There hasn't been too much going on with me these past few weeks. No new restaurants; instead, I revisited some old ones for the first time in awhile, like McAlister's Deli, Guy Fieri's chicken restaurant or Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville restaurant at Universal's CityWalk one night-I hadn't been to CityWalk in months and it was largely the same as last time. I've had some new re-hydration drinks (I never discuss them here but sometimes I sample new ones) like Suerox and Body Armor Flash I.V. As the next time I'll be writing one of these I will have turned FORTY FOUR (!) it's never a bad idea to take better care of my body.
I can say that Pepsi's Wild Cherry and Cream is good, as are Dr. Pepper's Blackberry version. Both are limited edition offerings. Randomly I discovered that Mountain Dew is going to discontinue a few flavors (Major Melon, Spark and Frost Bite. There's also no more Voo Doo flavors for Halloween) but there will be new ones... I've heard a melon flavor from Canada and another will be Dragon Fruit.
Mainly due to its name and label (which featured pink alligators) several days ago from Publix I picked up a limited edition ice cream known as Black Swamp Raspberry Cheesecake. It features “Mackinac chocolatey graham crust and raspberry filled chocolatey cups.” It's a lot... but it's also quite good.
Oh, and I can't forget to mention that there was the wild moment where there was no Internet or television in my neighborhood for almost 24 hours... because something overloaded and caused an explosion! It knocked out power to some places, although thankfully not where I live. Just two days ago, the Internet (but not the television) went out for a further nine hours. I was still a little salty about that.
Two theatrical movies were viewed in the past several weeks. Wolf Man got a rather frosty reception. People didn't like that it was a different take on werewolf lore. Me, I thought it was fine; while flawed (and rather dark visually, although that's most modern movies, sadly) it wasn't as horrible as many seemed to think the movie was. In fact, Wolf Man was good to me; I was even fine w/ the design of the title creature.
Heart Eyes was earlier in the week. I was hoping for a fun modern version of a slasher. Instead, the movie was more like a bad parody of a romantic comedy which happened to be in the world of a slasher. Most of the “humor” did not work for me whatsoever and it was full of annoying characters. A shame, as the two lead actors weren't the problem and there were good gory moments... at least what I could see. Once again, it was a too-dark film. Others do like it at least a little more than me, so your mileage may vary.
I'll return sometime in early March, most likely. There will be a few things I know will be discussed.
