Ramblings, Incoherent Thought and Family

There's a meme/picture out on the web about cousins being your first friends and how they are the only ones who understand our family.  In our case it was true.  In some ways...I didn't learn to make friends until I was older...because I already  had 12 great friends.   And then Thursday happened... “This isn’t supposed to happen to us” It was my first thought hearing the news.  “We’re still the kids…we can’t die…what happened???” At 2:30 on May 26, 2016…the world changed.  The news hit me that one of the original 12 Short Grandkids was gone.  Liz, Michelle, Wendy, Dawn, Betty, Kathy, Billy (Me), Nate, Steve, Chuck, Sara and Beth.  We were the original 12 Short Grandkids.  More came later; Matthew, Mark, Brett, Joey, Roxanne and Danielle…but the original dozen of us spent a lot of our formative years together.  Christmases, weekends, birthdays, "happy because" days...all of us were a unit.   We grew up together.  P...

***WARNING…This will be FILLED with SPOILERS.  I’m going to go into what I liked and didn’t.  It’s going to be filled with plot points and the ending…so you are warned*** Ok…I’ve waited till I’ve seen the movie twice.  One on a small screen (Don’t ask) and one on the big screen.  So this is coming off two complete viewings.  My first reaction was “This movie SUCKS”.  On a second viewing…I’m going to say…it doesn’t suck…but this could have been so much more. Let me say first…I come from a comic geek background.  Most of you know I wear a Green Lantern ring regularly.  I have always been a DC fanboy and like everyone else…I’ve waited for this movie for a LONG time. I’ve read many interpretations of the Batman Vs Superman fight and seeing it on the big screen has always been a childhood dream.  So why am I unhappy? Because I think the suits at Warner Bros. have screwed this up.  In an effort to catch Marvel…it’s obvious t...