Real or metaphor?
Check out the title of this post. You think it’s metaphor don’t you? Well, let me clear things up a bit.
I’m at the grocery store yesterday, checking out. In, through the automatic doors walks a black pit bull. It calmly looks up and down the aisle, then heads toward the back of the store. Three store employees collar up the pooch, who seems pretty friendly for all this, and they lead him out of the store as another employee sends out a storewide page about a lost dog.
These employees take the dog back to the car where I’d seen the dog sitting inside of earlier. For the life of me I can’t see how this dog got out of the car other than opening the door. There didn’t appear to be an open roof, and the windows were only cracked enough for air to get in.
So, this dog watched his master go into the store, got irritated with being in the car, opened the door and went to fetch said master, without getting hit by a car, or attacking anyone. Eventually the owner, some kid, comes out to get his dog, but not before the incident drew a small number of onlookers, curious about a potentially vicious dog wandering into the check-out line.
I’ve come in contact with several vicious dogs, some were Yorkies, a lot more were of the more popularly harmful variety, but never have I seen a pit bull as cool as this one. If it would have been a Lab or a German shepard I couldn’t have been more surprised. And yes, I was scared shitless … for a minute.
WNBA goes all Artest
Leave it to Detroit (one of my least favorite team cities) to do it again. The host Detroit Shock and the LA Sparks got into the first documented brawl in a WNBA game. For most people, this might be the first time they’ve ever thought about watching ANYTHING related to the WNBA, but this one had a star touch. The current darling of the league AND the former (Candace Parker and Lisa Leslie) were in it, and just to sweeten the pot, add a little Karl Malone (through his daughter Cheryl Ford), and old school Bad Boys Rick Mahorn (who will now be known as Ike Turner’s apprentice for abusing Lisa Leslie) and Bill Laimbeer, and all that was missing was Stephen Jackson barrelling into the stands swinging at drunken fans.
I’m not dead yet, well, now I am!
To Estelle Getty, who died this week from dementia at age 84. As Sophia from the “Golden Girls” she was one of the funniest old hags, no disrespect, I’d ever seen. And who could forget her turn in “Mannequin” as the department store owner? Well, despite being one year younger than Bea Arthur, she pulled off the notion that she was her mother, and we never thought it odd. In fact, I bet a lot of people didn’t even know. So, tip your glass to Sophia, she’s outta here…
The Dark monster
Saw the Dark Knight, and I must say that it is indeed dark. Heath Ledger’s in it. Did you know? He even played a key character, who is the wheel that turns this film. Despite some reviews, you can feel Ledger’s Joker throughout the film; his gravity pulls all things around him in his direction. It was filmed in Chicago, and there are only a few scenes I recognized clearly as the Windy City. Christian Bale, Gary Oldman and Aaron Eckhart all do great jobs with their roles, and if you look carefully, you’ll see Michael Jai White (Spawn) and Tom “Tiny Lister (Zeus), among others playing smaller roles in this mega-film. The Batman, as he’s referred to in the movie, has a heavy burden on his shoulders: he must decide how much of himself to lose to catch a man with no rules. And, ultimately, he does indeed fall to the Joker, even if it’s only for appearances. It’s an eerie turn for a movie, in that everyone of the main characters does something to scar their own moral reputations, and no one escapes unscathed. Leaving the movie gave a different feeling than that of Ironman. You don’t feel like you can fly; you just wanna go hug someone you care about and enjoy a bit of good. And yes, I would (and likely will) see it again.
