There comes a point in everyone’s life when you realize that your parents are nothing more than you in a few years.  They are kids who beat you to the punch.  It’s a calming idea to know this.

As a child you always see your parents as these other worldly people who have no relation to you or your experiences.  It’s impossible that they had to go through what I went though.  It’s impossible they were at one point like me.  It’s impossible I will ever be their age.  But that’s all lies.  They were your age, they have been there, and they did the same things you do.

I once read that Bob Gale, the writer of the movie Back to the Future thought of the story of the movie because he found his parent’s year book and wondered if he could go back in time and hang out with his parents would he see them as cool or dorky.  I wonder if I would hang out with the 24 year old versions of my parents.  I wonder if the 24 year old versions of my parents would hang out with me.

It’s been years since I’ve seen a movie in a first run movie theater. There are many reasons for this. There prices are far to high, they get mad when you bring your own food, there are other people in the theater that can’t read the no talking signs, people bring cell phones with then into the movie, and 99.9% of movies made suck harder than a Oreck. These reasons have kept my wife and I away from the theaters.

For valentines this year we decided on dinner and a movie. So we got dressed up and went to a fancy restaurant. The food was quality, and the price reflected that. Afterwards we went to the movies to see Juno. I was shocked that it cost $18.50 for two movie tickets. That’s insane! The DVD will cost less than that when it’s released. No wonder the movie industry is losing so much money, people can’t afford to see their movies.

Now I don’t know if I’m just getting old, or if kids are dumber these days, but watching the two girls and the guy try to text message and answering their phones during the movie did nothing to improve the experience. Maybe it’s because I never got into cell phones. Of course when I was growing up pagers were the cool thing, and I always thought they were dumb. Why would I want something that would pull me away from what I wanted to do and instruct me to call in to parents? That seems retarded to me. Plus cell phones are nothing more than a status symbols. I’d rather my low cost VW be a symbol of my status.

The movie itself was great! Juno tells the story of a 16 year old who gets pregnant and decides to give the kid to a family who are unable to have kids. I lucked out with this movie because Jennifer Garner wasn’t in it for very long. She sucks and should return to waiting tables at a local Radison restaurant.

So I’m done with theaters for another year or two. By then I might have saved enough for 2 tickets and a popcorn…..a small popcorn.

I’ve updated the Landis theme. You can now upload and change the splash image directly from the Admin Panel. You will no longer need to edit the CSS file to update the splash image.

Note, you will need to create an uploads folder in your wp-content folder and make it writable. That is the folder that WordPress will upload your new images to.

You can download the update here.