Elliot's first lacrosse tournament was the Sunday before last. He enjoyed it, and it was fun to watch too. Here are some photos and a video (he's # 22):
I recently finished reading José Saramago'sSeeing, a novel slightly connected to Saramago's Blindness, for which he is best-known. From Wikipedia:
Seeing is a story set in the same country featured in Blindness and begins with a parliamentary election in which the majority of the populace casts blank ballots. The story revolves around the struggles of the government and its various members as they try to simultaneously understand and destroy the amorphous non-movement of blank-voters.
This story had an intriguing start for me but seemed to get bogged down...and therefore ultimately was much less engaging/interesting than Blindness.
I recently watched 21 (2008,PG-13). From ScreenIt!:
Recruited by one of his professors, a college student agrees to join an underground card-counting team, but must deal with the repercussions of getting too good at it, all of which draws the watchful eye of Vegas casino loss prevention specialists.
This was probably an interesting story to read, but it didn't work all that well for me as a film...especially Spacey's character. It could have actually been on target for all I know, but it didn't feel like it to me. I also don't understand how casino's could possibly get away with kicking the shite out of it's customers or why Ben wouldn't use a bank account.
When a groom-to-be ends up missing after a wild night in Vegas, his two best friends and future brother-in-law try to find him by piecing together what occurred since none of them can remember anything.
It's clever and funny and Zach Galifianakis steals scene after scene.
