Wayne D's Blog

Must blog now, otherwise will never do it.


What a terrible 24th of May weekend weatherwise. ( I originally said crappy but someone called me out tonight for saying crappy three times in less than five minutes, he accused me of being a character from the King of Queens)  Rainy, cold, windy, what I really want to know is what braniac in our government decided to give $400K to Regis and Kelly to come to Niagara Falls yesterday.  Millions of Americans saw Regis wearing gloves and a coat with Kelly huddled under a blanket. I'm sure that's really going to help tourism. Anyone who has lived here more than a year knows that the weather on the 24th of May weekend is a crapshoot.  Last year I spent the May long weekend at a scout jamboree in Montreal. It rained all weekend.


Even though the weather was terrible no one decided to head home early so we managed to get stuck in a 7 km. long traffic jam that resulted from the closing of one lane of the westbound 401 for bridge repair. The section of bridge that was closed was no more than 20 metres long.  It took us about 45 minutes to cover the 7 km.  I wonder how much greenhouse gases that traffic jam contributed to the environment.


I finally got around to watching two movies I have been meaning to see for a long time, Ararat and Scooby Doo. Ararat is a very serious movie about the Armenian genocide but I still enjoyed it alot. Christopher Plummer take on the customs agent was very good and I've been a fan of Arsinée Khanjian ever since she hosted something or other on CBC Newsworld a number of years ago. Scooby Doo is a  movie about a talking dog.  The one major flaw is Scooby Doo is that the monsters were real. As any Scooby Doo afficianado knows, the monsters in Scooby Doo are never real. It wasn't until I got home and had a chance to look it up on IMDB that I realized Velma was played by Linda Cardellini, who is a regular on ER. She brings a whole new dimension to the character of Velma.  I found that Daphne, as portrayed by Sarah Michelle Gellar, was just a tad too cynical for my tastes. Ain't I profound? I also managed to catch Enemy at the Gate, a war movie about the siege of Leningrad. It wasn't too bad but the love story they shoehorned in was unnecessary.


I thought I should add some pictures in case you got boreddo you know which one is Velma and which one is  Arsinée? (Hey Yahoo, when is this thing getting a spell checker?)
 

My favorite Goggle video for this week.