All was great. Except..except for our ironic, withdrawn 'Columbus'. The more I dwell on his character, arc and his dialogue the more I hated him. But I have a sneaky suspicion his character - his very face - is the same sort of Michael Cera character in Super Bad that some casting agent was like - oh yeah, the misunderstood 20-year-old's will cream in their pants over. All I could think of is how exhausting these guys must be. If I were Woody, I would have shot Columbus in the face - regardless of how lonely I was in a post apocalyptic world.
That's my two cents. While you dwell on that, listen to some tunes. Here's (quite fittingly, I might add) Stakk Monkey with 'Dorkin'' and Volcano Choir 'Seeplymouth'.
Scientific models suggest that if zombies were real, humanity would have no chance and would eventually succumb to Zombiehood. Here's proof:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8206280.stm
and if you would like to see a simulation, there's this:
http://kevan.org/proce55ing/zombies/
Word up C$. You are right, we are getting older. I don't know that I have gotten any wiser, but I have certainly seen more shit than I had ten years ago and I am sure that it has made me a bit more guarded and cynical than I was in my early twenties. I think that this natural emotional progression that has gone on since the first generation is what causes us all to become frustrated with or feel superior to the generations that follow. Our grandparents lived through the depression and world war two. They fought for a just cause and endured hardships that we haven't since seen on such a large scale. So, when our parents protested Viet Nam they were whiny hippies. Our parents lived through another sea change as they fought for civil rights, women's rights and putting an end to a war we could never win. So, when our generation complains about the political machine we don't know how to stand up for what we believe in and affect change. Now we are in our thirties and it is our generation that is responsible, to a large degree, for leading this country out of an economic meltdown, a war on an invisible enemy and a crisis in health care that no one even understands because two side are more intersted in political leverage for the next round of elections than they are in actually solving the problem. So, we see these disenfranchised, misunderstood twenty-something kids and we feel that they aren't pulling their weight. I guess my point is that I think each of these generations has underestimated the one's that have followed. Men and women in their early twenties make up the majority of my staff at work and I shake my head in disbelief on a daily basis at some of the things that come out of their mouths and at the things in their lives that they consider stressful and important. They just have no idea sometimes. Then I think about you and me and the rest of our clown friends as we muddled through college and the early years thereafter and I realize that we were no better and no worse. We were exactly the same. In short, give the kids a break.
I agree with Thunder. We were all young and dumb once – with misplace priorities and a gigantic senses of entitlement. Some of us haven't stopped being dumb or feeling entitled, which contributes heavily to our welfare state and the rest of the world collective viewing the USA as the boisterous douche at the party.
But, in the same vein, I also kind of agree with C$ because Future Me would think long and hard about busting Past Me in the chops with a pool cue. But in the end Future Me wouldn't do it and Past Me would go on being young and down until one day he isn't and he realizes there are other people who are young and dumb and could probably use a pool cue to the face just as much as he could have 10 years ago.
So before you go busting the Micheal Ceras of the world in the face with a billiard stick, ask yourself if you could have passed the acid test in the days of your youth.
And then hit him anyway. But make sure its on video, cuz I find that stuff amusing.