I'll tell you one thing: Nathan Brown really reads this site. And I'll tell you something else: he's playing in brooklyn this saturday. You should email him at Nathan@duckonbike.com.

So I finally got around to seeing Michael Moore's movie. I kind of felt like I had to, what with all the hype. Going in knowing what I was going to see, having read twenty reviews of it and seen his other three movies, I was kind of braced for a sophomoric, pedantic blowhard, showboating with thoughts from position I generally agree with, but from a guy who is hard to stomach.

That is pretty much what I got, though I was disappointed, since I felt like he had great material to work with and somehow did a lazy job with it all. I can say that I'm glad someone is making a movie like this at all, but it is too bad the lone voice of criticism of the Bush administration undercuts his legitimacy by putting together slapdash social critiques, laced with vague implications that sort of feel like cheap shots. I just rewatched The Big One, which is a movie of his that I am apparently the only person to have seen in the theaters, where he goes on a book tour and does his usual schitck. But even that was better than this, because it sort of had a through plot line about striking workers at Borders, and a big finale where he gets Phil Knight from Nike in a room and challenges him to a footrace.

Anyhow, politics remain a distressing matter. My only hope for a Kerry victory is that Bush might work harder to lose the election faster than Kerry can get in his way and stop him. Which isn't much to hold out for, but who can live without hope?