I guess I’m starting to have the same kind of blog slowdown that many people seem to hit after doing this for a number of years.  Considering I’ve been running this thing for seven years, I guess it’s probably longer than some who would lose interest after a few months or a couple of years.  That’s not to say the thoughts aren’t there… the time and creativity are being spent elsewhere rather than typing them out here.

Either way, here are a few things that have been rattling around in my skull:
1.  You know the movie PCU?  There’s a great line in it where Jeremy Piven says, “You’re wearing the shirt of the band you’re going to see?  Don’t be that guy.” Sadly, Mexico was full of That Guys.  They may not have been wearing concert T-shirts, but honestly, who wears a T-shirt proclaiming you went to Cancun (or some Cancun attraction like Señor Frog’s) when you’re right outside of Cancun?  Apparently, these people couldn’t even wait until they got home to tell people where they’d been.  I drunkenly tried to educate a 14-year-old about not being That Guy one night at the beach bar, but, as The Girlfriend accurately told me, he didn’t get it.  That Guy never gets it when you try to explain it to him.

2.  Despite the fact that most people seem to think that everything HBO touches turns to gold, I’m still not getting into Generation Kill even though I seem to be one of a very very small minority who doesn’t like it.  I’ve given it a few episodes, so it’s not like I’m just pulling the trigger immediately (pardon the pun), which leads me to my next thought…

3.  We really have become a nation of instant gratification and short attention spans, where everything we experience is instantly either the best or the worst thing.  The Girlfriend pointed out to me that a lot of kids these days will tell you that their favorite movie is the last one they saw, but I think it extends to the general public.  Look at what’s going on on IMDb.  Thanks to the hundreds of thousands of fans, The Dark Knight is now rated the best movie of all time.  I’m not kidding or exaggerating, it can be viewed here.  While I thought the movie was really, really good, I would seriously hesitate to call it the best movie of all time.  Does it honestly stack up against movies like The Shawshank Redemption or Schindler’s List or Star Wars or a truckload of other movies?  Or are people so quick to call it the best thing ever that it instantly just shot to the top of the chart?