Spent an excessive chunk o' time tonight rating movies on Netflix. It was beyond excessive and into obsessive, actually. One of the things I found interesting was how having only 5 choices (1 thru 5 stars) forces you to compare and equate movies that you might not otherwise have ever thought of at the same time, por ejemplo Unzipped, Shoah, Iron Monkey and the Dish.

Here's another random thought from today: if you buy an Xmas tree at the end of November, isn't it likely to be a twig in the midst of a pile of pine needles by the time it's 12/25? And aren't you just sick of looking at it by the time it's Xmas anyway? Probably so, which is why I'm seeing them out at the curb on the 26th. Now I'm not nearly so militant as I used to be (when I was a kid my family wouldn't even BUY a tree until Xmas Eve). But I'm just not ready to succumb to enforced jollity until... oh I dunno, it might be nice if it was December or something.