Random II
Two entries in one week! Either I am finally breaking out of writer's block or I really need a life.
Honda has a new, energy-efficient, "gas-electric" hybrid car called the Insight. I have decided that I want that car, not so much because of its good-for-the-ecology system (though I do like the idea of getting 700 miles to the gallon), but because it's a two-seater. I used to hang out with a person who had branded all owners of two-seater vehicles, including pickup trucks, as "selfish." God forbid I should commit so capital a crime. I think I have used the back seats of any cars I have owned to ferry passengers about three times in the life of each vehicle. True, you can use the back seat to transport laundry and groceries, but unless you have a family of five to feed (or take as long to get to the laundromat between washes as I do), you shouldn't need the wasted space. Sure, you'll get the accusatory feedback from "friends." ("Are you crazy?!" "How will you drive us places?" "You can't carpool!") But you don't really need such persons in your life, do you?
Toyota's also coming out with a similar vehicle, called the "Prius," but its more the standard four-seater, sedan-type vehicle. To tell you the truth, I just don't like the name. Of course, this is the company who came out with a model called the Cressida. ("Oh, false, false Cressid!")
Well, that's enough free advertising. I rented a couple of videos this week, X-Men and (yes, I admit to it) Red Shoe Diary. See review page. I also rented Scary Movie, which I was told was funny, and will try to get to it tonight.
I turned on the news a little while ago and saw that there has just been a 6.2 magnitude earthquake in the Seattle area. One of the things they focussed on was that Bill Gates was about to give a presentation in the area when it happened. Makes you think... There may have been some damage to one of the Important Buildings (the capitol building I think), and one of the news people said something about it being "a tragedy, because it was such a beautiful building." The dabasement of the term "tragedy" continues. What, did a King find out that his wife was really his mother and that he had actually killed his own father? No, some pretty buildings lost a few shingles in a natural disturbance. Hmm, I feel a rant developing.
More thoughts on the X-Files: when the show's writers finally bring Mulder Back From the Dead (or whatever the hell it is they plan on doing to get the character back on the show), and he finds out that he has no more possessions or apartment or anything because they gave all his stuff away to Goodwill, he being "dead" and all, he should ask, "Where are my fish?" (You know, his pet fish, which somehow have managed to survive all the assassination attempts and apartment break-ins and such.) And it should be revealed that he had two goldfish and their names were Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and that in all the excitement and stress of the Alien Pregnancy and everything Scully forgot to feed them for a few days and they expired. This should be so there can be the following line of dialogue in the show: "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead."
That's what I think.