You know the ONLY bad thing about the “downtime” my site had was losing the Batman entry I wrote about that dumb ass kid who lost his head at Six Flags on the grounds of the Batman ride.
Batman is the last scion for D.C. Comics. He’s the only reason for their continued relevance as far as I’m concerned. Don’t worry, I don’t believe in spoilers so I won’t ruin the new movie, The Dark Knight, for you, but suffice it to say that it is easily not only the best movie of this summer, but probably the best movie in a few years. It’s THAT good. Much better than Batman Begins which was a damned good movie. I implore you to see it, I’ll see it again. And yes Heath Ledger was THAT good. You’ll forget anyone ever played the Joker before!
Leading up to last night’s viewing I went out to eat with the classmates. We ate at the Cheesecake Factory and while there we had jokes and jokes and jokes and….well you get the point. One of the funnier jokes (because we’re all nerds) was our constant referencing of Howard Dean’s infamous “Whee-ah!” and fist pump which pretty much took him out of contention in 2004 for the presidential election. It became a pretty funny running joke as did the admission of a classmate that she was born a very sexual person.
The most interesting part of the night to me was our Hubie Brown-esque breakdown of the mechanics of the “slow clap” (the dramatic kind, not the derisive type). I’ve concluded that it takes special ability and inherent timing in creating a slow clap and only the chosen can do them. I demonstrated that I am one of those types at the end of The Dark Knight. One of my classmates…..ehhhh…not so much! It’s okay we still love her!
In Kaplan news, this guy for Internal sucks. That’s the reason I’m up here typing this entry. Oh well, at least I won’t feel bad about Beerfest next week!