Zombieland

I'm not exactly big on zombie movies. That may, actually, be one of the biggest understatements I've ever made on this blog. I just don't get the point of zombies, you know? Ghosts, I get. Vampires, I get. Zombies are just, well, mindless lumbering cannibals. I guess it would be kinda horrifying to be turned into one, but given that you're already dead and not thinking much, would it matter that much? I'm thinking not. And in general, I gotta say, I find them kinda boring.

So what was I doing at Zombieland?

Kinda having fun, actually.

Zombieland is mostly about mayhem and shooting things up and mayhem and killing zombies and more mayhem. It's not a great movie, and a major plot flaw in the middle doesn't really help, but it's saved by Woody Harrelson's glee in shooting up zombies and by Abigail Breslin's deadpan teenager, a couple of musical jokes, and a hilarious scene in L.A. that I won't spoil. Also, lots of zombies. Quite fulfilling my need to see any more zombies for years.

Didn't manage to make zombies my thing, though.

Lessons learned from the Winter Garden Music Fest

1. How to fail at disabled accessibility: Come up to the two people sitting on wheelchairs and a person with a stroller and say, distractedly, over and over again, "Well, we can't sit HERE we'll block your view we can't sit HERE we'll block your view oh we never want to block a HANDICAPPED PERSON'S view and then sit down right in front of the curb cut/ramp to the street crossing thereby preventing the wheelchair people and the stroller person from leaving. Expression of consideration: 1. Actual consideration: 0.

2. Alas, tgregoryt inexplicably finds jewelry "boring." On the bright side this got us through the stalls in record time.

3. Putting together a band and having them rehearse just "three times" before performing for the first time is not always the brightest of ideas.

4. Supposed "snacks" of roasted sweet potatoes can suddenly become entire dinners when loaded with sour cream and other things.

5. When you are at a music fest the music and the crowds eat away all of the extra calories of the sour cream and leave you with only the nutritional benefits of the sweet potato. This is really true. It is perhaps a little less true that enormous sweet potatoes should be washed down with ice cream.

6. Engaging in these foods, with the accompaniment of not exactly in tune music, may make you slightly too ill.

7. I know entirely too many cops by name in Winter Garden, FL.*

8. If you have a chance to see Nova Eva, do. Bonus: they provide excellent musical background for chatting with cops.

On a completely unrelated note, we are now a Wii household. One unexpected bonus: this provides intense cat entertainment. He hasn't exactly figured out why tgregory is punching the air, but he. can't. stop. watching.

* And some of you said that my trike might keep me from meeting people. Ha. Ha. Ha. Just LOOK at the people the trike has led me to - juvenile criminals, tired prosecutors, careless truck drivers, several paramedics, cops...