Wall-E - two thumbs up. Aside from the visuals, the story itself was unique and very heartwarming. Endearing even. I took my kids with me, but over half of the audience was adults without kids.
Politics: Obama and McCain are both moving towards the center, what else is new. Whoever wins, will go back and serve their more radical constituents. Obama is probably wishing the elections were held next week so he doesn't suffer any more reversals.
Book Review: SPQR IX The Princess and the Pirates. The writing was very engaging although a bit unorthodox. The protagonist kept going into these speals about various historical details. Unlike Pompeii, the Robert's laying in of details seemed a bit smoother. Not as suffocating. But the tone of the story was strange, like the protagonist knew his audience was 21st century readers. Strange, but quite engaging. My only problem, just like Star Trek 3 (that was the one with the Hot Headed Klingon chasing Kirk all over the galaxy itching for a fight, right?) was that there was no fight. We read all of these nautical details about how good the pirate captain is and all these interesting tricks and all of the naval manuevers our protagonist is running his men through, but in the end, there is not single sea battle. Mind you, this novel is call the Princess and the Pirates. And with Roberts' eye for detail and good fight scenes on land and the book was less than 200 pages, not having the big fight he had been alluding to throughout the novel was a big let down. Isn't the old saying if there's a gun on page 1, it had better be fired by someone on page 50? If you've got warships, marines, sailors and pirates you'd better have a naval engagement.
That's all for now.
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