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Powerpuff Girls movie

Several people have told me that the Powerpuff Girls movie seems to be vanishing from the theaters, so I made a point of seeing it today at my local theater (which charges half price on Tuesdays and Thursdays). Pretty damn cool. In plot terms it wasn’t as good as the best episodes, but much better than the worst, about typical. In artistic terms it was really great seeing the girls on a big screen with a real budget behind them. The animation was much smoother than I’m used to from the show, with more detailed backgrounds, an actual sense of physical depth (which worked really oddly with the two-dimensional nature of the characters), and a generally much more enjoyable visual experience.

The action scenes were where the movie really takes off, both the girls’ devastating game of tag and the big crisis scene at the climax. I loved the various primate antics. Lots of fun, and probably too intense for very small kids.

How do I eat cactus?

Hmm. Those look more like red potatoes, don’t they?

I stopped off at the Korean grocery on Flatbush on my way home from the movie; I picked up a couple of pieces of cactus (two for a buck), figuring I could look it up in The Visual Food Encyclopedia for storage and preparation instructions, but the book has no listing for cactus.

They weren’t being sold in the refrigerated section, so I figure I don’t need to fridge or freeze ’em. And the spines have already been removed (or were never there in the first place), so that’s not an issue. But the sign just said “cactus”, nothing more specific, and I don’t know if these things need to be cooked or peeled or whatever. Any tips?

BTW, when looked at under my florescent kitchen light there’s a lot more yellowish-green in these things than there was under the incandescent lights in my living room, where I painted them. And there are small specks (that didn’t come out so well in the scan, or in the painting for that matter) that I’m guessing were where the spines used to be.