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So my next couple of netflix have been The Devil's Backbone and Talledaga Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.
Sascha Baron Cohen is a winner as the gay French Formula 1 driver who arrives to challenge Will Ferrell's character. Otherwise the movie is kind of trash. However the line, "I want to move to Sri Lanka with my husband to train komodo dragons to perform Hamlet" is some kind of wierd beautiful asipiration.

I've been reading comic books by Brian Wood. The first two volumes of DMZ (will there be more?) are pretty awesome. As a result of Bush era foreign policy there are localized militia uprisings all over America. As war breaks out between the Free States and 'America' Manhattan becomes the demarcation line. As noted in the introduction to the first volume, the books aren't just about the possibility of another civil war but are more about what it means to be a New Yorker, this sort of indeliable spirit of survivalism and tenacity that is more than being "American". Both books are damn fine reads with some energetic art Ricardo Burchielli. The character of them is more graphic adventure than traditional super-hero comic and Brian Wood's ability to flesh out wierd future scenarios that aren't so unreasonable remains intact.

Otherwise, playing with the cat - who squeaks alot.