on a rainy night

Imagine this (feel free to substitute girl for guy in your particular fantasy)...

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One rainy night, your girlfriend (wife, et al) calls and to announce she's on her way over. Five minutes later, she knocks on the door. When you answer she steps back past the edge of the awning and into the rain. She stands there smiling with one arm extended out, beckoning you. Her hair is slowly matted down by the precipitation, but the smile on her face can't be washed away as you step out in your tee shirt, jeans and bare feet to join her.

Wordlessly, you meet in a kiss. A kiss that lasts until you are both shivering in the downpour. Shaking from the cold or from the excitement of the kiss, you can't tell...

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I've had a couple memorable kisses in the rain. None quite like the one my activie imagination just conjured up, but they can be as good as they sound. Trust me on this one. If you find yourself under cloud cover, and you got someone you like kissing... you need no other excuse. In fact, as memory serves, that is the best excuse.

I'll get back to my normal attitude laden blogs soon enough, but tonight my closet romantic has gotten hold of the keyboard. Until then, take my advice, give the story your own twist, and go for it. :)

A Quantum of Spectre

I said it when I walked out of the theater after seeing Casino Royale, and I'll say it again after seeing Quantum of Solace - "SPECTRE". (Google it or watch Thunderball)

That has to be what they're building up to, I'll be heart broken if it isn't. Pure genius the way they're doing it too.

People who thought it was plot light didn't see it as the necessary transitional film that it is. It was more subtle on the content than say Moonraker, but also a lot less far flung.

I think Daniel Craig is now my favorite Bond. Yup, better than Connery. I'm glad to see the silly bond girl names as well as Q missing from the new movies. Not because they were bad in their time, but because I like the new approach to Bond (less camp). Those two things would have been way out of place with the new no-nonsense, gritty Bond character. He's still charming, but not so much with the cavalier playboy attitude.

Go see this Quantum of Solace, it'll make the next one even better.

Every story of vengence

In the course of any tale of vengeance the protagonist, or rather revenger, is asked, "Would he/she really want this for you? Would he/she want you to be consumed with vengeance?"

I'm going to state for the record, yes.

If a brother / friend / wife / lover / parent were to be filled with an all consuming rage over my death I would be honored. If the dark side of your soul takes over and you feel compelled to bring those who did me wrong to an untimely end, then you have my blessing to take the law into your own hands.

In fact, I'll try to leave you some resources in my will. If you think you might be interested in a position as my future vindicator, feel free to make requests. It's really the least I can do. Won't be a bat mobile or anything, but I'll see what I can come up with - after all, I want you to succeed.

A game my roommate and I used to play

So I gave Chuck a second chance today. For some reason I've been repulsed by this show. It has always seemed like an insipid cow clothed in a robe of golden thread and put on the cover of Vogue.

I have only seen the show once last year. But today, I was painting upstairs and half watched / half listened to it because I was too lazy to clean up enough to change the channel.

Let me give this synopsis of the very first part of the show - Chuck is a spy (of sorts) who has recently gotten a normal girlfriend. She used to be unwittingly involved with a bad guy as his assistant or some such. Now Chuck and his friends must find some sort of list that will tell the good guys who all of the bad guy's allies & agents are.

Now for the game - made even better by the advent of TiVo. You pause the TV and announce to those watching with you - "I could write this shit". You should try to do this in an obnoxious and bold way, thus making you even more awesome when you are right - and even more of a douche bag when you're wrong.

After said announcement, you must prophesize what will happen next before unpausing the scene to see if you are a Hollywood Nostradamus. Thus you will have earned either the right to gloat because you can peer into the minds of mediocre TV writers, or be derided because you've just made a huge ass of yourself.

I'm pretty sure the average reader here is ready to stop scrolling down and announce - "I could blog this shit"

Like you, I was ready to play after having seen only the intro of Chuck. Even solo, I stopped to announce to the paint drying around me - Chuck's girlfriend would get involved in the plot to uncover the list, but in an endearing way that would make her seem more trustworthy. Then at the very end of the episode she would be alone with Chuck and we would discover that she was among the enemies of the Chuck's spy agency.

Sometimes this game is too easy.
Pete: 1
Chuck: 0

So now you have a new game to play with your TiVo. I'm sure one of you clever blokes could also make it into a drinking game if you were so inclined. Good luck, and good luck finding a TV show that will actually stump you.

A special kind

Every once in a while, you come across a special kind of asshole. One that just stands out as special, at least in the moment. Today, I was driving behind a guy in a Prius who threw a cigarette butt from the window. Really dude? Isn't that like a vegetarian who likes making sausage?

That guy is the special kind of asshole I'm referring to. He was probably on the way to the pound to kick some puppies after having just recycled all his plastic waste.

One last presidential blog

Despite my disagreements with the man, I find McCain to be among the most honorable men in politics. I've said it since the primaries, and I still stand by it.

And if you were able to watch his speech and not feel some of that sense of honor and service, then you're truly an unthinking drone of your party. Congratulations, because eventually you'll belong to the decadent & misplaced party that the Middle has come to hate and are no better than the Bush die-hards you've come to despise. Its the same coin kids.

Well fought, and well spoken Senator. But despite that respect, it's a little hard not to pity him tonight. Its got to be a tough night when you know you could never be in the running again.

-From the Middle.

Election eve!

If only coastal residents were allowed to vote, the election would be a landslide. Texas not withstanding.

I seriously do not know of a single person voting Republican in tomorrow's presidential election. Informal, sure, but I think I know a pretty good cross section of people in my age bracket.

I'm actually a little surprised how much fervor my east coast friends are bringing to the Democratic side, up to and including someone running a campaign office. My peeps, my generation is really coming into power. Get used to us, we're here to run the country for a while... until we're replaced by our kids of course. Maybe I should run for office soon. (?)

The only way I foresee McCain winning is if the entire population housed between Arizona and Ohio voted for McCain.