Skip to main content

Frozen Acorns and Queen Latifa

    Hey, everyone. Tonight I watched a movie called Bringing Down the House. It is a comedy starring Steve Martin as a tightly wrapped lawyer and Queen Latifa as a lady he meets on line.
    Peter Sanderson (Martin) is a divorced lawyer who has managed to mess up his life. His career has helped destroy his marriage and his relationship with his kids. He meets Charlene Morton on line. She calls herself a lawyer but she is really an inmate in the penal system. Peter is somewhat taken aback when she turns up at his front door. It is understandable when their beginning moments are rocky, but it is a deal in which they badly need each others help and he, at least, doesn't know that he needs her. Her earthy common sense and toughness is the perfect balm to his troubled life and career. His astuteness about legal matters is a blessing to her as she seeks to clear her record of an armed robbery charge.
    Peter's odd friend, Howie, (played wonderfully by Eugene Levy of American Pie) has a case of the hots for Charlene and this sub-plot is a great benefit to the movie.
    I would call this film 4 stars out of 5. See it and find out if Charlene is an escapee. Is she innocent? Will she find happiness as a lawyer's wife, a paralegal, or will she fail to pass go and not collect $200, let alone go directly to jail? Sorry for the monopoly reference.
     In non-related news, I was playing 4 Elements 2 again tonight. I encountered the dreaded frozen acorns. Some of the matches are frozen and thus need to be matched several times in order to allow the flowing lava to...flow. It is truly a good game and I highly recommend it.
     In the NFL games, it seemed that they saved the best game for last. Seattle and Washington had similar teams, similar quarterbacks and appeared to be evenly matched. The final difference came down to Washington's rookie quarterback was hurt and Seattle's rookie quarterback was not. As a Falcons fan I am not thrilled with the prospect of playing the Seahawks next week but it should be a fun game. I am really impressed with Russell Wilson. I blinked in surprise when he ran ahead of Lynch on his touchdown play and blocked for him. Is this guy a breath of fresh air for the quarterback profession or what? I respect his game and his ethics.
    Well, I hope you have a nice week at work and play, and I bid you a good night from the author's green retreat.
      I'm CE Wills.
      
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Dr. Simon's Exoskeleton (Shadowgun)

    Hey, everyone. Nice to be back with you after a tough, hectic week. We have had some snow, sleet, fog, drizzle, torrential rain and flooding this week.      I'd like to talk, yet again, about Shadowgun , the shooter game for I-Padster. I was much further along than what I thought when I posted about some of the battles yet to be faced for those of you who had just killed the Driller. The fact is that I am on the last level. This level has Dr. Simon, the resident evil nutcase, inhabiting a monstrous, powerful robot. His brain resides in a bubble on top, much like a cherry on a hot fudge Sunday. (Yes, I am still on my eating binge) It is a tremendous fight because you not only have to kill this huge semi-person, but there are a bunch of mutant guards, flying drones etc. to deal with at the same time. I had played the darn level about thirty times and decided to check out someone else's battle. So I went to You-Tube and typed in, Dr. Simon Exoskelet...
5 comments
Read more

To Kill A Lobster (Shadowgun)

    Hey, everyone. I had not planned on posting tonight but I have to make something right. I gave Shadowgun a good review last night but I didn't do it justice. Tonight I got past the vicious Cyber Lobster and went on to play a lot more. This is a terrific game! Last night I would have rated it 4 stars out of 5. Tonight I give it 5 stars out of 5. By the way, here's a spoiler alert. If you don't want to know how to kill the lobster, don't read any further. I say this because I had several people come to the blog that were looking for the silver bullet ( figure of speech from old Dracula movies, not literal weapon for lobster) to kill this behemoth.      When the monster appears, he starts firing missiles at you out of his mechanical mouth. Don't run and hide behind a barrier. Get close to him and run back and forth, dodging missiles until you can blast the lime colored ball of light that appears periodically over his head. I suspect that this is hi...
6 comments
Read more

Shadowgun: Killing The Windbreaker

    Hey, everyone. I thought it might be a good time for a bit of an update on the riveting game called Shadowgun. Consider this your spoiler alert and tune out if you want to.     Once you get past the dreaded Driller, things get better but you are certainly not out of the woods. You will want to make sure you keep a full clip in your gun as you stroll through the realm of the evil and crazy Dr. Simon. But hey, you're John Slade, the Shadowgun, and wherever you set your foot is the place to which your authority extends.      I love the way that some of the barriers disintegrate under the impact of bullets. I didn't learn this at my mother's knee but I darn sure know it now. I have learned that there are certain places it is good to plan on using the rocket launcher. Keep your stock of those filled. There are these transporter guys who are aggressive punks. The only way they respect you is if you kill them, so that's the way I roll. As...
3 comments
Read more