"Would that it were"

Ok so I wanted to do an entry on Monday night to talk about the election. But I didn't get the time. Nor Tuesday since I was watching the election. Nor yesterday because I was working on the wireless network with my roommate in the condo here. But today I will make any entry.

And really I don't have a whole lot to say. I've been saying for about 6 months now Kerry has already lost, past tense. I did have the slightest bit of self-doubt the last week or so but I knew Bush would win. That he deserved it I couldn't say. I always new anybody-but-guys were under dogs. As are senators with less-then-spectacular records. Which isn't to say Kerry got so few votes, he really got quite a few. Just 3 million fewer then Bush.

The ironic thing to me is that the liberals seemed more than willing to accept the presidency had Kerry won Ohio, allowing a victory via Electoral College. The very thing these very same people were trying to get rid of 4 years ago after gore lost in electoral only. Upon pointing out such a minor, annoying details these liberals would of course see nothing inconsistent in their various views. So given Ohio Kerry would have won electoral college-wise but lost the popular vote by 3 million when obviously Gore was the real legit President with his extra 500,000 popular votes.

But I'm getting too distracted on fictional scenarios here. Truth is Kerry lost Ohio and lost the popular vote by 3 million votes. I didn't know by how much Kerry would lose but I did know Kerry would lose. I can only conclude it was because of the incredibly stupid way his campaign was run. But what do I know.

In other news I've only barely made progress in the novel-in-a-month project I've joined. I made an entry and saved it as a draft in other words. I should be working on it now but I'm entering in this blog instead.

I've actually been renting a lot of movies lately. Sometimes there's just nothing on TV and I just have to see something half-entertaining.

I just saw the new Dawn of the Dead, I believe is a remake of an older movie. Frankly I didn't find that fresh or new or at all scary what-so-ever. One aspect of the DVD I did like however was a couple features separate from the movie: a news report and a separate home video of a minor character each lasting about 25 minutes.

The newscast was actually on a TV in the background of a few scenes. On the DVD the entire newscast inter-cut from every few hours in a 24 hour (something like that) period.

The feature was of a character the main characters only talked via pen board and binoculars over the month the movie takes part over. In the movie the character is just a guy on another roof holding up a sign with very few lines and even then only over a radio. In the feature for the DVD that character keeps a chronicle of he plite via a home video camera, eventually ending the way it did in the movie but from his perspective. I thought this was quite creative and fit in perfectly with the rest of the movie.

Overall I still thought the movie was rather weak. Somehow I expected a further explanation of how the zombies came to life. Whether by military substance or some other freak happenstance, the circumstances are never explained. At least not so far as I can remember.

I also finally saw Van Helsing. I realize this is supposed to kind of like a cartoon or comic book or whatever but even given that some of the scenes are really out there and over-the-top. Not that bad of a movie overall I guess and I couldn't say specifically what could have been done differently that I would have liked it more, I just thought it was a little too fantastic even for the given scenario.

  ¶ 7:50 PM