Fan. Tas. Tic.

Walking through the library yesterday, i came across a copy of The Departed in the 'you can only check out for three days' section, and promptly tucked it under my arm on my way to the checkout. (Also under my arm? A book on hiking the Indian Peaks, Father Joe by by Tony Hendra, and a couple CDs, notably, a BB King anthology, a Neil Young album, and most importantly a Weird Al album that i didn't have yet)

Well, we sat down to watch Martin's first Oscar winner last night, and its safe to say that I'd have to agree with every review i've read about it since it came out last year: awesome. Scorsese has truly perfected the crime movie, with wonderful pacing, intense character development, wonderfully violent scenes full of A-hole bostonians. There was a time, you know, when i hated Leonardo Dicaprio (mostly when i was told that i resembled him in highschool, when i had long-ish blonde-ish hair, and Titanic was the most money making movie in history. Don't ask.) but the guy is incredibly talented, and i highly recommend it to anyone who needs to see a good spray of blood every twenty minutes or so.


In other news, liz forwarded me this inspirational message today, and i hope all of you take a moment to read it and full relish in the level of full-circle stupidity that inspirational forwarded emails have truly achieved. (For the record, liz did not think that it was inspirational. Only funny. And gruesome. Fruesome.)

One day a farmer's donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally, he decided the animal was old, and the well needed to be covered up anyway; it just wasn't worth it to retrieve the donkey. He invited all his neighbors to come over and help him. They all grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well. At first, the donkey realized what was happening and cried horribly. Then, to everyone's amazement he quieted down. A few shovel loads later, the farmer finally looked down the well. He was astonished at what he saw. With each shovel of dirt that hit his back, the donkey was doing something amazing. He would shake it off and take a step up. As the farmer's neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he would shake it off and take a step up. Pretty soon, everyone was amazed as the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and happily trotted off! Life is going to shovel dirt on you, all kinds of dirt. The trick to getting out of the well is to shake it off and take a step up. Each of our troubles is a steppingstone. We can get out of the deepest wells just by not stopping, never giving up! Shake it off and take a step up. Remember the five simple rules to be happy: Free your heart from hatred - Forgive. Free your mind from worries - Most never happen. Live simply and appreciate what you have. Give more. Expect less. NOW ............ Enough of that . The donkey later came back, and bit the farmer who had tried to bury him. The gash from the bite got infected and the farmer eventually died in agony from septic shock. MORAL FROM TODAY'S LESSON: When you do something wrong, and try to cover it up, it always comes back to bite you. You have two choices...smile and close this page, or pass this along to someone else to spread the fun.

Man... just.... man... I suppose any story that ends in Septic Shock should be taken note of. You're all welcome.