Cat Pulls a Fast One on Firefighters

MIAMI — It was the stereotypical firefighters-try-to-rescue-cat story, but with a twist. Firefighters from the South Florida city of Weston spent a sopping hour in pouring rain Tuesday trying to extract a kitten squeezed in the undercarriage of a stranger's Volvo.

The crew tried jacking up the car and taking off a wheel, all for naught. The feline ducked out of reach at each attempt to grab it.

At some point, the cat escaped undetected, prompting the crew to spend another hour peering in bushes and scouring a Walgreens parking lot.

They finally gave up and headed back to the station, answering at least two more calls on their way.

Five hours after the saga began, the elusive cat reappeared: At the station, in their fire truck's rear wheel well.

This time, firefighters used chunks of meatloaf to try luring it out. It was unenticed, so the crew resorted to an ultimately successful three-pronged strategy: One firefighter poked the feline in the backside with a Slim Jim, another used a hose to force it into an open compartment so a third person could pull it out.

The feline was dirty but unharmed.

Jared
Molly, Abby, & Jackson
Lost
Rock candy
Gus, Jack, & Thor
A cold bottle of water
Getting an email from one of my best friends LAURA and JENNA and JENNA and LAURA
Adrien Brody
Harry Potter
Lord of the Rings
New clothes
A good hair day
Re-runs
A clean house
Candles
Rainy/overcast days
Pajamas
Making lists
Paying bills
Big paychecks
Days off from work
Pizza
Vampires
Scary movies
Laughing
Cartoons
Lipstick
Original Star Wars
Incubus
Green Day
World of Warcraft
Garfield
Nail polish
A good pen
Funny commercials
Meows
Being comfortable
Chinese food
Phone calls with my best friends
Letters in the mail
Coca Cola
Sucking my thumb
Toe rings
myspace.com
Writing
Final Fantasy VII - X
Squirrels & chipmunks living in harmony
Jokes
Unexpected compliments
Flip-flops
Daisys (the flower, not the drunk)
Hand lotion that smells good
Making people laugh
A good massage
Chatting with my folks
Movie previews
Halloween
Fabric softner sheets
Chopsticks (the tune & the utensils)
Body piercings
New car smell
Losing weight/inches
Dreaming
Movie soundtracks
My job (yes, I think I'm lucky)
Autumn
Striped socks
Chattin' with the theater boys (yum!)
Supernatural (the t.v. show... okay, and the possibility of)
DVR
Snorting coke... oh wait, that's one of the things Kate Moss loves
Good commercials
Vincent D'Onofrio (can you say intense scrumptiousness?)
Batman Begins (best movie I've seen in a LONG time [sad])
X-Play
My brand new 2006 Honda Civic (it's blue!)
Patton Oswalt and other comedians
Anime
Anime
Anime
Fountain sodas
The smell of clean hair
My new WoW friend Kaz
Blankets made from the pelts of stuffed animals
Chex mix (homeade)
Giving presents
Wintertime

To be continued...

300

Cast:
Gerard Butler – King Leonidas
Lena Heady – Queen Gorgo
Vincent Regan – Captain
Dominic West – Theron
David Wenham – Dilios
Michael Fassbender - Stelios
Rodrigo Santoro – Xerxes
Andrew Tiernan – Ephialtes

All right.  That's it.  I've had it.  I have been trying to write this damn review for nearly two weeks now.  It's just not coming along.  I suppose I've been trying too hard to be eloquent in my writing and it's not happening.  (Well, that and I took two days doing quests to get my Darnassus rep up to exalted so I could get an epic kitty cat mount.)  So eloquency be damned.  Hey, if people can change the way words are spelled, I can make them up.

300 was very good.  I loved it.  I'd love to see it again.  But I think I can wait for DVD.  Theaters suck.  The one I went to sucks.  I went the Sunday of opening weekend to my own chagrin.  But my hub Jared and our friend Dino talked me into it.  Damn them too.  The theater was crowded and they started Wild Hogs  I did my best to avert my eyes from the screen for fear of them being burned from their sockets. by accident.

So first the cons; if you know me, I like to save the best for last.

Cons:

• The movie was a digital masterpiece; however there were too many scenes where you could tell the actors were on a set.  Don't get me started on the scene with Leonidas and Xerxes.  It looked like something from those old Sinbad movies.
• The character of Queen Gorgo was not written terribly well.  One minute she's this strong voice of Sparta giving the okay to kill a messenger of Persia, the next she's blowing the bad guy to help her cause.
• While the battle raged on the white sandy beach, blood was spilled.  A lot of blood.  A lot of digital blood.  And that white sandy beach remained a white sandy beach.  What the…?  They could digitally create vats of blood erupting from the Persian warriors but they can't soak the sand with blood?  I know it seems a little thing, but it's the little things that help immerse you in the movie-going experience.  I was at the Battle of Thermopylae ninety-seven percent of the way yet still had one foot on the theater floor.
• Rodrigo Santoro as King Xerxes sucked.  He also plays Paulo on Lost and he sucks on that too.  I hate the new people.  Sawyer said it best "Who the hell are you?"  I'm strafing from the review.
• Most of the best lines are in the trailer.  That made me sad.

Just 'cause the cons seem lengthy doesn't mean they outweigh the pros.  Really, I loved this movie.  It's just, I'm a critic, and I like to talk about the bad things.  It's fun!  Anyhoozlebees, read on.

Pros:

• It's full of waves of freakin' hot guys!!!
• Gerard Butler as King Leonidas is spectacular!  He was so good, even I was ready to follow him into bed, er, I mean battle.
• Hot guys!
• The battle sequences were amazing.  The way scenes were filmed was riveting.  The choreography had to be just so to get the right effect.  And they pulled it off well.
• Ripped, bare-chested, gorgeous guys!
• Although slow to begin, the movie gains great momentum making the battle scenes all the more heroic.
• Watching Gerard Butler made my hair ache.  In a good way.
• Amazing transition from graphic novel to film.
• Hot!!!
• The best two lines in the film aren't in the trailer.  And they were two of the greatest lines ever.
• Waves, ladies.  Waves!!!

So that's my review.  The movie is based in truth but there was a lot of dramatic license of the story (my friend that went to the movie is a philosophy major with concentration in Greek history so I know of what I speak… yeah baby!).  Don't let that stop you from seeing the movie.  Get a hanger, suspend your disbelief, and go see this movie.  It's what going to the movies is about.  And it's about damn time!!!