Real Life and Movies

It's nice to be home, though I do enjoy traveling. We go up to Lake Placid in a couple of weeks, which is always my favorite part of the summer, if not the entire year.

Our daughter Celia was sleeping over with a friend last night, so we went to the movies. We saw Joshua, which had gotten an excellent review in the Inquirer and sounded intense and interesting. Ugh. Obvious, and so manipulative (you name it, baby in jeopardy, Hitchcock-style music, camera angles designed to spook you, angelic-looking weird kid) that even the twists were letdowns. We were both disappointed, so we decided to see something else. We tried Black Sheep. Don't know if any of you saw The Toxic Avenger, or any of the Troma Pictures stuff from the 80's, but this had grossness to rival even that. The premise, genetically engineered ferocious sheep, is great, the acting was pretty good and there were some very funny scenes, but you had to get by the carnage and, well, lots of wet, stretchy things. Funny, but not for everyone.