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Tonight, my parents met my brother's fiancee's
parents over dinner, and I was present. Given how badly those things can
go, this one was pretty smooth. Pretty much all of the parents were involved,
in one way or another, with the medical industry, so the conversation was
fairly spirited, with the subject of unusual deaths only broached very late
into the meal.
It was noted sometime during all this -- and
in retrospect, I'm surprised I hadn't realized it -- that as Best Man in
this affair, I'm supposed to give a toast. Yikes! Right outta left field.
I need to get working on that. I figure, shorter the better, people wanna
get back to their food...
The parents were seated on one end of the table;
me, Jason and Lori were on the other end, and conversation rarely overlapped
between the two sides. Despite not one of us being under 28 years of age,
there was a distinct 'kids' table' effect to the proceedings. The wait staff,
however, spared us the indignity of the little box of crayons and the children's
menu.
Back home, caught a tiny little bit of "House
of the Dead 2," the direct-to-video sequel to Uwe Boll's magnum opus. It's
actually not as bad as that one, surpassing the original by a full half-star
rating, for a total of one-half star. Basically, it sucks, but it doesn't
spin the camera around its teenaged cast once every two minutes. Kudos.
Also kudos to the internet, and Wikipedia in
particular, for keeping entries on both of these god-awful films.
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