I've finally gotten around to posting the photos of last weekend's visit from my good buddy Matt. For the first time since I moved, I got to show a tourist around the Bay Area and managed to keep him entertained. This is not as easy as it sounds, even in one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Imagine two theoretical forces in the universe: the unstoppable force, and the immovable object. Matt would be the immovable object.

I saw Memento last night. It's an excellent movie -- suspenseful, engaging and profound. The story traces backwards the story of a man trying to search for his wife's killer while dealing with a rare form of amesia that allows him to retain long-term memories but not make new ones. Peeling away layers of the present to get to the past, the themes of identity, truth and our capcity for self-deception unravel in a capitvatingly orginal way. This is the best movie I've seen in a while, even taking into account the film festival I attended recently. This film is so rich I'm going to have to see it again.

Thanks to Dubya, stupid is in!