The Oregonian did a big "any moron can make a pie" pep article with a completely foolproof crust recipe which I tried and had my biggest disaster to date and there was more of it. I was completely fearless about adding water because I read that it depends on how dry the flour is and given my long history of patching together sandy piles of flour, I figured this had to be it.

Nah. Super big pile of sand that I desperately patched together. And she said to use parchment paper when rolling it out and she's a crazy lady because everything that wasn't sand stuck to the parchment paper.

When done, it looked pretty and brown but also I sort of over-baked it because I was doing too many things in the kitchen at once. Have you ever done this? You hear your timer and you think, okay I'm just going to finish doing this — whatever and wash my hands and then grab that thing out of the oven then suddenly 10 minutes have gone buy and you're like: oh shit! That's what happened.

The crust was way too tough. I could tell the minute I tried to put a knife into to take out the first piece. It's perfectly edible, but still not right. My next tactic is to buy a kitchen scale and exactly measure my ingredients. Maybe that will help.

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Also this week I dreamed that I read the new Harry Potter in paperback. It was a small throwaway book and I didn't know what all the fuss was about.

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Last night Bob and I watched an incredible movie called The Sea Inside. It won the Oscar for best foreign film and I'm not going to lie, it's a tough one. But it's beautifully made and fantastic acting and an amazing trio of women characters supporting Javier Bardem. Worth the effort.

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This is an item about movie theaters that is good food for thought. This guy suggests that theaters offer monthly passes so that for a flat rate, a person could see as many movies as he or she wants. The idea being that people will try more movies they wouldn't ordinarily see. For me, I'd be more likely to go to movies on weeknights because I'm too cheap to pay full movie price and usually go only to matinees. But here's why it wouldn't work. First I'm not sure how the box office would be reported and whether Hollywood would like that comingling of $$$). Second, when you went to the movies people would be more likely to go in and out and try different things which would severely diminish quality of experience. I personally go to less movies because I don't like dealing with parking, crowds and jackass people who talk and are noisy.

Here are some super cool pictures of clouds.

And finally, here is a HILARIOUS story about an illegal copy of Revenge of the Sith and the subtitles. (added: looks like this site might be down and I don't have the inclination for research right now, so good luck.)