Saturday Shopping

After a little cleaning and being shut out at the public range because of weather (still too icy) I did some shopping today.

I hit the Disney store and preordered a copy of the Incredibles. It's a really good movie and with the pre-order I get 4 lithographs and 15% off whatever I want to buy when I pick the movie up. The movie comes out the 15th, so Amybear and I may do a little shopping then, or shortly thereafter. I'm sure Amybear can think of a few things that she'd like to use the 15% on.

I also rented the first two episodes of Deadwood from Blockbuster. For some reason not all Blockbuster's have these. College Square didn't but Fox Run did. The show is ok. Some people are saying it's amazing, but those people probably only like it because the swearing and nudity makes things more "realistic". It also has more profanity and nudity than I would like. But it does have style which counts for a lot. Still thats pretty much all it has.

The enhanced realism is a load of crap of course. The Old West was a place of Victorian morals where people tipped their hats to ladies. Oh they wouldn't do it for whores, whores weren't of the proper class for that. People also didn't go around saying a form of "fuck" once every three words like in college frathouse. If they did want to swear, they used a good blasphemy because God was taken seriously back then. "Fuck" is altogether too modern for a western. And even in impolite society there were things you didn't do or talk about, like sex for the most part. There is a nice scene where an actual lady walks into the room and all the men stand up to pay their respects. That is the Old West.

BTW if you're a lady and want a western nickname, don't use "Calamity". The Calamity is VD, which wasn't really treatable before the development of anti-biotics in the 20th century. Calamity Jane was not exactly a woman of good repute. The reason Wild Bill Hickok was going blind at the end of his life was that she gave him syphilis. Similarly when she died and was buried next to Wild Bill, the thing people said was "Its a good thing Hickok is already dead because he would have never stood for this."