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After a brief stay in Macon, MO, we drove up to Kirksville to see Erica and Kyle, some friends from college. We dropped by a Campus Christian Fellowship service and saw some people we hadn't seen in 2 years. We also found a babysitter so we could go out to dinner with Kyle and Erica at Il Spazio. We all got fire-roasted pizzas. The strangest one on the menu was the Spam and Dorito pizza. We decided to split one to see if it was any good. We thought that even if it wasn't it would give us a good story to tell. Here it is:

I thought it was good, but I think I was the only one. Here's a picture of Sara and Erica:

But my favorite part of our stay in Kirksville was helping Kyle set up his new blog. He has some very interesting and thoughtful posts, and he's got some good ideas about using blogging as a tool in a high school English class.

If we start getting some referals from Wikipedia, this might be why. I made an edit to include brendoman.com as an example blog. Sure, anyone could do it, and maybe it's just shameless self-promotion, but then again, we are a good example a one of wikipedia's categories: a collaborative blog.

So here's what has been going on with me:

Friday: Saw Mean Girls with Paul, J.D., and some kids from J.D.'s church. I was surprised at how good this movie was. Tina Fey did a great job on the script. It was pretty honest, had a good message, and many funny moments.

Saturday: Watched some Freaks and Geeks episodes with the commentaries on. John Daly, who played Sam, is all grown up. It's funny to hear his post-puberty voice. Somehow the hard drive on my laptop crashed and I get the blue screen of death every time I start my computer. I then drove to St. Louis to pick up my mom at the airport. Did I mention I've lost roughly 8 pounds on the South Beach diet? My mom's plane was 2 hours late. Got home at 1 AM.

Today: Slept in. Had a really good breakfast with my mom in Quincy. Went grocery shopping. Watched 80's movie marathon on AMC. Lucas, The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles. I'm in heaven. My mom found an extra DSL modem she somehow had. Hooked up the second modem to my PC downstairs. And here we are......

Erika and I watched the movie version of A Chorus Line last night. Big mistake. Erika had seen the musical performed live once before, and loved it, so she's been wanting to watch the movie together. What we didn't know was that when it was made into a movie, somebody thought it would be a good idea to add additional characters and subplots, alter the story, and change the music so it has more of an 80s rock feel to it. The result was a truly awful movie.

We looked up A Chorus Line on The Internet Movie Database and found comments from people with experiences similar to ours (my favorite comment on there was "One Singular Disaster"). We learned two valuable lessons from this experience:

1) Just because a musical or play is good, that doesn't mean its movie adaptation is.
2) Always check reviews before ever watching a movie neither of us has seen before.