The Holtonian

To saturday and beyond

I have fought off death for yet one more day. The battle with the cold is far from over though. I woke up this morning feeling to shades away from knockin on heavens door. But I decided to not die and instead spent most of the morning watching the U2 Slane Dvd. Now i Know what you're thinking (I'm part psychic, also part french) "Chris haven't you watched that a million times." Maybe, but I had never watched it beginning to end which was a good time. Of course my wife was out of the house otherwise I would not have risked such an endeavor. I spent most of the day trying to muster up some energy. Wife and I went out to catch the Last Samurai with Jay, Jesse, Mac, and Jay's friend Dave. The movie was pretty good, wife said it was excellent, and the general consensus was thumbs up. I think most reviewers have given it some rave reviews but I thought one review I read was pretty good critque. The reviewer said that the movie was a rehashment of Dances with Wolves in japan. The westerner is enveloped into his enemies culture, he falls in love with one of their women, learns their tricks/trades, and becomes one of them. The movie pretty much followed that to the T. But nevertheless it was still a really good movie. The thing that impressed me was......

...the real life action shots, hundreds of men fighting and hacking at each other like they used to in the old days. I must say that real life action is 100 times better than all that cgi crap.
After the movie wife and I came home and checked on the old Football scene. Unfortunately Georgia doesn't know anything about football so that game wasn't going my way. However the the KState OSU game was awesome. I must say it was hard routing for Kstate one of Mizzou's rivals. It was like watching a Lion (Kstate) try to take an elephant (OSU), the Lion has a long shot and the elephant is big and smelly. But you hope the Lion's swiftness will take down the mighty and evil beast. And did it ever. It was an exciting game, and I love it when the BCS system is challenged and this should throw the system for a loop. Bed sleep now.