So, we had a really big rain last week. I was glad, because that meant it would wash all the bird droppings off my car. Well, the next morning I went out, and what did I find? Dirty little kitty prints starting on my trunk lid, going up my rear windshield, across the roof, down the front windshield, and down the hood. Since they were on the passenger's side, and since kittens are cute, and since I'm lazy, I let the pawprints stay.

I've watched some movies recently:


Worth Multiple Viewings:

Born Into Brothels: This is a heartwrenching documentary about children in India that are the children of prostitutes. Zana Briski (who largely produced the film) tries to help them improve their position in life by teaching them photography and getting them into boarding schools.

Munich: A film based on an (offically disputed) account of Israel's response to the assassination of their Olympic athletes in the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. The protagonist, a Mossad agent, is tasked with hunting down and assassinating those who organized the attack. It raises tough questions, not only about the nature of terrorism, but about what the eye-for-an-eye response costs us in our moral character.

Worth Watching Once:

Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children: Well, only if you have played the video game this is the sequel to. Otherwise, you won't understand what's going on or why it's important. In short: completely incomprehensible to anyone but a Final Fantasy VII video-gamer. It does have some wicked-cool fight scenes, though.

Steamboy: A retro-sci-fi film set in Victorian England. A boy tries to keep his grandfather's invention from being used for Evil by the Evil American Warmongers. Too preachy for its own good, but beautifully animated.