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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.