'Bred Crumbs
06.25.02
MY 25 CENTS' WORTH UPDATE: This year's first state quarter, Tennessee's, has finally lollygagged its way through circulation and into my pocket. How does it stack up? See the verdict.
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Since Jack brought up the topic of details to which movies are inattentive, let me add one: binoculars. Many flicks try to show you what someone sees through binoculars; almost none of them gets it right. So Behind Enemy Lines may be as disposable as Owen Wilson's broken-nose good looks, but it got big points from me for having its stranded hero soldier look through binoculars and see an image framed not by the conventional, but impossible, horizonal pair of joined circles 
, but by a single circle 
. That's the way it really works, because your eyes work together, not separately. Don't believe me? Pick up a pair sometime. Of binoculars, I mean, not eyes.
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The upcoming Powerpuff Girls movie is rated PG "for non-stop frenetic animated action." Oh, MPAA, there's always something wrong with you!
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Confidential to a reader: It isn't stalking if you're imitating a popular, award-winning general-circulation magazine. See? Yes! Succumb to my powers of rationalization!
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