Bond and the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

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In our household we used our streaming Netflix service to watch the original movie versions of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy.  I loved them and I have to say I hold serious reservations as to whether the Hollywood version of the first movie will live up to the original even with James Bond, er Daniel Craig, in the lead role.  I just don't know how any actress can live up to Noomi Rapace's depiction of Lisbeth Salander, but I'm looking forward to seeing Rooney Mara try.  Here's the trailer:

Not Your Typical ‘Guy Blows Himself Up’ Story

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I tell you, sometimes I think the most entertaining job in the world has to be writing headlines.  I mean who wouldn't enjoy writing something like this:

Man Nearly Explodes After Compressed Air Valve Lodges in Buttocks

From the story:

The nipple of the valve punctured the 48-year-old’s left buttock, pumping air into his body at 100 lbs. per square inch.  The pressure drove air into every possible space in his body, separating fat from muscle and compressing his lungs and heart.

“The sensation was like when you’re diving with the bends, and you have to go back down to let the air pressure come off your body,” McCormack said.  “I could hear the sound of the air going into me and the people walking around me, but they didn’t want to get near because of what they could see, it wasn’t a very nice sight.”

His boss, Robbie Peterson, and two other workers tried to pull him off the valve — to no avail.  “We couldn’t get him off the nipple because the angle acted like a hook,” Peterson said…

It took the trucker about three days to shrink back to his normal size, the time for the air to naturally disperse.  “You can’t turn a tap on and let it out,” McCormack said.  “You just have to fart it out, or burp it out.”

That last paragraph might qualify as the best quote in a news story in 2011.

Blah, Blah, Blah Defined

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Want a definition of Blah, Blah, Blah?  It's the noise coming out of a Dad's mouth when he continues lecturing one of his kids even though he knows that kid has totally tuned him out.  You know what I mean.  The Dad starts off with expressions of exasperation and bewilderment over something the kid has failed to do, and because this is an ongoing issue he quickly moves into lecture mode which he knows is useless based on the glazed expression in the kid's eyes, but because he's ticked off he can't help himself and keeps yammering on until he ends up saying something like, "You have so much ability, but you only use 10% of it. You have to get it together, you have to decide it's time to apply yourself.  Your Mother and I can't do it for you, you have to make that decision for yourself…."

Another sure sign that Dad's entered BlahBlahBlahLand is that his wife, the Mother of the kid, is giving him the "You're an idiot" look over her shoulder as she walks out of the room because she can't stand the spectacle any longer.  Of course she's right, but at least Dad feels like he's done something.

Um, Yeah

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Short but sweet: those who doubt God has a sense of humor need to live in my house this week. 

If you don't believe in God then replace "God has a sense of humor" with "life is anything but ironic."

When God stops laughing or irony is no longer being defined on a weekly basis I'll write a nice roundup.