A long day.
Hey, guys -- it's been a long day here. For those of you who may not know, my sister is getting married in September, and my father is building a small garage/apartment in the back yard for her and her fiancé, Will. Since today was Memorial Day, both my dad and my brother had the day off, so the two of them, Will and myself spent virtually the entire day working on the edifice my brother has colloquially named the "Love Shack." Yeah, I know, I'm not exactly the handiest guy in the world, but I can carry stuff and hold things in place while other people use the power tools on them. I'm not worthless.
Anyway, we just knocked off for the day after starting at 7 a.m., so I'm seriously beat... so beat that I didn't even get around to writing the movie reviews I had planned for today's Think About It Central feature. Sorry about that, guys, I hope to get them done later this week. In the meantime, I've got a Classic Think About It for you: VHS, Pan-and-Scan and the Dodo.
This is not to say that my day was completely without culture. We took a few hours off around lunchtime because it was so brutally hot outside that to do otherwise would have been nigh suicidal. During that break, I discovered a new show on the Travel Channel, Sand Blasters. On this show, eight teams of world-class sand sculptors compete in a two-day contest to create the greatest sculpture they can out of a ten ton pile of sand. The catch is, every few hours one of the teams is randomly selected and an explosive charge in the heart of the statue is detonated, destroying all their work and forcing them to start over. Five of the eight teams will suffer this fate, with the last one having only two hours to create a new sculpture before the time runs out and the judging begins. I found this show to be a LOT of fun and easy to appreciate on multiple levels. On one level, it combines one's desire to appreciate the asthetic beauty of a piece of all-too temporary art created by some of the finest craftsmen in the world, and to watch it in the process of its creation. On the other level, it appeals to one's desire to see stuff get blowed up. If you catch it, watch it -- it's great.
Anyway, we just knocked off for the day after starting at 7 a.m., so I'm seriously beat... so beat that I didn't even get around to writing the movie reviews I had planned for today's Think About It Central feature. Sorry about that, guys, I hope to get them done later this week. In the meantime, I've got a Classic Think About It for you: VHS, Pan-and-Scan and the Dodo.
This is not to say that my day was completely without culture. We took a few hours off around lunchtime because it was so brutally hot outside that to do otherwise would have been nigh suicidal. During that break, I discovered a new show on the Travel Channel, Sand Blasters. On this show, eight teams of world-class sand sculptors compete in a two-day contest to create the greatest sculpture they can out of a ten ton pile of sand. The catch is, every few hours one of the teams is randomly selected and an explosive charge in the heart of the statue is detonated, destroying all their work and forcing them to start over. Five of the eight teams will suffer this fate, with the last one having only two hours to create a new sculpture before the time runs out and the judging begins. I found this show to be a LOT of fun and easy to appreciate on multiple levels. On one level, it combines one's desire to appreciate the asthetic beauty of a piece of all-too temporary art created by some of the finest craftsmen in the world, and to watch it in the process of its creation. On the other level, it appeals to one's desire to see stuff get blowed up. If you catch it, watch it -- it's great.