What We've Been Up To

Just lots of work this week. Brad's going to a Chief's game tonight in KC. We had envisioned a trip where we both would take off work today and tomorrow, spend the night and enjoy ourselves. Well, John McCain's pending VP announcement has kept me in the office today and tomorrow. I've committed to filing a story for NPR with reaction once the announcement happens or the name gets leaked. I'm not a happy camper.

We saw Tropic Thunder this weekend. It was hilarious! Major props to Robert Downey, Jr. for portraying a white actor who undergoes a special surgery to play an African-American in the war film they're making (see below). It's definitely a movie for people who like movies and who "get" the Vietnam war movie cliches. In the film, they're making fun of a lot of things and that's ruffled a lot of feathers. But we enjoyed it and thought it was an amusing film. That's saying a lot considering most comedic films flop miserably.