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.

I put about as much faith in horoscopes as I do in online personality tests (see below), but I kind of like this one for Aries, which is what they tell me I am:

Happy Valentine’s Day, Aries! How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love how skilled you are at wriggling free of unproductive jams. I admire the way you change yourself into a fresh creation when you’ve gone as far as you can with the old model. I am delighted by how robustly you rebel against your past and fling yourself open to the unpredictable sweep of the future. There are so many other ways I adore you, my dear, but there’s only room to mention one more: I am enchanted by how you always seem ready to build a castle in the wilderness if this world ever fails you.

Found through pool, Karawynn Long’s message board.