Friday, July 02, 2004

Breaking news

I know y'all don't come here for the politics -- you come here for the vibrators, the ex's, the Britney. I know this, so I won't delve too deep into the Politics of Jess. What I will say is that Curly and I saw Fahrenheit 9/11 last night, and it was well worth the $10.50, and even the service charge for buying tickets through Fandango.

Let me start by saying I'm not a Michael Moore fan. I never voted him into the Spokesperson for the Left position. I agree with him on almost every issue, but I find him terribly obnoxious. More than a few of my friends have stated we don't need our very own Rush Limbaugh. We just don't.

So I went into the movie fully expecting to be emotionally manipulated, beaten over the head with things that I fully understood 15 minutes prior and seeing things taken completely out of context. And sure, it was all there, but on a much smaller scale than I had anticipated. Not even enough to annoy me. I laughed, I cried, I cheered and I became so enraged I wanted to start a riot afterward. Everyone should see this movie, regardless of political beliefs. (Jess' Secret Lefty Agenda: Become…one…of…us…)

When the movie ended, we exited the theater and a woman was selling anti-Bush buttons. Brilliant place to set up shop -- the first thing hundreds of angry liberals see. Yeah, I bought one. So did Curly.

Then we headed over to Ace bar to drink and dissect every nanosecond of the film. Which we didn't do, because the end of the Yankees/Red Sox game was on. Say what you will about the "evil" Yankees (eyes rolling) or how "played" my boyfriend Derek Jeter is (still rolling), but my boy took one for the team last night. Anyone who says baseball is boring is mad. Utterly mad.

Sorry, got a little sidetracked there. We decided to give Ruby Lounge a try because Ace was getting annoying. It's really nice there! How it stays in business when we were the only two people there on a Thursday night is beyond me, though. Anyway, we did dissect the film there without the distraction of baseball, and I highly recommend it. Now, I will return to your regularly scheduled programming of sex, drugs and mainstream pop music.