Day: February 14, 2002

It’s so rare that Ben Affleck actually has something interesting to say, I had to stop and write this down. Earlier tonight, I finished watching the final episode of Project Greenlight on HBO (taped earlier for my amusement), and I like what Ben had to say at the close of the program:

Movies inherently are like this. You have all these fights, you get outraged, you get furious at people, you have all this drama because a lot is at stake and you really care about it. And then, you know, you’ve all gone through it together so you’re sort of all buddies at the end. If the kind of time you had was a direct correlation to how good the movie was, then Smokey and the Bandit would be the best movie of all time.

My question to Ben: it isn’t?

In a recent e-mail, a fellow capper asked, “Does anybody in this country *not* hate Valentine’s Day?” I replied, “A few, but they’re being rounded up and shipped off to reeducation camps where they’ll learn that love is *not* a many splendored thing and be force-fed little candy hearts until they cry. Or maybe just shown the complete works of Coleman Francis, which has about the same effect.”

Oh well, happy Valentines Day anyway, courtesy of the Acme Heart Generator.

Remember, even the geekiest of us need love.