Boggling the Mind

And another 18th of the month has come and gone.  Only about 13 more years of this, unfortunately!  See, once you get to 2032 and beyond, well... you just can't do that anymore!  You just can't do it!  I mean, you just can't!  In the year 2032, you can't say "Well, it's March 32nd, 2032!  The only one there will ever be in the history of this Earth as we know it..."  But maybe the Republican-controlled Congress will get on that.  They're taking up Daylight Saving, after all, and not just on "Veep".
Anyway, on to the real news.  Never mind the high-profile White House firings, that's for others... but I will say that one of the headlines is that Republicans are warning Trump not to fire Mueller, the Special Counsel in charge of the Russia investigation... I put in that little extra in case I reread this five years from now, and not know who the hell I was typing about.  Could happen!  Doesn't seem like it now.  But that's one difference from the Nixon era: his fellow Republicans had no idea that Nixon was going to do so much high-profile firing.  It was a bridge too far for most of them.  Nowadays they just give warnings.  Speaking of nostalgia, the latest incarnation of Tomb Raider came in at #2 this weekend.  Apparently it was old news and old hat; people still want to see Black Panther, as it happens.  No one cares about a 20-something year-old video game.  Then of course there's all those who prefer the Angelina Jolie version.  No national outlet for them to be outraged, apparently.
At #3, it's the latest triumph for Christian cinema, not involving Mel Gibson.  It's a movie called I Can Only Imagine, and from what I can tell from the plot description, it's a movie about a chart-topping song by a group called MercyMe.  I guess it's doing so well that, unlike films like Jersey Boys and Ray, they went ahead and did a movie about one song.  Or even Beyond the Sea, but we're probably not supposed to mention that one ever again.  Those were movies about a person's or a group's whole body of work, not just one song.  And besides... I thought the deal with Jesus was that you have to accept him as your savior, either professional or personal... probably both.  You're not supposed to imagine what it would be like!  You're just supposed to DO it!  Imagining is for heathens, like those fallen Big Idea types who make evil moving pictures about talking vegetables.
At #5, it's something called Love, Simon based on a novel called "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda."  Where's the risk?  Why do movies corrupt certain novels like that?  Take these two Steve Carell movies.  One's called Seeking a Friend for the End of the World.  It's on Netflix (TM) (R) currently, I believe.  The other is called Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.  Now, I'm pretty sure the average American moviegoer went up to that ticket booth and said "Four for 'Alexander', please!"  Or did I miss the ad campaign?  Did they have some type of deal where you say the whole title to the ticket giver, and it's half off the admission price?  The point being, those are two long-ass titles, man!  Okay, the Seeking a Friend one's apparently not based on a book... (cough - Omega Man) ...but they kept the title long!  Where's the risk taking?  Sigh.  I will admit that the Simon they got is dreamy enough... I guess.  I just couldn't sit through the trailers they ran during "The Daily Show."  Ooh!  Which reminds me.  Before I go, one request... Trevor Noah cameo in the Black Panther sequel?  Is that asking so much?