etc.

Image capturing on 08.17 17:17:17. [harrumph]

We had no power for 41 hours and 26 minutes and the neat thing is we weren’t overly inconvenienced by it. We had lots of candles, we camped out on the deck when the weather was nice, and when it wasn’t, we hunkered down in the basement and amused oursevles and the cats with bad singing and hand-shadows on the walls. What we didn’t have was batteries so all the news we got was from the short car trips we took and whatever was communicated to us over the telephone, which meant that we missed most of the political finger-pointing that has been going on over the past two days and the reports of the “criminal element” hamming it up. From what I could see, most people were being good citizens, offering rides to those stranded on the side of the road and directing traffic when the concept of the four-way stop became inadequate and/or too difficult for some to grasp. I took some pictures.

A complete waste of time. To start with, Colin Farrell is way too over-exposed, he’s a certifiable media whore these days. Secondly, none of it is all that well-deserved, he’s a mediocre actor at best, an export from Ireland that Hollywood is tripping and falling all over because he has an accent (see below). The premise of the film could have made for interesting drama: guy walks by a phone booth with a ringing phone and talks to complete stranger (stranger doesn’t have to be sociopath with bad attempt at creepy, psycho voice). As it is, it’s just really predictable, lame, boring.