Oh, I am. But the timing was so cool: talk about the book Monday, watch the De Palma Tuesday, talk about it Wednesday… and go see the new one Friday! Oh well.

Like, Thurston Moore singing The Carpenters? Or is this one "baby" short?

I don't care as much about his experimenting with the marijuana cigarettes as much as I'm fascinated by the comments to his photo of his hideous tattoo:

This is the best shit I have ever seen. Remember public access tv from the 80s? It wasn't even this good.

Through convenient timing, this was going to open a couple days after my students and I finished reading the novel and watching the first movie. I was all about field trip to go see this! Oh well. It's probably not very good anyway.

As my third grader got ready for the Jump Rope For Heart thing at school, I asked if any of the teams were doing double dutch, and she looked at me like I was an alien. I felt like a failure as a parent that my kid not only had never DONE double dutch, but the poor thing had never even HEARD of it. So we watched a…

As my third grader got ready for the Jump Rope For Heart thing at school, I asked if any of the teams were doing double dutch, and she looked at me like I was an alien. I felt like a failure as a parent that my kid not only had never DONE double dutch, but the poor thing had never even HEARD of it. So we watched a…

It was the truck.

It was the truck.

Well, ma'am, but thank you!

Well, ma'am, but thank you!

I showed Rise of the Guardians, which, if you've seen it, you know is about protecting the innocence and purity of childhood. Loads of irony going on this weekend. I posted something on the theatre's Facebook page on Thursday about how a movie with this kind of theme brings tears to my eyes, and this was before, you…

I showed Rise of the Guardians, which, if you've seen it, you know is about protecting the innocence and purity of childhood. Loads of irony going on this weekend. I posted something on the theatre's Facebook page on Thursday about how a movie with this kind of theme brings tears to my eyes, and this was before, you…

I'm at work, showing a fun movie to fun kids and working with fun people, and all I can think about is unopened Christmas presents. I totally understand why you would have powered down.

I'm at work, showing a fun movie to fun kids and working with fun people, and all I can think about is unopened Christmas presents. I totally understand why you would have powered down.

She should not be allowed to say stuff like that.

She should not be allowed to say stuff like that.

I had to take candy canes to my kids' school today, and I was walking up, I was thinking, hmmm, this new fence, not many openings. Quite the bottleneck if they have to flee. Hmmm, no security cameras. Hmmm, should this door maybe be locked during the day? I mean, those kids are 60 yards away from me in the lunch room.

I had to take candy canes to my kids' school today, and I was walking up, I was thinking, hmmm, this new fence, not many openings. Quite the bottleneck if they have to flee. Hmmm, no security cameras. Hmmm, should this door maybe be locked during the day? I mean, those kids are 60 yards away from me in the lunch room.

I don't know, man. Tonight I'm showing Rise of the Guardians, and I'll be surrounded by little kids and their parents, most of whom I will know at least by name. My own kids went with Mr. Final Girl to the nearest shoppable city to get me a Christmas present, so I can't be with them but I will be with kids. It feels…