starts up concentration camps, invades other sovereign nations to line his friends’ pockets, lies to get us into war, and various other activities, but he’s cool. Fucking A. (And yes, I know we were actually impeaching Clinton because he lied under oath about the blow job, so don’t start with me.)
- To Keith Olbermann, just because.
June 30th, 2007 at 2:24 pm
Re: Harry Potter
Hear, hear! Book 6 was a spectacular amount of suck and I’m not that big a fan anymore, but Harry Potter’s still a huge part of my childhood so I’m all psyched up (and down - it’s a bit sad, too) for the release.
Olbermann is more or less constantly getting a “hear, hear” from me, so I think that part will go without saying.
JavaElemental Reply:
July 1st, 2007 at 1:46 am
Actually, #6 wouldn’t have been quite so bad, if more time had been spent on moving the plot along and less time (a lot less time) was spent of who was dating who. That really drove me nuts. I think Rowling’s been spending too much time at her own fan sites.
Hikari Reply:
July 1st, 2007 at 8:56 am
Oh, no, I agree entirely - that’s why it was a spectacular amount of suck.
I think that Rowling is, unfortunately, out-growing her editor(s). The books have gotten longer and longer and there’s been more and more fluffy nonsense in them, and all I can think is that her editor(s) are worried about cutting too much out, or questioning too much of The Great J.K. Rowling - Goddess On Earth’s writing.
I’m rather glad it’s ending, so that it can’t continue to travel down that path.
JavaElemental Reply:
July 2nd, 2007 at 2:12 am
I think you’re probably right. The same thing happened to Stephen King, if you read any of his work. His editors should be slapping him up the side of his head for some of the crap he’s put out lately, but he makes them so much money, they don’t dare. The result is loads of crappy Stephen King books.
June 30th, 2007 at 10:25 pm
Chris Benoit??? Who’s that?
JavaElemental Reply:
July 1st, 2007 at 1:50 am
Chris Benoit: Professional WWE wrestler. This past weekend, he murdered his wife and child, and killed himself. Quite the gruesome and sensational little story, with much possible scandal involved. I know it must be important, because CNN spent more time covering that than the recent Supreme Court decision which says we aren’t allowed to sue the government to stop it from donating money to “faith-based” initiatives anymore. (This would be a violation of “separation of church & state”.)