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Month: July 2002
Payback
I watched Payback last night on TiVo, recorded earlier from TNT. Well, it sucked. Here’s the basic plot, spoilers included:
- Porter, Mel Gibson’s character, teams up with another guy, Val, to rob an Asian gang.
- The robbery goes well and they get a briefcase full of money. But, Val double-crosses Porter and takes all the money.
- Then, Val uses that money to bribe his way into a crime syndicate. And, for the rest of the movie, Porter chases after the syndicate people to get back his “share” of the money (that he stole in the first place).
Oh, and the director apparently thought it’d be cute to have the movie set in the 70s. So, all the cars and limos are 70s-vintage (though you can occasionally see modern cars in the background). And, all the characters use rotary phones, which is supposed to be cool or something (yes, even the car-phones are rotary).
Nutri-Grain Yogurt Bars
So, I bought some Nutri-Grain Yogurt Bars a couple weeks ago, but I only got around to trying them this evening. I’m a big yogurt fan, so I had my hopes up.
But, it was a bit of a disappointment. For one thing, it was a box of 30 (since I bought it at Sam’s Club). But, inside the “big box” were three smaller boxes of 10 bars each :-/. Obviously, Kellogg’s just took their “normal” packages of 10-each boxes and put threee of those boxes inside a bigger box. Bah.
On to the taste. The outside cookie/biscuit was standard Nutri-Grain bar taste. Inside was the “yogurt”. But, this wasn’t your friendly neighborhood yogurt. Rather, it had the consistency of about caramel — not quite the cool and creamy yogurt that I crave. In fact, had I not read the label, I might not have known that it was supposed to be yogurt in there at all. Then again, I suppose that “Nutri-Grain Goo Bars” just doesn’t have the same ring to it.