It's been a while

yeah, yeah, I know. It's been a while. In the true spirit of blogging I am now supposed to apologize profusely for not having posted in a few days. However, also in the true spirit of blogging, I am only supposed to post stuff when I am trying to waste time at work. Unfortunately some BAD stuff happened this week and I have not had any time to waste. I could have posted something really short, but I don't want to be one of THESE GUYS who have nothing better to do than tell you what they had for dinner last night - especially if it is something as lame as LIFE Cereal. A really good Steak, I could understand - but not cereal

What I WANT to talk about is THE STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS. If you like insipid little Romantic Comedies (i.e. "chick flicks"), especially ones that are clean enough to watch with your kids, then you will LOVE this movie. If you are MARRIED to someone who likes insipid little Romantic Comedies, then this is one that you can sit all the way through without wanting to claw your eyeballs out just so you will have something to throw at the TV. Seriously, its' not too bad. HEATHER LOCKLEAR still looks pretty good in her mid-40's, and Mike O'Malley (one of MY favorite comedic actors next to Vince Vaughn) is very funny in his small roll. Hillary Duff is - well - she's Hillary Duff - not much depth, but pretty good at playing one type of character(moody, conflicted and not very bright teenage girls), but My kids love her and she hasn't gone all Britney Spears - yet. Compared to real life, the plot is absolutely absurd, but what do you expect? Compared to other films of this genre, it's perfectly normal.

oops.... I'm starting to think that I may have accidentally watched "The Perfect Man" instead of the State of the Union Address, but that's ok - I'm pretty sure I got as much out of it as anybody else did. Call me cynical, but regardless of who is in power anymore, it seems to me that this sort of thing is little more than political grandstanding. While it used to ACTUALLY be about the State of our Nation, it now seems like it is a very long campaign speech - ESPECIALLY in an election year. I just can't stand it anymore - even when MY GUY is up there.

Maybe I am a little cynical beyond my years. Even my FATHER has referred to me as a grumpy old man - complaining about everything, etc, etc. So this year, rather than watch it while rolling my eyes, and then later rolling my eyes furiously at the democratic response, and then even later rolling my eyes in spanish at the Respuesta española democrática de Idioma (that's "Democratic Spanish Language Response" for those of you who are NOT mexican), I chose to watch a stupid chick flick instead. While saying I enjoyed myself might be a bit of a stretch, at least I can say that I did not feel like clawing my eyeballs out.

Tune in tomorrow (maybe) for my thoughts on the confirmation of Justice Alito. Or ( if you are Ted Kennedy) Justice Aliyoto.