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The only reason I knew who Roger Ebert was (before I started to read movie reviews) was from Air Farce. Roger Abbot would play Ebert and Don Ferguson would play Siskel.

Roger was the first person to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in the film genre in 1975 and no other won it until 2003. Countless articles and tributes in recent days on Roger's passing of course but I think this short, simple summary of a life well lived from NPR is my favourite.

http://www.npr.org/2013/04/06/176387186/roger-ebert-elegance-and-empathy

I saw '42' Saturday night and enjoyed it. It was predictable but easy to forgive. It's always hard for me to believe how relatively close in time all that history is and how high its likely scrapheap of human potential. How many Jackie Robinsons were there before there was a Jackie Robinson, and over how many fields of endeavor? Anyway, in the movie all the good guys won and the bad guys lost. Some truly terrible acting from a little kid in the stands. Terrible. Do you have a kid? He should have been in this movie instead. I'm that sure. All in all a couple of hours well spent. Since I spent them with my mother I was grateful for the dark and the prohibition on talking. Ha ha!

I photographed this hot dog at '42' while purchasing hot chocolate because I was completely shocked that it looked so utterly, thoroughly horrifying. The picture really doesn't do it justice. It was....grey. And appeared to have the texture of dried mummy.

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[b]GratefulFan wrote: [/b] I photographed this hot dog at '42' while purchasing hot chocolate because I was completely shocked that it looked so utterly, thoroughly horrifying. The picture really doesn't do it justice. It was....grey. And appeared to have the texture of dried mummy.[/QUOTE]

Might be okay with ketchup and mustard ...

However, I prefer gigantic Toblerones at the cinema. Nothing like rock hard, triangular chocolate to really exercise the jaw muscles :)

If my mind immediately jumped to the idea of a Jessica Biel-Toblerone endorsement campaign based on the specifics of your recommendation does that make me a pervert? I'm pretty sure it does. :( Oh well. I can live with that. :)

But the hot dog. Holy shit the hot dog. It was a...display hotdog. Sitting beside display pretzels. They're all probably still there. The pretzels are surviving the ordeal with significantly greater dignity than that terrible wizened, gray hot dog that appeared to be fighting back by trying to eat itself.

I have no explanation for the movie hot chocolate. I've never bought hot chocolate at the movie in my whole life but for that evening.

I went to see The Place Beyond the Pines last night. Interesting and ambitious in it's tryptych approach to a story that spanned about 20 years. I think it was the first thing I've ever seen Ryan Gosling in and he played a great loser/badass with a complex emotional life. A lot of things to consider in this film about relative morality and justice and destiny. If anybody has seen it let me know.

You know what's a good movie? Plan 9 From Outer Space. Sheer brilliance.

I am going to see Iron Man tonight at the movies. In 3D. He'll practically be three inches closer to me! Perhaps I can finally inform him that he is my boyfriend. :)

Just watched Upstream Color, which I doubt many of you will be aware of. 6 of us watched, and all but two hated it. I was one of the two.

It was more arthouse than I was expecting, but I was well prepared for it to confound, confuzzle, and perplex me, as it did, as I'm a big fan of Primer, the first film from its creator.

I'd recommend Primer over Upstream Color, but for fans of the more avant garde that like their movies to pose more questions than give answers, I'd still recommend it. And it practically doubles the canon of pig-based films in one fell swoop. And can you ever have too many porcine films? I think not.