Jon Nelson, possibly my new favorite film critic, says, “I just saw Batman Begins,” and among other things, notes:

“I think that it might very well be THE WORST MOVIE EVER MADE IN THE HISTORY OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE,” going on to note that “It had depth of badness.”

Really, the whole thing is worth quoting, but I’ll refrain. this choice bit, though, must be passed along.

“The plot is dolled up with lots of racist crap from the ‘mystic east’ and some really dumb psychedelic obscurantism. Under that layer of drivel is some nasty reactionary nihilistic bullshit masquerading as crusading idealism.”

Ah, what a sweet rant. My only complaint is that it lacks detail.

Viv and I drove all over the north end today, looking at rentals. On our way up I snagged a car adapter for the Powerbook so I would be able to do that bluetooth-modem thing and get Google maps of our destinations on the fly; as it happened, I’d planned far enough ahead that I only had to go online while driving around twice.

We saw two that looked great, both on the very western edges of their respective neighborhoods, Magnolia and Ballard.

Afterward, we repaired for dinner to the Hi-Life, formerly a terrible dive known as the Ballard Firehouse (yes, I’ve played there, and yes, it sucked) for a pricey but yummy dinner. On our way out the door we ran into my long-ago ex-wife and spent the rest of the early evening playing catch-up over a walk through old Ballard and drinks.

We have tentative showings on the two most promising places Monday night.