Rachel's book group read some Jane Austen novel, and Rachel really enjoyed it. She put the movie on our Netflix queue and we sat down to watch it together one evening after the kids were in bed.
A minute in, I sensed that Rachel was getting tense. Another minute went by, and she was very agitated. "I don't remember ANY of this, Joe," she said. Either her memory was starting to fail utterly, or the movie producers had done some horrible abuse to the story.
"That's because you read Pride & Prejudice and this is Sense & Sensibility."
"Thanks. I feel much better now."
Monday, August 25, 2008
Friday, August 22, 2008
Good for the Phillies? Or Bad?
Rachel and I took our son to a baseball game last night. I had scored discounted tickets, which was amusing when we realized it was Jewish Heritage Night. Nobody should pay retail for baseball!
Amusing observations about Jewish Heritage Night:
Amusing observations about Jewish Heritage Night:
- The electronic signs that normally display "Fastball 91 MPH" or the happy birthday listings were kvelling messages like "Sigmund Freud, the father of pyschotherapy, was a Jew" and "Jewish filmmaker Stephen Spielberg is the most successful director since the advent of film"
- Best crowd reaction during a tepid game was for a kid with a Star of David flag, on which he'd written "Jew Gotta Believe"
- The Phanatic danced the hora
- The Phillies lost when Ryan Madson failed to hold the lead in the eighth inning. Why does bad stuff always happen to us?
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