Uh Oh! It’s not even February and I’m starting to wish it were closer to Opening Day.
Skeeters Seeking Interns. Some stories knock us home from third faster than a long fly ball to center with less than two outs. The Sugarland Skeeters are looking for ways to expand their involvement in the community and also offer those who may be interested a chance to learn from a baseball club working experience. The Club has established an internship program that will allow qualified and accepted applicants to pretty much work full-time this spring and summer at Constellation Field in exchange for either college credit or career-building experience.
They are calling it the Skeeters Swat Team program and, right now, they are accepting applicants for both their spring and summer internship programs. If you want to learn more, check out their information page at this link:
http://openingdaypartners.teamworkonline.com/teamwork/r.cfm?i=49515
What’s Up with the Television Media Today? Yeah, I know, it’s always been this way to a certain degree, but now it’s grown into a practice of ridiculous proportions. I’m talking about the way all the local stations go on lock down, as they did yesterday, to cover the shooting at Lone Star College. In the process, they knocked out about three hours of programming and advertising that both the regular viewers and sponsors were expecting for the sake of burning helicopter fuel as they continued to advise the audience that “we don’t really know what is going on here!”
How about leaving things normal on the screen until you do know something. Then you can interrupt or wipe out what we were hoping to watch with your idle prattle. And while you’re at it, how about allowing us to enjoy the next frontal rain storm without trying to put everyone on “better-build-a-raft-in-the-backyard” alert. A lot of us survived growing up in Houston without Frank Billingsley showing us the digitalized rain bans every five minutes on their way to Houston. – OK, hurricanes and tornadoes and quick freezes are fair notice for serious interruption, but let us just go through the rest of the weather changes as though it were the normal thing to do.
BANG! BANG! We went to see the new movie “Gangster Squad” Monday night. If you like those post WWII crime movies set in LA, or the art of quick and violent retribution for earlier grossly criminal acts, you should love this one. Sean Penn is at his despicable slimey-souled worst as the psychotically sadistic gangster Mickey Cohen on his way to making LA the capitol of his west coast crime empire. Josh Brolin is the throw-out-the-rules-book cop who both looks and acts like Dick-Tracy-on-meth in his relentless effort to bring down the evil Cohen. In spite of its limited “Good vs. Evil” plotline, the movie is Grade AAA escapism, a real “beauty and the beast” sensory experience.
The “beauty” just flows from the costuming and setting of LA in 1949. With today’s high-tech support to movie setting and the use of soft color cinematography, the viewer really gets to feel that they have been transported back in time to a visually much more beautiful world. The “beast” nature flows from the creative way the director uses both sight and sound to show all the patterns of blood splattering and body parts flying from various doses of differing sources of violent trauma.
If you can’t handle movie violence without wanting to go visit it upon others, don’t go see “Gangster Squad.” On the other hand, if you are someone capable of using movie violence as an escapism prescription for subliminally converting movie villains into symbolic representations of the negative issues you would like to overcome in your own life, step right up and buy a ticket. – Just don’t sit in the front row. You might get blood in your popcorn.
Have a nice day, everybody!
Tags: Review of "Gangster Squad", Skeeters Internship Program, TV Hysteria-Casting
The Pecan Park Eagle 
January 23, 2013 at 8:38 pm |
Yes, yes, yes about the overblown breaking “news” coverage. Even that magnificent invention the DVR doesn’t keep us safe when you settle in with an appropriate snack and beverage later in the week to find you’ve recorded an hour of Wayne Dolcefino in a rain slicker.