Yabber-Jabber

1. Bush wants you to know that insurgents are taking folks hostage because “They can’t whip our military”.

Wow. He comes up with these insightful explanations while he’s playing with his Lego set in the tub (rub-a-dub-dub).

I know that somewhere in his well-coiffed head, it all makes sense…

2. Spoilers ahead: This evening, I saw the film The Notebook, which I had been waiting for for some time. I was excited to see this film, and had really been looking forward to it all day.

I was seated about 7 rows ahead of a woman who felt it was ok to share her feelings with the rest of the movie-going folk. Luck would have it that she liked to punctuate all of her sentences with “That’s so beautiful!”…like, “Are they dead? That’s so beautiful!” and “Did he just go to the toilette? That’s so beautiful!”.

This film is supposed to be a love story, and so it should have been moving to watch. But thanks to the running commentary from the yabbering-jabbering idiot behind me, I couldn’t get too involved in the film. The worst was that at every touching or potentially moving moment in the film, Yabber-Jabber would heave and sob and blow her nose while muttering “That’s so beautiful!”.

It took everything for me not to turn around and throw my full bag of popcorn at her head.

I couldn’t even concentrate on Ryan Gosling’s fabulous hair and perfect scruff. I think I need a vacation…