And thus, the dinosaur found dry martinis and happiness, and learned that a good olive is much, much tastier than a human butt cheek.
And that’s why dinosaurs don’t eat people any more.
Dinos reach the peak of civilization
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Out of the primordial soup
This is the first of two photos tracing the evolutionary path. Tune in tomorrow, same dino time, same dino place! (It is, by the way, quite apparent that these guys are NOT extinct.)
The $5 movie review: About a Boy
Oh, Hugh Grant! I thought when I picked up “About a Boy.” That English guy with the hooker.
Poor Hugh — his life never was the same after The Hooker Incident. (Neither was the hooker’s. She found a new angle on the sex for money biz, this one being interviews for money, and made some big bucks.)
“I was just trying to pay a few bills that night,” she said years later. ”Lo and behold I got a celebrity. I’d agreed to go with him for $50, but ended up with more than ten thousand times that. God has a path for us all.”
Allll riiiiighty, then. Another interest of God’s that quite surprises me.
The movie. Back to the movie. There are a lot of very bad romantic comedies in the $5 DVD bins of the world. There are a lot of very bad movies of every type in the $5 DVD bins of the world, but bad romantic comedies seem to dominate. I feared greatly that “About a Boy” would be one of them. But — pleasant surprise time — it was not.
Hugh Grant plays Will Freeman, a selfish and isolated man. Nicholas Hoult plays Marcus, the also-desperately-alone son of a depressed, suicidal yet spunky Fiona, played by Toni Collette. In the end, Will and Marcus and Fiona and a few other misfits find happiness and a decent meal. Along the way there are misunderstandings, bullies, a tough girl with a heart of gold, some tennis shoes, and a school concert. There are some cliched moments, fer sure, but the movie is sweet, funny and warm. it is worth every one of those five bucks.
This movie is 10 years old, so some folks may have seen it.
On the record: Cops and cell phones: Warrant? What’s that?
From The New York Times:
WASHINGTON — Law enforcement tracking of cellphones, once the province mainly of federal agents, has become a powerful and widely used surveillance tool for local police officials, with hundreds of departments, large and small, often using it aggressively with little or no court oversight, documents show….
Many departments try to keep cell tracking secret, the documents show, because of possible backlash from the public and legal problems. Although there is no evidence that the police have listened to phone calls without warrants, some defense lawyers have challenged other kinds of evidence gained through warrantless cell tracking.
“Do not mention to the public or the media the use of cellphone technology or equipment used to locate the targeted subject,” the Iowa City Police Department warned officers in one training manual. It should also be kept out of police reports, it advised.
The sign in the window
Thinkin’ there’s not a big rush. 