While watching the new Central Works play, Lionheart, I was reminded again that the human race hasn't really changed much since the Crusades. Everybody is still up in arms, after all of these years, over which prophet or god or son-of-god or spirit to worship. And people still tend to be less than courteous to those who disagree with their version of the story. Old hatred runs deep, and being hatred, it doesn't need anything approaching reason or logic to perpetuate itself. War and corruption have been with us all along, dragging us down. Perhaps it's a natural check, preventing the human race from becoming more populous than it already has. In that case, we must have hit some critical point or crossed some invisible line. We have a man in the White House who, through his complete lack of understanding of anything, is grabbing progress by the neck and making it march back to where it came from. He's like the famine that strikes down animal populations when their habitats can no longer sustain their numbers.

Oops. I ranted again.

I bought the new Godzilla movie on DVD over the weekend, and the kids were pretty excited about it. The only problem is that it's subtitled (what? No bad dubbing? Come on. How can it be a Japanese giant monster movie without bad dubbing?). Too bad the kids can't read. We watched it anyway, and I ended up reading the whole movie aloud for the benefit of the kids.

Willow has cool new shoes. Little leather boots with zippers on the sides. It's strange that they even sell shoes for pre-walkers. Our reasoning was that the shoes would prevent her from pulling off her socks. Of course, soon after we put the shoes on her, they fell off and we had to pick them up and put them back on her. Soon after that, they fell off again. And so on, and so on... They look really cool though.

It's cloudy and drizzly outside. Nice.

cds I listened to while getting drizzled upon: Misia "Paixoes Diagonais", Cordelia's Dad "What It Is", Earth Trumpet "Roman", Irr.App.(Ext.) "Dust Pincher Appliances", Ellika & Solo "Tretakt Takissaba", and Garmarna "Gamen" and "Euchari"