More Prose

Cold icy weekend and more snow is supposed to be on the way when the rush hour starts Monday morning. I seem to be spending a lot of blog space b...ing about the winter weather. Winter comes every year, and this one is not as bad as some others in the past. The Gaza war is still going on, and the Palestinians say they have lost over 900 people since the thing started. Sunday night I watched a rented dvd of Kung Fu Panda, which is great visually, but the story is not quite very good--too much rip off of Karate Kid and other chopsockie movies. And now I am watching Walk Hard--a compendium of the bios of a whole bunch of pop singers since the 50s. Elvis, Johnny Cash, maybe some Hank Williams, Jerry Lee, et al. Like Kung Fu Panda it's a little too full of itself, but John Reilley does a great job acting Dewey Cox, and the satire in dead on much of the time. Some confusion in whether the flick is satirizing pop singer movie bios, or the world of pop music, but interesting effort. More and more people are getting tossed out of work in Iowa; I think the local newcast at 10p.m said that 75,000 people are now unemployed in Iowa, but I need to check to see if that amount is the right one. January 9 was Richard Nixon's birthday. He would have been 96. This is going to be all for right now. You all take care. Di di mau!