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Harry, as usual, puts it in better words for me.

Dorky Dark Peter Parker?

Well, that's dead on for me. Peter Parker, even under the influence of a malevolent evil, would only ever be dorky bad. Because Peter Parker isn't a geek, he's a dork. He's hapless, klutzy and.. well.. a dork. Kinda like Sam Raimi. Sam projects a lot onto his heroes, be they Peter Parker/Spider-Man or Ash or all the way back in 1982 with Cleveland Smith, Bounty Hunter..

I stumbled upon this one and at first More Bloons didn't look like much. It quickly becomes an addicting trial in patience. I swore to myself I would stop playing when a level became seemingly unbeatable, but I just had to keep trying. I'm currently stuck on level 11, cleverly titled "Death Star." You'll see why.

Fools is a play with a dialogue that moves so quickly I'm starting to wish I had gone twice to catch all the little jokes that I'm sure I missed (especially since we had to sit in the far left corner of the theatre). A young and ambitious teacher comes to a small town that seems to have been hit by a curse of stupidity. Between trying to talk to the locals, trying to make sense of the doctor and his wife, trying to teach the doctor's young daughter anything (and falling for her), and dealing with an evil count who proposes to the doctor's daughter twice every day, he's got his hands full.

Ric's parents were two of the main characters in the play - the doctor and his wife. We believe this is Ric's mom's finest work to date. They seemed to excel in playing stupid, which we found a bit scary! While this was one of many plays they've participated in at the school, there were several first-time actors in the play, along with a few we recognized from previous productions. I think it was sort of easy to pinpoint the first-timers, with the exception of Ryan, who practically stole the show every time he was on stage (though, to calm his ego, he was given some of the best lines). One of the old favorites of ours, Kari (is that how you spell it), also left us cracking up every time she spoke, or even gestured.

The sense of humor in this film is one that I don't think the university's previous productions have ever attempted, so I know it was a lot of work to get this one off the ground. Quick and full of laughs, several of which left us laughing more the next day as we thought about them, Fools was definitely a success and a fun way to spend an evening. I've really been loving going to the plays lately. I hope they keep up the good work; I'm sure they will.

Okay, I'm only two weeks behind! A couple of weeks ago I made a special effort to make the Wednesday noon concert to see Maurice Clerc, a French organist who currently plays at St. Benigne's Cathedral in Dijon, France. Clerc played selections from Rameau, Bach, Faure, and Langlais.

Maybe it was the more familiar tunes that made this concert more fun, but I enjoyed this much more than the previous organ concert I saw earlier this year. The special treat for me was to see Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, which many of you would recognize as that ominous organ piece that we tend to hear a lot at Halloween time. To hear it in its entirety was a lot of fun because the piece is all over the place and uses so many functions of the organ. Actually, Clerc's choices really showed the breadth of what an organ can do, from foot pedals to changing the quality of the tone. I'm not familiar with the technical terms, but it was really entertaining to see what the instrument can do.

I always wonder at these concerts what the performers think of our instruments. I've always thought the pipes in our music hall look pretty cool, but after watching Dirty Jobs, I wonder if a trained professional comes in and thinks they could use an overhaul. One thing's certain - the grand piano is in a terrible state. It looks like no one has bothered to polish it... ever.

Anyway, I hope Clerc enjoyed his short performance and the instrument on which he played. I know I really enjoyed what he had to offer.

Hot Stuff brings us the great comedians of Shaun of the Dead and re-casts them in an entirely different setting: a hotshot cop gets sent to work in a small town because he was making the other cops in London look bad. The small town seems harmless at first, but soon a murderous plot is revealed, and plenty of cop movie archetypes follow, enjoyably.

The movie does move quietly for a while, setting up the scenes. There are a few murders that are kind of gruesome, but not that bad. But about 2/3 of the way through the story, everything kicks into high gear, and the set ups come to fruition. As Nobody points out, this isn't your typical parody movie, like the Scary Movie franchise. The elements of cop movies that the movie incorporates aren't so obvious. They're just a part of the movie, which really does try to have a heart.

I wouldn't say I was wowed, but I did laugh a lot. I really don't want to add too much about it because I don't want to ruin the plot for anyone who hasn't seen it yet. This is definitely worth the watch and begins the fun of the summer season, so check it out while you have the chance!

By the way, I was very happy with the inclusion of Supergrass' "Caught By the Fuzz: as the credits rolled. I was hoping for it but wasn't sure they'd use something so obvious.. but they did, which made me smile.