Le Dîner des Cons (The Dinner Game) is delightful.
The Lion King is better than I expected, though I don’t quite get how the rightful king prevents drought. Only one of the songs is abominable.
The Matrix (again). At 111 minutes there is a scene that could not have been made much later than 1999: a helicopter crashes into an office tower, causing a fireball.
The Five Levels of the Economy
Oddest spam in a long time:
Want to buy weapons, drugs? Want to become a terrorist? Check this video and you can even blow up the White House!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbeQn3TI3rI
The video is a TV comedy skit.
Yesterday we had visitors including a big dog. My boys briefly hid in the bedroom, then came out cautiously for a better look. Rocky even touched noses with the dog.
The local Humane Society gets a surprising number of cats with kinked tails, and I don’t mean the classic Siamese bend at the last bone; I’ve seen about six with two or more right angles.
Panda Bramble and Rockstar Hermit Rocky
For “Black Friday” the local Humane Society has a special on black cats; so I took two, born in June. They quickly made themselves at home.
Faré tells me that the French for ‘play tag’ is jouer à chat (‘play at cat’).
Whenever I watch a recent French movie, I miss just enough wordplay to wish it had French subtitles.