Whats been going on around here?
Posted in: Heroes, Life, Literature, Thankful | Posted by: rcornish | Comments: 1 | Date: 30 October, 2008
I have kind of been thinking the last few blogs have almost been like me writing as auto bot with out really letting myself get into the writing so much. Anyway, as I am often prone to do, I thought I would just put a blog out that just basically said what is going on with me and my life. Some of you may recognize the title of the blog and if so, great for you! So, I am thinking a list here, but let me see how it works and I will reserve the right to change it later. Read more…
I know, impressive. I saw this movie this evening and I am already writing about it. It must be something weird in the air, nearly Halloween, or just something else weird. So I debated between this movie, Appaloosa, and another movie, a French action thriller, titled, Tell No One. Appaloosa won out in the end because it was a western and it co-starred Vigo Mortensen. So off to see I went, to an almost empty theatre, as I caught the very earliest show I could. I am thinking, in hindsight, that I must have caught the tail end in the run, but for the life of me I only really just recall having seen information about with in the last week or so. 
Gay marriage and equal rights for those so aligned – not something that you have heard much of this election cycle, which is kind of surprising considering the hot button issue that it had been back the last two presidential elections. I have only heard mention of it in passing this cycle and really not from any of the candidates themselves. I guess I heard it mentioned on the radio in passing the other idea, specifically some folks saying that it was not such a big issue to them compared to other things this time around and of course the counter view by some who are pushing for it that it is a major issue. 
I admit I am using a play on words in the title. Many is the eve that I am spent in the two places. Ad to that the restaurant that is now in its 2nd or 3rd iteration that used to be a drug store across the corner and Irish Pub down the street named McCarthy’s and you pretty much have my social scene for a large part of my college years, some what during after college and especially after the divorce so many years ago. And to just show how things are cyclical in nature, where did I start hanging out again after things went crazy back in 2007? Gosh, that really seems like it was longer ago then that now. 
This movie is coming out on HBO (and recently was released on DVD) this month and once again I am running this far behind in giving a review of it. I actually caught this at the theater in probably its last week at the cheap cinema back during the summer sometime. The movie itself it definitely not for everyone. First is the fact that is a historical biographical film that is slightly over two hours long. Ad to that, it was done by a foreign film crew by director Sergei Bodrov, who is Russian. And lastly consider that the entire movie is filmed using a mixture language, mostly Mongolian, and subtitled. 
This goes back to a note I wrote myself, that originally said, “Recall the trip to the mall a few weeks ago? Yea, you love the awesomeness of a few of the new fashions, but ugh, the expense of it all. And add to that all the people and all the little shops and such and I am just done with it.” That is all 100% true. I do like to occasionally indulge the false sense of fashion that I have go check out things at the mall. I, however would never like to pay mall prices for things as a general rule. And even that checking out what is fashionable or is looking good is getting to be something that I engage in less and less often. Given that the last 10 years, I have only on about five occasions really picked out something myself that was fashionable it makes sense, compared to 20 years ago when I was all about trying to be fashionable. 
I found myself driving yesterday and listened a bit to the radio news and talk shows. There was a lot of discussion by various personalities that indicated that there really probably are not any undecided voters out there still. The general idea was that folks had decided and were not saying how they felt at this point for one reason or another. I personally found this kind of humorous, especialy given some of the blogs and comments that I have been reading from some friends of mine. There are a significant number of folks out there that I think who are still legitimately undecided. 
I spent sometime early this morning catching up on some blogs that I have not managed to visit much lately for one reason or another. As I was reading through several suggestions and ideas from a couple of the sites in regards to moving toward a more green idea or way of doing things I came across a couple of things with which I have issue or just a point to make. 
You all may recall that a couple of nights ago I sent out a plea to anyone that had done a photo gallery plugin on 
Despite not feeling so great early today, I went to do this alumni networking event at my old university, Transylvania, this eve. In theory, I went mostly to met up and see what alumni were active here in the Lexington area as well as actually do some networking. It was also a nice opportunity to see the inside of some of campus halls that I had not seen in at least fifteen years. The event was designed for that but also for us to give some insight to the incoming freshmen class as to what they could expect in the real world in regards to particular majors. In theory it could also be a networking opportunity for upper class-men to met people who are out in the world, but the only ones I noted in attendance that were not the poor required freshman in University Studies 101 were those students that had, ahem, volunteered to assist their respective major.
