My wife has her birthday on the 20th and mine is on the 24th, so we usually celebrate them together. On Saturday we had our birthday date. <\/p>\n
We went to see Funny People<\/a>. I’m one of those hated people who actually enjoys the standard-issue Adam Sandler movie where he stumbles around, babbling like an ignoramus. But Funny People mixed this up by having Sandler play an actor<\/em> who was typecast as a babbling ignoramus. Somewhere down that particular hall of mirrors was a charming film with solid laughs that was a bit overlong. The ending worked, and we left the theater thoughtful and talking about the characters rather than re-hashing the jokes in search of our favorites. Unexpected.<\/p>\n Then it was to Red Lobster. I usually tell people, “I don’t eat seafood 300 miles inland”. But we were in the mood. Today’s catch: FRIED BREADING. What luck! That’s my favorite kind of fish!<\/p>\n After that was home, where we fired up Netflix and I watched The IT Crowd<\/a> for the first time. Good stuff. I’m not prepared to embrace it as the next Red Dwarf<\/a>, but it was fun.<\/p>\n Then Left 4 Dead. Incidentally, if you play Left 4 Dead on the Twenty Sided server from time to time, then you might want to download Death Aboard<\/a>, and \/ or Dam It!<\/a>, which are user-made campaigns which have been added to the server. Not quite up to Valve level quality, but they’re still fun and a nice change of pace.<\/p>\n