Let's start off with movies.
Spike Jonze, who has never before made a movie I liked, has apparently (Thank God!) done a brilliant job with "Where The Wild Things Are," which had the highest opening weekend for an October Warner Brothers movie...
...Ever.
But better news yet is the fact that super-low-budget "Paranormal Activity," which was notable for making double its production budget at each screen it was shown on in its "limited release" run, made $20 million in box office sales in its first weekend in national release.
Let me tell you why this is noteworthy, if you haven't already figured it out.
"Paranormal Activity" had a total budget of $11, 000.
Eleven thousand dollars.
Thus far at the box office, it has made a little over $33 million. This means that they made a 300, 000 percent profit.
By contrast, Terminator: Salvation cost $200,000,000 to make, and earned less than $375,000,000 - in other words, a less-than-100% profit.
Interesting.
Right.
Moving right along.
Did you know we got near-missed two nights ago by a rock - an asteroid, specifically - big enough to take out the city of New York entirely?
Neither did anyone else, apparently, until it was already inside the orbit of the Moon.
Stay with me, here.
A lot of right-wingers have said repeatedly and at some length - some of them even with eloquence - that the left has no actual interest in trying to get the economy off the dime.
They weren't wrong; one of the editors of The Nation e-magazine said in an interview the other day that she viewed - this is a direct quote - "making the recession worse" as a valid means of reducing American consumerism - to help the environment.
Lefties, I would say I love you guys, but really, if you believe that - honestly believe that - I don't.
And finally - for the night - John Bolton, former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., called Obama "Ethelred The Unready," last night.
What makes that exceptional?
