Let's do this thing

I've decided to live up to the slogan finally. Maybe this can save me from fixating...

Not bloody likely....

As for Wall-E

Worth every minute that Wall-E is on the screen, but I hate to admit it but I was a little underwhelmed. Maybe I was just tired, or I mean, I was tired, so maybe that affected my viewing.

But that weird thing with using a combination of real actors and shapeless Pixar pseudo-people just was a break in the fourth wall that my mind couldn't get its way around. And since the eco-message was hardly a stunning revelation for me, that part was, eh, okay, glad to see the dystopian message is being spread to the masses but, y'know, here comes the deluge of Disney produced Wall-E toys...

But I liked the love story, and there was something so compellingly innocent and childlike in Wall-E, things that made me get misty-eyed thinking about Juliana, that I certainly liked, edging on loved, a good part of the movie. I just feel like the first 40 minutes, yes! And then the second half just felt a little stitched on and compulsory, minus the dance in space, Wall-E's original flight in space, and... hmmm.... that's about it! Ratatouille still wins my favorite Pixar movie award! Yay Remy! And Juliana can't wait for Desperaux...

Okay, I admit it, I'm addicted

November can't come too soon. Every day, it's like drugs, my need to get on the web and look at Five Thirty Eight, or Andrew Sullivan, or Kevin Drum, or TPM, or Politico, or the Corner if I want to get my blood boiling, or etc. etc. And I realize it's all just some weird psychological thing, it's gone beyond rationality, it's gone beyond the issues, I fully admit that to a certain degree it really is about the cult of personality, though my very strong caveat on that particular statement is that I would be vehemently behind whoever was the Democratic candidate, it just happens to be the case that this time around the Democratic candidate happens to be one of the most compelling presidential candidates of all time. And on the one hand I suppose it's a profound and wonderful miracle that he's ahead of the game at all (think fifty years ago... think ten!) but the historic nature of his run, combined with the fact that he's just flat out brilliant, combined with the fact that the Republican alternative is about as compelling as molding cheese and as likely to make effective change from eight years of Bush, combined with the fact that the polls are just way to close (albeit in the right direction), and it all adds up to four more months of godless agony.

But I have to figure out how to disengage, it's starting to freak me out a little. Politics and food - I just can't stop myself. It sucks.