Beverly Hills Chinchilla

Alright, here's what's going on now. Labor Day weekend wasn't all that exciting. Jay's football team lost their opening game. What made it worse was that he didn't get to play very much at all. Hopefully, that will change with this weeks game.

The best day was probably Sunday. We visited some of the new shops on Frederick Road in Catonsville and ate at the Ship's Cafe. The kids wanted crabs so we got them some crabs. That was fun. Then we went and saw The Clone Wars. The kids enjoyed it.

My feelings were pretty much indifferent. It wasn't as horrible as I had read, but it wasn't anything spectacular. I like the animation style from the short TV Cartoons much better that what they used in the movie. Anakin's padawan wasn't nearly as annoying as most reviewers made her out to be. The Truman Capote-esque uncle to Jabba the Hutt was pretty bizarre and unnecessary. I don't know if there was anything about that I particularly liked, but it didn't make me feel as depressed as Episode 3 did.

So, it's election time again and, once again, my family seems to feel that they have to peform some sort of intervention so that I don't vote Democrat. This continues to disturb me. Now, they have supported Bush and the war since 2000. I don't believe that they know about or really understand the part that Evangelical Christianity has played in that administration or the Republican Party in general. They are also not millionaires. Admittedly, I don't know why they vote Republican. They were always Democrats when I was younger.

Anyway, today, they decided to send me a few e-mail forwards detailing the evil's of Obama and the Democrats. Now, if they were just sending me this junk out of habit or whatever, I would just ignore it. But, they seem to think that they are a) sending me some factual information and b) that I will simply change my mind due to the content of an e-mail forward.

I guess what annoys me the most is that they can't just accept that I am and adult who feels differently from them, sees the world differently from them and has had a completely different life than them, and therefore, am going to feel differently about politics than they do. They can't seem to just accept this and let it go. I'm willing to just say, fine, we disagree on this, we don't need to talk about it. But, they seem to think that they have to 'correct' me. They have to put me on the 'true' path. Having already had the experience of being ushered onto the 'true' path and believing what I was told, I am, and, I think understandably so, resentful of having to go through it again from my own family.

Honestly, it makes me want to tell them that we will see them after the election. At least, if Obama wins, they can bitch about it but won't feel the need to try to sway me to their side.

It's all very frustrating and distressing.

BTW, the title to this post comes from Julianna. She was reading a movie poster for some piece of crap called "Beverly Hills Chihuahau" and she misread Chihuahua as Chinchilla. (We were just looking at a Chinchilla in the pet store earlier, so that's where the substitution probably came from.) I thought the Chinchlla would make an infinitely better title and movie.

I finished the Lucifer books. All in all pretty good and worth the time, though I don't know if I will read it again. I think most Sandman fans will enjoy it, althought it doesn't have the same depth. The most interesting characters were Mazikeen, Lucifer's demon consort and leader of the Army of the Lilim (children of Lilith) and Elaine Belloc, "daughter" of Michael the Arcangel and, ultimately, God. Lucifer is less of a character than a force, like God. He has the plans that make everything else happen.

Still reading/listening to the other book. Will fill you in later.