Love It Wednesday #3 - The Los Angeles Kings

A few months ago I started going to the Los Angeles Kings Hockey games with my husband. I don't like crowds and have never been a fan of any sport. The baseball games were always super boring. But I actually had fun at the hockey game, even if I didn't understand what was going on a lot of the time. Puck in the opponent's goal = a good thing was about all I understood.

Fast forward to today. I am a bonafide Fan.

• I arranged my schedule so that I could watch the games on TV.
• I own team paraphernalia. I want to get a jersey to wear to the games.
• I actually enjoy the post game. (I'd always mocked my husband for listening. Me: Why do you have to listen to them talk about the game we just witnessed for ourselves???)
• I want to cruise the streets of Manhattan Beach (where most, if not all, of the players live, in hopes of spotting one of them.)
• I just re-read SEE JANE SCORE by Rachel Gibson, a book on my keeper shelf about a reporter and a hockey player, it's as pertient today as it was when I read it years ago. I loved this book and still do.

So this week's thing I love is the Los Angeles Kings, the 2012 Stanley Cup Champions. I was at Game 4, the game where they could have swept the series, but they lost. They lost again in New Jersey, and then won the cup at home on Monday. When the season starts again in the fall, I will be buying myself an official jersey to wear to the games.

Favorite Quotes #3 - My Name is Inigo Montoya

Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a little while.

That's from one of my favorite movies, The Princess Bride. I remember my dad raving about this movie. Said it was the funniest thing he'd seen in a long time. He was right. 


Last week he told me he thought the new show "Veep" is the funniest show he's seen in a long time. I watched two episodes. 


Yawn.

Favorite Quotes #2 - Proud as Punch

My eldest son graduated high school yesterday. I'm still twenty-five percent in denial. I cannot be the mother of an eighteen-year-old young man. It wasn't that long ago that I was collecting my own diploma from Birmingham High School.


Anyway, it's exciting to think about the life he has ahead of him, so many choices and opportunities. (I won't say it's a new chapter in his life because I'm pretty sure that metaphor died yesterday at the ceremony from overuse. LOL) 


This week's quote belongs to him.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

--William James

In Time - Movie Review with Spoilers

In a future where people stop aging at 25, but are engineered to live only one more year, having the means to buy your way out of the situation is a shot at immortal youth. Here, Will Salas finds himself accused of murder and on the run with a hostage - a connection that becomes an important part of the way against the system.


We saw this Justin Timberlake flick last night. I was underwhelmed. The society in this movie managed to genetically engineer people to die when their allotted time runs out, have neon green digital read-outs on their arms, be able to restore their time via these handy little metal devices or by clasping each other's wrists, and oh, yeah, live forever (as long as they have the time stored up.) Amazing. 


I could buy that. I was totally willing to buy that. BUT:


1. They still drive regular cars. (Must have a car chase, after all) And the cars actually looked like cars from the 50s. For that matter, the guns looked like today's guns.
2. They aren't able to track criminals. I'd think technology would have advanced so that each person has some sort of GPS chip maybe inserted in their bodies. I mean, babies are even born with the read-out, so why not a location device, too?
3. The police/time-keepers don't seem to be able to use helicopters to chase criminals either. 
4. The characters are surprised every time the prices go up on stuff, even though apparently this happens all the time. Justin's character is surprised when he doesn't get paid as much because his quota went up when he wasn't looking. He even surpassed his quota last time! But when we saw him working, he was not working at an "I gotta make quota!" pace. You'd think you'd be a little frenetic when making quota is a matter of life and death.
5. They don't have cellphones. 
6. Apparently Will's mother can't just pay for part of her journey home, so she dies because she can't run all the way before her clock runs out. 


And I really didn't see the point of the movie. The protagonists, Will and Sylvia, were working to free the lower class. But the point of doling out the time was so that the world wouldn't become overpopulated. If the revolt succeeds, then Earth has a huge problem. I didn't think the system they had was right, but what Will and Sylvia do isn't going to solve anything. 


My rating: 5/10 stars.

New Friday Tradition: Favorite Quotes #1 - Funny!

So, the person who was keeping up the Friday Fill-in has gone AWOL. So, I'm going to try to do a favorite quote on Fridays. Here's the first one. It comes from the signature of an editor at Liquid Silver Books. It cracked me up.


I have CDO. It's like OCD, but all the letters are in alphabetical order like they should be.