Sunday, August 1, 2004

Smoot froothie for breakfast: blackberries, cherries, nectarines, banana, milk, ice, sugar. I paid bills. Met Sam at the Century 20 to see Spider-man 2. We all liked the movie a lot. A nice twist at the end makes this film an atypical treat over other superhero films. Snack: smoot froothie. Patrick worked on Second Island. Read Tony's blog/journal and viewed a lot of his photo albums. Dinner at home with Patrick: hearts of romaine with cucumber, mushroom, tomato, green goddess dressing. Watched a lot of Simpson's episodes. For the record, a couple of days ago we were watching a Simpson's episode and a commercial came on for The Chronicles of Riddick. In typical movie trailer style, it showed a quote from a news source, then another bit of the movie, then another quote from another news source, then a bit of the movie, then another quote from a news source, then another bit of the movie. I said, "Hey, wait a minute -- those 3 quotes were all from the same source!" We rewinded and sure enough, yes -- all 3 were from Shawn Edwards of FOX TV -- the same Shawn Edwards who has become known for being overly enthusiastic about ordinary (or worse) films so he can increase the exposure of his name in movie ads. I didn't write them all down, but one of them was: "ONE OF THE BEST SCI-FI FILMS EVER!" Moral of the story: Don't trust Shawn Edwards or FOX TV or The Chronicles of Riddick.