Tag: Star Wars

Marathon Monday

Happy Boston Marathon day. Also known as Patriots Day. Also known (for this year at least) as my father’s birthday. Also known as the day the Red Sox game starts at 11:00am.

The Red Sox just won their game on a Mike Napoli walk off RBI double in the bottom of the ninth, following an Andrew Baily blown save in the top of the ninth.

The Red Sox are a whole lot more interesting this year than they were last year.

The Bruins have been boring for much of the season, and the last couple of games have been especially painful. I can live with boring and winning, but boring and losing to Carolina is something completely unacceptable. Fortunately, Patrice Bergeron might be coming back tonight. It will be nice to see our best player on the ice again.

I am roughly 4.5 work days away from a week long vacation. All things revolve around that fact.

I said the other day that the first few episodes of Game of Thrones hadn’t really gripped me. I’ve watched a couple more, and it has gotten better. Things have actually happened, believe it or not. I’m not on the bandwagon yet, but I’ll keep watching at least. It ain’t no Walking Dead.

On the watching television shows via iTunes front, I have decided to start pre-gaming for Star Wars Episode VII by picking up the first season of The Clone Wars television show. I’d seen a few episodes here and there. Nothing special, other than the landmark fact that there are lightsabers involved… even if they are cartoon lightsabers.

That’s it for me for now. Back to today’s haul of urgent tasks at work.

Happy Birthday, Dad!

The Incredibles

Today has been a movie day at our house.  I ran some errands in the morning, and then the kids and I ran another errand, and then we came home to movie bonanza.

First we started with disc one of The Lord of the Rings – The Two Towers.  We’ll watch the rest tomorrow.  The kids said they wanted a movie watching break after the first disc so they went and did other things.  I took advantage of the rare moment of being in charge of the television by throwing on the blu ray version of Return of the Jedi.  Within seconds of the flick starting, both kids were glued to the tube with me.

After that my gorgeous, beloved wife declared that after two guy films she was taking over and picking a super chick flick.  She and my step daughter stayed in the living room and watched Beaches (OMG!) while my step son and I went down cellar and watched The Incredibles.

Pixar has never made a bad movie, have they?  I don’t think so, but every time I watch The Incredibles it gets better and better.  That movie just plain rules all animated movies.  It’s the best, really.  I want an Incredibles 2.  How could they have made Cars 2, but not The Incredibles 2?  Cars was a great movie, but it’s not fit to fold The Incredible’s underwear.  Really.

Pixar… make The Incredibles 2.  It’s time.

Make it so.