So, I would love to learn archery too, but i have an astigmatism that is not 100% corrected, so I always felt like I am poster girl for ARCHERY FAIL.

Oh, and me too! And I do fine! So you should try it anyway, and see. There's all kinds of stuff that can affect it, like, is your worst astigmatism in your dominant (aiming) eye (mine is), and do you have near or far vision okay. Because some people look at the target and let the sights drift, and some people look at their sights and let the target drift, so there's lots of ways to accommodate vision issues.

I learned archery so I could shoot people in the SCA. Wonderful fun. I've done some target shooting, too, though I think I need a target to go "Oof! Dammit!" to inspire me.

Liese,

awesome. Okay, I'll keep archery as a goal then.

You NCistas know there's a school near...Apex? I think? for Japanese archery, right? The art of Kyudo is more akin to longbow than the compound stuff bowhunters use these days. Aha.

Oh, there's a great kyudojo in Indianapolis, too. We were going to study that, visited and everything, and then got distracted. Funny, I hadn't thought about that in years.

Anyway! I'm going out to shoot right now! Whoo!

Ha! IO9 is full of "There's a Norse god and a green giant, and this bothers you???" comments.

Yes, yes, it can? Isn't the world lovely?

but the attention to detail reminds me of Ratatouille and how cooks were pointing out that everyone in the kitchen had scars and burns on their hands.

I know somebody at Pixar and his wife was complaining bitterly that the animators and their families who worked on Ratatouille not only went to Paris, but they took extensive cooking classes there.

Unfortunately, her husband worked on Cars instead so she got to go see lots of NASCAR.

She's a caterer.

I didn't think I was going to get to see Hunger Games with a new baby, but it turns out March 23rd, opening day, is the first day we're putting him in daycare, as a dry run for the next week when Meg returns to work. We're going to see it in Imax at noon. We probably would have skipped the Imax but A) all of the non-Imax were sold out, but apparently people made the same mistake we did and didn't realize they're listed in different places on Fandango so the Imax's aren't and B) reserved seating rocks.

Fun times.

I totally didn't click twice.

Dark Shadows trailer: [link]

Hmmm. I expected a fair amount of camp, but that's ... a LOT of camp. Dammit, Tim, this was supposed to be creepy and gothic, not constant 70s camp. I hope it's just the tone of the trailer, and not the movie.

Dear Hammer Studios, now that you've made The Woman In Black, make a vampire movie like that. Please?