{"id":886,"date":"2013-01-22T06:30:27","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T12:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2013\/01\/22\/130122-fromthearchives\/"},"modified":"2022-11-28T21:29:28","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T03:29:28","slug":"130122-fromthearchives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2013\/01\/22\/130122-fromthearchives\/","title":{"rendered":"And now for something completely different, sort of."},"content":{"rendered":"

I admit I twisted off with yesterday’s post<\/a>, but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. Now that I’ve got that out of my system, don’t look for much in the way of political commentary for a good long while. Unless…well…never mind.<\/p>\n

As an expression of contrition, allow me to repost another Gazette offering from 2009, which should get us back on track, especially considering that another installment in the Die Hard<\/i>  franchise is set to open on Valentine’s Day. How appropriate is that?<\/p>\n

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So, we took in a matin\u00e9e showing of Taken<\/a><\/em> today, and as we walked out of the theater I bounced this idea off MLB<\/acronym>.<\/p>\n

“They need to pair up Liam Neeson’s Bryan Mills with Bruce Willis’s John McClain and have them be dads who volunteer to be chaperones on a high school trip in order to keep an eye on their daughters. Something could go terribly wrong — terrorists could, like, kidnap the whole class and, like, do mean stuff — and Bryan and John could go into action to save them.”<\/p>\n

I know, it sounds lame, but what if the field trip was to Washington, D.C. And what if the bad guys were actually Congress? Starting to see the appeal now?<\/p>\n

OK, it’s just a fantasy, but if you’re a Hollywood screenwriter cruising the net for ideas, remember where you heard it.<\/p>\n

Anyway, if you haven’t seen Taken<\/em> and you’re a fan of the Die Hard<\/em> movies, go see it. Neeson doesn’t have Willis’s comic flair, but to paraphrase Johner in Alien: Resurrection<\/a><\/em>*, he is not the guy with whom you want to **** (pardon my French special characters, which is appropriate given that most of the movie’s action took place in Paris).<\/p>\n

*This is an under-appreciated member of the “Alien” line-up, in my opinion. The movie is worth watching if only for Ripley’s basketball scene, and getting to see the corrupt General Perez pull his own pineal gland** out of the back of his head and stare at it in horror is, well, compelling beyond description.<\/span><\/p>\n


\n**OK, I have no idea if it really was a pineal gland, but it was small and icky and seemed like something a person would be really sad to be holding in his hand.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Oops. I just noticed that this was a political post after all. My bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wherein I resurrect a post from four years ago to make a point that I’m pretty sure I never get around to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-plain-silly","category-movies","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11455,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions\/11455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}