Tuesday; what the hell in Normal entries

A few years back when all the hubba-ba-loo was going on about fifty shades of gray, I gave it the haredawg book test. I open a book to a random page (I like to think of it as random, more often than not it’s early middle or late middle, within forty pages either way) and I read a paragraph. If it’s obviously poorly written or purposefully obscure, or if it just rubs me the wrong way, I put it down and walk away. If I’m not sure I read the next paragraph. If I feel moved to read the next I’ll just buy it. Fifty shades of gray failed that test. The paragraph I read made it look like juvenile fiction; a little riske but only a little. Y’all have had opinions about the book for years.

So, I had the opportunity to see the movie the other day and figured, what the hell, it’s got to be better than the book. I mean I even watched the Da Vinci code, and I couldn’t read a full sentence of that book without a red marker. I think the movie was exactly like the book, but shorter and you could vacuum, do your hair, pee, that sort of thing while it was on.

The movie fifty shades of gray was better written than the book. I didn’t have a problem with the script, the sound-track was … what you’d expect. Pretty actors and actresses. It wasn’t very good though. If there was a point it was muddied, and, honestly, it was too clean and apologetic, though, I assume, less so than the book. Mostly its failure was that it wasn’t titillating or erotic. I understand how it wouldn’t be to someone opposed to BDSM, that’s not me, its offense was not going far enough and not having a backup plot.

It still makes me wonder why it was so popular. There isn’t any insight into, well, anything, it’s like any other romantic drama except it’s not very dramatic or romantic, though, boy, someone seemed to think it was supposed to try to be. I mean as best as I can tell the dominant guy is trying to woo a kind of mousey virgin into S&M games and she kind of falters, kind of agrees, kind of tries to make it seem romantic then says no. I don’t know, maybe that’s the plot they trying for, but it’s not really a complete plot. It’s not convincing.

Oh, so, yeah, I bought a car yesterday. I’d love to tell haggling with smarmy salesmen stories, but I have none, they made an offer almost apologetically, I politely shook my head and made an offer, dude conferred for a minute or two and said “if we take your offer are you ready to buy it?” I said yes. I was there a long time but it wasn’t the long time when there’s haggling and you know they are sweating you. Part of the timing was their network was down, another part was the car wasn’t exactly ready for sale. The windshield was cracked and they couldn’t really put it on the market. Something about MI law and they insist they will replace the windshield, they have private contractors, when asked at my house or the dealership, I said here. Thing is I was happy with price and trade in even if they never fix the crack, but, MI law says they have to. The crack doesn’t interfere with anything except the aesthetics from outside.

I’m worried about my typing dyslexia. I really type like an illiterate.