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"Send out your light and
your truth, let them guide me. Let them lead me to your
holy mountain, to the place where you live."
- Psalm 43:3 (NLT)
Recently I had the privilege to go see the film Brother
Bear at the local movie theater with my children and
their friends. Let me say that I was not particularly
excited to see this animated film for myself. That was
before I found out that two of the characters in the
film were Bob and Doug McKenzie from Strange Brew. All
of the sudden this movie's comedy integrity was at a new
low. All of the sudden this movie had merit for me.
Cooo cooo coo coo coo cooo cooo coooooooooooo! Beauty.
Of course, what is a movie without snacks, eh? I had
bought one of those mammoth sacks of popcorn for the
kids. And I do mean mammoth. After I bought it I thought
I might as well coordinate some sort of snack bar co-op
with the other parents in the theater. I could collect
up fitty cent or so from everyone in the room, buy the
mammo-corn meal deal, dole it out into family-size
ziploc's or something, and pass them out. Then I
thought, "That's a corny idea, you hoser!"
Thirty or so minutes into the movie, the kids, all four
of them, had their fill of popcorn. So I asked for the
bag to, you know, help 'em finish it off. There was
half a bag left. There was no way I could help, you
know, finish it off. But I dug in to at least begin
chipping away at it. Its the least I could do.
About an hour into the movie, my boy turned to me to ask
for the popcorn bag. As I was reaching out to hand it
to him I realized that the bag was empty. I couldn't
believe I'd had half of a mommo-corn bag (maybe I should
just co-op with my own row). I must have really been
enjoying the Strange Brew moose characters.
OK, so when the movie was over, the house lights started
coming up in the theater. As they began to get brighter
I realized I had some popcorn on my shirt. White snacks
on a dark hoodie = not cool. I began swiping it off.
The lights got even brighter. I realized I had a LOT of
popcorn on my shirt... and pants... and seat. White
snacks on a dark everything = very uncool!
So, I didn't eat half a bag of popcorn. I ate half of a
half of a bag and the other half of the half of a bag
was ON me.
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Friday, November 21st, 2008 
