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no point to this post really, just a couple of thoughts, and I guess that is sort of what blogging is really about. I've been sick for a week, and it hasn't been fun. I remember back when I was a kid, I actually enjoyed being sick. I got to miss school, stay in bed all day and watch cartoons. This in fact, when you're a kid, is probably the best day ever. These days in order to take a day off work you have to be close to death. I swear I lost my voice this week, yet I dragged my ass to work knowing that even though I spend 60% of my day on the phone it is a better option than being scrutinized on my return to the office - for signs that death is around the corner of course, for why else would I leave the office.

I saw two movies this week (while on the train and waiting in the walk-in clinic) that I didn't expect to like but was surprisingly entertained by. "Next" starring Nic Cage and "Click" with Sandler. Next is Cage's attempt to recreate the success he had during the already-discussed-in-this-blog "The Rock-ConAir-FaceOff Nic Cage Rocks Era". For the most part the movie is a one-trick pony, but I liked the trick, and Cage is always entertaining. This is watchable popcorn action fluff. His absurd hairpiece is off-putting, as is the fact that Jessica Biel is his love interest and is also quite clearly 3 decades his junior. The ending is a "twist", and disappointing. The same "twist" is used at least 4-5 times during the course of the film in smaller ways, so this big "twist" just feels like how a 12-grader would have decided to end the movie.

I was also expected Click to be a piece of shit, but Sandler always surprises me, much like Will Ferrell. I see Ferrell's movies expecting stupid stupidity but am regularly surprised by how funny they are. Click is, to be sure, quite the sappy, shove-the-moral-down-the-audiences' -throat type of flick. Christopher Walken is brilliant and nutty as usual. No subtlety here. But I'm a sucker for that sort of shit and lapped it up. Heck, I might have even shed a tear.

Anyhow, that's the blog for today. Totsiens almal and have a little voetsak for good measure.

sick

Well what a week I've had. Worked hard and played harder from Saturday to Wednesday. Schmoozed with the schmoozers, and worked the room better than Ari Gold at Cannes. I flew out on a jetplane (if you can call it that, I was half suprised not to see pelicans attached to the wings to provide more power), arrived back home on Wednesday evening, in time to head out for Rosh Hashana celebrations. Ate like a malevolent king in a time of famine for two nights straight then headed to the Vegas of the north, that's right Niagara, for some good ol' fashioned debauchery.

The next 24hrs might or might not have contained more or less of the following ingredients. It's up to you to decipher: gambling, drinking, having a lapdance by an Amazonian, glass-eyed girl from Hungary with a penchant for ear-nibbling, partying at a club filled with local strippers proud of their profession, being detained by border patrol for 2hrs in a claustrophobic room filled with people who could have been pulled straight out of an expose on racial profiling, fighting off people for a table at the Cheesecake Factory.

The one thing you can say about the past week is that it certainly wasn't your average run-of-the-mill weekend. Where the hell did that expression come from anyway, "run-of-the-mill"? It was certainly a lot of fun though. I did walk away from the mall with more than an Abercrombie sweatshirt and a few discounted polos; turns out I bought a ready-to-wear flu virus, phlegm and headaches included. Which might give you an indication of why I am writing this blog. And am not at the office bothering people across the globe with my sales pitch.

That is all. Any interesting weekend stories? Feel free to share. Cheers....

crazy weekend

Well I leave again this weekend for work. Leave early morning Saturday, return Wednesday evening. Last time this year I was a few months into the job, a rookie. Now I return as a grizzled veteran, a guy who knows the plays before they are called. The last trip was an amazing experience. Working 18hr days, then partying for a few hours before waking up and doing it all again. The thing that makes it draining is you always have to be on your game, 24/7. Like the comedian who is always expected to be funny, this weekend I am always expected to have my game-face on. At the end of it, I will be exhausted but completely energized - it comes with being focused and productive for an extended period of time, which is not something we do day in, day out.

Anyhow I am almost finished the last Potter book (don't worry no spoilers) and I must say, heading into the final 40 pages, that I am very happy with it - started slow and is ending with a bang. JK Rowling has really incorporated all the elements that made the books a hit in the first place and is fitting the pieces together nicely. A couple of really, really cool twists as well...

Anyhow that is all, off to pack. Good weekend to y'all.