Closely watched vegetables

[wayman]

The squash outnumber the lettuce these days, which is a universally good thing.

I feel sad for all the people in Boston, because we've had such great weather here in Philly for the past couple weeks and seem unable to share it with y'all.

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Recent movies:

Love, Actually and Gosford Park are still every bit as delicious as ever.

Waydowntown

Comments

[glynhogen]

There's not nearly enough singing and dancing for it to count as a Bollywood movie.

[kid_prufrock]

Everything you need to know about Slumdog has been said by Salman Rushdie; a money quote: "In an interview conducted at the Telluride film festival last autumn, Boyle, when asked why he had chosen a project so different from his usual material, answered that he had never been to India and knew nothing about it, so he thought this project was a great opportunity. Listening to him, I imagined an Indian film director making a movie about New York low-life and saying that he had done so because he knew nothing about New York and had indeed never been there. He would have been torn limb from limb by critical opinion. But for a first world director to say that about the third world is considered praiseworthy, an indication of his artistic daring. The double standards of post-colonial attitudes have not yet wholly faded away."