My plans for this weekend
Friday, March 9th, 2007OK, so yesterday there were issues (this is a ’slice of life’ post, so be warned).
MastaG had been promised a trip to the Ghost Rider movie. Due to circumstances beyond our control, despite the best efforts of everybody involved, the trip didn’t happen. He was not happy about this.
Neither was I, because he came home that day with a report card chock full of As and Bs, and he got As on the projects he’d been stressing so hard over for the past week or to (by stressing, I mean worrying and procrastinating. He takes after his daddy).
Now, I don’t want to watch Ghost Rider. I always thought the idea of a flaming guy on a motorcycle was kinda lame, and I don’t like Nicholas Cage’s particular style of acting. However, 10 year olds are 10 year olds, and he had it set in his head.
This is what I want to watch…
Oh hell yes. We dine in hell indeed, and it’ll probably be spagetti-0s, but dammit, they’ll be warm.
So, this is the thing. The other day, I kinda told ol’MastaG that if he’ll just be cool about not seeing the movie last night, I’ll take him to Ghost Rider, AND take him with me to see 300 on Saturday.
I think this is probably one of the goriest movies ever made, so I think I might take him in the guise of it being a ‘history lesson’. Because, hell, Thermopylae has life lessons for everybody, right?
Indeed.
Lessons like going around without a shirt on, and smiting people. Thats what made this great country what it is.
You can’t put a price on a lesson like that, and if I have to take one for the team, and be viewed the most reckless father in the world for taking a 10 yr old to a gory assed movie, well, I do it for America.
