( Liar )

It was a rainy, not-very-eventful Saturday around here in which we went out mostly to do chores; we had thought about going to Great Falls to see the swollen Potomac River, which is apparently close to jumping its banks in places, but after a tornado watch and hail in the afternoon, we scrapped that idea. Plus we'd left the National Parks pass in the minivan, which was at the Toyota place having the oil and filters changed, and we didn't pick it up till dinnertime. So we just stopped in necessary stores and cleaned up around the house a bit. I was pleased to see on Space.com that Earth may have a twin orbiting our neighbor Alpha Centauri, because I am a nerd like that.


( Rough Lives )

Daniel is spending the evening waiting for the release of Super Smash Bros Brawl -- his best friend's father took them both to the mall, which has a tournament and party from 10 p.m. to midnight when they'll start distributing the preorders. It's like a Harry Potter book release party to him...or actually more like waiting to get the Wii on the morning it first came out. We watched The Secret of NIMH with Adam, who had read the book it is loosely based on, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, in school; the animation was nice but there are lots of changes from the book, which I don't remember all that well (we figured son would like it anyway because it's about animals outsmarting the humans who are trying to exploit them).

Then with one child asleep and the other out, we watched V for Vendetta, which we hadn't managed to see previously. I'm not sure whether I think it wasn't a very good movie but I enjoyed it anyway or whether I think it was a pretty good movie but there were some things I really hated about it. It's definitely more thought-provoking than the Matrix sequels and a whole lot of mediocre dystopian sci-fi, and the acting is all vastly better than the material, even John Hurt as a seething, scheming Big Brother (a lovely casting joke, that). The things I really disliked are so Phantom of the Opera that I feel like I can't even complain, really, because I love Phantom of the Opera in all its paternalistic softcore D/s glory. ( Spoilers. ) Going downtown Sunday for my mom's birthday if we can tear sons away from the Sacred Object, as Daniel is calling the video game! Aigh!