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For New Years Eve, we were among the exactly 10 people who thought it was the perfect time to go to "Spike & Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation". It got out just a few minutes before midnight, so at midnight we were outside being wished "Happy New Year" by various drunk folks wandering down the street.

Lost? : While waiting to cross San Carlos St, a car pulled up across the street and the young female driver opened the door and yelled "How do I get to San Pablo?" I was so confused by that that I didn't even attempt to answer. San Pablo??? The town in the East Bay? The big street in the East Bay? Is there a San Pablo somewhere in San Jose? eek?

So then last night we rented Gozu which manages to be more sick and twisted than any of the animation. It's funny, a bit creepy, a yakuza horror mystery with a cow-headed demon and milk. I deliberately did not link to a site that gives a synopsis right off... it's probably better to wander into this with the mimimum of spoilage.

eeek

So one of the posts I thought about writing and never did, until now... is a rant about the not-very modest proposal billboards.

A few months ago, a billboard was put up way too close to where I live that had a picture of 3 paper dolls, 2 normal looking and one a bit more snowman shaped. It read "The figures don't lie. 1 in 3 children is too heavy. Eat 5 a day and be active."

There is no way I could possibly be active enough to eat five overweight children per day. Bleahhh.

So then a month or so ago, it was gone. Instead there was an ad for pasta. Easy to ignore.

Tonight the middle part of the pasta ad was gone, and there was the fat paperdoll in between the rest of the noodles. I wonder if he ate his way out? I wonder if he will help his paperdoll buddies eat the rest of the noodles and be freed also? I wonder if they will all be fat after that? Should I have done my part and eaten more children? Is there a menace brewing that I should have helped stop?