Movies

Last night, Miss Essie opened her home to a small huddle of Firsties to watch the 1938 film version of You Can't Take It With You, the play we're currently in the midst of producing. Basic premise: a lovable family of eccentrics and misfits interfaces with huff-puffy stilted gentry. Mayhem ensues. Love is fallen into. Someone Learns A Lesson.

My character was cut from the film version. But with the modifications in narrative arc from stage to film, she wouldn't have fit in or added anything we hadn't seen before. As one hapless person after another fell to the cult-like charm of the family, the Dutchess will be the final convert. You will eat my blintzes...

Tonight is V Is For Vendetta with tcb and goat and friends. EDIT: It was last night and I missed it by screwing up my calendar. But since I blocked out the time to see the movie tonight, I'm still going. Anyone interested is welcome and encouraged to join scatterbrained me. I'm one of those people who never saw the Natalie Portman Star Wars movies, and am acquainted with her work only through the ass-kicking Day In The Life of Natalie Portman. Hope we get more of her smackdown 'tude tonight.

Leftover Lettuce

Is it safe to feed lettuce (with no dressing) to swans/geese/ducks? We have a huge bowl of plain lettuce left over from our departmental lunch. It was originally a salad but everyone just picked out the good parts. I'm thinking it would be nice to go to the Public Gardens after work and feed it to the urban wildlife. But I've never seen them eat anything other than stale bread and chips. Lettuce won't block up their birdly digestive systems, will it?