Lola Rennt

For Bear, who knows me so well it's silly.

Before the life-changing experience that was Amelie, I didn't have much truck with subtitled movies. It's not that I'm ethnocentric and believe that everyone should make movies in English for us lazy Americans; it's just that as fast a reader as I am, that momentary but constant flicking my eyes to the bottom of the screen really detracts from the flow of the film for me. So maybe the subtitles in Lola kept me away. Maybe it's just that I didn't know anything at all about the film other than that it had Milla Jovovich running (which of course it doesn't, but I'm a lazy American). Eventually I got nagged and prodded and goaded into it by my friend, Bear, who did after all give to me the Gift of Buffy, so how could I say no? Especially when by remarkable serendipity the movie was being aired by Oxygen the following weekend, the type of happy coincidence that happens too seldom in my life to pass up.

( ::Run Lola Run!:: )

Like I said, I was in a state of semi-consciousness through this so I can't come up with a more philosophical, profound analysis of the film. All I know is that at the end I liked it in the way I liked Lost in Translation...I couldn't say exactly why, only that I do. So I'm giving it 4.5 out of 5.

HFTV (home and ferret TV)

This post satisfies two criteria: jaaaaamas' request for pet pics to keep her company, and to demonstrate how addicted to home improvement shows I really am.

Here Gideon (igloo-owner) demonstrates the manufacturer's intended use for the ferret igloo:



Here, just by flipping the igloo over onto its side, Gideon has more than doubled his square footage and given the igloo a much more open, airy feeling, really bringing the outside in, while simultaneously creating a handy patio area for those summer barbecues:



Finally, this is why I love ferrets like I do. What could be more fun and exciting than an open toolbox, I ask you?: