Theraflu: Cough and Cold

I'd like to start off by saying that this stuff is the cat's pajamas... the bees's knees. Whenever I get sick I get a box of this in the formula that fits my needs. This time, it was Cough and Cold.

Setting up my "presentation", as they call it at school: I had severe sinus congestion causing inability to breath from both nostrils. I complained of cough along with sore throat and runny nose. This had persisted one day and the cause of onset was unknown. My self-medicated prescription was Theraflu.

This stuff omes in a box of 6 packets. each packet is filled with a powder that you ad to warm/hot water and then you drink that stuff down every 4 hours. It not only provides a warm, soothing sensation down your throat, but also provides a refeshing lemon flavor to your palette. After 5 packets of the good stuff, my nasal symptoms have been greatly reduced and my sore throat is not as sore. Coughing persists, but it's a productive cough. The only bad part about this stuff is that is knocks me the hell out. Afer every packet it seems like I'm passing out. And that doesn't really help since I'm trying to cram for a test tomorrow, but that is neither here nor there.

Theraflu rocks and I recommend it to anyone who has a cold. Don't waste your time with robatussin and dimetapp and stuff like that when you got theraflu. I even like the taste of theraflu more than dimetapp, and everyone knows that dimetapp tastes like grape jolly ranchers; so that means theraflu must taste good.

Rumble in the Media Jungle: Robertson squares off vs. Stallone

First published on Cattlegrazing., RB's musings on... well whatever.
"On an average day when I don't have to go make pizzas or manage the peons at work, I found myself (by myself) watching The Pat Robertson Brainwash Hour (aka The 700 Club.) while eating a bowl of generic frosted mini-wheats and sipping some anti-oxidant fortified green tea. Who should appear on the screen with the hyper-conservative psuedo-pontif but Sylvester Stallone. You can watch the full interview on that link provided. Who knew that ol' Sly would ever appear on 700? I didn't. I also didn't expect that the new Gosh Rocky... Apparently I've been living in a a cave. Close enough I suppose considering that I live in Montana, without cable or satellite, and the only way I get online is because my neighbors are too lazy to secure their wireless. (I often imagine how their bandwidth dips when I watch streaming video, and then I laugh and laugh). To paraphrase the interview, this new Rocky is more of the old rocky with more godliness. It would have been awesome to have gone to a Catholic high school wherein I would have been able to make the enormous critical leap from Rocky to allegorical Philadelphian Christ. Apparently the new Rocky is more like that. Apparently the new Stallone is more like that too, with a crooked-er nose. Publicity stunt? Stunt, probably not, but any news is good news for a movie that's opening, I wonder if it really was Stallone's idea, Robertson's, or some Sly handler (sic). I guess that's a long cry from the days when Rambo 2 had two locations in it's film: Jungle and Coke Machine. When do we get to hear that Rambo 2 is an allegory for Heart of Darkness.
The horror."

Wii Sports

Well I thught I'd mix it up a litle and do a review for a video game. So I'll begin by talking about Wii Sports for the Nintendo Wii. This is a packed in game that comes with the system and essentially presents basic sports games to showcase how the Wii controller can be used. To those not in th eknow, th eWii controller uses motion sensing technology to sense tilt, rotation, translation and speed of motion applied to the controller which is then interpretted into on screen actions.

The sports included on the game are: tennis, baseball, golf, bowling and boxing. All the gaes are simple and easy to learn. The games are fun with other people; and even more fun when people are drinking. People really get into these games and it's just a fun time. But fun can turn into trouble as seen here. Tennis seems to be the favorite of people as everyone goes back to it after trying the other games. The graphics aren't flashy, but the games are fun. It just continues to show that nintendo continues, ever since the days of Goldeneye, to be the console to use when getting together in groups.

Playing Wii Sports solo is still fun. Training games really help you improve in the main games. And there's a fitness test to test your fitness age. The first time I tried it, the game said I got the fitness level of a 46 year old. The next time I tried it I was 32. 20 is being the most healthy. Hopfully, I can t least reach 25 year old fitness since that's my age an all.

I highly recommend this game. Though only catch is you have to find one. Or make friends with your local nerd who was willing to camp outside a store. Yes, I'm a nerd and that's how I got one.

An Inconvenient Truth (2006)

[I sent this last week to the wrong e-mail address. So now you're
getting a two-fer from me.]

Too much personal Al Gore stuff. While I have nothing against the guy
(and, given his obvious commitment to the issue, I would be happy if
he somehow found his way to the presidency as a result of it),
transitioning back and forth from glacier before-and-after pictures to
the speaker's childhood on a ranch is jarring and distracting, and
dilutes the focus of the film. Instead of being a sobering, objective
look at the environment's trajectory, it takes on the flavor of a
campaign stump speech.

My opinion of "saving" the environment was shaped by, of all things,
Jurassic Park (the novel, not the film). I couldn't quote it
directly to save my life, but the scientist Ian Malcolm expresses his
belief that the situation should be re-framed, not as a race to save
"nature" or the environment, but a race to save the future of human
life. "Nature," in one form of life or another, will survive whatever
we do to screw up the climate, An asteroid striking the Earth didn't
end life, although it did drastically alter the climate and end the
dinosaurs. So with everything we're doing that's wrong right now,
we're only hurting ourselves; the fatalistic question is whether
people care enough about the future of people to act now. We all know
we should care, but do we?

Also, if we blow it and humans all die, who's gonna take over in 65
million years? Anyone see A Sound of Thunder? Giant
gorilla-lizards would be awesome.

Layer Cake (2004)

Itching for more Daniel Craig after Casino Royale? Netflix
this sucker ASAP. It's a British gangland movie in the spirit of Guy
Ritchie (Lock Stock/Snatch), which isn't surprising
since Matthew Vaughn, the director, produced those two films, and
Layer Cake has the same cast of tens and labyrinthine
underground-drug-trade plot.

What makes this movie MUCH better than those two are Vaughn's
eschewing hyperactive camera tricks for character development, and
Daniel Craig again getting to be a badass with a gun. This time,
though, he's a middleman trader who has never used a gun, which makes
his entry into the violent side of his business sort of like James
Bond becoming a 00-status agent. There's even a hilarious moment when
a friend gives him a gun and Craig's character starts skulking down
the halls of the apartment, stone-faced, hunting down some imaginary
terrorist -- I mean, druglord -- trying to kill him.

So there you go. Layer Cake is a prequel to Casino
Royale, whether or not the filmmakers knew it at the time.

Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny 2006

Alright, alright, I know what you're gonna say...
"Rory you hardly ever post here and when you do it's often by accident."
Sadly, too true.
However, considering I've seen 50% of the last two movies reviewed, I figured, I might as well get into the fray.
The only reason I went to see "The Pick" was because I was on vacation with friends in scenic Minneapolis, MN.
I also really usually respect Jack Black. But some times he falls a bit short. Did he fall short in this movie? No. Did the movie fall short on him? Yes. (Is it really rhetorical if I then go and answer the question? No.)
Apart from the "Deus Ex Pant-china" that earns JB, played by Jack Black (!?), his pick, the only thing differing from "The Complete Masterworks" DVD, was the seminal references to cum. (Can I type that?)
The movie was a rehashed love baby of the HBO episodes and DVD complete with Liam Lynch.
I'm indifferent towards his directing, and I think that Spike Jonze might have done better. The opening sequence with Meat Loaf and Dio was pretty sweet with good performance by the kid. It would have been better if the sync was right in the theatre (maybe it's not just the theatre, or maybe it's just because people from the twin cities hear and see at a different rate than normal people residing in MT).
I thought that it was pretty blase, as opposed to when Spongebob came out.
Maybe I'm just getting too old and think that movies about zany potheads going on buddy-movie-hero-quest, aren't that cool. However I did like Harold & Kumar. Crazy idea: make a sequel to Harold & Kumar instead of cut rate crap like Van Wilder.
National Lampoon's should think about getting back into publishing and out of the movie business.
This rant is closed.