April Fools

After seeing, and almost falling for, several April Fools websites, Google takes the prize this year:
http://www.google.com/tisp/. I was about to inquire into their new, "free", wireless internet, when I read a little closer.

I watched "Thumbsucker" today. Solid movie - Keanu Reeves even did a good job (who knew?). Although not as laugh-out-loud as "Little Miss Sunshine", I think it was actually a deeper, more exploratory film about the "human condition" (I hate that phrase, it's so postmodern, but it's growing on me nonetheless). And yes, this is a very postmodern movie - not to give it away, but Keanu Reeves' character's dialogue at the end sums a lot of the movie's premises up rather neatly (too neatly?). Of course, I'll give the writers some extra credit here, because at the end of the same dialogue, he also alludes to the underlying absurdity/contradiction of postmodernism - namely, that a rejection of objectivity is a rather challenging position to take, especially when you must maintain the objective position of there being no objectivity. But I digress - it's a great ride, and points out that no one really has it all down, and sometimes people suck at communicating and relationships, but underneath it all, they are trying really hard.