I'm back. Just like that. In one of those weird twists of life, fate and the internet, I read a message my from a stranger on my husband's new Facebook page who said he enjoyed my writing and it inspired me to give the ole' blog thing another go! Then, I actually had to Google (google when it's a verb?) my own blog and it took me about five minutes to find a link to it in my email. I couldn't even remember what it was called! It's been that long.
I like to think there are legions of you out there who have been returning the The Jon Ross Spot daily - only to be disappointed each day that I've neglected to post an update. Well, I'm sorry, I know that my review of Avatar can only sustain you for so long. But your nights of sorrow are over.
So, an update: I went to and graduated from grad school, adopted another dog (Barbara Ducky), fostered scads of puppies, joined Instagram, became an extremely minor viral sensation, photographed my brother-in-law's wedding in Wisconsin, met Kit Harrington, and started working for ABC News 20/20 - not necessarily in that order. Here's me with Kit:
I'm only going to talk about that last part in the vaguest of terms, because that seems prudent for my career, and I like to keep an air of mystery about me. So I'm going to try and stick to pop culture because I think I have a lot of interesting things to say about that, and Rick starts to tune me out after a while and goes and watches sports or House Hunters International.
Before I ramble on too much here, I want to talk about something specific. You didn't guess it, it's The Sum of All Fears. Yup, that Ben Affleck and Morgan Freeman movie you probably didn't see a long time ago. In another bizarre twist of Internet Fate, I found myself watching a YouTube video of the worst trailers that gave away too much of the movie. The Sum of All Fears was one of them. It wasn't even the worst, it was like #9, but for some reason I was intrigued and decided to download the movie.
This movie was really dumb, and honestly I only made it about 2/3 through the thing. Ben Affleck was way too young and unbelievable as Jack Ryan. This was Ben at the height of his insufferable phase, before he made Gone Baby Gone and Argo. Just look at this picture of him from the movie; I challenge you not to feel annoyed:
Also, all this other nonsensical shit was happening that kept making me mad. For instance, Ben kept trying to call Morgan Freeman's character (who plays a big wig like the Secretary of State or something) to warn him that there was a nuclear bomb on US soil. But, oh, he doesn't hear his phone because he's at a football and is having too good a time cheering for Baltimore. Maybe this was before everyone was tethered to their phones, but still, if you're the Secretary of State and there's an international crisis going on, answer your god damn phone. Hillary wouldn't stand for that shit. Additionally, an Israeli jet with a nuclear bomb on it crashes in the 70's and no one finds it! Some shepherd dude finds it digging! That's dumb guys, and it takes me out of the movie. Also, Bridget Moynahan.
By far the most interesting thing about this movie for me was seeing how much technology has changed since it came out. People still had pagers. Affleck was using some kind Palm Pilot device and Liev Schieber, who played some master spy, says "hey I should get one of those. I don't even have email." I think someone had a geocities email address. Everyone has big bulky computer monitors and televisions. So I was thinking, did this movie come out maybe around '98? Nope! 2002! Amazing how much technology has changed in just 12 years.
That's all for me for right now, as it's 3AM. Hopefully I'll keep this up. Please leave a comment and let me know how you feeling about having me back, or what you though about The Sum of All Fears. It feels good though. Like Ariel with a new set of legs, I resurface, reborn. This time, with GIFS.
-JB
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