Hubby likes the Coke Zero (or, as he calls it Coke-Oh). We compared the ingredient label to my diet Coke. The ingredients are identical except that it's aspartame-phosphoric acid in dC and phoshoric acid-aspartame in C0. Also, there's another ingredient in C0 that I don't remember but is one of those chemcial names, and it comes next to last right before caffeine. It tastes very similar to dC but off just enough that my addicted taste buds were not impressed.

Yay, Ple! You finally got to see the Bat! I'm starting to feel like such a slacker since I have no good excuse to not have seen it yet. Maybe tomorrow.

And the Lilybat is a wee cherubic cutie! I want one for my sofa. I'd pet it and play with it and call it Lily. And nibble its toes.

Cass, yep. We went down to a drive-in. If we do it again, we're bringing a radio, as the car radio isn't the greatest sound in the world.

It was my first time at a drive-in. There were a lot of babies there, so I suspect it's a popular option.

Batman Begins needed more shirtlessness.

But this is true of all movies.

But this is true of all movies.

Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants has some shirtlessness and could I POSSIBLY be stretching for more reasons to pimp this movie? Especially since I'm sure time is not something you have much of, so you probably won't be checking out random chick flicks just for the heck of it.

Drive-ins are for groups of not-old-enough-to-drink-yet kids hanging out and drinking anyway and parents (for me, aunts) with small children who still want to actually see movies but not ruin it for everyone else in a theatre. At least this is my suspicion. With a radio for better sound, it is actually a nice way to see a movie.

Batman Begins needed more shirtlessness.

But this is true of all movies.

I love drive-ins. And I'm old enough to drink and not a mother. But the fact that bringing your own food is allowed, and the whole outdoor experience of it, and just the straight up feel of being at a drive-in theater makes it fun.

Plus, at least the one I used to go to in City of Industry, CA, you paid to get in. But there was absolutely nothing stopping you from just sitting through to the next feature, which tended to be different. Last time I went, I paid $10 to see Freddy vs. Jason (much better on drive through than it would've been otherwise, like most bad horror flicks), American Wedding (glad it was cheap, but got some laughs), and part of Spy Kids 3d on another screen (fun but dumb!) and it was all good. It's a whole experience.

I thought it was pretty good, Gris. And I'm brutal on the chick flicks, being that Kay Howard is my hero. Very multifaceted young women...liked it muchly.

I've seen it twice. I cried a lot. I must own it immediately on DVD, but, sadly, they don't do that. Yet. I want Hollywood to move to that distribution method, though.

Also, they need to make a sequel. EW said they might, and they've got books to base it on. They stuck enough to the first novel that they could do so with the second movie too, which was a nice plan.

Awwwww, a wee BatBaby. So cute!

Gris, I have loved the times I have gone to drive-ins but once I moved to Actual Cities, the opportunity hasn't really presented itself apart from the times with small kids when it suddenly is The Answer.

San Diego is low on drive-in opps though.