December 30, 2008

• Prizes awarded=0.  You guys didn't even try, so I won't waste time with additional clues.  My guess is we're all a little gamed out.

  Spent the weekend in a cabin at a state park.  Friday the weather freakishly climbed to the 50's and melted all that perfectly good snow.  One warm day all winter and that packed powder = poof, gone.  We sadly left our sleds and snowboards at home as we packed up the van Friday afternoon. 

  Luckily, Saturday never climbed out of the 20's and the outdoor ice rink had a chance to re-freeze, so we could skate on Sunday. 

  The family came out for a long breakfast that turned into lunch, and we played a dozen rounds of Scattegories with healthy doses of Bailey's in our coffees.  Later, it was just my 3 & me, and we built a great fire that burned all afternoon and early evening.  We ate some delicious ham, finished off the egg nog, and ate Christmas cookies while we watched a movie. 

  Watching the new Indiana Jones movie during the same weekend as Mongol is almost offensive.  I thought, rent one brainless action movie and one arty movie…good, right?  Well Mongol has plenty of action, along with being thoughtful, insightful, character-driven, and deep.  Stan loved it.  Ollie liked reading the subtitles aloud because 1-he likes to read, and 2-it really bugged Stan.  After watching Mongol, I wanted to go break the Crystal Skull DVD to prevent anyone else from watching it.  I’d put a sticker on it that said “go rent something meaningful instead…try Mongol.”

  And since this is a no-spoiler post, that’s all I’m going to say.  Except this one more thing:  it fulfills the basic ROB art requirement of establishing the longing of the main characters.  Oh yeah, you get that.  The whole movie is longing, and I felt myself longing to … well, not to be there, and not to be him, but to have a desire so pure…a longing that burns everything else away, and a wide open steppe where I’d give my horse his head and run free.

   

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