Holiday Recap

I'm sitting here at my parent's house in the middle of nowhere. It's Dec 29th and I go back to work tomorrow. Bummer. When it's all been said and done I'll have only been home for about 90 hours. After such a quiet Christmas it's so nice to come home to a big Larabie family get together. We had a quiet dinner with the immediate family on boxing day. Then spent the day at Sandy Beach with the whole family. Yesterday we went to the quaint town of Picton for a ridiculous amount of second hand shopping with mom. I've never seen anyone get a deal like her, although Emilie is a close second. I also ate the best bowl of soup I've ever had at a small coffee shop called The Bean Counter. If you're even in Picton it's right across the street from the giant tiger. It was potato bacon soup and it's bumped me into a new soup bracket. That evening I visited my oldest friend Erin, and went and saw Sherlock Holmes. I thoroughly enjoyed Sherlock Holmes and I think io9's Annalee Newitz' said it best in her review.

"In a season full of swollen special effects blockbusters and annoying Christmas stories, badboy Brit director Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes is a welcome respite. It's a simple whodunnit with Victorian flourishes and a lot of incredibly hammy acting from star Robert Downey, Jr., playing Holmes as a badass Hunter Thompson type. When he's not solving crimes or using his powers of observation to kick bad guys in the nuts, Downey's Holmes mopes in his rooms, taking drugs and testing new kinds of explosives. Jude Law plays Watson with tweedy aplomb. Downey and Law have such incredible chemistry together that every scene featuring the two of them crackles with homoerotic zing and makes you fall completely in love with these two masters of logic who can also fight like Irish wrestlers (did I mention the great Irish wrestling scene? oh yeah)."

Today, my last full day before going back to the city. The whole family, aunts uncles and cousin's are coming to our house for a game night. How fun is that? We even have a trophy that we got at M.O.D. in Picton. All and all it was a fantastic holiday, and thats not even counting the presents. Thanks to all my family for making it so wonderful.

Long Overdue!

I'm back! Although I never really left, just got a new computer with a keyboard that doesn't really work, and makes typing really painstaking and annoying. I came accross an article today "the worst album covers of the decade" and I had to post a comparison.

First MC Hammers "Look Look Look" Album Cover





And now...Doctor Who.


I assume this will lead to some reslly awesome crossovers. Or some really terrible fanfic.