Go to MirrorMask. Now. ...NOW!

This is the worst thing I can say about MirrorMask: It's not perfect. Its pacing is a little off sometimes.

Now can I go back to talking about how good it is? It has a unique visual style, and excellent writing. You don't know what's going to happen next. It's beautiful.

It's playing at the Fox Tower theater (which was sold out). ...Now go! Go this weekend -- and then go again, because there's so much to see. I want to see it again... And we all WANT Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean to make more movies. You're going to own this on DVD eventually. If you have kids, then you're eventually going to buy it to give to them. You will talk about "Labyrinth" and "The Dark Crystal" and "MirrorMask" in the same breath (MirrorMask is probably the best of the three). And -- you can quote me on this:

Better Than "Serenity".

(Though not as much the thrill ride.)

OK, now that I've over-hyped it, and your expectations are way, way too high -- will you still please go?

happy birthday Confessor!

Today my laptop turns two years old! "Confessor" was named after a dream that G had. Since I use this machine primarily for writing essays, it seems like a nice fit.

Another bit of elegance and poetry: G fiddled around in UNIX for me, so that now when I want to do back-ups, the command I type in is "confess". Ah, I'm tickled.