Hucksters of the Year

"...Happy New Year!!!"
and then it was Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and eventually Friday. Aside from closing a work week feeling as if I'd worked straight through the last two weeks, I suppose I welcome the new calendar warmly -- in spite of the frigid temperatures outside.

As opposed to focusing on the resolutions (which I'll keep to myself, thank you), how about some reflections on current events? Even though we're just a day off the Iowa Caucuses yielding the Obama & Huckabee victories, can't say this has energized any interest in the candidates. Same pitch, new speaker. However, I am pleased to see the brother taking the show -- hoo-rah!

Other thought: what gives with Time Magazine's person of the year? How could Alberto Gonzales be overlooked for such a well-earned honor? The attorney general scandal was massive and muddied so much of news space from the Federal Judge story to Jenna Six, plus the waterboard-themed hearings yielding new AG Michael Mukasey. Who knew that being a "yes-man" could yield such infamy and public trouncing. Putin -- pah! It's all Alberto.

Subject Change

Ever catch a movie on TV after it had started and thought it was one film, but find out later (much, much later) that it was not that film at all? I have done this. I thought that I had seen the film Purple Noon a few years ago, a French pre-cursor to The Talented Mr. Ripley. Truth is, I loved that movie -- touted it to others. In fact, I enjoyed it so much that I scheduled it in my NetFlix queue. When it eventually arrived, I squinted through most of it. Where were the scenes that I remembered? What about that dramatic club scene where someone get slapped in the face in such a high-dramatic fashion I laughed out loud? This couldn't be the same piece. It wasn't the same piece. So, I have no idea what film I saw on one of those independent film channels sometime in 2003, but it was French, an action film with thugs and and Euro-hucksters.

As for Purple Noon: thumbs-up!

...time to sleep.