Movie Review: Zero Dark Thirty

Zero Dark Thirty is the movie that tells the "behind the scenes" story of the search for Osama Bin Laden after the terrorists attack on the World Trade Center in 2001.  The movie stars Jessica Chastain as Maya, the CIA operative who was the main force behind finding Bin Laden.  There was a cameo appearance by a dog on the Navy Seal team.  Although the humans may take credit for bringing Bin Laden to justice, I'm sure it was the dog who actually shot him.  Just yesterday, there was an item in the news about a dog in Frostproof, Florida who shot his owner in the leg by a gun that the human thought wasn't loaded.  The dog was not arrested and was released on his on redognizance.  However,  I'm sure that human won't be buying cheap treats for his dog in the future--if he knows what is good for him.  Anyway, the movie was okay, but it did get a bit boring at times because it showed a lot of the CIA agents working behind the scenes which is not particularly exciting.  If they had combined Zero Dark Thirty and the recent Die Hard movie (not that I particularly liked the latest Die Hard movie) , they could have wrecked 75 cars and had 50 shootings during the time the CIA agents were hanging out in the office.  I did think the movie had a chance of being interesting when they went to Area 51 (where the space aliens are supposed to hang out) to get some helicopters.  I thought, finally, they are going to check with the space aliens about the mission; but all they did was pick up some helicopters so it wasn't even remotely interesting.  I give this movie 4 paws up and a tail wag which would be about a 7.5 out of 10 on the human movie scale.  I might add that there is no way I would have given this movie an Oscar as best picture of the year.  It just wasn't good enough to get that title in my opinion.  Had they spent more time with the dog or the space aliens, it just might have been best picture material.

Demon Flash Bandit (Movie Critic)

Auctions Can Be Exciting for the Humans

Many of the humans enjoy auctions, but I think some of them get a little too excited over them.  There is one person my humans knew years ago who went to an auction and he bought a chair.  He was so pleased with his purchase, and he was bragging about how he only paid $10. for the chair.  He said, "I would have paid $20, but my wife said, shut up and quit bidding because no one else is bidding".  This is why is it important for some of the humans to have a dog.  We dogs would not have been dumb enough to bid against ourselves.

Demon Flash Bandit (Smart Dog)

Hoarding: Buried Alive--King Tut's Episode

Today I am going to share a passage from a day in Gahiji's diary.  For those who haven't read about Gahiji in my past blogs, Gahiji is an ancient Egyptian dog whose ancient diary I found at a garage sale--where a dog expects to find priceless antiquities. 

Gahiji:
Today I stopped at the Papyrus stand to get a copy of  "Pharoah's Press".  I know some dogs buy it to read the news, but I was more interested in getting the television schedule.  Tonight a new show is airing called, Hoarding:  Buried Alive.  In  tonight's episode, they are going to deal with King Tutankhamun's hoarding issues in his pyramid.  King Tut even has 81 pairs of shoes in there, and I suspect that a dead person does not really need more than one pair.  Obviously, King Tut has a problem with hoarding.  You'd think he is putting stuff in there that will last him for thousands of years.  In fact, he got so out of paw with the hoarding, that he ended up actually being buried in there with his stuff.  I will share a photo with you of what the pyramid looked like when Carter first went in to discuss his hoarding issues with him:
http://news.discovery.com/history/ancient-egypt/fancy-footwear-ancient-egypt-slides.htm

The only problem I see with this episode is that, you know with him being the "king", he isn't going to want to listen to the people who try to help him.  I bet he continues his hoarding and won't throw out anything.

Gahiji (Ancient Egyptian Dog)

I always enjoy sharing a day in the life of Gahiji, the ancient Egyptian dog!

Demon Flash Bandit (Sharing a Diary Entry of Gahiji, Ancient Egyptian Dog)

Dreaming of Bacon

I've just written a new song...the song goes with the music for White Christmas.

Dreaming of Bacon

I'm Dreaming of a Bacon Sandwich.
Just like the one I found last week.
Where the bacon is crispy, and lettuce is absent.
I'm a dog, not a rabbit, as you can see.

I'm dreaming of a bacon sandwich
With every milkbone that I bite 
May the bacon be crispy and high fat
And may all my sandwiches have bacon!

Demon Flash Bandit (Dreaming of Bacon)

Movie Review: A Good Day to Die Hard

This movie, A Good Day to Die Hard, is the latest sequel in the Die Hard movie franchise.  It stars Bruce Willis as John McClane, and Jai Courtney as his son, Jack McClane.  In this movie, John goes to Moscow, Russia to rescue his son who he thinks is in serious trouble only to find that his son is a well trained CIA agent.  I could not keep from thinking that if John McClane had put his gun down for 5 or 6 minutes during Jack's childhood, maybe he would have known his son better.  Of course, then he wouldn't have ended up in Russia and we wouldn't have had a new movie to watch so I guess it worked out for the best.  If you want to see a movie that combines car chases with lots of gunfire and destruction, then this is the movie for you.  Personally, this is not what I enjoy in a movie so it won't be getting as good a rating from me as many of the previous movies I've seen.  I give it 2 paws up which is about a 3.5 out of 10 on the human movie scale.  I'm sure that many of the humans will enjoy this movie, but they didn't even have the common sense to have a dog cameo to make the movie better.  Of course, judging from all the shooting, my guess is that no dog wanted to cameo in that particular movie just in case the shooting got out of paw, and the dog might be shot.  As usual, we dogs are always smarter than the humans. 

Demon Flash Bandit (Movie Critic)

Identifying Bad From Good Humans

I've been thinking about how much easier things would be in the world if you could tell the good humans from the bad humans.  After giving this idea some thought, as usual, my genius brain has come up with a solution.  This solution has already been used on old television westerns, but when something works, it works.  The answer is to require all the bad humans to wear "bad clothing" so you can tell them from the good humans.  Just look at the old westerns.  The bad guys always wore black hats while the good humans wore white hats.  Since baseball caps that say things are popular now, it is even easier to label the bad guys.  A hat can say, "I'm a thief" or "I'm a murderer" if you want to get more specific.  The hats can even say, "I'm a jerk" so that the humans who aren't necessarily bad, but are still not fun to be around can be identified ahead of time.  This would save a lot of time that is wasted on them at the present time.  In addition, some hats could say, "I'm cheap with dogs" so we dogs can know not to adopt them as our humans.  All that needs to be done is for the humans to pass a law requiring other humans to wear the special clothing so that we dogs can tell the humans apart.  Many dogs can tell by smelling the humans in question so this is mainly good for the humans who can't smell their way out of a paper bag.  Humans are definitely smell challenged!

Demon Flash Bandit (Telling the Difference Between Good and Bad Humans)

Paul Newmans Organic Peanut Butter Treats

Today I am going to give a product review of a product I was given at Christmas by my pal, Raja.  The item is Newman's Own Organics Premium Dog Treats--Peanut butter flavor.  This product is made with barley flour, natural peanut butter, carrots, apples, ground chicken, blackstrap molasses, chicken fat, rolled oats, tumeric, nautral peanut flour, and rosemary extract.  No wheat or corn was used in this product.  This product is delicious and that is also the opinion of Angel Zoom Smokey although I am a much pickier eater than Angel so my endorsement means more.  The bags I received said best used by March 19, 2014, and they are gone already so there is no danger of them sitting around and going past their date--at least not with Angel Zoom Smokey and myself around.  This product was made because the Newman's dog wrote a tell-all book, and the Newman family was trying to quiet the dog from publishing the book.  I can tell you that if I wrote a tell-all book about my family and had to choose between eating this delicious treat and publishing my book, it would be a very difficult decision. 

My pal, Raja, who gave me these delicious treats, is a shih tzu, and has written a book called the Journey of the Shih Tzu-more information on the book can be found here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg_Z0F9t558
Raja's book is a very well done book, and I would recommend it for dog lovers and particularly for those who love shih tzus. 

Be sure and pick up some of those Paul Newman's treats.  They are delicious!!!!

Demon Flash Bandit (Product Reviewer)