Weekend Recap ... Tardy Again

So Xbox Girl and I rolled over to the Guggenheim last Friday for their monthly First Friday gathering. It was my second time there, her first. Good time. It should have cost me four tickets to buy two drinks, but I accidentally handed the guy just two tickets for the first round, so I tried to get the same discount from the same guy for round two, and sure enough it worked. Six days later, I'm realizing how much better my life is by having saved those tickets.

Once is a mistake or perhaps an act of generosity on behalf of the bartender. A second time, at least in an uppity atmosphere like the Guggenheim, clearly was this guy's way of saying he liked me, or at least my new glasses. I'd told Xbox that I've been hit on by more gay men than by women, and I think she's starting to see the evidence.

Nonetheless, it seemed like a splendid evening until Saturday morning. I woke up sick as a dog and only this morning am I feeling close to 100 percent. For four days I was achy and coughy and just plain miserable. And poor Xbox had to take Tuesday off because she was feeling ill as well. But she told me Wednesday that once she started looking at pictures of me, she quickly regained her strength and felt much better.

Saturday, I watched "Little Miss Sunshine," which was outstanding. Steve Carell was excellent, as was Greg Kinnear. The little girl who's gotten plenty of buzz the last six months kind of annoyed me until her routine at the end of the movie. A little bit of a surprise, but quite entertaining. And her big brother Duane showed he was on the verge of becoming likable when he wrote "Go Hug Mom" on his notepad, but reverted to his cynical ways not long after when he got some bad news. By the end of the movie, however, his transformation made him my favorite character in the play.

I should have watched LMS after "A Scanner Darkly," not before it, because even in animation, Keanu Reeves cannot act. That movie was far less than what I was expecting or at least hoping for. Robert Downey Jr. usually delivers and Woody Harrelson seldom disappoints. Neither got it done this time and I regret the two hours it took me to realize that. Don't waste your time here.