Pre-Days, Rwanda, and No-Bowl
I went and saw Hotel Rwanda on Friday. Absolutly amazing! It is one of those movies that burn and you never want to see it again but it is still brilliant. About a man who works as a manager for a four star hotel in Rwanda and turns in into a refugee camp during the Hutu try to kill all the Tutsis.
On a happier note Stephanie and I went to Scott and Dede's for dinner to send Scott off on his first 1 month cruise in the Coast Guard. Dede kicked ass and made me Pre-Bday Cake which I didn't expect.
And once again I did not celebrate in the great American tradition of sitting around the TV and watching the super bowl. Instead, I played Halo with Glen. We watched about 5 minutes of the painful military opening ceremonies and Glen said "Chris, make it stop." In which I replied "There is not stopping this, Bush is out of control." Well, I thought it was funny.
And yet I think playing Halo for 4 hours during the Super-bowl might have been better then what I did last year in which I counted books at Gametowne for their annual inventory. Strangely enough, it was also the second adventure of my Fading Suns game which means The Champions (current gaming group) is a year old.
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I don't know, money. I enjoyed the game this year.
Plus, Paul McCartney did the half-time show. While all half-time shows suck, I can safely say this was the best I can remember seeing.
Everyone was offended by Janet Jackson's nipple last year. I was insulted by the god-awful show. 30-45 snippets of performances by lousy musicians. Like the more they could pack in the more rockin it would be. The nipple was just the finishing blow. I was already shaking my head before her cup came off. I just rolled my eyes after that.
This year's was enjoyable in comparison.
There was a lot of jingoism, though. The hour or so running up to the game was like a damn civics lesson or something. But it was on Fox.
Had I been invited to a superbowl party I would have done the superbowl thing. But, no such luck. So, if you remove the party from the superbowl all you have is another football game. I had already watched a few games throughout the season and all the teams that went to the playoffs that I was interested in lost (Chargers, Vikings, Steelers, did the Broncos make the playoffs? ... )
Love The Venture Brothers. Especially "The Monarch!"
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