I am awake! Coffee happened this morning with no untoward incidents. I am so very proud of myself.

Y'all are making me actually want to see M/M Smith. I'm assuming that as long as I don't attempt to actually claim Adam away from Kat, I can watch him in perfect safety and comfort.

And Brad Pitt bringing the funny can be very funny indeed.

I think the fact that he is olympianly beautiful + good timing + the funny.......he's really wonderful in comedy. I wonder if his looks get in the way of him doing so more often.

Yup. This. Years ago the film guy for The Nation (can't really call him a reviewer; more like a film ponderer and digresser) wrote a longish article about Matthew McConaghey, looking at the handful of little quirky sidekick roles he'd done (the kind of stuff that gets handed routinely to folks like Owen Wilson and Steve Zahn) and comparing them to the metric assload of lead roles he plodded unremarkably through in the '90s, and concluded that he was a terrific character actor trapped in the body of a romantic lead.

Brad Pitt is pretty much in the same boat, except a big enough star that he has somewhat more freedom to choose roles that privilege the funny or quirky or whatnot, and downgrade the pretty to a gift with purchase.

ION, I have now officially passed one of the milestones of real-life parenting by grimly sitting through a crap movie because it's what the kid wanted to see: Shark Boy and Lava Girl, which was rather pretty (except for the 3-D, which was merely irritating) and astoundingly incoherent. On the upside, though, I donated a dollar to a charity at the box office and got a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory mini-poster, and my willingness to sit through the movie endeared me to Emmett (that, and my willingness to buy him nachos and Dots), and he cuddled and nestled and slounged on me last night before bedtime.

Aww, JZ, that's so sweet.

I now have a ticket to see Batman at the IMAX on the afternoon of the 16th. whee! Thanks for the reminders.

that's nice jZ

I would rather talk about Batman ( which i don't know when I will see) but I give you morning polotics

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I hear echos of what I have been saying for a long time....

beth, that's the fella Hec and I are having Lunch with! CANNOT WAIT.

I want to see Batman Begins at the IMAX! But they won't have it "for a month or so". Bah. I'll just wait and watch it Friday as a post birthday treat.

I'm sad about the Lava Boy movie, because I adore the Rodriguez. Still, no director bats a thousand for that long. And I haven't even seen Sin City yet.

I'd happily see a midnight LotR movie, but that's all done with. I don't think there's anything upcoming that I'm that nuts about (although Batman is close -- Serenity isn't, because a preview showing has taken the place of midnight, and I can't make any of those).

JZ, that is the sweetest story about Emmett and the movie.

It is so. Damn. Gross. Outside today. Yuck. I hate liquid air, especially when there's also that much damn pollen around. It really needs to rain, like, yesterday.

They keep promising a chance of rain, but they lie. Also, when they keep having the change in temprature coming the day after tomorrow, I get suspicious.

I don't own a scale, so I rarely weigh myself, but I just saw someoen weighing themselves in the nurse's office and decided to also. I am down 7 lps from this time last year and 10 lps from the heaviest I got around September/October. That's nice to see.

I am staying inside and eating gazpacho mmmm.