Go Frodo! Go Frodo!

So, I finally got to see LOTR... all 3.5 hours of it! Well, I enjoyed it enourmously. My only critisism is that after it finished, i.e. after Frodo had destroyed the ring, recovered, seen all his friends, and Aragorn had been crowned, the movie then continued for another 30 mins!!!! What was that all about??? They´d reached the climax, and tied up the loose ends; it was over! I mean let me ask you: you´ve just had sex, you´ve climaxed, you´ve given the post-coital cuddle and stroke, do you then start poking away again like a randy spaniel? No! You roll over and fall asleep!!! Which is exactly what I started to do during the last 10 mins of the movie. I would have much prefered it if they had just left me with that warm glow of satisfaction and let me make up my own epilouge..... Yeah yeah, it´s based on a book, I know, but hey, the book sucks, so no need to follow it word for word eh!

Moving swiftly on. I am flying tomorrow to El Calafate in The far south of argentina, in Patagonia. There I hope to see a large lump of ice and some mountains. I may even attempt to walk on some of the mountains, knees permitting. I know I am supposed to be going to bolivia, and I am, just in a slightly roundabout way..... in fact, the flight is 5 hours!! What kind of a country takes 5 hours to fly across only half of it?! You could fly from UK to Greece in less time!

I saw a protest march today. It was lead by a line of young men wielding sticks, and followed up by 100´s of old age pensioners carrying banners. I think they were complaining about their pensions or something....

They´re very political these argentinians. Almost every monument in Buenas Aires is covered in graffiti, but instead of the usual "Fuck Off" or "Sharon is a slapper" that you would find in england, the graffiti here is all political, ranging from critisism of government policy to opinions on abortion laws. I think it´s about time british louts caught up with the times. Maybe they could start slowly with things like "Toni Blare Sux Cox!", or "Bush is Gay!".....

So, they landed on Mars. I thought they did that already? Well, anyway, wow. What an achievment! And guess what they discovered? It´s a big rocky plain covered in rocks. And to top it off they only equipped the robot with a black and white camera!! Helllooo!!!! The "Red" Planet!! Surely with that 300 million dollars they could have bought a colour camera??! Oh well, as the head of the team said, it was a moment that all americans could be proud of. I´m quite sure that all those millions of americans living below the poverty line were overjoyed to discover their country had landed a robot on a big rock in space....

ok, enough bitching about the U.S.

Did you know that the average man spits out 70 gallons of flem in his lifetime? Amazing isn´t it?! Admitedly it´s not true, but I think it´s amazing nonetheless.....

ok, as you can tell I´m running out of things to say, so until next time...