Friday nite in Vietnam ; Saturday in Chicago

Nice weekend. We went to a movie Friday nite, and we enjoyed it so much we did it again the next nite. We often do this - a movie one nite results in a movie the next. The last time we did this we went to Hulk and iron Man on successive days @ the LaGrange. This time it was “Tropic thunder” and “Eagle Eye”. We liked both.

Tropic Thunder!

We used a 2-1 for a Chinese restaurant in LaGrange Park. It was great - we’ll go back. We went to the downtown LaGrange Borders so I could quickly look and see if they had a Roman catholic New testament to carry about instead of the endless Protestant Gideon’s I collect….and carry around.

There was a guy with double telescopes rite outside he front door, and people were looking up @ the moon. So -was he just a geek w/ an interest in letting people see the moon, or hired by Borders?

Wait..........two telescopes?

Ah, I love audiences like this. Ebert - and Roeper, since he got into the big show - write a lot about the vibe in a theatre while watching a movie. “Tropic Thunder” ‘s aud. was my kinda vibe. The movie, I thought, was great. I’d heard that it wasn’t that good, but I yukked it up the whole time. From the opening, with it’s absolutely perfect takeoff on “Platoon” - God, we live in a world of genius - to the part near the end when I jumped out of my seat cheering and laughing (along w/ the rest of the crowd), it was a great ride. I like Ben Stiller a lot - and w/ Jack Black, Owen Wilson, and Tom Cruise - I shoulda known it would be good - but I’ve also seen “A Night at the Museum”, which was stunningly bad.

See it.

Eagle Eye!

On the spur, since Saturday was Gf’s and neice.3’s B-Day,- and two of the kids were home from University - I decided to pizza party it. Good turnout - 14 people, before the young ones split. I had it @ 5pm, so that the impatience youngsters couls go and do what they really wanted - hang out w/ frenz. There was five of eight represented.

I like big action Hollywood stuff, and this sorta mindless thriller was very good. Seems a lot of people liked it - the kids @ school were talking about it last week, kids going to see Monday, and then today one of the staff was talking about really liking it.

We liked it too. If you like big action type million miles an hour type deals……..see it.

I think I had a strong desire to have a drink after. Keegans.

The Goodwekend would continue for the next two days. But not me here now. To-morrow.