{"id":3815,"date":"2006-06-26T10:51:03","date_gmt":"2006-06-26T15:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2006\/06\/26\/sunday-sloth\/"},"modified":"2024-09-21T11:44:17","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T16:44:17","slug":"sunday-sloth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2006\/06\/26\/sunday-sloth\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Sloth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’m way<\/em> too busy to be writing this. I’m working on four new websites, and my existing clients have requested massive amounts of updates via every conceivable method of delivery, including email, FTP, hand-delivery, and USPS<\/acronym>. One client just dropped off nine (9!) CDs of updates. If the Pony Express still ran, I’ve no doubt they’d be galloping by and throwing leather satchels full of disks onto my front porch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition, the lawn needs mowing, the floor vacuuming, and the clothes launding. Laundrying. Laundering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faced with this unmanageable array of responsibilities yesterday afternoon, I had no choice but to resort to the time-honored strategy perfected by American males everywhere, planted myself in the recliner, and watched seven consecutive hours of westerns on TV. AMC<\/a> was running a cowboy movie marathon leading up to the premier of its much-ballyhooed (well, by AMC, anyway) “original movie event,” Broken Trail<\/em>, which stars Robert Duvall and Thomas Haden Church. I turned on the tube in time to catch the final extended gun battle in Open Range<\/em> (more Robert Duvall, plus Kevin Costner, but it’s a fine movie anyway), followed by Viggo in Hidalgo<\/em>, which I’d somehow never seen (and I remain perplexed by the irony that a culture that so reveres horses would subject them to such a punishing event as a 3,000 mile race across the desert).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The evening concluded with the first half of Broken Trail<\/em> (I’d provide a link but the website is one of those extraordinarily inconsiderate ones that has the audacity to automatically resize your browser window, and not being content with having taken control of your desktop, it then freezes your browser so as to prevent anything else from occurring, including the completion of the first draft of this post), which is formulaic and features Robert Duvall playing Robert Duvall, a role for which he’s eminently qualified and which isn’t an unpleasant prospect for the viewer but, really, it’s been done before with much better scripts. Still, one Duvall is worth a dozen Costners, and Haden Church makes a remarkably effective cowpoke who knows the value of a good rope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I mentioned the script, and I’m perhaps overly harsh with it. It really does have some scenes of ranch life that you likely haven’t seen before. The opening sequence involving the “cutting” of calves will perplex some city slickers, and the scene where Duvall’s character gets hold of a box of “therapeutic papers” (“guaranteed to be free of wood chips and splinters”) is an old west vignette not often portrayed in film. Anyway, part two is tonight, and I plan to watch it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, until then, I’m really too busy to do anything else, including blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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