The Mummy lives

About two weeks ago I came upon what might well be one of the funniest web sites ever ... Overheard at Western, a blog dedicated to recording the more comically inane comments made on and around UWO campus by people who are supposedly in the process of getting a university education. In my eight years at that august institution, I was party to ever so many such comments, not infrequently made in class or written in essays. I think my absolute favourite however was a conversation I overheard on a bus heading up to school about four years ago, between two dudes who are living proof that Bill & Ted and Beavis & Butthead are not the products of abstract imagination. Unfortunately it loses something in writing it down -- you need that particular timbre of voice. Imagination the speakers as Keanu Reeves and ... um ... Keanu Reeves.

DUDE #1: Hey, I saw that movie The Mummy last night.
DUDE#2: Hey, cool. What was it like?
DUDE #1: It was cool. It was all, like, there was this guy, he was all, like, Indiana Jones ...
DUDE #2: Sweet.
DUDE#1: Yeah. And he like went down into the tomb, and the mummy was there, and the mummy was all like "RAAAAAA!" and the guy was all like "WHOOAAAA!"
DUDE #2: (pause) Cool.

Sadly, I did end up seeing The Mummy shortly after (how could I not?) and, well ... Dude #1's review is pretty much on the money.

I imagine I should start doing a running "Overheard at MUN" segment -- which may or may not prove that only the names of the universities changes.

In other news, I went hiking again on saturday around Signal Hill. I'll only bore you with one more picture, just to emphasize that there are certain parts of the path that make you fear for your life. This is "chain rock," named for the length of chain they've bolted into the rock (I assume). I didn't quite capture the fact that to your left is a sheer face of rock going up about twenty feet, and to your right is a sheer face going down to the ocean. I colleague of mine mentioned this weekend that last Christmas day, it was a freakishly warm 12 degrees, and he decided on the spur of the moment to hike this trail ... only to realize when he got splashed with spray from the winter ocean at Chain Rock that perhaps hiking there in the winter wasn't necessarily the smartest thing.

I get to this section in the summer and I have that thought, but then that's just me ...