Lesson learned: check all possible message venues, all the time
So you know how I was ragging on that person who Facebook-friended me for what I thought were purely self-promotional purposes? Well, it turns out I owe him an apology.
I, um, don’t log into Facebook much, and it turns out I missed an apparently sincere message from him that I have no reason to believe is anything but a gesture of friendship. What’s more, it was sent the day before I made the post about how I didn’t think he actually cared about anything but increasing his own local fame.
Therefore, I formally apologize to Mr. Unnamed Person. You have taught me that it is better to give people the benefit of the doubt than to jump to negative conclusions about their motivations.
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What are people doing this weekend? There are three movies I want to see (Little Miss Sunshine, Hollywoodland, and The Illusionist). They’re all getting good reviews, but since going to the movies is so expensive, I think we’ll probably only go to one of them, at least this weekend. Which one should we see? I generally prefer comedies, but on the other hand, the approaching autumn can put me in a mystery mood.
We saw LMS. It was good. Frankly, for me, it was fairly run-of-the-mill until the big comedic payoff at the end, which is one hell of a comedic payoff. I haven’t laughed that hard in a theater since I saw The Jerk when I was 9 (my dad was way ahead of his time). Hollywoodland looks good.
I didn’t get to see The Jerk in a theatre, but I sure watched the video with my dad. Classic Steve Martin is one of the greatest contributions to western culture. The Man With Two Brains is another all-time favorite of mine.
“Pointy birds, a pointy-pointy
Annoint our heads, anointy-nointy.”