Movie, movie

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bugsybanana came over from Games Club last night. Aside from Puerto Rico (with expansion buildings, which I don’t like since they’re unbalanced) I played just one game, Web of Power, a neat, simple placement-based boardgame that I’d like to play again now that I understand the advisors scoring.

Today Bugsy and I went out to see some movies. We found The Triplets of Belleville at the BAM Cinema in Brooklyn, and it was delightful and lively. Then we caught a midnight showing of Donnie Darko at the Two Boots Pioneer Theater. Also really good, but a bit confusing. I figure Donnie’s medication is giving him extra-sensory perception. The only actual time travel is the one wormhole that grabs the jet engine. The rest is Donnie getting bits of the future filtered through hallucinations. At the end, Donnie somehow sends a message back through the wormhole to his October 2nd self, perhaps telling him not to take his meds.

In between we stopped off at Bugsy’s apartment and I found the connector that’ll let me hook up my old Palm IIIx cradle to a USB port (once I’ve downloaded the driver), and we ate at Two Boots. I had more of the broccoli than I ought to on Atkins Induction, but it was the best damn broccoli I’d ever had, made with butter and garlic.

Now sleep.