K8 the GR8

Look what I got!!!  Yummy mummy Deborah awarded me the Rockin’ Girl Blogger Award!  How cool is that?

It’s a sort of… pass the pink idea, sort of like a little dig of appreciation to your fellow girlie bloggers.  I love the idea, so I’m going to stick with tradition and nominate the following five lovely ladies:

Me mammy, because she rocks, and not just in her chair by the fire.  When I told you your hairdo was like an owl, I meant it in the nicest way!

Baino, because she and I seem to be cut from the same tarp.  Not only will you love reading her blog, but you might find yourself wanting to go on mad camping trips with her too.  I finally heard the podcast the other week, and I realised that when Baino was saying really nice things about my blog, I couldn’t hear her at the time, so it sounded like I was ignoring her.  This is my chance to say thanks chickie!

Kate, over at ‘One More Thing…‘ because she is the Zen Goddess of finding a giggle in life’s little foibles.  She’s just moved to a new spot, so be sure you’ve updated yourselves!

Ellybabes is a radical chick with brainy ideas that can hold and drink from a bottle without using her hands… well  I’m impressed anyway!

Carli, because she understands how the Cookie Crumbles.  I lurk around her site frequently, but I don’t comment much, so she’s probably going to be wondering who in the name of Elvis I am.  Carli, you’re the queen of saying it how it is, and your film reviews rock.  Keep it up, dollface.

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On a different note, I’m poured over the latest issue of the Wicklow People!  I get a special extra-local version that totally blows my mind…

Cheers Sparky!

Yeah so it’s 3am or so in the morning.  Insomnia rocks my world. 

So I watched this film tonight over some leftover wine and othersuch intoxitating substances with TAT called ‘Idiocracy‘.  It’s the sort of film who’s box you’d pass in the videoshop many times, thinking… yeah, I’ll wait ’till it appears on TV…  but something pushed me towards it out of the blue so I splurged.

You’re probably never going to watch it, so I’m going to tell you what it’s about.

This guy (played by Luke Wilson), middle aged, middle height, middle weight, mediocracy. He works for the military.  He’s chosen to participate in a military operation to be frozen, and to be defrosted in times of war when able bodied men are needed most.  He has no family so he figures; Hey! Why not?!

Included in this experiment is a prostitute.  For the craic.

There is, however, a terrible incident where this particular sector of the military is destroyed, thus leaving both freezer-capsules to be lost and forgotten…

…for 500 years.

Our hero wakes up as a result of a garbage avalanche which is a result of mankind’s total deterioration.

You see the theory behind the film is that evolution doesn’t depend on the smartest or the fittest.  It depends on fertility.  All those crackheads you see on the Jerry Springer show - trailer park U.S.A. - are producing the future.  The surgeons and physicists of our age are too busy to have children.

Think about it.

So anyway… our hero wakes up to a thick nation.  He gets arrested for talkin’ queer.  The world is based on commercialism and gatorade, so he gets nowhere near a fair trial…hey I’m giving away too much of the film so I’ll leave you with a quote from it. 

(Our hero is in coversation with the prostitute, his only companion from 500 years ago.  He has just been told by the President of the United States that he’s the most intelligent person in the world.  Giving his surrounding company, he doesn’t need much convincing, but has been faced with the dilemma of fixing the chaos that surrounds him, caused by generations of sheer stupidity.  He’s overwhelmed with the fact that he, an average Joe who has nothing special to offer, is now the cleverest person in the world.)

The prostitute says: “You think Einstein walked around thinkin’ everyone was a bunch of dumb shits?”

Joe stops and thinks.  “Yeah, hadn’t thought of that.”

She replies: “Now you know why he built that bomb.”

Visual bubblegum with a bite!