The Importance of Being Idle

He Is The Law!

Back to work today and a much busier day. It started with a run out to glorious Skegness, and then rapidly took a turn when I ended up helping out with deliveries and collections around Boston. Boston I must say is a weird place. I suppose it comes from being so very old and having so much of that oldness still about. Hell it's a place with character, or at least it does in the town centre and around the market square, with old buildings and little tiny narrow side streets. Of course all this character comes at a price, and that price is convenience. Even though there really aren't that many collections to do there is an AWFUL lot of driving about as it's never as simple to go from A to B as you'd think it would be. In fact it seems to be willfully awkward. Still I've only got to help out on this for a couple of days so it's not like it's a massive inconveniece and it's always good to have some experience of a different route 'cos it means I can do more things!
Since I've been home I've been watching Danny Cannon's Judge Dredd movie and it still fills me with mixed emotions. On the one hand it is a pretty piss poor attempt at a Dredd movie and changes many many things, some big some small, for no readily apparent reason. On the other hand, it's also kinda cool to see a version of Mega City One and the Judges on the screen. Some of the details (odd random things) like Hammerstein (or a at least Hammerstein like battle droids) and just the proper uses of Judge names is cool. And despite the changes to the uniform and the amount of time he's not in it, Stallone still is not a bad Dredd. Of course legend has it that he didn't get the irony and satire of the thing at all and fought Danny Cannon every step of the way, so who knows, maybe there was an even better Dredd movie in there fighting to get out? After all Cannon was a long time fan of 2000AD so who knows? There're rumbles of a new Dredd movie getting underway, which I hate to hold out high hopes for but I've seen some of the concept art and that's awesome. Until then we'll just have Judge Dredd, 90s style to keep us warm.
Something that I feel I should've commented on by now is the American Presidential elections and the fact that against all expectations, America voted for a black man for President. It's easy to be sceptical and assume that things will just carry on the way they have in the past, but the outgoing President Bush really had no vision, no ideas and no business running any country, let alone that one. It's an exciting time, although I loudly predicted on the day of Obama's election that he wouldn't make it to inaugguration because I really don't believe that the backward, racist, redneck asshole right wing can stand to see a black president. Not long to go now, and I hope I am very very wrong.

posted by BadMonkey @ 8:33 PM