Briefly Noted

1. The 7th Voyage of Sinbad. Amalia needs to start studying Ray Harryhausen, and Sinbad seemed like a good introduction. It was, although Jason and the Argonauts would probably have been better. Or perhaps one of the dinosaur movies. Anyway, not only is it always fun to watch Harryhausen films, but the DVD has a lot of fun goodies: interviews, behind the scenes stuff, etc. It goes on a bit longer than a non Harryhausen fanatic would want, although a Harryhausen fanatic is certainly going to enjoy some of this stuff.

2. Abuelita Mexican Chocolate. I have been meaning to mention this for awhile. Avoid this crap. Stick with Ibarra. Amalia thought that there was something amiss on her first sip. When a six year old finds something that is sweet and chocolatey displeasing, you know it's gotta be caca.

3. Netflix. I have mentioned this before, but I am still quite smitten with Netflix, although the limit of 500 films on a queue is irritating. OK. Obvioulsy I am not putting so many movies on the list with the intention of seeing them right away, or even at all, but it is a great tool when I hear about a film to just slap it on the list. Then I can look into it later and keep it or reject it. I only really bother to keep the top 15 in any sort of order, because I doubt that I will go through that many films without checking up on the list. Give me 1000!