At National Review Online today, Mike Potemra has a short, positive review of the new film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, a movie that I've thought looks intriguing.

Speaking of science fiction and fantasy, I half-watched (I often work on my laptop with the TV on) the first episode of Fox's new comedy/fantasy Wonderfalls (that's the official site -- if you don't like Flash and/or you have a slow connection, you might prefer IMDB's site) last night, which will regularly be on Fridays (including tonight). I quite enjoyed it. It's about a young woman who starts getting lip -- and instructions -- from inanimate objects, and ends up helping them out through series of improbably coincidences. It's a premise which could be done well or done poorly, and -- based on the pilot episode -- I think this one clicks.

Every month or two I like to eat a bunch of dried fruit to clean out my system. I'm just mentioning that to ensure that this blog doesn't inadvertantly acquire an audience.

My grandmother gave me about half a dozen lapel pins a couple years ago. Each pin is a pair of flags -- one American, and one from some other country. I checked a couple days ago, and one of them is, indeed, Spanish, so I stuck that on my coat. Just my little meaningless act of solidarity.