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[which_chick]

Movie review: Along Came Polly.



I don't know why the hell I do this to myself. I don't know why Hollywood makes movies where non-hot guys wind up with hot chicks like Jennifer Aniston. I don't understand why the ditzy chick is a popular trope but Jesus fuck it makes me angry. Why would any guy want such a useless chick to be the mother of his children? Doesn't Joe Average have any ambitions for what I (quite tastefully, I might add) consider the human equivalent of the breeding shed? You can't ignore the bottom of the pedigree, people. I don't understand. *sigh* I probably never will.

This movie is an acceptable romantic comedy with rather more toilet humor than most people expect from the genre. The toilet humor is funny, which makes it slightly less appalling to watch. (Yes. I'm thirty-six and I still think farts are funny. Sue me.) Just... there are a lot of these whitebread happily-ever-after movies out there. This is one in a cast of thousands and the details of it will blur together about two or three days from now. I absolutely hate watching romantic comedies and I'm going to tell Ash that I'm not watching any more of them. I hate them all. I hate them from You've Got Mail to Wedding Crashers to The Bachelor to Pretty Woman to Pretty in Pink... ad infinitum and ad nauseum.

Yay for bitterness!

In other news, I am actively looking for a sailboat, a small one-person one. (I already have a lake suitable for use with a small sailboat.) Craigslist, ebay, online classifieds, I love you all. I do not actually know how to sail, but I expect I'll figure that out if I ever get a boat. I'll keep all ya'll posted on that front -- Dad has offered to front half the cost of the boat as long as I let the boy and the *other* boy use it when they get big enough. (Note for mom: The other boy is Pensinger's son Joey, age 3.) I figure that by the time the boys get big enough to sail the boat, I will have either gotten tired of the boat OR moved on to a newer and more interesting boat so this arrangement will not be much of a problem. Despite the offer of financial aid, I would like to snag a boat for under six hundred dollars. I don't think it should cost more than that to get started and I don't want to have to patch fiberglass. The boat should be ready-to-sail for that kind of money.

I really, really would like a Sunfish. That's what I'm currently shopping for. Sunfish are small. They're easy to work and quick to rig so that I don't have to spend forever getting ready to sail. Even not_your_real admits that the Sunfish is not particularly dangerous or evil, having met the boats in rather more supervised circumstances than I am considering. A Sunfish doesn't weigh very much and I don't need a huge depth of water to sail it in, which is important because a lot of the lake is under six feet deep. If I flip it over, it doesn't sink and one person can flip it back upright again. If it needs parts, I can buy parts because there are a lot of Sunfish in the world, around 300,000 of them. There's a solid used market for usable boats, too, so if I get tired of it later, I can get rid of it.

Comments

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

I think that's covered in not particularly dangerous or evil. I was going for understatement. Too much?

[electroweak.livejournal.com]

I was going for understatement. Too much?

I believe that "not particularly dangerous or evil" is the literal textbook example of "damning with faint praise."

Because of the evil part. I'm gonna shut up now...