Nacho Libre, Duncan gone

The Arizona Daily Star had a contest where they did a lottery to give away a number of tickets to the new Jack Black comedy, Nacho Libre. The tickets were a voucher, which actually said, “First Come, First Serve.” I showed 30 minutes early. This was apparently not long enough, because the lady handling the movie said people showed up 2 ½ hours early for the picture. But then she said to the crowd in general, “You have to get here early to see a blockbuster.” Nacho Libre is not a blockbuster by any stretch of the imagination. My voucher was for 2 tickets and my family is out of town right now, so I asked people at work if they wanted to go with me, and their response was generally, “If you give me 50 dollars, I will go sit through it.” Needless to say, I didn’t cough up 50 dollars, but the publicity group takes the vouchers and they are supposed to mail us that didn’t get there early enough, something to make up for the fact we came to the theatre and didn’t get to see the film. No matter to me. I saw Prairie Home Companion instead. I can see Nacho Libre with the kids this weekend, if they want to see it, which they do. I am pretty sure I will prefer to see it than Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties.

April’s Real Blog had Lawrence Poirier as the guest blogger, in protest against the daily strip again. So, I did some Lawrence snark with Michael Patterson and Howard, who have some relationship with him. aprilp_katje said she is likely to go with a guest blogger again tomorrow, but to me, tomorrow’s strip is imminently snarkable, so I will try to find some way to use it. I had Jeremy Jones put Duncan at school today, whereas the_berserker put him as not at school. So susannamoodie nicely covered the difference by saying Jeremy’s statement was an intentional misstatement by Zenia. Thanks, susannamoodie.