just an update

On Friday, I went to see a double feature of The Killers (no, we didn't see it twice. There was the 1946 version with Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner and the 1964 version with John Cassavetes and Angie Dickinson) along with Neotoma. It was part of the AFI's yearly Film Noir festival, and while there, it occurred to me that I can only think of two Noir movies set in DC: Advise and Consent and The Day the Earth Stood Still. Some argument can be made for Fail Safe, which scared me more than any horror film did when I was a kid, and Seven Days in May -- hello, Burt Lancaster, again -- but to me, there's a sense of movement in Noir and both of those are fairly static, especially Fail Safe.

My friend Elle took me to see La Traviata on Sunday. It was a really good production.

My campaign for ANC isn't going as well as I'd like, but it's mostly my own fault.

I have my Yuletide assignment, and I'm a bit puzzled. I'm so used to matching on one of my first three offers, it was a bit of shock to match on my tenth.