opinion – Humble Dave

[RANT] HOW COULD THEY DO THIS TO WONDER WOMAN?

March 28, 2018March 23, 2018Posted in Books and Movies, Random ThoughtsTagged Comics, DC, Feminism, Marvel, movies, opinion, Wonder WomanLeave a comment

What. The. Hell. DC.

I hear all the news and comic book / movie pundits droning on and on about how great the Wonder Woman movie is and how nice it is to have a strong female lead in a comic book movie. This is driving me nuts.

First off Wonder Woman (the character) IS an incredibly strong female hero. She doesn’t need a sidekick, and can go toe-to-toe with any other superhero out there. There are SO MANY WAYS they could have gone with this movie and character, which makes the direction they chose so disappointing.

They actually started off strong. She was arguably the best part of “Batman vs Superman.” The parts with her in them were awesome. Mysterious, powerful, Good. Then they released the Wonder Woman movie. The whole thing is basically about her infatuation with a man. Nearly everything she does is centered around this guy. What the hell? It is SO MUCH the central theme, that it carried over to Justice League and became a major plot point in the that movie! I mean, come on? They expect me to believe that Wonder Woman’s entire sense of self was so wrapped up in Chris Pine (I forgot his character’s name) that she was actually afraid to take charge of anything or trust herself since his death? That’s just stupid.

Anyway, that’s the end of my rant. And this is one of the reasons that DC is screwing the pooch on their comic book franchise movies. Marvel is straight eating their lunch. Here’s hoping the fix it, because everyone should be cheering for a stronger DC Universe. The potential is literally limitless.

Aphrodite Aid Her!

-Humble Dave

It’s The Simple Things

February 27, 2018February 23, 2018Posted in Food, Life, the Universe, & Everything, Random Thoughts, ReviewTagged catsup, Food, fries, hamburger, heinz, invention, ketchup, opinion, simpleLeave a comment

If you know anything about me, it’s that I love French Fries*. Shoestring? They’re okay. Skinny fries are good. Crinkled? Yes please! Waffle fries. Love ’em; they’re like a meal all on their own. Steak Fries. Oooooohhhh steak fries.

Salt is mandatory, but ketchup (what the heck is catsup anyway?) is usually a nice addition. Especially bacon ketchup, but I suppose that’s a whole blog post on it’s own. Now ketchup packets were a wonderful invention, making it easier to travel, and was probably born of the fast food craze (hooray drive through!) but I’ve done zero research on that so I wouldn’t go repeating it as fact at your next ketchup party (as crazy as the world is, I’m fairly certain that’s a thing somewhere). But the packet hasn’t evolved much over the years until fairly recently.

This is the next evolution of the ketchup packet, and it’s genius. Sometimes I don’t want to spray ketchup all over the place. Sometimes I just want to dip my fries in the container, like chicken nuggets into a bbq sauce container. It’s so simple, yet so elegant. If you want to dip, you can dip. If you want to squeeze your dead tomatoes all over your dead potatoes, you can do that too! Clearly I have fries on the brain. Obviously you could use this to squeeze ketchup onto a sandwich or something besides fries if you wanted to do so (even on your spaghetti, Dad). It’s just amazing. Now I don’t know if Heinz has some kind of patent on this or they buy them from a company with a patent, but I do know this: It should be shared with the world. So simple, yet so much joy.

I suppose everything has its downside. It looks like there’s more material, so more for the landfill, which means it’s probably terrible for the environment. But it’s all about perspective, right? The environment will absolutely try to kill you if given half a chance. It doesn’t seem SO bad when we reframe it as self-defense. Of course, if we kill the environment we won’t have anyplace to live, so that’s bad too. Oof, I don’t think I can solve this puzzle in a ketchup blog.

This was supposed to be another short blog. Literally just a picture of the ketchup thing and “These are great. Go try ’em.” Ah well.

Anyway, sound off in the comments if you know of any other genius inventions that are this simple and awesome.

As always, thanks for reading, and you’re welcome!

Living the Dream,
Humble Dave

*I capitalized them because French Fries DESERVE to be capitalized. We capitalize your name and you haven’t made half the impact they have. Show some respect!

Coke Zero Sugar is Better than Coke Zero

February 19, 2018February 18, 2018Posted in Food, Random Thoughts, UncategorizedTagged Coke Zero Sugar, op ed, opinion, random thought, sodaLeave a comment

You know what I’m talking about, right? Coca Cola just tweaked their Coke Zero formula and rebranded it Coke Zero Sugar. I tried it a month or two ago and immediately liked it better. I was predisposed to dislike it. I don’t always respond well to unnecessary change… change just for the sake of change. But I really like it. I’m a fan. Way to go, Coke.

But that’s no longer the focus of this post. When I went hunting for a good “Featured Image” as wordpress likes to call it, I found something that caught my attention. Incidentally, am I stealing pictures if I just pull something off google images? I mean, I don’t make any money off this blog, so I’m not using it for commercial purposes, so who cares, right? Right.

Anyway, so I found this picture above of the new Coke Zero Sugar and Coke Zero poured into some glasses that I assume whoever took this photo just thought looked cool. I happen to recognize them, as I have a couple in my cabinet. They’re Glencairn Whisky glasses. If you drink whisky (or whiskey) these are great glasses to use. If you’re pouring soda into them you might want to re-examine your life-choices. Because if you’re a fully functioning adult and old enough to drink whisky out of special whisky glasses, you should probably have normal drinking glasses for your soda if you’re too hoity-toity to drink it out of the can.

Anyway, this was originally going to be like a two-sentence blog. “Coke Zero Sugar is better than Coke Zero. That is all.” That was my whole plan. One day I’ll write a short post. Today is not that day.

Living the Dream,
Humble Dave