Saturday, March 27, 2004
Its another Saturday night........
So thats all the Jimmy Buffett I am prepared to sing tonight, but the main thing is that I am hammered. Its all good in the hood when you gots the rum and coke. So for tonight we will do a quick movie review, and then an editorial on Canada-US relations and give some props to Womack.
I saw the movie Hidalgo last night and though it is not a bad story as such, it seems to be far too long. The movie revolves a long distance horse race across the Middle East near the end of 1800's. The main character, Frank Hopkins, as played by Viggo Mortensen is a cowboy of mixed ancestry who has gained fame for his success in long distance horse races with his horse Hidalgo. To make a long story short, he ends up facing trials and tribulations racing across the desert and in the process learns about himself, battles his demons and wins the race. Like I said, a good story overall but its totally a renter. Dont go if you are sleepy because you will never make it through the film. Can anyone tell I have had a few too many.
The second topic is Canadian-American relations. I am not talking about governmental relations but citizen to citizen relations. There has been some animosity back and forth across the border for years, but this past year has seen a dramatic increase of anti-American sentiment in Canada. Its all the typical stuff, like "Americans are so stupid and so uncultured." What a bunch of crap!! If Canadians are so tolerant and open minded, then why do we save our most venomous speech for our American brethren? These people are decent, hard working and freedom loving folk and yet we seem to hold to have more sympathy for Communists (Cuba for cheap holidays) and terrorists (see Immigration Canada). Even though I desperately want to be an American, the fact remains that I am still a Canadian. As such, I am not going to say anything derogatory about this country. However, I feel its ok to mention that we are very narrow minded when it comes to Americans. They are good people and good fun times, so lets just get along and drop this haughty, look down our noses bullshit and stick together. ( I am sure the influence of my friend Captain Morgan are more than evident by this time).
If we dont stand with America, then we are no better than those stinky cheese eating Frenchies. Sorry mon amis, but sometimes you guys suck monkey pole.
I am gonna wrap this up quick before I pass out, but just want to give the old shout out to my boy Womack!! There is one damn fine American. Congrats to him and his lovely wife on the impending birth of their second child. Everyone go out and hug an American!!!! Oh yeah, and if you are interested in some first class waterfowling this fall, contact Brian at www.huntskcanada.com, you will be glad you did!
I'm out, have an awesome Saturday night and please visit your local church, temple, synagogue or mosque tomorrow. It will do you a world of good.
I'm out.
So thats all the Jimmy Buffett I am prepared to sing tonight, but the main thing is that I am hammered. Its all good in the hood when you gots the rum and coke. So for tonight we will do a quick movie review, and then an editorial on Canada-US relations and give some props to Womack.
I saw the movie Hidalgo last night and though it is not a bad story as such, it seems to be far too long. The movie revolves a long distance horse race across the Middle East near the end of 1800's. The main character, Frank Hopkins, as played by Viggo Mortensen is a cowboy of mixed ancestry who has gained fame for his success in long distance horse races with his horse Hidalgo. To make a long story short, he ends up facing trials and tribulations racing across the desert and in the process learns about himself, battles his demons and wins the race. Like I said, a good story overall but its totally a renter. Dont go if you are sleepy because you will never make it through the film. Can anyone tell I have had a few too many.
The second topic is Canadian-American relations. I am not talking about governmental relations but citizen to citizen relations. There has been some animosity back and forth across the border for years, but this past year has seen a dramatic increase of anti-American sentiment in Canada. Its all the typical stuff, like "Americans are so stupid and so uncultured." What a bunch of crap!! If Canadians are so tolerant and open minded, then why do we save our most venomous speech for our American brethren? These people are decent, hard working and freedom loving folk and yet we seem to hold to have more sympathy for Communists (Cuba for cheap holidays) and terrorists (see Immigration Canada). Even though I desperately want to be an American, the fact remains that I am still a Canadian. As such, I am not going to say anything derogatory about this country. However, I feel its ok to mention that we are very narrow minded when it comes to Americans. They are good people and good fun times, so lets just get along and drop this haughty, look down our noses bullshit and stick together. ( I am sure the influence of my friend Captain Morgan are more than evident by this time).
If we dont stand with America, then we are no better than those stinky cheese eating Frenchies. Sorry mon amis, but sometimes you guys suck monkey pole.
I am gonna wrap this up quick before I pass out, but just want to give the old shout out to my boy Womack!! There is one damn fine American. Congrats to him and his lovely wife on the impending birth of their second child. Everyone go out and hug an American!!!! Oh yeah, and if you are interested in some first class waterfowling this fall, contact Brian at www.huntskcanada.com, you will be glad you did!
I'm out, have an awesome Saturday night and please visit your local church, temple, synagogue or mosque tomorrow. It will do you a world of good.
I'm out.
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