The President saw his shadow last night. That means there will be four more years of economical blunderings, right-wing religious legal pursuits, and possible war in Iran, North Korea, and Syria.

Last night I worked for almost five hours straight on my sister's taxes, and just her federal taxes. It was insane. Last year, she filed jointly with her duddly-ass-head husband. This year, she's filling separate. She also supposed to be getting a divorce, but it's been months since they submitted the divorce papers.

I wasted about an hour of my life the other night. I tried to watch Final Destination 2. Now the term "Heaping pile of dog shit" has been thrown around over the last week or so and has aptly described some things and perhaps failed to describe others. But Final Destination 2 is a heaping pile of dog shit. I love the first one. I own it on DVD. But part 2 had no plot. Nothing. There was no suspense. And the editing was bad. I think it's first movie I ever noticed that the editing was bad. Now, there is something good to say about it. The effects were good, all the people stuff. They were nice and gorey. But sooner or later people will wise up to the fact that cars just don't explode when they hit stuff. Yes, tanks leak and go boom. But a trans am running into the bed of a truck and having the trans am's windshield hit metal does not cause a trans am to explode. That's where I started to get a not so good feeling about the movie. And then Ali Larter's character showed up. I know she can act. But there's no proof of that in the movie. You can blame the director for that.

My faith in good actors and movies was restored last night. I watched People I Know that stars Al Pacino and Tea Leoni. You can always tell if the movie is a good Pacino movie if his character can make a speech or give a monologue. The movie started one way and took a major turn. It was all good. I didn't see some stuff coming. I don't understand why this movie isn't well known. I didn't even know of it until last night. The acting is great. It does have a feeling like a group of friends got together over the weekend in New York and made a movie, perhaps something outside of Hollywood. The movie has some very funny moments, but it has been called a black comedy. So it may not be funny to everybody. It was very entertaining to me. And Pacino was amazing in it. What more do you want? Oh, it was also kind of disturbing in how it could be true (it probably is).

There is this odd moment in the beginning of People I Know when they put Pacino between two average sized guys. It really does show how small the man is.


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